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They stepped in at a crucial time, gave immediate financial and emotional support and lifted the challenges off my shoulders so that I could just focus on healing and recovery, we started that relationship then, in 2007, and I could call these ladies right now and they would answer the phone with, ‘Hey baby, what’s going on?' Who they are and what they bring to the situation is difficult to really put into words.

– Davey Lind

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I prayed for the miracle of God’s strength and that’s why I’m here with you guys today. He puts the most and heaviest weight on the shoulders of his strongest soldiers. I’m here to show that I can fight through this.

– Powerful Queen Cannon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I mean, so many firsts, right? It’s a lot to have on your shoulders, she is somebody who, at a much higher level than the rest of us, but who wants to be seen as the talented, experienced, you know, expert, substantive policy person, partner to the president, that she is. But I do think there have been some attacks that are beyond because of her identity.

– Jen Psaki

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is a momentous occasion, and I am honored to take this role for the impact that I can make and for the historic nature of what it symbolizes, i stand on the shoulders of those LGBTQ + individuals who came before me -- both those known and unknown.

– Rachel Levine

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The racial wealth gap is the accumulation of advantage, wealth is savings in many forms. It could be in assets like homes, stock, land and many those things don't go away. When somebody amasses that it just keeps being passed forward and the children are standing on somebody's financial shoulders.

– William Spriggs

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think we played with the intensity and the sense of urgency I expected our football team to have, for whatever reason I’ve done a poor job prior to early on this week of getting that sense of urgency demanded. I put those things on my shoulders. I was proud of our leadership. I thought they responded.

– Iowa State coach Matt Campbell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There are teachers looking over their shoulders wondering if someone's going to be at their door darkening their door, saying you said something or you mentioned something or used something that you were not supposed to.

– Patricia Jackson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My fear is that if the world feels that it can no longer look with the same level of certainty and confidence to the US or NATO... we will see emboldened moves from actors hostile or unfriendly to a more united Europe, that means that Europe must realize that the weight of the world democratic and security order rests more heavily on Europe's shoulders. It is a wake-up call that we have snoozed too many times.

– Roberta Metsola

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There is no doubt that the UAE has detained people on behalf of foreign governments with whom they are allied, i don’t think they would at all shrug their shoulders to a request from such a powerful ally.

– Radha Stirling

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Just in shock, i was trying so hard to just stay calm. ... But man, it was stressful. And I made that putt and it was just a huge weight lifted off my shoulders and just very relieved and happy.

– Stefan Schauffele

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They didn’t hold me back, that was one of the life lessons that I took from my parents. I’m the only one that can hold me back from doing what I want to do. If I want to do something there is a way to do it whether it’s sports or a job or university or a relationship. I might have to take a different route. I might have to make some adjustments along the way. But if I truly have a passion for it, I truly have a calling to do it, it’s on my shoulders to be able to find a way to make it happen.

– Rick Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

So I really changed my strategy, you just take a lot weight off your shoulders and you just go and simplify things ... just saying, ‘I don’t have that shot today. I’m not going to try and hit it.’ Just go with what you got.

– Satoshi Kodaira

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s a great weight off our shoulders to know he’s not out there and he can’t do anything like this again to vulnerable people in the community.

– Nick White

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I wrote this book because I wanted everyone to get to experience the magic of drag, and to get a little practice shaking their hips or shimmying their shoulders – to know how we can feel fabulous inside of our own bodies.

– Hot Mess

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That was also when I fell in love with basketball and that’s why he became my favorite player, i mean, I would say that I am probably here because of him. ... We miss him a lot. I miss him a lot. He was my favorite player. When you watch the way I play basketball and the moves that I’ve added, especially when it comes from fadeaways over both shoulders, that comes from a lot of tapes of Kobe’s games.

– Joel Embiid

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Everything I have accomplished is because I stand on the shoulders of my parents' hard work.

– Radhika Fox

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's contagious, the ball has energy. Pushing the pace and seeing the ball go through the hoop, the hoop just grows and gets bigger. From there, I feel like the pressure kind of falls off your shoulders, the weight kind of falls and you just let it go and let it shoot.

– Jrue Holiday

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Even tho’ he struggled with life he kept elbowing his way through the crowd of envy, even tho’ it felt like the weight of the world was on his shoulders he would never allow his head to hang to the ground; in a world lost in misery. -MillYentei

– Deshawn Yeldell

added by MillYentei.L.D.Y
3 years ago

We are stepping out and getting people of color into offices and being the first, he's broken the barrier, i think it will make room for people to stand on his shoulders.

– Stephen Latham

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In addition to the fundraising, we really want to take that stress off our parents’ shoulders, there’s enough going on when you have a sick child and are literally worrying about whether or not they’re going to survive. If we can take stress away from them, allow them to focus on Kennedy, and getting her back to full health and back home again, then that’s a tremendous help for that family.

– Rick Lofgren

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I think it’s just a huge weight off their shoulders, just being able to have that hug that they haven’t had in so long, when we were planning this and setting it up, and I saw pictures, I wasn’t sure if with all the plastic and everything you could really get that human contact. But I teared up on some of them. It was really special for our families.

– Anna Hostetter

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

That's a weight lifted not only off of my shoulders, but off of so many transgender individuals that are serving right now, but also all of those who are not open and who are still unsure if they want to come out or unsure of themselves, that's allowing everybody to continue to be themselves without having to worry of any adverse effects from their command or being pushed out. And it allows them to serve with freedom in order to do their job.

– Navy SEAL Ashley Nefzger

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There was a time when I really needed the role of my spouse. I came home and I was like,' I don't know if I can keep doing this,' you have a lot of responsibility on your shoulders. And then to not know what's going to happen when you're walking to your car... It's been very heavy.

– Joshua Embry

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There's things in life where you keep them as a secret, i was molested as a child. I kept it quiet for many, many years and once you admit that it happened to you, the secret doesn't feel like this weight on your shoulders. And for me, it's been such a beautiful gift to be able to come clean with something that I was so ashamed of.

– Ricki Lake

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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