Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Cowley

There is no evidence I'm aware of that shows the education of aboriginal children is more successfully accomplished in band-operated schools anywhere in Canada.

Kim Campbell

Our Canada is an inclusive country, built by English - and French - speaking Canadians, together with our Aboriginal peoples, who were here first, and the millions who have come since from every corner of the world. And still they come-1 million people a year make inquiries about coming to Canada.

Jared Diamond

Tasmania lies 130 miles southeast of Australia. When it was first visited by Europeans in 1642, Tasmania was occupied by 4,000 hunter-gatherers related to mainland Australians, but with the simplest technology of any recent people on Earth. Unlike mainland Aboriginal Australians, Tasmanians couldn't start a fire.

Randy Broiles

Sufficient progress has been made in all key areas namely, clarity of the regulatory process, the negotiation of benefits and access agreements with northern aboriginal groups, and fiscal framework discussions with governments to proceed to public hearings.

Peter Cowley

It's important to remember we're comparing results of Aboriginal students without reference to the general population. Relative to other schools (and based on the report), Carson Graham is not successful in ensuring that its Aboriginal students do well. But I strongly believe the report card provides the greatest benefit to schools that are not successful.

Robyn Bourgeois

Not all aboriginal women are prostitutes, drug addicts or homeless. The bottom line is if you have a loved one and they disappear, it doesn't matter what they are, you want to be taken seriously.

Robbie Robertson

The direction is going the right way for respect for aboriginal people in North America, and all we can do is stand up and say, 'Please do it faster.'

Doug McArthur

This case is well known and will set a precedent on aboriginal title based on earlier court decisions, as well as establishing the government's role in providing financial support to First Nations for legal costs.

Derek Thompson

It's to give truth to history rather than ignore it, deny it or rationalize it. Somebody died and that somebody was an aboriginal person and that aboriginal person was a child.

Judy Greer

I was lucky, and once I moved to L.A., I didn't have to get another job besides acting. But I wouldn't trade my previous jobs for anything.

Rob Hilbun

I think it motivates the girls to some extend, and besides we like being under the radar screen. If the wins keep coming, we'll eventually get noticed. Besides, the rankings mean nothing once the tournament starts.

Joe Galante

Labels do a lot of things besides manufacture and sell records. We market musicians, we get radio stations to play songs, we help produce tracks and guide musical careers. Wal-Mart doesn't have an expertise in those things.

Jerry York

I think we have seen goals (come) from other players on our team besides Chris, and that makes us much harder to defend.

Tod Kowalczyk

I think we've been in most games -- I mean besides the Youngstown game -- we should have won that Detroit game -- but the main thing is for our guys to be consistent.

Avery Johnson

I think any of the teams at the top, I think they should have at least multiple people on it. I think with our situation, I would have liked to have seen Josh (Howard) or (Jason) Terry, just somebody else besides Dirk on it because I think they should be rewarded.

Doc Rivers

It is nice when you are a scorer like Ricky and you can make a contribution in another way besides scoring. That first quarter might have been the worst defense we played all season, but they turned it around with the way (Davis and Pierce) played in the fourth quarter.

Gidi Sabag

I don't know what hitting uninhabited land accomplishes besides scaring the children. But then again, I'm not the defense minister.

Doug Ferrari

He was the only person who was like, lucid, cogent, intelligent -- was reading a book, ... He was the only person I met in The Tenderloin besides me who was reading a book.

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Larry Hughes

I was just dealing with it, playing through it, but I knew something was wrong. This was the best time to do it. If it was later in the year, I would've kept playing.

Evgeni Nabokov

Kipper is a confident guy right now back there and, defensively, they're one of the best teams in the league. Their identity is they're not going to score four or five goals, they're going to score two or three, but it's going to be enough to win.

Mike Gansey

Kevin is one of the best all-around players in the conference. He's obviously one of the best shooters and his inside play has improved this season. Kevin is a big part of our team.

Bill Schneider

Kerry's line is, 'If this is the best we can do, we're in trouble,'

Peter Laviolette

I would think that we're going to take the best players available.

Greg Mason

Jacobson had his best game of the year and I was most encouraged by his defense.

Jeff Kinney

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Japanese Proverb

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Sophie Hannah

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

Mark Patton

It is a great thing for him to have read so many books. You just don't usually hear that about a first-grader.

Robertson Davies

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in their realm the fully comprehensible is not worth comprehending

Socrates

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

John Woolman

We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged.

Sathya Baba

Love must flow not from the tongue or from the head only, but chiefly from the heart.

G. H. Hardy

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Neil Strauss

Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn't always succeed.

Mike Archer

Knowing what I know now, I'd still come, ... My kids were here. I wanted to be close to them.

James Blake

Knowing that I was that close to a semi or final, it makes me realize that the goal going into these Slams isn't just getting to the second week. Maybe I can get in there and win one.

Duncan Fletcher

Key has had a shoulder operation and Shah has a knee injury which didn't look too serious at first but a closer look has shown it is a far more serious.

Niels From

I wouldn't position for sharp movements -- so close to the New Year investors won't want to take massive positions. My traders say that liquidity flowing is half of a normal market.

Ron Nelson

I wouldn't be surprised if you saw him close a couple of games. We wouldn't want to throw him more than an inning, though.

Michael Schroeder

I wouldn't be buying. When we were getting yields close to 4.50, I thought they were pretty attractive.

Richard Barnes

Jackson was the worst. That should have closed it. That should have thrown the whole thing out.

Matt Harris

I would say it's very closely being looked at. Growers want to know, sheds want to know: Are they going to continue dumping duties or are they finally going to drop them?

Gary Anderson

Ken is the closest thing I had to a brother.

Samuel Freeman Miller

History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.

Paul Light

I think the 20,000 employees of immigration and customs enforcement have got to be scratching their heads, and saying, am I going to take orders from this particular person who has never held a gun in her hand?

Viktor Khristenko

Launching the Customs Union to the full will take at least two or three years.

Saint Augustine

Custom is second nature.

Sharon Rainey

I need people to sort and pack ? and we need help filling out customs forms. I had one volunteer, June Fox, come in last week and she wrapped 11 packages in under 25 minutes. That's the type of workers we need.

George Balle

The Lansdowne was selected to ferry the Japanese ministers and generals from the Customs House Dock in Yokohama to the Missouri.

Steve Glynn

You can stuff a painting in a suitcase and find out in the customs line you owe 5 percent duty.

Nancy Kress

Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.

Li Rongmei

We have to go through all the Customs procedures and paperwork so it is not easy to import one.

Greg Martin

Ground radar from time to time is subject to interference from outside sources. There's nothing wrong with the radar. There's nothing wrong with the relays. Planes aren't disappearing. There's still information on the screen.

Tanit Phoenix

I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.

Paul Tagliabue

Having him involved in the process and having someone here on the ground day to day will be helpful.

Brian Kelly

I thought our first day went really well. We are at a point now where we are not going to take a step back just because we lost our quarterback from last year. We needed to hit the ground running and I was pleased with how these young quarterbacks prepared themselves.

Dwyane Wade

I really couldn't even see it and I hit the ground hard, always hit the ground hard.

Robert Morgan

I like to just walk the ground of place I'm writing about.

Steve Pitstick

The ground is just perfect. It's not too wet, and it's not too dry.

Jaspher Ombati

The incident happened when students, who were protesting at night, were attacked. Officers are on the ground investigating the case.

Keating Holland

The tripwire for the administration may be as they see support for ground troops growing, that may be only ground troops with no casualties,

Jack Horner

Historical science is being left in the dust.

Yasuo Fukuda

Historical perspectives or outlooks represented in textbooks should not be identified as those of the Japanese government.

Ed Harris

I don't have the luxury of the firsthand historical knowledge that you have. You'll probably find the same thing with the board.

Reza Aslan

The New Testament is not a historical document.

William Wordsworth

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

William J. Clinton

We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.

Will Eisner

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

Will Durant

Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

Sarah Sutton

I like the stories with the historical themes.

Ma Jun

If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.

John Van Hamersveld

I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.

Morley Callaghan

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.

Paul Di Filippo

The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes of readers and publishers from demanding more of what they previously enjoyed.

Laura Hillenbrand

I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest

Katherine Paterson

Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."

Otis Blackwell

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

John Mutter

They're worried about publishing and retailing like everyone else in the business, and this may be a way for them to stay on top of this.

Alan Garner

As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.

John Gibbons

He should be strongly considered, 13 wins, 200-plus innings. I'd vote for him.

Rob Stutzman

I think we win three for sure. Everything is trending strongly our way.

Stanley Hauerwas

I must begin by telling you that I do not like to preach on Reformation Sunday. Actually, I have to put it more strongly than that. I do not like Reformation Sunday, period.

Bill Thomas

I have supported him in this campaign. Throughout our careers, we have strongly disagreed on cases. I don't think we've ever disagreed this much.

Endriartono Sutarto

We strongly suggest that he does not do that,

Michael Buckley

We're a strongly capitalised bank, after this loss, by international standards,

Thomas Kochan

Flexibility makes all the sense in the world (and Bush's proposal) has all the right-sounding words, ... will be strongly opposed.

Patrick Knapp

Cornell is an offensive-minded team that we have to play strongly against.

John Gandy

I feel very strongly that we are in the driver's seat.