Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Milton

Black it stood as night, / Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, / And shook a dreadful dart.

Nora Ephron

Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.

Monique Coleman

I'm good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas.

Mark Rothko

There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.

Oscar Wilde

Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

Lucille Clifton

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

Louis Farrakhan

There is no one right now in my judgment that can unite the Black electorate in such a way to present our agenda to a nominee to have them forthrightly address our concerns.

Lorraine Hansberry

Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.

Michael Rooker

Don't mess with me! I'm a black-belt!

Charlotte Kasl

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.

Joe Mesi

I think that, as crazy as it sounds, the two-year layoff might be a blessing in this situation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider the inlets of pleasure from five senses only, we may be sure that the same Being who created us could have given us five hundred, if He had pleased.

Orison Swett Marden

There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.

Bo Sanchez

The blessing that I got from my parents, even if they didn't really teach me about money, was their simple lifestyle.

Jerry Johnson

We are just trying to be a blessing to the community. We know a lot of people lost a lot during the last two hurricanes,

Cardinal Mahony

We have the great joy today of introducing and blessing a new rose which has been developed.

Abigail Adams

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

A. P. Herbert

A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.

Liaquat Baloch

We are of the view that Indian movies spread obscenity and vulgarity. These (Indian) movies cannot be watched with family members and as such we will be opposing their exhibition in Pakistan.

Vauvenargues Marquis

We are often dismayed to find that even disasters cannot cure us of our faults.

John Murtha

We cannot win this militarily. Our tactics themselves keep us from winning,

William Gaillard

We cannot talk about any punishment until we have the results of the B test.

Timothy Kaine

We cannot take the progress we have made over the past four years and put it in the hands of the most persistent and vigorous opponent of that progress.

Chris Henderson

We cannot take them looking at the table and seeing a last place team. If we do that, we are going to lose, ... If we take them as a team that is fighting and scratching for every point, kind of like we are, we will be successful.

Roxane Gay

We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong.

Ron Gettelfinger

We cannot sugarcoat what we're facing as working people and as a nation. These are very serious times, and it is time for us to take very serious actions. If we don't stand up, who will?

Arthur Griffiths

We cannot stress how important it is for people to make sure that they strictly follow the bio-security arrangements.

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

Rocco Calo

This isn't about money because Sikorsky has plenty. The company has said it wants to cut our health care to teach us a financial lesson. That's not right and it won't fly.

Greg Lewis

This is something we will look more at (in the future). There are developers out there who care about the community.

Rep. Flores

This is something we have to take care of this year.

Cary Leahey

This is one of the days when nobody is really going to care because the employment report was definitely weak.

Gary Gait

This is obviously the first step. You can't get a home game without making the playoffs, and we took care of that.

Jamie Fellner

The U.S. takes more care killing dogs than people. Just because a prisoner may have killed without care or conscience does not mean that the state should follow suit.

Neil Clarke

This could be the first evidence of parental care of the Therapod (meat-eating) dinosaur,

Richard Pombo

You're not excusing them from following the law, you're just trying to make the law work so that they can take care of the levee systems or the dams or whatever it is,

Arabian Proverb

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

James A. Baldwin

Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are.

George Washington

Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception.

Henry Miller

If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.

Henri Frederic Amiel

From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.

Cassandra Clare

Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.

George Eliot

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

George Eliot

How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?

George Eliot

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Deon Grant

We didn't play bad, ... But we sure didn't do a lot to help ourselves.

Michael Allen

None of these people are lazy, ... Why wouldn't you want to help somebody like that? All they needed was a jump-start.

Kathleen Tierney

More than 80 percent of the housing was destroyed. It's an island; there was nowhere to go. They didn't know when help was going to come. Law enforcement was rendered ineffective. They didn't know when they'd see another meal.

Paul Lanclos

I wish he'd stick to the script more. But when you have that type of athlete, nine out of 10 times when he does things like that he's going to help you.

MaryEllen Elia

She's been very positive. That will help her and help other people realize, hey this can happen.

Tom Jones

Shannon did a nice job today. We had some rabbits out there to help her out there on the track. I'm very pleased with her.

Peerless Price

I feel like I can help us win games.

Robin Walker

That was misinformation on our part. We apologize. The important thing to remember is that thanks to the help of the community, a suspected killer has been taken off the streets.

Nick Swisher

D.J. can flat-out hit, holy smokes. I'm looking for big things from him.

Stephen Covey

The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.