Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Ham

If you look only as Genesis as an allegory, you have a major problem, because if it's an allegory, then tell me who our ancestor was? If Abraham was real, then from Abraham if Adam isn't real, if it's just an allegory, it's just a story, then what's the real Adam who really fell in a garden and really sinned? Where did we come from?

Larry Sabato

Kerry's great advantage, despite what some people say, is that the threshold is low. People who have decided to vote against Bush are looking for an acceptable candidate, not another Abraham Lincoln or Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Christopher Reed

When they got into the hallway, they saw blood on the floor, so they knew the information they had was good, ... Abraham Gomez was in the basement apartment. They brought him outside.

Bible Bible

And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD: / And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

Bible Bible

Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

Jack Frost

It's a mixed bag. What was it that Adlai Stevenson said? I think he quoted Abraham Lincoln when he said it hurts too much to laugh, but I'm too old to cry. So it is a mixed bag like that.

Bible Bible

So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.

David Shulman

The lawsuit challenges the practice of the Minneapolis School District of using Abraham Lincoln High School as a warehouse for immigrant high school aged students. Students sat in mainstream classrooms for years, not understanding what was being said, or what was being taught.

M. Thompson

It's the most successful created national holiday since Abraham Lincoln established Thanksgiving.

Marty Gibson

It has certainly aged well. It hasn't gotten tremendously commercial.

Richard Briers

I reluctantly left the series because a) my age. I'm 68 tomorrow and time is very precious for me to spend time at home with my family and especially with the grandchildren. They're aged 7 and 5. After three years I became homesick for my home.

Lester Crawford

The FDA also encourages consumers to learn about potential savings through Medicare's outpatient prescription drug coverage, ... This new program comes at a time when five out of six people aged 65 and older are taking at least one medication, and almost half of all elderly people take three or more.

Jill Lepore

Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house.

David McKeown

It's important for people to recognize that these are people who got ill back at the time the outbreak was at its peak. We're not seeing any new cases occurring either at the home for the aged or outside.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me

Julie Bishop

It is time for Government and providers, educators, unions, and health professionals to all work together to ensure that we attract and retain the best possible people in aged care, to ensure that the sector has a vibrant, interesting, rewarding career path so that it becomes a career of choice for people.

Dick Cavett

That's a nightmare, ... Somebody will point out to the aged widow of some composer that they heard a snatch of (his) song. It can take time.

Issam Ghazzawi

They told us we could get three guards armed with hand guns only who must be aged between 18-30 or live inside the Green Zone.

Sena Lund

I think it's a decent choice, and with the challenges Merck faces, they needed someone who knows the company and knows the environment,

Wade Henderson

He listened carefully, he listened thoughtfully. He did not respond to challenges or views that were presented. I do think he felt this should be a vote of conscience and I think in the end he voted his conscience, and I think at the end of the day that speaks volumes about his leadership.

Lynn Solomon

Have fun, work hard be safe. And realize the difference between hating a class because it challenges you and hating a class because you just don't like it.

Al Gore

I think that part of the message from the election last night was get on with that agenda, focus on the challenges that are confronting the people of the United States of America, ... And I hope and expect that the Congress will hear that message.

Jim Rogers

We've got to solve some of the financial challenges for these students. I can't see any other way to do it but scholarships.

Goran Persson

We, the leaders of the world, have for three days discussed how the United Nations can be strengthened to meet the challenges of the 21st century,

Thomas Foley

It gives a good sense of the challenges and the risks.

Venus Williams

Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.

Robert Winston

To build and strengthen new connections, the brain needs the challenge of fresh and unusual stimuli. .... There's a lot of evidence to suggest that repetition is bad for brain health, and novelty is good.

David Madden

I have walked hundreds of kids to their classrooms the first week. But the second week, we are back in business.

E. B. White

The halls become streets and classrooms become mailing address.

Bennie Thompson

does not have any particular expertise in constructing or installing portable classrooms or other temporary structures.

John Netwal

At first, teachers were concerned that classrooms would be smaller, but that's not going to be the case. Our typical elementary classroom is about 900 square feet, and these rooms will be larger than that. They will be some of the largest in the district.

Stephen Hughes

Ninety-nine to 138 students is not an insignificant number. You're looking at three or four classrooms in schools that are already pushing 100 percent capacity.

Don Arnold

On the first floor, there were more classrooms and it sustained heavy water damage. There was about a foot of water that was on that floor. We pumped 85,000 gallons of water.

Wendy Kopp

Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent graduates and professionals channeled their energy not only into the country's banks, but into making education in the country a force for transformation.

Beth Wood

Monies raised from the cruises will go to support the non-profit organization's efforts for traveling the country to provide floating classrooms to students,

Jim Crawford

Midyear adjustments are less about moving teachers to new classrooms and more about how within a building, what options there are for assigning kids in. As a last resort, we might get a situation where we actually move a student to a neighboring school.

Mike Meeks

I think it'll be one of the most exciting district track meets we've had in a while. It's going to be a battle. I've got it where there's four teams that are going to score over 100 points and three teams scoring over 130. It's going to be fun.

Steve Lundholm

It always makes it nice when the team performs this well. I'm not surprised with the way they played. They have been playing better; I hope they peak at the right time with districts on Tuesday.

Tom Suelzle

I think it's going to be a good district tourney. If a team gets hot, anything can happen.

Chris Williams

I think it's fair to say that high schools all over the district are over capacity, but the north end is especially bad. We desperately need a new high school.

Daniel Maly

I think it's important that you go out and win every game. This game is just as important as the rest. It's not a district game, but psychologically you want to go out and play good football. This game could really help the winner.

Mike Johnson

I think that people can see the results of everything that's going on and the progress in District 8 during my time in office, ... We've provided everyone a seat at the table.

Linda Mitchell

Whatever we can do in the district to help, we're going to do it.

Dan Wright

We talked about that after our district tournament last week, and I told the kids we were in a similar situation in 2004. Everyone was sure we were going to state that season, and we knew we had to come with our 'A' game (Thursday).

Uma Bharati

I want to tour all districts of Madhya Pradesh. I want my voice to reach all people of the state.

Megan Smith

I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.

Courtney LaVere

I was looking for Mel (D'Amico) with the high passes so she could score.

Chris Mennis

I wouldn't be surprised if that $2.10 is the high for the week.

Chad Kroeger

I wrote this song when I was high on magic mushrooms,

Clark Yingst

I suspect 'Well we're in a directionless market' is likely to persist until we get a better read on how much higher rates will go.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Katharine McPhee

I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater, and in high school I was involved in the drama department.

Jackson Wheeler

He was a big-time recruit out of high school, so a lot of people liked what they saw in him.

Stan Butler

He'll be a high NHL pick. He'll be a first round pick.

Michael Harrison

Many said that what was going on was terrible, and that immigrants participating should go back to Mexico.

Dave Penry

There are only enough workers if we look to the immigrant population, and we want legal immigrants.

Joshua Hoyt

We don't have a leader like Martin Luther King or Cesar Chavez, but this is now a national immigrant rights movement.

Brian Oxman

This is a lawsuit that never should have been brought. I'm pleased it's over.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman

J. J. Johnson

There's lawsuits threatened on everything we do. You got to vote what you think is right for the kids. If somebody wants to sue you, let them sue.

Peter Aengst

That would have set a new precedent. We've overemphasized historically the lawsuit tool.

Hunter Tylo

I had just won the lawsuit against Melrose Place.

Addison Mizner

Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.

Anthony Romero

Unfortunately, as our lawsuit shows today, those statements are patently false.

Mark McCormack

We thought the lawsuit was pretty frivolous." ()

Richard Norton Smith

Presidents in wartime, embattled presidents, unpopular presidents, they all look to Lincoln. He's their patron saint because no president was more embattled or more unpopular than Lincoln was during his presidency. We think he was born on Mount Rushmore. Not so.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.

Bill Gates

The mainstream is always under attack.

Daniel Anderson

This is not a niche product. The technology will become mainstream quickly.

Bob Dylan

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

Billy Corgan

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

James Blake

At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a visual program.

Preston Manning

What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.

Steve Albini

I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

Eric Church

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

Shane Smith

Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story.

Todd France

He is ready to go practice as soon as things get wrapped up.

Peter Elander

I think (the Canadians') forwards are better than their defense. They don't have to practice much defense.

Daisuke Takahashi

I was disappointed that I couldn't do the triple axel. I had trouble doing it in practice and overcompensated in today's program.

Shay Murphy

I was just going up there relaxed, do what I practice so much. So I was pretty confident.

Robert E. Lee

You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.

Robert Neelly Bellah

It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary.

Warren Buffett

I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences.

Wayne Dyer

Extend some kind of unexpected generosity to someone, preferably a stranger, every single day for two weeks. The more you practice being generous, the more you'll impact others in an inspiring way.

Wayne Dyer

Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.

Joe Torre

Jorge's struggled all season. I think this was very satisfying for him.

Corey Brewer

We just have to keep winning now. At the end of the season, that's when we can tell you how satisfied we are.

Alan Cranston

I don't feel any need for redemption. I'm satisfied with what I did in the Senate. I don't look back. I look forward.

Greek proverb

He who is not satisfied with a little is not satisfied with allot.

Robert Nozick

You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.

Roseanne Barr

I signed a deal with Satan because I wanted to get famous. Then I forgot I had a deal with Satan and then I got really famous.

Wilkie Collins

Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.

Samuel Johnson

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

Jessica Pare

I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.

Julie Brown

I was always trying to do things to make school fun.

Richard Madden

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

Jan Murphy

I think we've done just about everything that can be done on a school vacation.

Ruben Blades

Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.

Ronnie Dunn

I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

Umberto Eco

The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other people the chance to study western customs and practices, except at schools maintained by white expatriates, or by allowing the rich from other cultures to study in Oxford or Paris. What happens then is that they return home to organise fundamentalist movements, because they feel solidarity with those of their compatriots who lack the opportunity for such education.

Tyler Hilton

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

Tyler Blackburn

High school is a really strange time - you're not a kid, you're not an adult. You're about to be an adult, you're going to have to make some really intense decisions. It's a really pivotal time to have as much self-confidence as you possibly can. Even if that means you have one friend who supports you completely.

Wally Lamb

I love the most the students with troubled lives.

Mila Kunis

I was actually a pretty good student. My problem was that I didn't know what I wanted to study.

James Remar

James Remar is a student of life.

Louis Menand

You have to have students wanting to take the courses, otherwise you're not going, they're not going to be very effective.

Eric Hoffer

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

Gene Miller

The students are coming, and we're going to have to do something to accommodate the growth.

Sathya Baba

The teachers of tomorrow are the students of today.

Peter Flynn

We want students to take these tests very seriously,

MaryEllen Elia

We have a way to go with our 12th-grade students.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Ryan Reynolds

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

Robert M. Pirsig

There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

Robert Jordan

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

Yoshihiko Noda

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

William Hazlitt

In what we really understand, we reason but little.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.

Ricardo Semler

The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.

Steve Dixon

If youre using the same filter, youre going to get a lot of the same byproducts at the end,

Sam Phillips

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

Scott Podsednik

I'm pretty crazy, so to speak, a little superstitious. I'm using something different up there just about every week.

Rodrigo Santoro

In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Theodore Sturgeon

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Allison Tolman

It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.