Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Colbert

Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

John F. Kennedy

For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.

Howard Zinn

Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more wars, more graves to receive more flowers on future Memorial Days. The memory of the dead deserves a different dedication. To peace, to defiance of governments.

Fred Rogers

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

Ronald Reagan

The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we - in a less final, less heroic way - be willing to give of ourselves.

Ron Matthews

I've just spoken with Rohan on the phone. He had just returned from a memorial service.

Niccolo Machiavelli

One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage

Benjamin Harrison

I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.

Larry Potts

As far as me getting signed at my age, the chances are less than zero. But if you've got any kind of art inside of you, you have a responsibility to share it with other people. The worst thing that can happen with any artist is not to believe in what you do.

John Grogan

As many as 70 percent of kids drop out of sports by the age of 13, and that's a huge issue.

John Keats

O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delvid earth...

Nasser Hussain

Age has been catching up on me a little bit -- the body, the mind, the fire in the stomach and the eyes a little bit have started to deteriorate.

Otis Smith

Age doesn't matter. Would you rather have a 60-year-old guy and not get it done or a 30-year-old guy and win Super Bowls?

Jane Smith

Death is inevitable, and, after about the age of 75 or so, you begin to care about people in a certain way. We have all loved Mrs. King in that very special way these last few years. It's just a very tearful right now.

Linda Ronstadt

The music that I chose during my life, it wasn't arbitrary. It was all in my family home when I was growing up. I never tried to record anything I hadn't heard before the age of 10. Otherwise, I couldn't do it authentically.

Katharine Hepburn

The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

Jane Fonda

The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can't do what they used to do, and that's terrible.