Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Banks

I realize many of my ancestors fought so I could have the opportunities I have today, and I appreciate them for the sacrifices they made for us.

David Brin

Is this a horrible future? Or actually a return to what we've always had in the past? Think of old villages. Everybody knew everything about everybody else. Strangers were intimidating and worrisome. This will be like the village our ancestors grew up in, only with 7 billion people.

It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to head out onto the plains, where some were probably hit by cars

Shirley Gritz

As he was doing it, he was saying maybe these are some of my ancestors and my people here. It really was something for him.

Ruth Reichl

It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.

Alice Walker

It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.

Joy Harjo

My ancestors include Monahwee, who was one of the leaders in the Red Stick War, which was the largest Indian uprising in history, and Osceola, who refused to sign a treaty with the United States.

Will Rogers

My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.

Douglas Elliott

I suspect that there will be some mix of taxpayer subsidy and increase in premiums that attempts to partially recoup the losses.

Laila Sadler

It also seems to be in distress. It has made two seemingly deliberate attempts to beach itself.

Brad Luna

Any attempts to turn back the clock such as this one are out of step with the values of the majority of Americans.

Rebecca MacKinnon

It's much easier to force intermediary communications and Internet companies such as Google to police themselves and their users than the alternatives: sending cops after everybody who attempts a risque or politically sensitive search, getting parents and teachers to do their jobs, or chasing down the origin of every offending link.

Frederick Chiluba

It is therefore the duty of the Zambian government to promote and strengthen its judiciary, ... In fact the government should decide which matters they will pursue. Other than being legally folly, the attempts to run parallel civil and criminal matters based on the same facts, material and circumstances, unfairly prejudices me.

James Tracy

It takes only 3 to 5 minutes to kill yourself, ... We have (almost) 700 inmates. To check every one of them 24 hours a day, no more than 3 to 5 minutes apart? I'd need triple the staff to guarantee never a suicide. But our operational goal is to prevent as many suicides as we can . . . if somebody attempts it, we do everything we can to eliminate the problem and then treat the inmate.

Mr Howard

The wannabe invariably attempts to get in on the conversations after he has had a few beers and then once he has the attention of the crowd he unleashes with his rubbish,

Nina Easton

Your company is probably going to get hacked. The velocity and complexity of hacking attempts has skyrocketed, with companies routinely facing millions of knocks on the vault door.

Gianfranco Fini

Italy had not activated behavior intended to hide anything from the ally.

Clive Lloyd

I have been very disappointed in the behavior of both teams during this series and I would urge the coaches, captains and managers to get their players together and remind them of the importance of playing in a professional manner.

Mike Birbiglia

I am diagnosed with what's called 'REM behavior disorder.' As far as the disorder goes, there's no cure, but it's going pretty well as far as these things go. I see a sleep doctor, take medication, etc.

Ralph Friedgen

This wasn't very easy for me. It's one of the more difficult things I've done since I've been here. I did what I felt had to be done. The message had to be sent that this kind of behavior will not be tolerated.

Wayne Dyer

Habits are changed by practicing new behaviors, and this is true for mental habits as well.

Stephen R. Covey

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We cansubordinate feelings to values.

Brian Bogosian

RIM must understand that there is no place in the mobile e-mail space for this sort of behavior. RIM should not be able to sell the BlackBerry system.

Terry Abbott

Our office of inspector general is investigating inappropriate behavior at a school-sponsored event held off campus back in February.

Sharon Stoll

In sport we have moved away from honorable behavior.

Bobby Bowden

He's gotten into a different situation now and needs to step it up. And it looks like he's got the message. He's got the physical part, the brutality part down. He just needs the finesse part, doing the things correctly and doing it smoothly. He's got the tools of somebody you can count on.

Ben Crump

We can never ever let anything like this happen again, and if we don't get this videotape out, people will never know the truth. Police brutality is unacceptable at any time.

Carl Jung

The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.

Nikki Sixx

And, you know, there's a brutality to us when we're together,

Jacob Lew

The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable.

Vince Megna

Police brutality is only effective when it is not caught on tape.

Jean Racine

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

Al Sharpton

The real loser is Rudy Giuliani, ... We proved how out of touch he is with the voters of New York. The issues of unemployment, police brutality and the schools not working are on the front burner. You can run, Rudy, but you can't hide.

David Boyer

Then it erased it and wrote it again, and did it all day. People loved it.

Jimmy McKinney

If we have a great tournament and we happen to win the tournament then we erase all the negative things that have been going on, especially the losing part.

Kelvin Garnett

I felt for these kids after that football game. Hopefully we can erase some of disappointment in basketball.

Jeff Halpern

He's still getting chances. I know as well as anyone, goalies are good. You are not always going to score. He's the type of guy who can go out and get four goals the next two games and erase the drought.

Noam Chomsky

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

Greg Boyle

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

Conor Oberst

I try to keep the idea that there's an audience in as little space in my mind as possible, but you can't erase it entirely, the idea that when you're sitting down to write a song, people are going to hear it.

Gary Sheffield

Why should I have to prove myself again? Should I have to prove myself till I'm 40? I don't have to prove to nobody I can hit. How about you tell them not to pick it up. Tell him erase it.

Joe Piscopo

It's vital to getting out the vote because the kids identify with it so much.

Marcia Townsend

There were more than 100 plants. We had a wonderful time trying to identify all of them.

Alan Brown

Would you identify the man in this picture?

Cierra Ramirez

I've loved taking on roles that have a very universal message that lots of people can identify and relate to - and at the end of the day can get people talking.

Toby Neinas

I've been on enough token interviews to know the difference, and I didn't identify that as one.

Jordana Brewster

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.

Mayor Larson

First we need to identify the needs and wants of the community.

Anne M. Mulcahy

When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give direction to others. I'm in this job because I'm better and smarter.' I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them.

Eric Coyne

As soon as they can find and identify a suitable person.

S. Hughes

It is so important in this time of dispossession taking place that we recognize we have one another, and we have the Lord,

Tanya Vanasse

If you know Stewart, you'd probably recognize it.

Jan Dawson

It's unusual, to be honest, to have a vendor recognize that there are things being done well.

Stephanie Williams

It's supply and demand. It's better to recognize it now than wait, because recruiting and retraining (drivers) is more expensive.

Mike Hamilton

Are we going to recognize our tradition or not? If we're going to recognize our tradition, then let's get on with it.

Joel Smith

Even the way somebody walks sometimes in a video may be the way to recognize that person.

Woody Johnson

We all recognize that there are similarities here. We will be searching out the possibility that we have a serial bomber.

Larina Kase

To become successful is to recognize every tiny step towards successand then take more of them.

Willie Davis

If they didn't recognize me as the new owner, that would get me in somehow.

Ted Demme

I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.

Mary Scott

No one should have been treated like that.