Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesse Moore

Back in 1957, African American teachers were a dime a dozen.

Jesse Jackson

The tallest tree in the history of African American journalism has fallen, but has fallen gracefully. The tree that stood tall for over 60 years and a tree that planted a forest, a tree with widespread limbs and full of fruit. He connected to Africa and African Americans. He shared the pain of Emmett Till, the development of Martin Luther King Jr., and was a source of information and inspiration. He was the number one black publisher for 60 years. His impact had been felt through the whole world of journalism.

Paul Rusesabagina

Africa needs you, ... to break out a dialogue. I'm telling you this because you in the West are lucky, you vote for your own leaders.

Chris Johns

Africa isn't one place. It's a million places. We felt that no single photograph could cover the depth of Africa.

Brand Pretorius

South Africa is currently in the longest upward business cycle since 1945, having experienced 28 consecutive quarters of positive growth.

Jann Klose

South Africa is a whole other world. I went to grade school there and high school in Johannesburg, and before that, my family lived in Kenya in Nairobi where my brother was actually born, and my sister was born in Capetown. I spent the first 10 years of my life in South Africa.

John Bracewell

South Africa have been waiting for us for some time and from what I gather they won't have forgotten the outcome of that series,

Johan Botha

South Africa have been doing well so far, but they've let themselves down by dropping a few catches.

Jenny King

South Africa and Scotland are the only teams in the tournament that are taking part in the Commonwealth Games, but it is tremendously important to get match practice in test and tournament conditions.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

Russell Baker

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did. I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Riley Wallace

The seniors have led the way, there's no question about that. There was a time during the year when we lost a couple games that they could have gotten down, but they never did that. They just went to work and really kept it going. It all starts at the top with the leadership.

Herb Grace

The team put forth a courageous run with a couple of huge wins in the postseason. We had a lot of fun winning two straight league championships, and we owe a lot of that to the seniors, who have sacrificed a lot to get us here.

Bruce Johnson

A downturn of 10 to 15% in agricultural land over a couple of years could be possible.

Billy Davis

Sometimes you're looking at Eli and he looks just like Peyton a couple of weeks ago.

Bonnie Reed

It would be nice if we had a couple thousand more dollars. It would really be helpful to these people.

Al Jefferson

It was tiring. I had a couple dunks and a lot of jumpers, jump hooks and free throws. It was crazy.

Robin Pemberton

These seats are strong. They don't move around. You can see the head's surrounded when they take an impact. It's got a couple of inches of foam.

Charlie Batch

I've been to a couple of places, but this isn't the first I've been back to Detroit in a while. I was here in our bye week. During the off-season, I'm here twice a month. This is my second home. There are a lot of people I went to school with, a lot of friends I have are still up here.

Rusty Wallace

This is supposed to be my last race and probably will be. I tell you what, having fun like this makes you want to come back a couple of times.

David Carr

As far as the records go, that has to be thrown out the window for right now when I go talk to the guys when I'm trying to get them encouraged and get them pumped up and ready to play. We have to lock it up, run the right route. I'll hit you and then we'll worry about the record later.

Justin Vernon

The way I see it is that I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual. I spent the first five years out of high school trying to make it work in Eau Claire, then I had to leave because there wasn't enough going on in town.

Jeff Conine

You sure hope so. You got to hope and feel encouraged by the fact that, if we keep this team together and play as excitingly as we have next year, that they'll come out to support us.

Douglas Zipes

We heard what we wanted to and we are encouraged that they are putting the patient first,

Adrian Leppard

I am very encouraged by the response from members of the public.

John Wilkerson

He was a mentor to me. He always encouraged me to do all I could in school. He told me I had talents. He told me I could do anything I wanted,

Kate Curran

My parents always encouraged me to do what I wanted.

Cecilia Munoz

We do think it's workable. We're encouraged by it.

Hugh Jackman

I think I was 5 and singing 'Camelot' on stage. It was always a good way to meet girls. I did musicals, plays. My school encouraged it. We'd do our own productions. It wasn't until I was about 23 that I thought, 'I could give this a shot. I might as well do it.'

Laura McDowell

People get very nostalgic. They're probably doing traditions that they've done in their family for years.

Luke Young

Saturday was a big day for myself and my family - it was a qualifier which made it more pressure on myself,

Lisa Randall

There are women for whom family is a priority, and they do it. It just wasn't as much a priority for me.

LaDainian Tomlinson

People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.

Ewen Bremner

If I'm not working, I have home time with my family, and if I spend that stressing what's going to happen next, then it's a waste. I have a lot to be thankful for.

Charles Eastman

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

Charles R. Swindoll

I know of no realm of life that can provide more companionship in a lonely world or greater feelings of security and purpose in chaotic times than the close ties of a family.

Charles R. Swindoll

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Liam Payne

Being a fan of someone's show and the way they still hold a family together doesn't mean I am OK with all they say.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Brad Pitt

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

Cameron Diaz

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

C. S. Lewis

I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them.... I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

C. S. Lewis

We want not so much a Father but a grandfather in heaven, a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?

Alan Vega

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Corneille Ewango

I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.

Scott Weiland

I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.

Tim Thomas

That's what you want as a player, to play the way you grew up on the playground and YMCA. Look around here. Guys here are loose.

Mike Grell

That's not even a question. You go with what you grew up with.

Odette Annable

I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

Erik Hassle

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, which has probably informed the way that I sing on my tracks.

Lori Petty

The first things I did was I was a writer, painter, and photographer, and we grew up very poor, so even though I could get into any college I wanted, there was no way to pay for it.

Laura Wade

I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.

A. S. Byatt

I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.

Donald Rumsfeld

After he saw what happened to Saddam Hussein, he ( Gaddafi ) did not want to be Saddam Hussein. He gave up his nuclear program.

Andrei Sakharov

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.

Susan Rice

We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.

Tom Harkin

There is no such thing as a pro-nuclear environmentalist.

Fareed Zakaria

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

John Hall

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

Brian Tracy

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

Arianna Huffington

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Booker T. Washington

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Edward Abbey

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Alan Mulally

We were on a very positive track and this is just a sad thing for all of us,

Don Ward

When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.

Larry Coker

There's always been talent in South Florida, it just didn't stay here.

Brad Paisley

I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.

Carroll Quigley

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

Mark Shields

John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.

Joe Tex

Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.

Mike Colter

You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.

Luke Grimes

I'm so southern Ohio. And Cleveland is a different world, you know?

George Mason

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

David Sibley

They talk about Southern hospitality, but Southern hospitality has nothing on this place,