Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henk Bekedam

A disease in one country is a threat to another, ... the best chance to eradicate or contain a new infectious disease is when it emerges.

Devorah Goldburg

A disaster like this Katrina brings out the best in people, but unfortunately, it also brings out the worst in people, too.

Darren Lindsey

A father - son transplant would have the best chance for success, and I want to keep my dad around as long as I can.

Abraham Lincoln

A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.

Andy Brunner

The one thing I don't have to worry about with Nick and Brian is their off-season tournament schedule. They'll travel to Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Kansas City -- wherever they can go to play the best competition. Their work ethic is second to none and they are great role models for the rest of the team.

Bubba Davis

The ones who have been here have been doing more in practice than they would normally. Sometimes the best way to get back into shape in a situation like this is through practice.

John Barker

The oil companies will do the best that they can to explain the complexity of bringing oil to the market, explaining the variables of weather disasters and international conflicts and so forth,

Rodney Selph

Theo has really played well. He's one of our best defenders.

Dave Balza

After a careful and complete review of the facts, we thought it best that these players leave the team. This was a very difficult decision to make, but one that was necessary.

Shaun Pollock

To protect a defeat and still go down 1-0 in the series is pointless. We've got to give ourselves a chance to win.

Albert Pujols

It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.

Dan Bollinger

We've had trouble sealing the deal this season. We let our chance get away. They scored two with one hit in the first inning, and that was a (slap). We've had a lot of games like today's.

Randy Albano

We've had a really good run since 1999. I think we have a good chance to have a winning record, win our conference and win some games in the postseason.

Joan Bonvicini

We've had a difficult season. This was our chance to start over a little bit.

Marcus Knott

We've had a chance to watch some film on them and it's like we thought -- They're a pretty talented team. We're going to have our work cut out for us.

Mack Brown

We've had some great freshman backs, but none of them have responded like he has, ... He has a chance to be one of the great players to come through here.

Tom Slater

We've got a chance to win this series, and I think our kids will come out ready to go. We need to pitch well.

Jose Reyes

We've got a chance to play for a long time together. In this game you never know what's going to happen. It changes quickly. We want to stay focused and do our jobs.

Bobby Lee

My dad had the idea in 1963. As a promotion, it's been a gold mine ever since.

Larry Holmes

My dad used to tell me, 'Check the price, son.' Check the price, kids, check the price because there is a price to be paid for whatever you do in life, whether it is good or it is bad. Before you do something, ask yourself is it worth the price you have to pay?

Johnny Vegas

I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.

Michael Steger

Even when I was doing well in acting, my dad would say, 'You can still go back to dental school.' But since I've been on '90210,' I haven't heard that.

Flip Saunders

Even when I got fired, I thought I could be part of the solution. I wasn't the problem. People make decisions, and like my dad said, 'Things always work out for a reason.' You never know why it happens, but things always work out for the best.

Chrissy Teigen

It's so funny because my mom is Thai and my dad is this big American guy - and our food tastes were so similar growing up. He was meat and potatoes, I was meat and potatoes.

Estelle Johnson

It's been fun playing on the same team together. I know my dad has always wanted two of his kids to play on the same team, so I think we are kind of living out a dream for him.

Sandra Hughes

It knocked the mirror off the wall in the living room. My dad had been working on the room for two years, and he finally got it done this week. But he had fretted about that tree, because it curved over the house, and it had been pulled out of its roots by the hurricanes.

Lily James

It's weird, the idea of someone else playing my dad, but weirdly nice.

Richard Leakey

Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.

T. D. Jakes

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

Iyanla Vanzant

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Friedrich Schiller

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?

Phil Collins

I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

Ralph Kiner

On Father's Day, we again wish you all happy birthday.

Bill Nye

My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.

OMI

My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.

Condoleezza Rice

The first Republican I knew was my father and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I.

Bobby Rahal

My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.

Anne Rice

Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?

David Coverdale

The only one I really like is a song called Saccharine.

David Coverdale

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.

David Coverdale

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

David Antin

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

David Antin

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

David Archuleta

What Ive learned is that music affects the way you feel. A song can change someones life.

Dashiell Hammett

I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon. (Kasper Gutman)