Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Scott

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

Mavis Staples

I have to pinch myself sometimes. It's unbelievable, but it's not. Because I know that this would not be happening if it hadn't been for Dr. Martin Luther King.

Ken Salazar

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

Leo Tolstoy

Kings are the slaves of history.

John Flanagan

I'm not really interested in being king. I prefer to work for a living

Maggie Stiefvater

He danced on the knife’s edge between awareness and sleep. When he dreamt like this, he was a king. The world was his to bend. His to burn.

Herodotus

This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each his revenues, by imposing a tax to be levied yearly. But everyone from whose part the river tore anything away, had to go to him to notify what had happened; he then sent overseers who had to measure out how much the land had become smaller, in order that the owner might pay on what was left, in proportion to the entire tax imposed. In this way, it appears to me, geometry originated, which passed thence to Hellas.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.

John Dryden

Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.

As a young boy, when you get splashed by a mud puddle on the way to school, you wonder if you should go home and change, but be late for school, or go to school the way you are; dirty and soaking wet. Well, while he tried to decide, I drove by and splashed him again.

Mike Morgan

Arson investigation is very slow, tedious, dirty work,

Willie Anderson

Our job is to make those guys successful, ... We know no glory is going to come to us. But if we can get our quarterback throwing for 300 yards and after the game he's not limping and his jersey's not dirty, and Rudi's jersey is dirty and he's running, that's a good game for us.

Graham Allison

Explosive material plus radioactive material equals dirty bomb.

Mark Indelicato

My friends actually found a fansite of mine, and they all registered to be in it.

Gordon Parks

I have been born again and again and each time, I have found something to love.

J. C. Watts

As well as the strong sense of composition found throughout his art, there is an underlying sense of ironic humor in much of Trank's work.

Mike Law

About a half-hour before the game started I found out I didn't have my starting quarterback (Ethan Sylvain). He hurt himself after school and I had to tell Kyle Martel he was going to play quarterback, and he hadn't played in three weeks.

Jass Stewart

The more we reached out the more we found out that plan was affirmed by the people of Brockton.

Marty Turco

It's just another game we found a way to win.

Ray Giacoletti

They made their runs and most teams would have folded. They were up by one point and our guys hung in there. It's never perfect on the road, but we just found a way.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

The young Wolf was one of those people who would recite a poem to themselves a hundred times, until they had found the music that goes with it.

Mehmet Okur

They have great post-up players with Kidd and Jefferson. Usually we struggle (against them), but we found a way to help each other and I thought we did a good job tonight.