Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

I was not born to be forced.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.

Jean Genet

It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.

Harville Hendrix

We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.

Jacques Derrida

Who ever said that one was born just once?

Pat Conroy

Graham is as Southern as black-eyed peas, scuppernong wine, she-crab soup, Crimson Tide tailgating and a dog with ticks. She is so relentlessly Southern she makes me feel that I was born in Minnesota!

Imelda Marcos

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

Huston Smith

The faith I was born into formed me.

Grant Bowler

I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there.

Standing Bear

We lived on our land as long as we can remember. The land was owned by our tribe as far back as memory of men goes.

Steve Orlando

We like what we see with what they are doing. We are impressed with it. What they have done so far seems to be headed in the right direction.

Bernie Sanders

A president and a party that can provide insurance for 31 million more Americans is far preferable to most voters than a party that only says, 'No.'

John Schuerholz

We couldn't have done it without the work that they do. It's true every year. This year it was true to a much larger extent, to a far greater degree.

E. O. Wilson

We could've won the game today. We've come so far this season, it's really hard to be disappointed right now.

Steve Orlando

Bo Diddley won't be in the parade this year. As far as the president goes, the president happens to be a Bo Diddley fan. But this a student production, and if this is the students' decision, then he supports it.

Dave Redden

Brooke did very well with being injured. We didn't really know how far we could push her with that injured quad, so she didn't do all the things she would have done had she been healthy, but she did very well. We got 30 points out of the field events, and that's great in a meet like this.

Bruton Smith

Brace yourselves -- Honda won't be far behind.

Nathan Henderson

Boy, I've got a lot of young guys this year. I have seven new starters on the field this year. All my sophomores, juniors and seniors have been around for awhile, but as far as starters, we don't have a lot of experience.

Michele Morson

Everyone had a different opinion. I found the whole thing very confusing.

Gregory Hines

Once I found that out, I instituted a reign of terror on Robert Evans. I called him every day. I went over to his house twice again, uninvited.

Julissa Ventura

Once I found out I was accepted, I had to withdraw my applications from other schools.

Garrett Gomez

After we got going, I just found myself in front. I had to work for it some, but he was up to the task. He just ran and ran and ran. He's some horse.

Granth Sahib

After wandering through many other homes and houses, I have returned to my own home, and I have found what I was longing for.

Alfred Eder

It's outrageous, they haven't found anything. You can imagine what the mood is like in the Austrian team.

Napoleon Hill

Do not wait; the time will never be ''just right.'' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Bob Burda

That's really found money that you don't anticipate.

Dennis Erlich

That's something to be very proud of. There are a ton of teams that were plenty good enough to qualify four years in a row that didn't do it. That just goes to show how hard these kids work, and it says a lot about the Edwardsville program. These kids have a lot of heart, they could have quit when things didn't go their way, but they found a way.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Jeffrey Sachs

Russia increasingly lived on short-term borrowing. Now, this was an extraordinary merry-go-round.

John Kraft

They were the first people that lived here in your town.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Ted Jr.

I think it's probably his time to go, and I think he will go.

Stephen Toulouse

It is on the table. Every time any kind of exploitation is going on, it is on the table.

Rick Barnes

He had it going. They were having a tough time with him.