Saving Up Quotes:

I guess maybe you don’t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.331, Penguin

topic: Saving Up, White, Miles

I feel like I’ve been saving up a lot of things, and I don’t know what.

- Ray Bradbury

source: Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.31, Hamilton Books

topic: Saving Up, Saving, Feels

I'm very liberal in some ways, and then I'm very conservative in others. I once asked my grandpa, "Are you a Republican or a Democrat?" He said, "I'm a Democrat, but I'm saving up to be a Republican."

- Kenny Chesney

topic: Saving Up, Grandpa, Way

The picture of me just after I’d found out Aspen was saving up to marry me. I looked radiant, hopeful, beautiful. I looked like I was in love. And some idiot thought that love was for Prince Maxon.

- Kiera Cass

source: Kiera Cass (2015). “The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir”, p.28, HarperCollins

topic: Beautiful, Saving Up, Hopeful, Aspens, Prince Maxon

How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.

- Samuel Beckett

source: Samuel Beckett (2009). “Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces”, p.11, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Saving Up, Age, Said

I'm not a Republican... but I am saving up to be one.

- Emo Philips

topic: Saving Up, Saving, Republican

She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.

- Zora Neale Hurston

source: Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.87, University of Illinois Press

topic: Men, Saving Up, Feelings

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

- George Horace Lorimer

source: George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.251, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Leadership, Money, Lost, Good Money, Spending Other People's Money

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

- Chris Van Hollen

source: "Breaking the Cycle of Childhood Poverty" by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2012.

topic: Home, College, Choices, Owning A Home, Starks

I was very inspired by working women, and also women who aren't working yet! I want them to have shoes that feel luxurious and special and well-crafted and thought about. But also, they should have shoes that won't break the bank. You don't have to spend three years saving up for beautiful shoes.

- Zendaya

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Beautiful, Should Have, Years, Very Inspired, Working Women

Student loan debt is crushing young people. And so they're not doing the things we would expect them to do. They're not moving out of their parents' homes in as big a numbers, they're not saving up money for down payments, they're not buying homes or cars or starting small businesses or doing any of the things that help move this economy forward.

- Elizabeth Warren

topic: Crush, Moving, Home, Student Loan, Parents Home

The Olympic Games are for 'the youth of the world,' but they're organized and scored by countries. It's no surprise that countries treat them as vehicles of national pride, and assume that their people will be most interested in their own athletes. So anybody who was saving up to write an angry letter, blog post, or op-ed about NBC's chauvinistic coverage: don't bother! They're actually more above-the-fray than most. Also, their coverage is not shown anywhere except America - I know, it's because I can't get it that I'm watching Women's Air Pistol - so can't ruffle feathers elsewhere.

- James Fallows

topic: Ruffles, Saving Up, National Pride

To get on in Hollywood, you've gotta be a bit gay and a bit Jewish, and I'm saving up to be Jewish.

- Vinnie Jones

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Gay, Saving, Hollywood, Saving Up

Im saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time Im in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.

- Nicola Formichetti

topic: Dream, Art, Cities, Saving Up

When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition.

- Jeff Raikes

topic: Children, School, Tuition, Saving Up

When you fall asleep after a big lunch you're really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on.

- Elizabeth Jane Howard

topic: Fall, Lunch, Energy, Saving Up

Taking jobs to build up your resume is the same as saving up sex for old age.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Jobs, Sex, Age, Saving Up

When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.

- Marshall Brickman

topic: Miracle, Pessimistic, Saving, Saving Up

Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.

- Lauren DeStefano

source: Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

topic: Fall, Autumn, Years, Fall Season, Finale

I gotta go on doin' it the way I see it...I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I'm here to have a party while I'm on this earth...I'm gettin' it now, today. I don't even know where I'm gonna be twenty years from now, so I'm just gonna keep on rockin', cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me...man, there ain't gonna be nothing left for Janis.

- Janis Joplin

topic: Party, Men, Years, Saving Up

I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age?

- Warren Buffett

topic: Life, Sex, Jobs, Saving Up

The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow.

- Germaine Greer

source: Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

topic: Couple, Real, Struggle, Class Status, Comfortable Life

In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.

- Christie Hefner

topic: Memories, College, Car, Saving Up