Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Granholm

Her greatness lay in doing what everybody could do but doesn't. She was unexpected. She was untitled. . . . (She was) an improbable warrior that was leading an unlikely army of waitresses and street sweepers and shopkeepers and auto mechanics.

Gene Luen Yang

I think the 'Boxers' book was easier for me to envision as a comic, because they were on this epic journey. These teenagers basically gathered into this army and marched to the capital city where they had a showdown with the Europeans and Japanese. On the 'Saints' side, it was a lot trickier.

Justin Ramsey

We took very seriously our responsibilities with the government. All of us have a very strong belief in the Army and how it operates and what it does for us. We took a lot of pride in supporting the soldier in whatever way we could. When we left the Arsenal, it was very difficult for us. We wanted to let them know we would support them in any way we could.

Jeff Sessions

I am bitterly disappointed that Anniston Army Depot did not gain personnel from Red River Army Depot as the Defense Department had recommended,

James Barber

He had his mind set for what he wanted. And he was going to get it no matter what, ... He went into the Army thinking, 'I'll give it a try.'

Bret Meyer

We can enjoy this win a little bit, but we need to come back and focus, ... It's great to celebrate, but at the same time, we need to remember that going to Army is a business trip.

Ruben Aguilar

In no way have we contemplated the intervention of the army in tasks that belong to police at the different levels of government. What is contemplated .. is support from the army in these tasks but not in direct actions that correspond to municipal, state and federal police.

Truman Capote

[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.

Trey Songz

I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.

Richard Riley

underscores the importance of increasing efforts to support and expand early childhood learning.

William Gaddis

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

Tracy Chevalier

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.

Tori Amos

My childhood was extreme.

Ursula K. Le Guin

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

Robertson Davies

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Sandra Bullock

I hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me.

Sandra Bullock

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

Wil Wheaton

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.

Phyllis Lehman

He was a good dad and a good provider. He'd do anything for you. He'd give you anything he possibly could.

SuzAnne Miller

He was a wonderful dad and a wonderful man.

Nick Saban

He'd come and visit his dad in the summer,

Bill Scott

He kept telling me he was ready and his dad told me he was ready. After we missed the extra point, I figured enough was enough.

Richelle Nice

There are so many things, so many things. Scott Peterson was Laci's husband, Conner's daddy -- the one person that should have protected them.

Maverick Golden

I think you earn what you get out of life. I've always worked hard I was working hard in my dad's cornfields by the time I was seven.

Richelle Nice

Laci's husband, Conner's daddy -- the one person that should have protected them.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Whatever I did would be something they'd already done. I mean, my Dad would welcome it if I got a nose ring.

Phil Schiller

We think about making it so easy that a second-grader can use it, mom and dad at home can use it. The fun is in making your own movie, putting together your own content. It's such an emotional experience to see your kids and yourself and your friends in your own movie.

Carl Jung

But why didn't you just ask me?" I set down my fork and glare at her. "Because you were sleeping," She says, taking a sip if Chardonnay. "I was taking a nap, Mom. It wasn't intended to be some kind of Disney fairy-tale hundred-year snooze.

Jack Bicknell

I don't know what to say to someone who doesn't know what's going on with his mom and dad.

Rob Sheffield

'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness.

Richelle Mead

I went to bed feeling melancholy, wishing I could have poured out all my fears and insecurities to my mom. Wasn’t that what normal mothers and daughters did?

Renee Zellweger

My brother has two children now, so I've been playing aunt Renee. They're two and four. It's chaos. Moms out there, kudos to you. The cool thing about being an aunt is like, I can leave. No offense to my big brother Drew, but that is slavery. I dare you to take a shower. You can't do anything unless they let you. It's a dictatorship. They're little dictators in their crib.

Ryan Lochte

I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.

Rose Kennedy

Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment

Ronda Rousey

One of my mom's best lines is... You're not training to be the best in the world, you're training to be the best in the world on your worst day.

Ronda Rousey

I get asked that a lot and I always go back to my mom's, 'No one has the right to beat you.' I take that to every venue that I'm in. She would say, 'Someone has to be the best in the world, why not you?' I always try to keep that in mind.

William Manchester

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

Alan Shepard

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

Gary Boyd

The second wave of Navy planes was called back after the announcement came,

James Young

The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site.

Seymour Cassel

When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.

Daniel Radcliffe

I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.

Tony Curtis

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

Donald Trott

Old Navy is the one that's really hemorrhaging.

Jesse Ventura

I have an honorable discharge from the United States Navy. Hillary Clinton don't have one. Bill Clinton don't have one. Trump don't have one. Obama don't have one.

Naveen Andrews

I already had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. They wanted me to get a proper job, like any right-thinking parents would.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm just doing what I've been taught by my parents to do, ... This is the right thing to do, and I'm trying to urge other people to do it.

Ann Jackson

You've got the new parents like myself who don't know what to expect, ... For me, as a first-time parent, I think it's good.

Wendy McGonigal

A lot of it has to do with parents who smoke. It was a part of their culture.

Doug Horn

I've always been told by parents how well our team handles these competitions.

David Stewart

Some will still be around because they have parents with robust businesses.

Chuck Amato

I've talked to our trainers and managers. If we can't get (the running backs) in the game, we'll let them run the water out during timeouts. That way I can tell their parents they got on the field.

Andrew Solt

It was the only show I watched with my parents as a kid,

Jody Ault

They all have wonderful personalities and a wonderful work ethic. Their parents are hard-working people.