Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Edwards

These buildings are the history of the community and they represent the human history of the community, ... There is just so much going on in Old South Baton Rouge that the rest of the community doesn't appreciate, and it's because they don't know.

Keith Dixon

We're handing the baton off and letting someone else take the next leg of this important race.

Paul Hoolahan

I can't say with any level of confidence today that it won't be played in Baton Rouge.

Archie Manning

I was very proud of them. It was heavy on their hearts and they moved fast. Peyton got the plane lined up. Their mother and I think that it did some good. I've heard so many comments from people in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. And after talking to the boys when I got back I could tell it did them some good, too.

Denny Lynch

We feel every comfortable with the baton in Jack's hands. He's been there before.

Nicole Scherzinger

When I think about eighteen months ago when this all began and how far we've come, I can't wait to see where we are eighteen months from now. It's also such an honor to have the baton of a number one song passed to us by an icon like Mariah Carey.

John Brady

And Glen challenged the team at halftime. You know what it was like being in Baton Rouge last year after we didn't win that first round game. I didn't want to experience that any more.

Mike Stringer

The man in Baton Rouge said to call when we get close.

Tim Byrne

They seem to run harder when they have a baton in their hand.

Dirk Benedict

As children get older, they are supposed to gradually stand more and more on their own and eventually completely leave the nest. My boys are definitely starting to do that. Soon I might actually go on a date.

Don Cross

The boys are fired up to hit somebody not from Cabrillo,

Eric Balinbin

The boys are extremely excited. The last couple of days a few of them have called me and said, 'Man, I couldn't sleep.' They can't wait to play.

Mark Stephens

The boys are exceptional. Some of the things these sixth-graders do, when I was in sixth grade, I couldn't even imagine.

Paul Pautsch

The boys are definitely the cream of the crop in the conference.

Graeme Smith

The boys are confident but the feet are still firmly on the ground.

Bonita Favre

The boys and (David) did an excellent job,

Kathy Hoy

The (Boys & Girls) club is a haven for them, to get away from a negative environment. It provides great opportunities for kids. With our program, there are at least 15 kids doing the after-school activities.

Denny Brown

The boys worked hard all year. They made a lot of progress. Everybody I put in a game contributed to the team effort.

Saad Qindeel

Any comments regarding the contents of the constitution from a non-Iraqi source are not going to be helpful.

Scott Reed

Romney?s comments have not gone unnoticed, and his visit to Phoenix to raise some money has raised some eyebrows.

Howard Mann

It would be unfair for me to make comments about an order I haven't seen yet.

Tom Vosa

These comments have reduced expectations that we will see any hint of a pause in tightening in Greenspan's testimony on Wednesday.

Ehud Barak

These comments have, of course, no connection to reality, and it would have been better if they would have never been said,

Mahmoud Alinejad

These comments are not being made by accident. This is something he has deliberated and thought out.

Todd Akin

This is not about who is running the media, this is about the question of the shock jocks who have been pushing the moral envelope for all too long and the vulgar and indecent comments that come over the public airwaves.

Katherine MacMurray

This game we tried to focus on positive comments to help our players and that helped win the game.

Joseph Cirincione

You no longer heard comments about tyrants and pygmies. It may seem to be a small matter, but it's very important diplomatically.

Lauren Fine

Rather than meeting the chef, we heard more from the CFO and even had a review of the financials.

Craig Sher

Sometimes the vocal minority is heard over the silent majority.

John Fossum

I've never heard of a situation like this before,

Larry Walker

I've never heard 43,000 people shut up so fast. The only thing you could hear was our bench.

Larry Walker

I've never heard 43,000 people shut up just like that.

Larry Walker

I've never heard 43,000 people just shut up like that. The noise just ... wasn't there.

James Franklin

I've only heard he likes to smash it -- he's a young Darren Lehmann.

Kristen Staab

It was the worst thing I ever heard in my life.

Kalle Palander

I skied like a pussy cat. I didn't take any risks because I heard that Rocca had skied out.

Bobby Robson

I didn't take the Hearts job for personal reasons.

Nanci Griffith

...here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest.

Dennis Hastert

Our hearts and prayers go out to him,

Garrett Williamson

We left our hearts on the court, and locked them up on defense.

Brad Doyle

Yes, it will rain on their parade. There's a possibility of some heavy rains in the Pasadena area.

Josh Wright

We have really heavy guitars, but the vocals aren't heavy.

Soma Somasegar

But the processes out there, I think, are too heavy weight.

Chris Evans

I have a pretty fast metabolism, so I don't really have to worry about getting pudgy. What I try to do when I'm working out is taking in a lot of heavy protein - clean chicken, clean meats.

Daniel Blumenthal

I think the smart money would say we're going to have another heavy season of West Nile virus this summer because of the wet spring, (which means) a lot of mosquitoes,

Howard Davidowitz

I think there will be heavy promotions over the holidays because retailers have not been meeting their sales plans.

Andrew Mack

We no longer have huge wars with huge armies, major engagements, heavy conventional weapons.

Phil Noblitt

That's a very heavy part of who we are.

Jason Alexander

I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.

Frostee Rucker

I'm always toast when I'm lined up versus 5.

Dale Mitchell

He was lined up straight with the ship canal,

Alex Segura

They were all lined up anyway. It's no surprise.

Archie Panjabi

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.

Barbara Mertz

There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.

Ayelet Waldman

By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.

Ayelet Waldman

Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.

Ayelet Waldman

I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.

Ayelet Waldman

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

Ayelet Waldman

I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity.

Ayelet Waldman

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

Ayelet Waldman

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

Jose Canseco

Proof Positive, I'm a very positive person and I've moved on.

Douglas Alexander

The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on.

Jamie Friedman

The stock moved up pretty quickly, so we changed.

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Anna Kendrick

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Darrell Fox

We already have a shooting range. I don't see where there's enough people (who would use another) that one needs to be moved into a community.

Jay Wright

You get past that first one and now we are in the tournament. We've moved on and I think that makes them feel better, that they can just go play basketball.

Juan Felipe Herrera

What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was really our encyclopedia. A dream world told to me from my parents in the living room.

Tom Daschle

We haven't made progress. We've moved back from progress, ... a half-measure only.

Evan Bayh

What we are seeing in New Orleans is the result of a series of misjudgments and misdirected priorities, that have all produced an increasingly tragic result.

Christine Mitchell

Now, parents will start to return to the city. I think this symbolizes to a lot of people that, yes, New Orleans is back and will accommodate families.

Charles Harper

New Orleans is ruined, it will never be what it was again. I shed tears when I think about it. It seems hopeless.

Charles Harper

New Orleans is ruined, it will never be what it was again, ... I shed tears when I think about it. It seems hopeless.

Brian Kern

New Orleans is back open, so come on down and start visiting.

Jarvis Deberry

New Orleans had one of the most rooted populations in the nation.

Mark Smith

New Orleans as we know it does not exist.

Michael Brown

My first words to him were, 'Mr. President, it is my estimation ... at least 90 percent of the population of New Orleans has been displaced. He was truly taken aback by that.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

New Orleans is awake all night, and every night is a party.

Tom Ridge

a very unfortunate characterization of the work that people are doing.

Jake Bugg

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

Renae Dreier

A year from now, people will look back and say that was nerve-racking, but it was worth it.

Randy Falco

Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

Karla Reese

As people stop driving, we haven't been able to replace them as readily as we used to.

Michael Vick

As long as I can go out and make plays, people can say what they want to say,

Jake Barton

As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.

Ferdie Pacheco

As influential as I have been, do you think one of these people has ever called me? ... No.

Astro Teller

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

Fredi Gonzalez

Pratt wore his shirt on the plane home.

Michio Kaku

Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger than a twin that they would have on the planet Earth who was stationary. This is called the twin paradox.

Alex Van Halen

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

Alice Walker

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

Thomas Harris

It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

Ralph Merkle

We see an entire planet which has many limitations.

Michael Rich

Right around where the development is where they completely reconfigure the plane to land,

Wallace Wattles

Riches secured on the competitive plane are never satisfactory and permanent. They are yours today and another's tomorrow.

Marc LaVorgna

Basically, the plane is stuck in the mud.

Ray Baumbach

I served because I wanted to. I was proud to be a soldier.

Tracy Byrd

The whole state of Texas has really stepped up on this thing, and I'm especially proud to be a Texan today.

Doug Light

That's what we've been working on. I was so proud of how we were patient.

Charlie Smythers

You're never satisfied. Like I told the guys, I'm disappointed. But we are very proud of the season we had. And I'm real proud of those guys.

Bai Ling

You have to be proud of who you are.

Asa Butterfield

I can clap really fast. I can beatbox. I can type the alphabet in under 2 seconds. That's probably the one I'm most proud of.

Dennis Eckersley

I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

Jane Garvey

We have, I am proud to say, successfully transitioned in a very uneventful way.

Britney Spears

Yes I'm a virgin and proud of it.

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Brian K. Vaughan

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

Calvin Coolidge

Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.

James Woods

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Dana Perino

Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.