Famous Quotes & Sayings

Suzi Quatro

My own musical ambitions were born when I was five, watching the Ed Sullivan Show on TV. When Elvis Presley burst on to the screen, singing 'Don't Be Cruel,' I felt my first sexual thrill, though I didn't know what it was at the time.

J. R. Bourne

My niece was born with cystic fibrosis 15 years ago, and she's incredibly healthy and an incredible competitive dancer, so I'm going to do some events for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Jamie Cullum

My mother was born in Burma, but my grandfather on her side was Indian-Spanish. So I have this quite exotic mix, which is reflected in my earliest memories, in our Wiltshire country kitchen, of gran, and aunts, cooking spicy stewy, casseroley curries, a version of Indian food with a Burmese twist.

Robin Braig

NASCAR was born right here in Daytona and they can't ever take that away from us, and we'll continue to promote it as a world center of racing.

Cindi Williams

Nationwide, one of 100 children are born with congenital heart disease and the mortality rate is up to 9 percent. Over a five-year period, our mortality rate is 0 percent.

Douglas Brinkley

My wife and kids were born in New Orleans,

Mary Barra

My parents were both born and raised in the Depression. They instilled great values about integrity and the importance of hard work, and I've taken that with me to every job.

Randall Park

My parents were born in Korea. They spent a good part of their life in Korea.

Roz Chast

My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.

Baha'u'llah

Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind.

Anthony Trollope

It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city.

Anthony Trollope

Would it not be better to go home and live at the family park all the year round, and hunt, and attend Quarter Sessions, and be able to declare morning and evening with a clear conscience that the country was going to the dogs? Such was the mental working of many a Conservative who supported Mr. Daubeny on this occasion.

Denis Hayes

When we held the first Earth Day, everyone said it was a success because of the huge turnout. It was probably the largest planned event across the country.

Artur Davis

Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.

Aristophanes

A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.

Edward Said

To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.

Mike Scott

We hear that Dolly Parton was in town eating dinner at a restaurant, or other country music stars doing this and that.

Dixie Lee Ray

It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.

Thomas Pynchon

But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish ever more exotic surfaces, hyperboloidial and even stranger, eventually including what we must term ‘imaginary’ shapes (which some preferred to term invisible).

Hector Hugh Munro

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

Friedrich Schiller

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Jim Reilly

You use surface tension to hold the food on the utensils,

Jim Riddle

The food is not as nutritious. The more nutrients that are retained, the healthier it is and it tastes better.

John Brady

The food always is good, and the waitresses are good and courteous,

James Beard

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

James Beard

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

James Beard

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

Lena Headey

I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Ally Carter

Waffles. Im craving waffles." Bex rolled onto her side. "Tell your waffles hi for me.

Alexander Pope

He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

Confucius

Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.

Alice Englert

I've spent half my life on planes. I have a lot of love for New Zealand, though. That is where the really arty, whimsical side of the family resided - in Hobbitland.

Alastair Humphreys

You do not need to fly to the other side of the planet to find wilderness and beauty.

Annie Lennox

I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself.

Angela Merkel

This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.

Andre Braugher

It was good to travel to the other side of the world.

Alvin Toffler

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.