Shannon Bream Quotes

It breaks my heart when I see young women swept up in today‘s celebrity culture that encourages them to give themselves away for the sake of a few likes on social media.

I’m diligent about using eye drops and ointment before bed, which seems to minimize the frequency and severity of corneal abrasions. When I wake up now with an abrasion, I know I need to stay calm and effectively treat the pain. I can usually get back to sleep within a couple of hours.

I’ve always been active, and enjoy running and lifting weights.

Basically, I suffer from a genetic condition that causes my corneas to tear all the time. If it’s happened to you even once, you know how agonizing it can be – for me, it was happening on a daily basis.

My background is interesting in that I was a sexual harassment attorney before I ever got into news. I think I had a really broad understanding of exactly how the legal framework works, how HR works, all those kinds of things.

I finished 1,100 books in six weeks.

Getting involved in a newsroom and seeing how it operated and the urgency of live television really got my attention.

I feel very privileged to do what I do.

I’m fascinated by current events and the privilege of trying to share it with other people and tell a story.

I don’t believe anything‘s a coincidence.

Miss America paid for my junior and senior years in college.

There’s part of you that, when you show up for work, you kick into professional mode and try to do your absolute best.

I grew up in a very strict household, where secular music was forbidden.

You don’t even have to be a lawyer to be on the Supreme Court, which I think is hilarious.

I know Fox News is the target of criticism but we take it in stride. Our No. 1 goal is to be accurate.

Around my 40th birthday, I started to have extraordinary pain in my eyes and it was only happening overnight and I couldn’t figure out what the source was of this but it would literally shoot me out of bed in enormous pain, doubled over.

That year I went to Miss America, that was the first year I had competed in an adult pageant, if you could call it that. So it was zero to 60.

Routine is important to me and keeps me mentally and physically healthy.

For me, my faith is the most important thing in my life.

I grew up in Florida, started fishing with my dad going down to the Everglades and around the state, plus some offshore stuff for sails and wahoo – but I never really got the bug until my husband and I went float fishing on the Snake River at Jackson Hole for trout – I’ve been pretty much addicted ever since.

Double vision makes reading the prompter very tricky.

I try to say to myself, this is the season that the Lord has you here. Don’t hold too tightly to it because you don’t know what other adventures or things are coming down the line and I just try to be open to what the Lord may have next.

When I’m working out and eating healthily, it’s easier to manage the stresses and schedule demands that are a reality in media.

I was a bookish nerd.

I think our greatest moments of pain can be our greatest chance to grow in our faith and to share it and hopefully bring someone else back from the brink.

When I get out of bed in the morning, I literally say a prayer. The first thing I do is thank God that I got through the night.

I have an ongoing fight with fast food.

Live television is just like competing on live TV. You’re never going to be perfect. You just try to prepare the best that you can and execute the best that you can and try to be in the moment.

I like to think that I could survive should the apocalypse or zombies show up.

I think among a lot of American families who see Walmart as one of their brands and it may be the best thing in town, they may not have any options whether they want to boycott or not.

When you find yourself on a pageant stage, there are a lot of unpredictable moments, and I think a lot of that translates to doing the live, breaking-news reporting that I do now.

The surface cells on my eyes don’t root back into my eyeball like a normal person‘s do. Instead, they want to pull off. At night, the surface of my eye was actually adhering to my eyelid. Once that happened, any movement would cause a tear and trigger nearly indescribable pain.

When you see that the head of human resources is sitting in the meeting you’ve been called into, it’s not a good sign.

Facts are facts.

The Lord creates us all in different ways and gives us all different passions and different paths.

Walk away from medical professionals who dismiss your concerns, and don’t quit searching until you find someone who will truly partner with you to find the answers you deserve.

The first boss to give me a shot on-air left the station not long after I started reporting. The next boss fired me, and told me I was the worst person he‘d ever seen on TV and that I would never make it. That felt like being punched in the gut repeatedly! But I pulled myself together and kept fighting for my dream.

In my mother‘s household, hit shows like ‘The Love Boat‘ and ‘Three‘s Company‘ were ‘not appropriate for nice lit‘tle girls.’ So was the prospect of staying up past 8:00 P.M. – and don’t even think about talking back.

The news now continues all night, whether it’s politicians and the president using social media, or it might be a major news outlet dropping giant stories at 9, 10 o’clock at night.

Instead of just surviving life and hoping to make it through one more day, I live my life with joy now, and I’m incredibly grateful.