Famous Quotes & Sayings

Teresa Calcutta

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you . . . yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.

Greg Paulus

I think we caught them off-guard a little bit. It was kind of like an older brother/younger brother kind of thing.

Gordon Felt

It is never easy to relive the events of 9/11, yet I support 'United 93' as a tribute to the heroism of my brother and the 39 other passengers and crew who collectively chose to say 'no' on that fateful day.

King Fahd

I will be father to the young, brother to the elderly

Mohammed Deif

He was shot by our brothers with a 7 mm pistol ... which was the only pistol that we had.

AN Roy

He was shot at by his real brother just at the entrance of his residence.

Chai Vang

He was not a dog to sit there and let him shoot at them, ... I'm glad my brother did it with pride.

Brian Oxman

He was like a brother to all of them. He was a part of their youth, and now that is gone.

Dick Ebersol

He not only got me off of the plane. He ran back into the plane, which had 3- or 4-foot flames all around it, to look for his brother one more time.

Richard Perle

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Woodrow Wilson

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

Werner Herzog

I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. "Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint military commission" or something like that.

W. G. Sebald

As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities.

William Cobbett

The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.

William Faulkner

We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Ronald Reagan

If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.

Wole Soyinka

After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No.

Winston Churchill

it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's stage with dignity conquers all other sensations.

George H. W. Bush

Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me.

Jon Meacham

The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.

Molly Ivins

the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.

Krista Allen

I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn't have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar's Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing.

Kinky Friedman

There will be a whole new spirit blowing through Texas. There will be a smile on everybody's face and a chill up the spine of every politician.

Kelly Clarkson

I live on a ranch in Texas and do my own thing. And I don't care what anyone has to say about it. My joke is that the only people I'm trying to please are myself and my fans, because they're the ones buying my records. And I have the best, most loyal fan base ever.

Kelly Clarkson

I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be some cool indie-rock person, I just love the way it sounds - and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.

Eli Wallach

But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.

Minka Kelly

In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.