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Definition of Crying

Crying

of Cry

Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil.

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Crying Quotations

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.
Michael Jackson

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Norman Vincent Peale

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
Chuck Palahniuk

There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
Herman Melville

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
Robert Louis Stevenson

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
Kanye West

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.
Kanye West

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
Sophocles

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
Thomas Fuller

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Samuel Johnson

I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.
Nancy Pelosi

Crying wolf is a real danger.
David Attenborough

It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
Ingrid Bergman

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.
Judy Garland

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
Alice Walker

I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does.
Mary J. Blige

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?
Tony Campolo

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?
James Caan

I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I'm there. But when I leave, I just start crying.
Loretta Lynn

All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.
Nikita Khrushchev

Crying over what's gone won't find the present.
Edwin Louis Cole

Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it's 22 years later, and they still haven't lost their virginity.
Conan O'Brien

Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting.
Rod Steiger

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.
Arnold J. Toynbee

I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling.
Serena Williams

And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.
Salma Hayek

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.
Jo Brand

There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.
David O. McKay

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Crying Translations

crying in German is schreiende, schreiend, flennend

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