Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

The basis of a democratic state is liberty

Aesop

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

Andy Rooney

One of the things we can be sure of over the July 4th weekend is that news reports will keep telling us how many of us are going to die in automobile accidents.

Thomas Jefferson

To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers between the general [national] and particular [state] governments.

Thomas Jefferson

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Thomas Jefferson

I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions.

Thomas Jefferson

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

Thomas Jefferson

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

Thomas Jefferson

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

Augustus

If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

Brendan Behan

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

Jane Hirshfield

I once was asked to contribute to a mushroom poem anthology. I didn't have anything, and so instead ended up writing the introduction. I think that request made me more alert to mushrooms, and now they've cropped up in my work, the way mushrooms themselves do after rain, quite a lot. But I've only just now taken up mushroom hunting, after going to a class offered at my local library.

Jane Austen

He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.

Charles Spurgeon

As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.

Amos Lee

We all need a place that we can go, And feel over the rainbow

Amy Carmichael

If I cannot hear "The sound of rain' long before the rain falls, and then go out to some hilltop of the Spirit, as near to my God as I can and have faith to wait there with my face between my knees, though six times or sixty times I am told "There is nothing', till at last there arises a little cloud out of the sea, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Anne Robinson

I like to look put together without trying too hard. I don't want to look as if God's made another rainbow - I prefer muted, autumnal colours, like most fading redheads.

Leroy Foster

The motivation wasn't there. I don't know if it was the layoff, but they just weren't ready to play. The mental mistakes, the turnovers, everything just showed they weren't prepared.

Sam Blank

It was a little different. I think its all about warming up and staying mentally focused.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

John Sullivan

You smile with just the mere mention of his name.

Brandon Sanderson

They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time. . . I don't know about that. It seems to me that the person you are when you're about to die isn't as important as the person you are during the rest of your life. Why should a few moments matter more than an entire lifetime?

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Ben Okri

A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

Barbara Jordan

Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.

Barbara Kingsolver

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.