Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Allan Bloom

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.

Alison Gopnik

Owning our past allows us to own our future.

Alison Lurie

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

Anthony Jeselnik

I had written for Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman in the past. Jimmy had a different voice, and different priorities. He couldnt be the bad guy in the joke; he couldnt upset people, really.

Ann Hood

In Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline seamlessly knits together the past and present of two women, one young and one old. Kline reminds us that we never really lose anyone or anything or – perhaps most importantly – ourselves.

Ann Brashares

The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.

Ann Brashares

I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.

Ann Brashares

You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.

Niki Lauda

Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.

Salvador Dali

Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later ... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.

Winston Churchill

If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.

Wendell Willkie

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.

Miuccia Prada

In Europe the world of fashion is too conservative, very eighties.

Milan Kundera

Common European thought is the fruit of the immense toil of translators. Without translators, Europe would not exist; translators are more important than members of the European Parliament.

Jacob Lew

Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order.

John Bright

This regard for the liberties of Europe, this care at one time for the protestant interest, this excessive love for the balance of power, is neither more nor less than a gigantic system of outdoor relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain.

Luther Allison

Well, I first started going to Europe in the late '70s.

Carrie Fisher

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.