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Chuck Berry

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DRAKE BELL When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while ...
RAY CHARLES Chuck Berry doesn't give interviews.
CHUCK BERRY Nat King Cole was a really big influence.
BRYAN WHITE As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We l...
WAYNE KRAMER Maybe it is true what they say, that playing these Chuck Berry songs is easy. But try singing them. ...
CHUCK BERRY Johnny Mercer started Capitol Records, and he brought in Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King Cole. He...
TONY BENNETT Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
AARON NEVILLE My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.
MICKY DOLENZ If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
JOHN LENNON Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for ...
AARON NEVILLE I believe it was Nat King Cole that my dad took me to see, and we were sitting in the dressing room,...
JOHNNY MATHIS 'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just s...
HARRY CONNICK, JR. I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
JOHNNY RAMONE If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
JOHN LENNON We call it swing jazz, ... Think Nat King Cole, Benny Goodman-style stuff. I grew up with those peop...
JOHN PIZZARELLI My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
AARON NEVILLE I love Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Brandi, Sade, Nat King Cole. I like the Beatles. I listen to ...
LEAH LABELLE I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profou...
DIAHANN CARROLL We opened for the Kinks, the Beach Boys, the Guess Who, Chuck Berry, Sha Na Na. We opened for Cheech...
WALTER BECKER The one who really captured me and became my absolute favorite was Nat King Cole. He was a genius at...
JOHNNY MATHIS My favorite guitar players are Chuck Berry and Brian May and Dave Davies from the Kinks.
BRITTANY HOWARD My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.
JERRY LEE LEWIS You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.
KEITH RICHARDS Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age ...
ROBERT GOTTLIEB Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are prett...
IAN ANDERSON Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the ...
JOE COCKER I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the l...
BUCK OWENS My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so ab...
JOHNNY MATHIS The first rock stars were incredibly theatrical. Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley - ...
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like...
WILLIAM BELL John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on st...
BEN KINGSLEY My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat ...
MOSE ALLISON I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat Ki...
NATALIE COLE I respected Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Those were my heroes, and they were 10...
TONY BENNETT I love to sing big rock and roll songs; I love to sing country-pop stuff, and then I love to sing so...
ELLE KING The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
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ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I ...
ALVIN LEE I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.
DOLLY PARTON The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
MANDY PATINKIN Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got i...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON Intimacy with God is not experienced through monolog prayers but through reflective listening as wel...
GARY ROHRMAYER Mes poumons sont remplis de l'air pur mon esprit est ouvert et libéré, la sérénité remplit tous...
JACOB MAHURIEN Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' ...
ALEX WINSTON Whenever I sing 'Total Eclipse of the Heart,' the way people sing along with me still excite...
BONNIE TYLER Always listen to the warnings from your heart.
TERESA COLLINS I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been...
NATALIE COLE I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole ...
ETHEL MERMAN The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck ...
ERNIE ISLEY When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac...
KAREN A. ANDERSON While Elvis was a country boy who sang 'black' . . . Chuck Berry provided the mirror image where cou...
CLIVE ANDERSON I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and ...
ERIC CLAPTON My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King...
GLORIA ESTEFAN The songs just sing themselves to me. They kind of write themselves. I just stand back and listen.
CINDY WALKER To be honest, I know this probably sounds corny or whatever because I'm a musician, but listenin...
AUSTIN MAHONE I'm influenced by Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelly, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, B.B. King, a...
DICKEY BETTS If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just k...
MOS DEF When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was tran...
FRANZ SCHUBERT I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American...
TEDDY THOMPSON He would sing Rent songs to me. He told me how much he really loved musical theatre, which you would...
IDINA MENZEL When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front po...
TOMMY SHAW I sing the songs that people need to hear.
ETTA JAMES One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very ...
ERIC CLAPTON I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I...
WARREN ZEVON It is one of the most validating things for an artist like me, to have people sing along to your son...
BLAKE SHELTON Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had jus...
JOE COCKER People usually have to be dragged kicking and screaming into what’s good for them.
CLIFFORD COHEN 1947 was a good year. A lot of the tunes that we've learned, whether from Nat 'King' Cole, Louis Jor...
DOMINIC SUCHYTA Reunited with strawberry, raspberry and blueberry, I am berry, berry happy to be back working with J...
BILL COSBY We're a part of the fabric of people's lives at this point. As songwriters, but also as a band, we c...
RICHIE SAMBORA We name all the songs by listening to what it sounds like (and coming up with something). We have lo...
JAMIE JANOVER A few songs with Him might change the way you sing. Forever.
MAX LUCADO I used to love listening to Jazzy Jeff.
JUICY J I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever a...
ELIZABETH GILBERT If I can’t sing, then let me listen to the songs of the wilderness and let me watch the dance of a...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Most of us remember Nat King Cole as a vocalist. His warm, grainy baritone is still so closely ident...
TERRY TEACHOUT Great songs are gone; unsung songs remain. Who will sing them?
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Many people we consider legends, such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, remain so scarred by scand...
NEIL STRAUSS For me, when you are talking about perfect songs, you're talking about Gershwin, 'Someone To...
MAURY YESTON It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Some...
RICHARD THOMPSON My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I ...
NATALIA TENA We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings t...
JAMES YOUNG I would listen to Little Richard and Fats Domino and Chuck Berry, and I would listen to how they pla...
BRIAN WILSON Listening to Don Moen's songs always reminds me of my darkest moments

Then I was always l...
OMOSOHWOFA CASEY My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he we...
TORI AMOS I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be ...
JAMES MERCER But thousands of people march to my songs, some just ignore me and shuffle along, some other tip me,...
JON ENGLISH I don't think I was ever designed to be a ubiquitous worldwide star. I'm a singer-songwriter...
JAMES BLUNT When many voices are speaking at once, listen to the one most quiet and gentle. That’s the one wor...
MIRANDA LINDA WEISZ

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Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.
CHUCK BERRY If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about...
CHUCK BERRY It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew...
CHUCK BERRY Don't let the same dog bite you twice.
CHUCK BERRY I'm thankful for each and every day. We never know when time is up.
CHUCK BERRY That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened...
CHUCK BERRY Chuck Berry doesn't give interviews.
CHUCK BERRY Maybe it is true what they say, that playing these Chuck Berry songs is easy. But try singing them. ...
CHUCK BERRY That's the misconceptions that people have, that Chuck Berry went to jail. They're just tota...
CHUCK BERRY Charlie Christian played amplified guitar with Benny Goodman's quartet. He was the greatest guit...
CHUCK BERRY If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you...
CHUCK BERRY I added and deleted according to the audiences' response to different gestures, and chose songs ...
CHUCK BERRY It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
CHUCK BERRY People don't want to see 17 pieces in neckties. They wanna see some jeans, some gettin' down...
CHUCK BERRY My first job at Gleason's Bar in Cleveland was $800 a week, when I was making $92 a week with ov...
CHUCK BERRY Roll over, Beethoven, and tell Tchaikovsky the news.
CHUCK BERRY Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and we...
CHUCK BERRY The media dresses things up. There's a lot of inaccuracy.
CHUCK BERRY My singing days have passed. My voice is gone. My throat is worn. And my lungs are going fast.
CHUCK BERRY The music played most around St. Louis was country-western and swing. Curiosity provoked me to lay a...
CHUCK BERRY What the heck is a king? I'm a cog in the wheel.
CHUCK BERRY Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.
CHUCK BERRY Don't let the same dog bite you twice
CHUCK BERRY I wanted to play blues. But I wasn't blue enough. I wasn't like Muddy Waters, people who rea...
CHUCK BERRY Amendment 38 will undercut Colorado's representative government and the legislative process in a sta...
CHUCK BERRY It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
CHUCK BERRY We are going to be obviously looking at all legislation to see how it impacts ... job creation and j...
CHUCK BERRY Julio had a great run with Atlanta. He loves Bobby Cox, loved playing with the Braves. They gave him...
CHUCK BERRY but your attitude doesn't.
CHUCK BERRY Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some...
CHUCK BERRY They [black and white musicians] jived between each other. All were artists, playing foolish, having...
CHUCK BERRY Hopefully, it's going to make this project happen much sooner than we had expected before.
CHUCK BERRY You're doing a great job, kid. I'm the one screwing up.
CHUCK BERRY Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open gri...
CHUCK BERRY I used to work at Kroger's. When the store opened, you were there. When I worked in an automobil...
CHUCK BERRY I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not...
CHUCK BERRY Respect isn't enough. You've got to have a proprietary interest.
CHUCK BERRY There has been a great laziness in my soul. Lots of days I could write songs, but I could also take ...
CHUCK BERRY In a Toyota, the cops don't think about stopping you so much.
CHUCK BERRY Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.
MARY BERRY The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even ...
HALLE BERRY I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard...
WENDELL BERRY An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they canno...
WENDELL BERRY The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in...
WENDELL BERRY There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is t...
WENDELL BERRY We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to ...
WENDELL BERRY The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent fo...
WENDELL BERRY These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said...
WENDELL BERRY All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If...
WENDELL BERRY Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are no...
WENDELL BERRY The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
WENDELL BERRY This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I ha...
WENDELL BERRY To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
WENDELL BERRY The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsib...
WENDELL BERRY If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable m...
WENDELL BERRY Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and s...
WENDELL BERRY The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by ou...
WENDELL BERRY When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way y...
HALLE BERRY I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
HALLE BERRY Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and sh...
WENDELL BERRY When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light - whatever that is for you - no matter how far awa...
JAN BERRY Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, e...
HALLE BERRY Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real...
HALLE BERRY Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria...
MARY BERRY I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn&#...
MARY BERRY I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes...
MARY BERRY Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye...
MARY BERRY I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O...
MARY BERRY If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.
MARY BERRY I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan...
MARY BERRY You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it...
HALLE BERRY I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's li...
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HALLE BERRY While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as ...
HALLE BERRY If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all...
HALLE BERRY Beauty is not just physical.
HALLE BERRY I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mou...
HALLE BERRY If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to m...
HALLE BERRY My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
HALLE BERRY I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just f...
HALLE BERRY I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
HALLE BERRY I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a...
HALLE BERRY I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am....
HALLE BERRY You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love...
HALLE BERRY Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a ...
HALLE BERRY The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you...
HALLE BERRY In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as ...
HALLE BERRY I think it's always best to be who you are.
HALLE BERRY I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a voi...
HALLE BERRY Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No ...
HALLE BERRY There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've ha...
HALLE BERRY Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at ob...
HALLE BERRY When I think, where did I laugh the most, where did I eat the most, where did I just feel good all t...
HALLE BERRY Geese appear high over us, pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, as in love or sleep, holds them to the...
WENDELL BERRY Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
WENDELL BERRY Until we end our violence against the earth- a matter ignored by most pacifists, as the issue of mil...
WENDELL BERRY Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant wo...
WENDELL BERRY say that your main crop is the forest.
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WENDELL BERRY My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we s...
WENDELL BERRY In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind...
WENDELL BERRY Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may...
WENDELL BERRY The world is whole beyond human knowing.
WENDELL BERRY I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. On her beauty pageant days
HALLE BERRY History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have bee...
WENDELL BERRY As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic,...
WENDELL BERRY The most prepared are the most dedicated.
RAYMOND BERRY Peaceableness toward enemies is an idea that will, of course, continue to be denounced as impractica...
WENDELL BERRY It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
WENDELL BERRY Under the rule of the free market ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis wit...
WENDELL BERRY To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of surviv...
WENDELL BERRY The change of mind I am talking about involves not just a change of knowledge, but also a change of ...
WENDELL BERRY I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our pr...
WENDELL BERRY Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybo...
DAVE BERRY A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.
JOHN BERRY The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.
JOHN BERRY You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
WENDELL BERRY Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of hum...
WENDELL BERRY We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.
WENDELL BERRY People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate ...
WENDELL BERRY Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice.
MARY BERRY A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
WENDELL BERRY Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was...
BERRY GORDY When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent ...
STEVE BERRY I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success.
MARY BERRY I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a t...
WENDELL BERRY I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop t...
HALLE BERRY I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't t...
HALLE BERRY A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic,...
STEVE BERRY We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good ca...
WENDELL BERRY Some of my fondest memories are holidays by the seaside.
MARY BERRY I've discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common - a family of wonderfully talented...
BERRY GORDY Everything is a blessing, even meetings. Whether it's meetings or running gassers or lifting, it...
ERIC BERRY The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, g...
WENDELL BERRY We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
WENDELL BERRY I want to see how far I can go and how good I can be, whether it's in the classroom or on the fo...
ERIC BERRY I admire my fellow judge Paul Hollywood enormously, though we often argue. He believes presentation ...
MARY BERRY I don't like showing cleavage because I get cold, and if I had fantastic legs, I might wear shor...
MARY BERRY What I stand for is what I stand on.
WENDELL BERRY The improvement in 2005 from 2004 is attributable to extensions and discoveries from our legacy proj...
BILL BERRY The improvement in 2005 from 2004 is attributable to extensions and discoveries from our legacy proj...
BILL BERRY We just keep moving the cots a little closer together.
BILL BERRY From our early investigation, it appears parts from the failing engine penetrated the cabin.
BILL BERRY I was born in 1935, so I was quite young when the war started. I remember we were in Bath, and it wa...
MARY BERRY I take pride in a lot of things people take for granted, so when opportunities come my way, I just c...
ERIC BERRY The very best hotel I've stayed in is the Intercontinental on Park Lane. We went there for the C...
MARY BERRY I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor...
HALLE BERRY Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in th...
WENDELL BERRY The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosyste...
WENDELL BERRY I grow herbs near the back door, and you can grow a wonderful selection of herbs and window boxes......
MARY BERRY I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different pha...
BILL BERRY We have three and a half acres, complete with duck pond and wildflower meadow and open annually by a...
MARY BERRY When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it...
WENDELL BERRY When I started, you had cochineal food colouring that would turn things pink, but you could never ma...
MARY BERRY All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis mak...
MARY BERRY Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
WENDELL BERRY When our William was killed, there wasn't a child bereavement charity. I was extremely blessed w...
MARY BERRY I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
HALLE BERRY I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step feari...
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Sit down. Be quiet. <...
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WENDELL BERRY Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the lan...
WENDELL BERRY Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.
MARY BERRY When I was paralysed by polio at 13, I went into an isolation hospital and couldn't sit up, so I...
MARY BERRY No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer...
DANIELLE BERRY It's an opportunity for visitors themselves to take part in the effort to reduce accidents.
BRIAN BERRY The case was shoddily conceived. And he lost it.
BRIAN BERRY We had two goals going into tonight's game. We wanted to win the game and get nobody hurt. We accomp...
BRIAN BERRY It's like 'Twilight Zone.' You're seeing the same pattern.
BRIAN BERRY At first, I think people thought I was a bum or a damn nut, so they were leery of me. People are nic...
BOB BERRY I was real satisfied with how we did going against the big schools. Most of our guys are newer at tr...
BOB BERRY The cruise (phase) has been very successful.
BOB BERRY For a while, there was nobody cutting ships. You couldn't do it because of all the environmental reg...
BOB BERRY He was mighty tickled and was a good kid. But I had to give him a lecture on keeping a phone number ...
BOB BERRY The team is trained and confident. The spacecraft systems are healthy and performing as expected, an...
BOB BERRY I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days].
HALLE BERRY My husband is not in the slightest bit domesticated, but as the years go, by he's getting better...
MARY BERRY I never fry a doughnut! If you want a doughnut, go and buy one once in a blue moon. It's about e...
MARY BERRY I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.
HALLE BERRY At my dinner parties, I like to serve cheese after the main course because you still have red wine i...
MARY BERRY I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy a...
HALLE BERRY My best holidays were in Devon and Cornwall when the children were growing up. We always used to sta...
MARY BERRY This has ripped the family. The parents they're devastated.
CATHY BERRY This has ripped the family. The parents – they're devastated.
CATHY BERRY I thought the girls played well, and we got off to a great start. We have a lot of returning players...
CATHY BERRY I thought Emily played fantastic, and she really held her own. She definitely stepped it up, when sh...
CATHY BERRY You're life still goes one whether you want it to or not, you still have daily bills that come in.
CATHY BERRY Whose noble praise Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing.
DOROTHY BERRY The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
JOHN BERRY In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
WENDELL BERRY Beauty? Let me tell you something - being thought of as 'a beautiful woman' has spared me nothing in...
HALLE BERRY “Eating is an agricultural act.”
WENDELL BERRY Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps...
WENDELL BERRY The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays
WENDELL BERRY When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what m...
WENDELL BERRY The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad ...
WENDELL BERRY I walked over to two firemen kneeling on the front porch, and I heard this awful noise. And it was S...
JANELLE BERRY I can't pass a plant stall without feeling I must have one. But my greatest extravagance, I supp...
MARY BERRY All-in-one dishes are among my favourites. I'm very much in favour of using the oven as much as ...
MARY BERRY I won't cook in deep fat. Years ago, I met a fireman who said most kitchen fires were caused by ...
MARY BERRY