Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doug Larson

The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.

Andre Leon Talley

I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.

Sophia Myles

I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.

Victoria Azarenka

My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.

Stephanie Beacham

When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I'm getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that helps puts things into perspective. I am a grandmother now, but at least my nine-year-old grandson Jude calls me Glamma and not Granny.

Toby Keith

I was raised in bars. My grandmother had one, and when I was 12 years old I'd go stay with her and that's where I got to watch her band play -- she had a seven or eight-piece band, and I would sit in the kitchen and peek through the door. I was kind of a 12-year-old bottle washer.

Steven Morrissey

Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother.

Miguel de Cervantes

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

Margaret Mead

Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

Kevin Parker

This is a small church that was planted about five years ago with a focus on the post-modern generation. Goths, punks, homosexuals and yuppies make up a large part of the 80,000 people living within a half mile walking radius of the church.

Benjamin Disraeli

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

Brennan Manning

The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.' 'What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either.

Edmund Burke

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

Stephanie McDonald

We have really expanded within the past month. We have around 15 regulars now. We learn new songs, and sing at various churches on Saturdays and Sundays. We have already learned about twelve songs; we will probably learn four or five more before the end of the school year.

Peter Akinola

We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.

Dana Tofig

There is nothing that stops them, except the separation of church and state -- you can't be proselytizing.

Pat Robertson

...There is no such thing as ... separation of state and church ... in the Constitution. It's a lie of the left.

Jack Kenny

There's never any intention to satirize the church or poke fun at religion in any way.

Brandon Sanderson

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.

Augustus

Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.

Art Buchwald

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Brad Pitt

You dont know someone until you know what they want.

Jamie Foxx

Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

Cameron Diaz

I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it.

Busy Philipps

Nobody wants to see a bejeweled pregnant lady from top to bottom.

Alain de Botton

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

Charles Kettering

I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure of what kind of future it's going to be. That is my reason for planning.