Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doreen Marchione

I like the fundraising and the advocacy and meeting with people in the community or the county and City Council people I think I'm a good connector of people.

Susan Etheridge

The child protective supervisor tried to prevent him from leaving, but he was much larger than she was and she was unsuccessful. But, I want to say is that because we have the team approach at the Collin County Children's Advocacy Center, we contacted Plano police and we were able to respond immediately. The really wonderful part is that we have a happy ending we have a safe child.

Melinda Schwartz

The funds raised enable us to continue our investment in the fight against cancer through research, education, advocacy and patient services. Thanks to the generosity of corporate sponsors like Wells' Dairy, Inc., Farmer's Co-op, Floyd Valley Hospital and Liz Foreman, the money raised by participants goes directly to the American Cancer Society's lifesaving programs.

Chuck Price

It's helped us to do a couple of different things. It's helped us initiate talks about developing a child advocacy center in Wood County.

Richard Lazarus

Supreme Court advocacy is like major league baseball. I can tell you the pitch is going to come in at 95 miles per hour. I can tell you to stand this way. I can tell you how to swing. It doesn't mean you're going to hit it.

Alisa Gravitz

It's clear that the combination of competitive performance, screening, and advocacy on behalf of their investors offered by SRI mutual funds are making them an increasingly attractive option for a wide range of investors. SRI mutual funds have grown from $12 billion in 1995 to $178.7 billion in 2005, far outpacing the overall growth of mutual funds in the US.

Carolyn Maloney

They literally have mobilized themselves into an advocacy organization that, I would say, has growing clout in Washington.

Sarah Harrison

For future Snowdens, we want to show there is an organization that will do what we did for Snowden - as much as possible - in raising money for legal defense and public advocacy for whistleblowers so they know if they come forward there is a support group for them.

Lisa Goehle

For advocacy and guardianship help, there is not a place. I don't know what to tell them.

Stacy Stewart

Katrina could reach category-one hurricane strength before the center reaches the southeastern coast of Florida.

Glenn Patton

He is still interested in an international research center. It would be a national research center with a lot of national funding. He's had some connections with the Homeland Security Department, by which he will end up with some real major federal grants for homeland security research.

Bill Brown

What we have here is the first, and probably only, thematic science center in the world. It's quite sophisticated.

Steve Johnson

Having the same power without going overboard with the power is essential, ... Running power to the center of a data center can get kind of pricey, particularly with a tight budget.

John Beilein

He's getting there, ... It's going to take a lot of hard work. Our hope is that Kevin will be able to outrun and out-condition the centers we play against. He's going to play a lot of minutes if he can do that.

Rusty Brauner

Renee has been a model of consistency for so long. She is our quarterback and gets us going. She makes things tick and holds down the center of the field.

Jeff Hayes

Photographers are placing the highest priority on generating new business, creating a more efficient workflow, and using the Web for marketing and sales. Not surprisingly, when we turn to issues related to digital photo editing and the publishing process, their primary challenges seem to center upon workflow time, color management, and photo management.

Robert Gallery

Playing center is hard enough, but playing it in a place like that made it really tough, knowing he has to make all the calls, ... The position is hard enough in itself without playing it in a place like that. There's so much responsibility on the center.

Tom Hubbard

Pick a corn field somewhere and we'll drop it off, we don't need to go into the center of the zone down there.

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Graham Elliot

Kids see cooking as a creative outlet now, like soccer and ballet. It gives me hope that things like fast food, childhood obesity and the horrible state of school lunches can be addressed by kids and their parents.

Ted Williams

Kids get separated from their parents all the time. Had his parents paid attention, this little child would not have wandered off.

Kerry Nelson

Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.

Anthony Robbins

Kids are the alltimechampions of questioning. What could you gain by imitatingthe innocence and curiosity of children who are completely determined to get ananswer?

Britt Ekland

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

John Romano

Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.

Thomas Kinkade

Keep yourself surrounded by a family that loves you. My children have never told me they dislike one of my paintings.

Reese Witherspoon

I talked to several of her children and they were so encouraging and supportive. I just hope I've done her memory justice.

Todd Jones

I was lucky to get a couple by him. Because he's a pretty deadly hitter.

Max von Sydow

I was in such a hurry to be an actor. Now I'm sometimes mad at myself that I didn't stop and study for a couple of years.

Shawn Chacon

I wouldn't say I needed it desperately. But after struggling the first couple of times you put more pressure on yourself.

Billy Beane

Kenny called me a couple days ago in Phoenix, ... He gave me a call.It took a lot for him to pick up the phone.

Dwyane Wade

Just the right place at the right time. Some nights are like that. I was able to get in a couple passing lanes and get some picks, but for the most part, it was just being in the right place at the right time.

Chuck Grant

Jon pitched a very good game, but there were two innings when we gave them five outs. We're a pretty young team, and we were missing a couple of players today, but that's no excuse for mental errors. We have to improve in that area, and it's my job to see that we do.

Mary Roach

I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.

Brian Holgate

It (a sweep) would have made things easier. But I was pleased with the effort our guys gave today. We bounced back after a couple tough losses down there.

Tony Woodley

It always was a trade-off between the whale's health and the distance we could take it to deep water. It seems now the decision will have to be taken in the next couple of hours.

Tony Russa

I actually think the wins in the minor leagues are more meaningful. You're developing prospects.

Warren Gatland

I also see my role over the next three years as developing players who can go to the highest level. We want all our NPC squad to be able to play Super 14.

Jorma Ollila

Half of the mobile phones sold this year will be sold in developing countries.

Sugata Mitra

There will always be places in the world where good schools don't exist and good teachers don't want to go, not just in the developing world but in places of socioeconomic hardship.

Ross Mathews

There are so many funny people and so many talented people, but the one thing nobody else has is my take on the world. So, when I'm developing my show, that's going to be the focus.

Najib Razak

In spite of the huge diversity in Malaysia in terms of religion, culture, race, ethnicity and so forth, we've really gone very far in developing this country.

Peter Reynolds

Here we're trying to preserve and nurture our own historic New England downtown, and instead we're going to have a Disney version of a town square just a stone's throw away from the real one. We should be developing what we already have.

John Worsfold

He's a very good footballer and he's still a developing footballer so there's no doubt he'll keep improving throughout this year, and I would expect over the next year as well.

Ted Owen

I think it's a perfect idea because one of the university's missions is similar to one of ours -- developing a quality workforce, ... Them reaching out to us instead of us reaching out to them is a novel approach, and a great one.

Brian McLaughlin

I was in Pensacola, Fla., for Ivan and I just want to be able to feel like I have helped people in my life,

Patrick Hogan

(Kirby) helped people...he always wanted to help people so splitting the money up is most in the spirit of (Kirby),

Robert Reed

Katrina, in some sense, helped that process be a little quicker.

Joseph Beaulieu

Having that backlog helped IBM through the worst part of the recession.

Chris McConnon

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Marco Coleman

I thought we'd get at least 12 wins, so I'm not too surprised. It's more of a surprise about other teams that have lost that I thought would be better, which helped us out.

Bernie Bickerstaff

I think we played well. Our small lineup really helped us.

Jason Robie

He helped take away the fullback trap. Which was South's big play in the preseason.

Eddie Guardado

He helped pick out the stuff. He's been here less than a year, and that's not enough time. So he has to go through it again.

Geoff Peters

You've got to stay level-headed and let everything develop. But at the same time you've kind of got to go after it. You've got to be the ones to initiate it.

Gary Sheffield

What did I do to be a villain? ... Well, I mean you can't look at it that way. I didn't initiate it. It's a situation where I showed restraint, and I moved on from there.

Roman Harper

He talks more out there than he does all week.

Noriyuki Suzuki

The bilateral talks are interlinked with the multilateral process.

Steve Alford

We've already kind of had all the talks that we were going to have.

M.I.A.

In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.

Christina Hendricks

Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous; you get really self-conscious.

Liu Jianchao

The timetable for resuming the talks is unpredictable.

Billy Bush

She talks about two people. From your experience, is that right?

Michael Huff

Jimmy's different. He kind of talks all the time. But it's all in fun.

Sugar Ray Leonard

When the trainer talks to the fighter, there's a connection. You don't always have to say much.

Richard Pryor

Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.

Vance Havner

The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.

Walt Whitman

I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked.

Roger Ebert

The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.

Dusty Baker

Right now, Wood is progressing like we want him to. We just don't want any setbacks, that's No. 1.

Robin Wright

I'm ready to do a Woody Allen comedy.

Helmut Jahn

We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.

James Russell Lowell

The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.

Emilio Pucci

We are in a very strange way going back to the mentality of the time when Americans went in covered wagons. I imagine they had a piece of cloth, and the piece of furniture they carried with them meant to be a good piece of wood, and sturdy. We're going back to that.