Famous Quotes & Sayings

Faith Hill

We don't forget (them), ... I've never been to Iraq, I would love to go. And I would love to sit down with every family member, the wife that's left over here to carry the load. I've been with a friend with three children who's carried the load while her husband was in a war, so I would say, 'You're not forgotten. We support you, you're fighting for a free country, you are fighting to make this world a better place for all of us.

If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice." Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.

Ian Macdonald

Investigations revealed the vessel was carrying 143 tonnes of Patagonian toothfish,

Tatum Bell

I want to prove to the coaches and to my teammates that I can carry 25 times and still come out of the game OK . . . I think I can be that kind of back. I just have to show them what I can do when I get the chance.

Tatum Bell

I want to prove to the coaches and my teammates I can carry 25 times and still come out of a game healthy.

David Beckham

I want to carry on playing for England as long as I can and if that means playing after the World Cup then great.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I want to carry in my heart forever the key word of the Olympics - 'passion.'

Don Carter

I want to ensure that the legacy created by my mother more than four decades ago will carry on to the next generation.

Derek Parra

It took a load off her shoulders. I can't even imagine what it was like to carry around something like that all those years. Accomplishing what she did was pretty miraculous.

Laura Bush

It will carry no more presidents, but it will carry forever the spirit of American Democracy.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Barbara Mertz

Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

Ogden Nash

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Celine Dion

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

Charles Dyer

We feel very strongly about all children having an equal opportunity for education,

Lesleigh Drye

We got our favorite cookie and our favorite chocolate and our favorite nut mix. And then we got suckers to make our children happy.

Mona Simpson

We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of raising children than our grandparents gave them, when women by and large stayed at home.

Mark Finkelstein

We're very excited about this. This is a great thing for the children.

Nina Holland

Very young children can just not protect themselves as effectively as adults can.

Bob Dylan

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Chuck Palahniuk

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

Christopher Paolini

Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.

Angelina Jolie

Family is what grounds you.

Angelina Jolie

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Amos Oz

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Anne Tyler

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

Bobby Scott

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

Jeff Rawls

When I lost my job as a firefighter, it was because I was fighting for what I thought was right. I didn't know to keep my mouth shut and they shot the messenger.

Clara Barton

While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

George W. Bush

I don't mind comments saying things about me. I do mind them saying things about those young, brave men and women who have volunteered. That's offensive to me that people would say those kind of comments about Americans who have volunteered to take the fight to the enemy.

Jay Leno

The reigning Miss Canada has been arrested for punching out another woman in a bar fight.Quite frankly, I think it's refreshing to finally find one beauty pageant winner who is against world peace.

Ernest Bramah

How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight?

Erin Morgenstern

Marco knows he does not have the time to push her away, so he pulls her close, burying his face in her hair, his bowler hat torn from his head by the wind...."Trust me," Celia whispers in his ear, and he stops fighting it, forgetting everything but her.

Freddie Mercury

Following the enormous conjecture in the press, I wish to confirm that I have been tested HIV positive and have AIDS. I felt it correct to keep this information private in order to protect the privacy of those around me. However, the time has now come for my friends and fans around the world to know the truth, and I hope everyone will join with me, my doctor and all those worldwide in the fight against this terrible disease.

Jeff Greenfield

Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights.

Probably the saddest thing you'll ever see is a mosquito sucking on a mummy. Forget it, little friend.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Melvin Oliver

Well, I play defense. So, I mean I want to hurt the quarterback. So, any free shot that I get, I'll gladly take it.

Mike Bibby

We played hard tonight. Our top guns weren't in the game so we had to play hard. I got to the free throw line a lot. It was a good win for us.

Tyrone Murphy

We have to shoot better free throws than that. That's not good enough.

Jamie Dixon

He really set the tone early. He recognized what we wanted to do early. He waited for his shots and he made his free throws.

Mark Pearson

If I had done my job better of preparing these guys, we would have done better. But (Freedom's) soccer, well, wasn't really soccer. They had to rely on free kicks and throw-ins. And for us to lose to a team that plays that type of soccer is very disappointing.

Ricardo Patton

I don't see any harm in it. . . . We have guys who miss free throws who are really good shooters.

Chris Gorog

I don't think free music is a hard sell.

Albert Camus

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Janet Sacavage

I don't think I had any friends whose mother's worked.

I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend

Carrie Underwood

My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.

Karen Russell

I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I'm a sucker for humor and strangeness.

Will Rogers

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

Plutarch

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!

William Shakespeare

No worse a husband than the best of men.

Nina Bawden

There are many times when I think I would have rather died with my husband. It would have been pleasanter, simpler. But it would have been worse for the children and the family in general.

Tori Spelling

I'm lucky that I have such a hands on husband.

Samantha Bond

My best friend is my husband.

Ashley Harkleroad

I'm taking next week off and will be rooting for my husband when he plays in the qualifiers.

Nancy Reagan

My life really began when I married my husband.

Mila Kunis

I'm very lucky, I do have an amazing husband.

Kelli Williams

~We were on a family trip to Death Valley, and there were moments when my husband and I wanted to just leave the kids there - all the whining! You think that no other kid can do it as much as yours. When they're with friends, they're great; when they're in the car with just the family, it's maddening at times. But you adore them anyway.~

Kelli O'Hara

You always want to be the person who doesn't need to be included, but it feels damn good to be among you people. My first Broadway show was Master Class, and I saw Audra McDonald. The one that sealed the deal was Ragtime, with Marin Mazzie. My first big role was with John Lithgow, and he taught me the ropes. Norm Lewis sang the night I met my husband. It makes me feel like I have a family.

Grover Norquist

The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.

Robert Parker

They needed to do it. If this restructuring is left to year three out of the three-year plan, I think the market is going to be unimpressed.

Joe Torre

Opening day is very special. We've waited a long time for this. I left for spring training about two months ago.

Ken Gaddy

Our saying is it's not what's in the museum, it's what's left out.

Norma Aviles

The pictures and the memorabilia, that's the only thing we have left of him.

Walter Kirn

Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.

Win Butler

A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.

Mark Adams

We were kind of left to make it up as we went along.

Tony Beardsley

We're not sure if he's 100 percent because we haven't thrown him out there. He's doing better. I look for him to come back where he left off.

Ariana Grande

Take a load off, don’t take everything so seriously. And just be happier.

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Cesar Millan

Love is leading. People think it has to be two different roles but it is the same.

Carl von Clausewitz

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Edgar Allan Poe

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

Barbara Sher

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can, love things that no one else can love...We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.

Robin Horton

Every day I wake up, I think of my brothers. I pray for them. I tell them how much I miss them, how much I love them.

Malaika Arora Khan

At the end of the day, TV is my first love. I started off my career from the small screen.

Kenneth Jackson

Couldn't get nothing better. She's going to love it.

Stephanie Zimbalist

You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

Chris Barnes

He got tired of sitting on the bench.

Anton Chekhov

If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.