Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saint Augustine

The playthings of our elders are called business.

Bible Bible

The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

Will Eisner

The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

David Jones

Last summer, there was a meeting of the elders of the tribe at Marty Epstein's house. We were told the theater was in financial trouble and needed new energy and new money.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Young Egyptians, gazing through the windows of the Internet, have gained a keener sense than many of their elders of the freedoms and opportunities they lack. They have found in social media a way to interact and share ideas, bypassing, in virtual space, the restrictions placed on physical freedom of assembly.

Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my parents worked.

Robert Patterson

Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward.

R. Robinson

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

Will Rogers

My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.

Rick Yancey

I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans.

Yancy Butler

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

Peter Stoessel

I like to say this show represents works by Native American artists, not Native American art.

John Walker Lindh

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.

Nate Parker

It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.

John Baldacci

The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.

Grace Gealey

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

Scott Porter

I was raised around music.

Paul Loriquet

As soon as he raised his weapon was when the shot was fired.

Robert Thomas

It raised our spirits up and made us feel good. It makes us ready to play.

Derrick Williams

I used to live here. It's because they raised their rents I had to leave.

Bridget Fonda

I was raised on Bruce Lee.

Brenda Strong

There's an integrity and a strength to women who have been raised in rough country.

Greg Oden

You are who raised you. I've never been into entourages and stuff, and I know Zoe hasn't either, ... That's why I understand when he comes here and doesn't want to be bothered.

Peter Cardillo

Very well managed, ... I just yesterday raised it to a 'strong technical buy.'

Lyndon B. Johnson

I wrote once every two or three weeks for about a year, ... and then about a year ago, I got an e-mail.

Mark Grindstaff

Joel is real dominant. He didn't have any trouble. He has one loss. All three are undefeated in league.

Chris Edwards

What we had in 16 acres, ... they have in three counties.

Spencer Stewart

Going 30-0 is amazing, but we want three more wins.

Clark Haggans

He's got three rings. There's nothing else you can say.

Karen Woodall

We've been trying to get that back for three years.

Phil Jackson

We stumbled and fumbled around out there for three quarters.

Robert Meyer

It is phenomenal. When we first started, it was just me and three employees. We all wore many hats.

Amy Walter

It is one thing if it is three weeks. Three months, that is another story.

Nicole Richie

I was like a trash can - I took everything.

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Donald O'Connor

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

Ashley Thomas

We took the practice, so much I shouldn't be worried.

Chas Freeman

We took them to the cleaners on that trade.

Greg Paulus

We took them out from what they wanted to do.

Maggie Mueller

We took them lightly. And we shouldn't have.

Mark Roberts

I was asked to model but I never took up the offer.

Vince Young

I went through all my progressions, so I just took off with it.

Kathleen Hanna

There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.

Michael Keaton

Guys who go on and on about loving women usually don't.

Oprah Winfrey

What do you want women to know about intuition?

Jaime Pressly

I think it's sexy when women have shapely bodies.

Richard Whately

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Rebecca West

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Woody Allen

See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

Vanessa Bayer

Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.