Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adlai E. Stevenson

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations--great or small--to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

Thomas J. Sargent

Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh.

Thomas Essen

On Father's Day 2001, the mayor and I attended the funerals of three brave fire-fighters lost in the line of duty. I couldn't help thinking, as we were winding down our terms of office, that it was one of the saddest days I could remember, not knowing my life and the lives of those around me would change forever very soon.

Dave Brown

My daughter has attended public schools, and our spring break has never matched with hers.

Frances Beinecke

I attended the climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009, and back then, national governments waited until days before to submit climate plans, and the U.S. based its pledge on a proposed bill that would fail in the Senate.

Daniel Woodrell

I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school as far as the third grade. She worked as a maid, housekeeper and cook.

Larry Bowman

They stepped up without any hesitation. There was a meeting where all the chambers attended and signed on right away. Certainly the door is open for others to come in as well.

Birch Bayh

In fact, I really didn't get enthused about his Secretary of State race until I attended a couple of his rallies and found out there were a bunch of young folks that there were a bunch of young folks that he had been able to recruit on his own.

Andre Rieu

When I was 4 or 5, I attended my father's concerts. He very often played Strauss waltzes as encores and I saw something happening with the audience.

Ryan Madson

Stuff started happening pretty quick, and I wasn't thinking out there like I should have been. I was just out there throwing.

Shia LaBeouf

There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me.

Rick Hoffman

Even though the storefronts looked vacant, there was a lot of work happening inside, ... Seeing that, we realized this place has a lot of potential.

Dennis Hinkle

We've had some nice things happening and there's more in the works. For years it was pretty bad.

Tamba Hali

We didn't know what to do. Then it started happening all the time. So we went into hiding.

Andrew Abraham

What is happening right now is that there are thousands and thousands of people all over the world sending their prayers for Daniel.

Lisa Origliasso

We feel like we've been working at it forever. But then it seems like it's happening so fast!

Peter Fiske

We were left with no choice. This doesn't give our membership much time to prepare. It's all happening very fast. What else can we say but this is a horrible time and membership should prepare their finances.

Johnny Isakson

What's happening today is not going to help us, because the refineries have had to shut down and the offshore wells have had to shut down.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joe Tiller

The secondary played better in many phases. We are in a situation that we are switching things up to see what the result is and tonight it was a better product.

Manson Hill

The whole team played well and battled hard.

Philip Rivers

This is not a setback. I haven't played a ton, that's true. But I've had the two years, and I know the abilities I do have.

Dick Corn

This is special for these kids. It was really a gutsy performance, they played when they had to play.

Jimmy Breslin

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

Matt Creamer

We have a refuse-to-lose mentality. We played pretty well. We played intense. We didn't play smart, but I can't remember a better game.

O. J. Simpson

We have quality players and we played the team around them.

Bill Clarke

That's where we are now. You take what they give you in this offense. That what we saw and worked with it.

Carl Sandburg

The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

Alan Vega

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Dennis Rodman

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

Willie Smith

Every time I saw him, he had a smile on his face, and that put a smile on my face.

R. Ingram

We all saw what happened. I just took him out.

Buck Showalter

We didn't like what we saw from (Young). In warmups, he didn't look like we had it. His velocity was down, and it wasn't worth the risk.