broken quotes

We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.

Ernest Hemingway

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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Frederick Douglass

• 152

The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway

• 140

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

Travis Tritt

• 49

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

Chief Joseph

• 20

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Charlotte Bronte

• 17

You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

Winona Ryder

• 15

People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Rihanna

• 12

I think relationships are broken up because of the media.

Jay-Z

• 9

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Leo Tolstoy

• 8

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

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The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.

James Larkin

• 4

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Mark Twain

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Don't fix what's not broken.

Robert Atkins

• 3

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Jessamyn West

• 3

We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.

Amy Lee

• 2

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

Mike Ferguson

• 2

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Tennessee Williams

• 2

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

William Stafford

• 2

When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.

Sienna Miller

• 1

Our current tax system is broken.

Dick Armey

• 1

This is a good sign, having a broken heart It means we have tried for something

Elizabeth Gilbert

• 1

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

Quintilian

• 1

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

Gilbert Parker

• 1

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

Ricky Skaggs

• 1

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.

Phyllis Battelle

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I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love.

Selena Gomez

• 1

Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.

Misty May-Treanor

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I bet some of you feel sorry for me. Well don't. Having an artificial leg has its advantages. I've broken my right knee many times and it doesn't hurt a bit.

Terry Fox

• 1

Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings.

Hugh Miller

• 1

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.

Ernst Mach

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It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

Mahatma Gandhi

• 1

Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.

Miguel Indurain

• 1

Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.

Joe Baca

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Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Mark Twain

Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day's end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the radium.

Marie Curie

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

Clint Eastwood

We came into a broken world. And we're the cleanup crew.

Kanye West

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

If I could only have one grooming tool, it would be floss. I don't want to have broken Cheetos in my teeth. To protect myself from the sun, I can find shade under a tree. To moisturize my skin, I could get really sweaty and then just rub it on myself. But how are you going to clean between your teeth without floss?

Jonathan Van Ness

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

Bill Gates

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

John Burroughs

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

Hillary Clinton

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

Barack Obama

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Henry Ward Beecher

When dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird which cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate.

David Talbot

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

Willie Aames

I like rules that are broken.

Shelby Lynne

The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.

Roger Mahony

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

Publilius Syrus

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Anton Chekhov

If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

Anthony Eden

In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.

Henry Rollins

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.

John Gilmore

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

Alice Duer Miller

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

Charles Williams

I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.

Martha Stewart

Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing.

Thomas Carper

There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.

Evel Knievel

I've just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers.

Uri Geller

Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.

Barack Obama

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

Buddha

When I was a young boy, during the aftermath of World War II, Germany was broken and in ruins. Many people were hungry, sick, and dying. I remember well the humanitarian shipments of food and clothing that came from the Church in Salt Lake City.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I have seen things in my life that have broken me in spirit.

Cory Booker

To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.

Henry Rollins

I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across the political spectrum.

Cory Booker

I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.

Bear Grylls

Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.

Henri Nouwen

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of become my fairy godmother.

Ariana Grande

Finding that financial independence away from a broken relationship is probably one of the most powerful places a woman can get to.

Yolanda Hadid

The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.

Yoko Ono

Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.

Henri Nouwen

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

Yoko Ono

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Emmeline Pankhurst

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

Joichi Ito

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Warren Buffett

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

Emily Dickinson

A promise must never be broken.

Alexander Hamilton

We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.

Mitchell Baker

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

Giorgio de Chirico

The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well.

Rupert Grint

The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.

William Henry Ashley

Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken.

Emanuel Cleaver

We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working.

John Engler

If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government.

George Crook

For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.

Graham Nelson

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

Henry Adams

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

Nelson Algren

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

Townsend Harris

A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.

William Falconer

The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery.

William Falconer

There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.

Joan Chen

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Stephen Hawking

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

Sitting Bull

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.

Sitting Bull

I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

Christopher Columbus

I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.

Jane Grey

If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be.

Sonia Sotomayor