Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Bush

But you know, it's not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it's not easy for me. I'm sure it's not easy for her. There's a lot of scrutiny on families that isn't always wanted.

Laura Bush

They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.

Martha Washington

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Betty Ford

It's my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Betty Ford

Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.

Barbara Bush

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.

Nancy Reagan

A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.

Kelly Rowland

As women, we have to realize what we bring to the table. What do you want to do for the world? How do you want to change it? And when you know that, you don't have to compare yourself to anybody else.

Jim Calhoun

Khalid El-Amin put up with a great deal of grief on the road. And it was the best coaching that anybody could have done for me, because Khalid loved every single second of it. He loved to show you.

Henry David Thoreau

I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

John Pine

Just the sheer size of it and complexity of it, it is beyond what anybody has seen -- not just in Louisiana but anywhere.

Lamar Butler

I think it's a Hollywood story already. If anybody wants to make a movie, come see me. I'll play my part. I'm a good actor. I can make a serious face.

Abby Arledge

I think it really just helps out our team because you have one person in there the whole time, so you have that constant defense on the back row. Even if it was anybody else in the position, just having that constant back-row person has helped.

Ross Mathews

I take a lot of pride in managing to be funny without having a victim at the end of my joke. I laugh at a really dark joke as much as the next person, but my jokes, I feel, don't have to hurt anybody to be really funny.

Courtney Taylor

It ain't, 'I've gotta (catch the ball),' it's, 'You'd better catch this ball,' ... You don't want a lot of people hating you for not catching the ball. I'm serious. I'll tell you, I don't want anybody hating me.

Carl Banks

He was a great player and a great team leader. Harry didn't back down from anybody or any challenge. He was very good ... now it's safe to say he was great, because he's finally in the Hall of Fame.

Alan Murray

Kieron is very, very low at the moment because he cannot seem to get a run of games in the team injury-free,

James Caan

Joseph Russo is a dear friend of mine and I cannot express enough how pleased I am that your office has taken interest and is in pursuit of correcting this problem.

Samuel Jutzi

It can be contained in domestic birds. It can be eliminated in domestic birds, but at the current level of money, it cannot be contained.

Samuel Hopkins

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.

Katori Hall

I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.

Roy Moore

It is a crucial time to run for office when rights and liberties are being eroded, taxes climb, the education of our children declines and morality erodes while judges tell children they cannot pray,

Shooter Jennings

L.A.'s cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.

Barry Johnson

There is a full scale investigation under way by the chain of command and the criminal investigative unit, ... We cannot determine how long it will take for the investigation to be complete.

Richelle Mead

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

Trey Parker

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

Walt Whitman

I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.

Sarah Ferguson

He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex.

Sarah Fielding

[H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion, 'til they impose on themselves that very hard task of laboring through life without ever knowing a human creature to whom they can make the proper use of language and freely speak the dictates of their hearts!

Sarah Dessen

Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie

Sarah Dessen

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

Rod McKuen

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

Rod Stewart

All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand. But you turned into a lover, and mother what a lover, you wore me out.

Will Rogers

We can get mighty rich, but if we haven't got any friends, we will find we are poorer than anybody.

Jeffrey Robbins

I've had friends jumped before, but it wasn't with weapons and nothing on this scale.

Shawn Woods

It's good to be at home, ... It's neat to have parents and friends come and watch. We had more than 100 people there, and that is a good crowd.

John Cassidy

It's good if you really want to make friends with the person sitting next to you,

Kenneth Smith

It's good here. I've got friends. That's one there. That's one of them.

Matt Kelley

When we're on tour, to make 8,000 friends would take a long time.

Lisa Bailey

It's just fun being with friends and to come out and have a good time. Practice is serious, this is fun.

Lil' Kim

A lot of people let me down, ... A lot of people I thought were my friends turned on me.

Alex Lewis

They're the only friends that I've had consistently throughout high school. We've put in so many hours in the gym and the weight room that we know each other so well. We have a lot of respect for each other, and this was a big part of my life that I'm going to miss now.

Socrates

It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.

Danish Proverb

One should speak little with others and much with oneself

Robert Frank

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.

Pierre Schaeffer

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.

Doris Lessing

There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best