Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did. I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Dick Davey

Randy could flat-out defend you. He was right up there with the best on our team.

A. Hodge

Raymond has got to be remembered as one of the best executives in many, many years -- one of the best of all time.

Brandon Siler

Ray McDonald was probably our best defensive lineman. Losing him was big. We had some guys step up, but there is no one like Ray McDonald when he's at full strength.

Stephen Page

Racing is the best feeling in the world - it's exhilarating.

Robert Brown

And that's what all the blessed evil's for.

Jesse Moore

It was a labor of love. I feel blessed I had the opportunity to work in jobs that I loved and with young people in my own community for 38 years. I'm thankful for it.

Gail Devers

This race was just feeling my way through. I'm 39, but I'm not over the hill yet. The one title I didn't have was motherhood. Everything I've ever wanted, I have. ... I'm blessed to have a healthy baby.

Elias Koteas

I feel blessed. To live an artistic life, it's a blessing.

The Koran

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Bible Bible

Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.

Ezra Taft Benson

Blessed are they who seek to learn wisdom.

Dolores Huerta

Through that organization [Community Service Organization], I met Cesar Chavez. We had this common interest about farm workers. We ultimately left CSO to start the National Farm Workers Organization, which became the United Farm Workers. I was very blessed to have learned some of the skills of basic grassroots organizing from Mr. Ross and then be able to put that into practice in both CSO and the United Farm Workers.

Angie Harmon

We have just had the most amazing time. Every now and then, we'll come across a review where the person didn't like it and we're like, "What? Really? How could you not like it?" All of us like it so much, and we have such a great time at work. We've just been really blessed, and we're all standing here going, "Wait a minute, how did this happen?" It's been awesome.

Mariano Rivera

Most of the time, he saved the games. The job that he did in the eighth inning was a tough job. To me, he was solid.

Jason Lane

He played fullback for me one year at Hart, ... He was a 240-pound fullback in eighth grade. But that shows that he has great feet. He really moves well.

Pat Riley

I was confident. I haven't had to use my legs since the eighth grade. I just want to go to states and place.

Sandy Johnson

They're very sincere and want to improve the process. We want to take a look at the four-year plans and how they're being used. We're going to be having conversations with middle school principals very soon, because that's when they start, in the eighth grade.

Craig Hamilton

It was really great to have people to look up to. The team we had when I was in eighth or ninth grade was so good. I really looked up to them.

Bobb'e J. Thompson

I'm in the eighth grade and am not the height of the rest of my class. But I don't worry about that. I'm just me!

Nathan Scherer

We don't have an eighth place on the wall (BHS mat room), so I don't want to put one up there. I went out and wrestled my match.

Ross Mathews

I played football in eighth grade, and even though I had a passion for it, it turned out I'm no good at playing it.

Maurice Cheeks

We're out of the eighth spot, we're not out of the hunt. It's how you respond.

Les Paul

We're switching the sounds, not so much the tone of the instrument. And when things seem impossible, it's back to grade school, soldering, re-developing - always building.

Mark Johnson

If I had to open up a new third grade tomorrow, I couldn't do it, ... I don't have the room.

Frank Raffone

That means more kids have passed it before getting to 12th grade and don't have it hanging over their head right now.

Brett Ratner

Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

Barbara Mandrell

I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.

Miley Cyrus

Every day after work, my mom and I go shopping. My dad is about to kill me. I say, We need it, daddy!

Miley Cyrus

My dad has never actually grounded me. He always tells my mom to do it. He tells her, "Miley was so bad today, you need to ground her."

Carol Alt

My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds.

January Jones

It’s not witch-crafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!

Livia Landry

There are moments when I am so distraught, I can't function.

Demi Lovato

My mother is everything to me. She's my anchor, she's the person I go to when I need to talk to someone. She is an amazing woman.

Cobie Smulders

I think that being a mom has made me a better person. I'm much more patient and much more chill than I was before.

Evan Osnos

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

Azar Nafisi

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

Ben Goldacre

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

Jason Aldean

I only took about five guitar lessons in my life from an actual teacher. I learned fast that that wasn't for me. I didn't have the attention span to learn that way. So I learned the basics from my dad, then just from playing on stage, and watching other guitar players.

bell hooks

A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.

Daniel Handler

Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.

Barbara Cook

The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

Aristophanes

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Deepak Chopra

Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.

Dominic Monaghan

My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.