Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Kingston

Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.

Alex Grey

It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.

Albert Shanker

It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.

Debi Thomas

I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.

E. L. Konigsburg

There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character.

E. L. Konigsburg

Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it

E. M. Forster

School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.

Drew Carey

The economy is in trouble, schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long time.

Doug E. Fresh

I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That's how I created it. There was no walkmans back then, no iPods, no CDs. There was just me. Back then there was the boom box.

Earl Wilson

I've been around, and I see what other cities are doing, and I think, 'Why not us, we're a proud people,'

Jaime Lerner

Every city has to deal with the problem of cars and public transport.

Jaime Lerner

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

Jaime Lerner

Brazil will change when its cities change.

James G. Frazer

The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats.

Geoffrey West

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

Geoffrey West

Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads arteries and so forth.

Kathie Pontus

How many small cities like ours can claim the fame of having had a Nobel Prize winner come from their city and school system? Plus, there are the others who are giving us good reasons to be proud of our city and history.

Jacques Rogge

I do not like the word 'rejection' but those cities we have not retained this in no way reflects that we do not trust these countries.

Robert Scoble

Apple has hundreds of stores around the world that are beautiful, and they have a distribution system and a staff of 40 or 50 people that will help you.

Cindy Sheehan

applecobbler: Sorry that so many people have spoken up to say

Jan Egeland

Are we going to have tens of thousands of people staying in the rubble and in the snow until it's too late? Maybe. It's a logistical nightmare,

Julie Hall

Are people still sleeping with their chickens? Yes, they are.

Ayad Allawi

are outlaws or terrorists ... who do not represent the sentiments of the people of the towns.

Randeep Hooda

Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.

Pablo Picasso

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. People just don't have that much vision.

Carl Olson

And then people got all excited. Why was it there?

Constantin Oclei

The situation is very bad. We need to evacuate 1,200 people from Bechet and its surroundings by this evening.