Quotes About Acceptance

I don't know why you should be proud of something. It doesn't make you any better or worse. You are what you are.

Junior high is so much worse than high school because at least in high school different is more accepted, celebrated actually: all the girls with blue hair and gothic Hello Kitty backpacks.

I'm not ashamed of any work I do. You can't decide a film's fate before its release. There's no surety that your new films will be better or worse than your previous ones. You can only hope to surpass your efforts.

If you're unhappy with what you've had over the last 50 years, you have an unfortunate misappraisal of life. It's as good as it gets, and it's very likely to get worse.

If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.

I don't know what would have been worse: If Mira had come home one day to say she was gay or an actress.

Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.

I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

I like it now when kids stare at me, because it is a way of starting a dialogue. And it is far better than them not looking at you at all. Nothing is worse than not being seen.

There are worse things than being called 'the camel lady,' I suppose.

I spoke so much about being a manic-depressive. I want to bring everyone back to my earliest memories of this companion of mine. Some people call this companion I have an ailment, or worse a terrible nightmare from which some people cannot awaken. I know that I have nothing to be ashamed of. I have nothing that should garner a stigma.

It was an old cricket coach who started calling me Fred - as in Flintstone. There are far worse things to be called in the dressing room.

There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.

Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.

And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.

Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

Ours is a multi-religious country, a multi-lingual country; we have many different modes of worship. We believe in peaceful and harmonious co-existence.

I don't take much notice of reviews now - obviously you'd like to have straight worship but you're never going to get that.

Regardless of whether or how you worship, where you come from or who you love, everyone's individual experience is what makes us stronger as a whole.