Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Rodman

We think they are not achieving their objective and in fact the government is extending its authority politically around the country,

Tony Fratto

We think the secretary can be more effective in achieving the priorities of the president by remaining in Washington.

George Coleman

Too many young people were entering school behind their achieving peers. We wanted every child to come to school with the same advantages as any other child.

Rob Laird

This year... when this 80 is booked, we will have sold 100 planes in China, so we are well on our way to achieving the same volume as we did last year.

Rob Laird

This year ... we are well on our way toward achieving the same volumes we did last year. We hope to maintain our current market share in China, which is about 60-65 percent.

Anne Mulcahy

Though disappointing, these results reflect the difficulties found in our visits and reviews of operations around the world over the last two months. There is no doubt that the time required for recovery is longer than previously anticipated. Stabilizing the situation has been our focus and much progress has been made, but achieving renewed growth will take more time.

Glenn Engel

UAL shares are trading at post 9/11 lows despite boosting liquidity 9$3 billion in cash, $4 billion unencumbered planes as of 3/020, achieving labor peace and improving service. We cannot imagine an industry recovery that leaves out United, which has the industry's most attractive network.

John Antioco

We closed 2001 with exceptional financial results, achieving record revenues, strong cash flow and enhanced operational profitability while lowering our debt by more than $430 million,

Khaleda Zia

We are close to achieving two other goals, namely, reduction of income poverty and under-five child mortality rates.

Edwina Ashe

Boxing out is the most important part of rebounding. You had to make sure your competitor is behind you and then go after the ball.

Megan Boone

British actors wear wigs a lot. I find it to be a nice ritual at the end of the day, take the wig off, clean the makeup off, go home, leave work behind me.

Kenneth Broux

Brisk growth in U.S. consumer spending is the main factor behind rising imports. Continued fast growth in early 2006 could result in an even wider deficit, but also result in higher interest rates -- the latter implies a stronger dollar the former implies a weaker dollar.

Tina Deese

Beth was a little off the plate, but that ultimately helped her keep the Florida batters off balance. She got behind a few batters, but battled, and the offense came through in the end.

Kyle Lohse

Everything has been put behind us, ... I'm focusing on trying to win some games and trying to keep us in the thick of things.

Larry Anderson

Everything has been done behind our backs. That's what makes us suspicious.

Spike Jonze

Everything in L.A. is - it's just an easy place to live in. The houses are nice, the backyards are nice, you got the ocean right there and the mountains behind you; there's an idealised easiness to the way you live and the whole environment.

William Shatner

Everything in front of and behind the cameras was faked, ... The only thing that was real is the love we have for Riverside.

David Akers

Everything, ... If you're not confident, and you don't feel that you're going to win, and you don't feel that people have your back, then you're not successful, because you're always looking behind you to see that what you're doing is OK, instead of just trusting in yourself, trusting in the person next to you that everything is going to be OK.

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.

Brandon Boyd

Surf is something I have been obsessed with since I was a child.

Bob Ehrlich

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

Bob Dole

This is not politics... it's to protect the innocence of children.

Charles Spurgeon

A child of five, if properly instructed, can, as truly believe, and be regenerated, as an adult.

Charles Spurgeon

God's children are God's children anywhere and everywhere, and shall be even unto the end. Nothing can sever that sacred tie, or divide us from his heart.

Les Brown

People couldn't get down here. They couldn't find it, so they'd go a different way and go somewhere else.

Carol Schatz

People couldn't get down here. Some stayed and went on walking tours.

Kim Clijsters

People come up to me here and say, 'This is your year,'  ... but I know it's not easy. You always have to focus.

Annie Golden

People come up to me all the time. If I'm with friends or in a crowd, I'm fine, but if I'm by myself, I get afraid because people are nuts.

Martin Berson

People come to yoga to find themselves. Stretching releases tension, but there?s also a meditative, spiritual aspect. ..You are going to get physical benefits, and that?s fine. But if you have the right teacher, you?re going to get all the other stuff, too.

Steve Farmer

People come to visit here, and they really like the place.

Bob Richards

People come to see the stars, and then they walk away with two or three new favorites.

Mari Dietz

People come back year after year to see what we're wearing.

John McGee

People feel more comfortable with that. They know everybody.

Amy Lee

Like now what Urban Outfitters has become is very much how I always dressed in high school by going to garage sales and getting stuff for 50 cents. Cost a little more now, to look like crap.

Alison Elliott

I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.

Alison Moyet

I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids.

Alison Krauss

I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.

Alicia Sacramone

I really want to go back to school and finish up my sociology degree.

Ann Brashares

We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.

Andy Dick

I grew up Presbyterian, just a basic Protestant upbringing. There were years in my life when I would go to church every Sunday and to Sunday school. Then I just phased out of it.

Andrzej Wajda

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.

Andy Borowitz

Let's withdraw from Afghanistan and have the army invade America - that's the only way we'll get new schools and roads.