Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Miller

I found out that two of my students have lost everything, one of them will not be returning to St. Peter's because her parents had to place her with family members out of the area. I found out that another one of my students has moved to Birmingham with his mother as well so he will not be returning.

Stewart Downing

He took it on Tuesday night at Birmingham and played really well.

Jim Zwerg

By this time another group of kids had come down from Nashville. So 22 of us spent the night in the Birmingham bus station with the Klan marching around outside.

Taylor Branch

When the Birmingham movement happened, it just stunned me, ... I felt a tiny breath of something very powerful. It changed the whole direction of my life's interest.

William Brown

I think I'm about the only one on this team who has ever been to Birmingham and seen what it looks like. But we should be ready. It might take a few trips down court, but we'll adjust. There will be a lot of things going on that can capture our attention, but we will have to block that out once game time is here.

Michael Ball

I thought I was on my way to Birmingham but then the late call came from PSV,

Marty Hammond

I felt we played poorly the entire game, and Birmingham made us pay for it in the second half, that's for sure. We've got a long ways to go. We just have to keep getting better each week.

Charles Hazlewood

I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Russian music.

Andrew Young

Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

Dick Jauron

What I learned is you better win. When you win, you're pretty smart. When you don't, you're not.

Harry Campbell

I went from summer school to merit roll. I learned that the more you do in school, the better you will be in life.

Lauren Hutton

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

Glenn Tilton

If there's anything I learned in 32 years in the oil business, it's not to speculate on oil prices.

Pokey Chatman

I learned a lot about basketball. I learned more about life.

Elizabeth Miller

I learned what invasive species I have. Even in my own backyard.

Chris Lee

I learned to swallow my pride. Swallow it and walk away.

Ruth Saunders

The first thing we learned was to pronounce his name:

George Hamilton

The cha-cha-cha is not the one I learned in Mexico. The tango is not the one I saw in Argentina. They have their own way of doing things.

George Jennings

It is a little unsettling to be the first wave. It's going to be a rough deal. Nobody wants to go on a strike on Christmas.

Ron Fussell

When he's on, there's nobody who can touch him.

John Salmon

When he's in a groove, he's in a groove. Can't nobody stop him, can't nobody stop him.

Bob Harrington

Later, I don't know when, they pushed in the walls and made it a pond. Nobody has a record of why.

Kelly Price

There was no person, whether they thought I was too fat, too black, too country, too ghetto, too New York, too thug or too whatever! Nobody ultimately had the say over whether or not I was going to make it.

George Jones

I don't know why nobody thought of it earlier.

Jonathan Cheechoo

I just turned and seen there was nobody between me and the net, so I just shot it. I didn't even look at the clock.

Chuck James

I'm kind of a nobody again. I've got to prove myself all over again.

Don Marquis

I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.

Richard Wright

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Richard Avedon

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

William Sharp

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

Vladimir Nabokov

To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena — all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.

Xavier Becerra

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

Wynonna Judd

I literally went from the outhouse to the White House.

Lewis Wolff

I like the A's best, but I like the White Sox and Angels,

Nate Berkus

They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'

Harvey Levin

I didn't feel like it was essential to have a white host or a black host, I wanted a good host.