Famous Quotes & Sayings

Raquel Welch

I knew my mother was - well, her ancestry dated back to John Quincy Adams, so she was totally not Latina. She was definitely whatever you call it - white bread, shall we say?

Paul Harris

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.

Tom Barratt

We have speakers each month, but the real thing is to get people involved who are interested in looking into their ancestry and helping the historical society preserve records into a usable form. Hopefully we are meeting the needs of these people and the society as well.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

Larry Neal

I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.

W. S. Gilbert

I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Michael Specter

Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans share ancestry with apes are a few examples. Another is climate change.

Diana Quick

I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I've often been cast in exotic roles - Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks.

Dale Maharidge

I still love Ken, ... He really means well. He put all his shots in the golf course project. It kind of blinded him.

Bhagavad Gita

Though they, blinded by greed, do not see evil in the destruction of the family, or sin in being treacherous to friends.

Tom Brokaw

We can never completely fulfill the promise of this treasured republic if we are blinded by color.

Aaron Swartz

Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.

Paul Dergarabedian

I think we're being blinded by the blockbusters. Sports movies have been pretty consistent. It's not a hotbed of $100 million films, but it's a solid performing genre.

Nancy Pelosi

Republicans are blinded by their culture of cronyism and corruption, ... They're crumbling, arrogantly protecting their power.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Not with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books.

Donna Favors

When we open otherwise blinded eyes,,,we then open an otherwise closed-mind

Peter Beard

I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

Catullus

Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.

Scottish Proverb

Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself.

Robert H. Connelly

I winna blaw about mysel, as ill I like my faults to tell

Charles Dudley Warner

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

Charles Spurgeon

He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him.

William Shakespeare

Faults that are rich are fair.

William Shakespeare

Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?

Charles Marion Russell

Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.

Mahatma Gandhi

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Tom Golisano

I'm not possessed about owning the Buffalo Bills, just as I wasn't possessed about owning the Buffalo Sabres.

Kyle Williams

He possessed many qualities that I wish I had.

Mike Alden

He possessed a lot of qualities that we wanted in a consultant.

Freddie Mercury

I'm possessed by love — but isn't everybody?

Elizabeth Smart

I am possessed by love and have no options.

Rodney Tention

Give them credit. They compete. That's why they're ranked No. 5 (now 4). They toughened up when they got down.

Zac Sandvig

To come up here and shut out a ranked team like this is really something.

Sean Fleming

He is the type of wrestler who can be ranked in the state and do some big things in tournaments.

Mark Langan

This ranks up there with the worst I've seen. There (were) feces throughout the house, urine-stained carpets, urine-stained sheets, trash throughout the house.

Tom Perkins

If that happened, it would rank right up there with anything else I've done in my career.

George Crooks

Marysville is ranked in the state and they have seven state qualifiers back. That's going to be a tough one.

Jonny Moroni

To be ranked sixth internationally our first time out was pretty great.

Bill Richards

Northwestern is always very good. They are ranked 51st in the nation.

Sam Young

They're a nationally ranked team, just like us.

Twyla Tharp

When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.

Bill Vaughan

We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.

Bill Bruford

Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that's where I'm at.

Carolyn Gray

We've got one right now that we need for someone from the south side of the county,

Charles Long

We're working on getting the sidewalk buttoned up.

Missy Elliott

I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans.

Deborah Moggach

You can cycle through London on the side streets, which are less polluted - and much more interesting anyway.

Dick DeVos

Who better. I know what it's like to sit on that side of the table.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Maggots squirming in your eyeholes...and your other orifices, might be carrying things a bit too far." "This is why I keep you around, Rixon. Always seeing things from the bright side.

Dick Durbin

We need to know as much as we can and as much as he will tell us about his values and beliefs,

Craig Stapleton

have the same values and the same interests.

Charlize Theron

We value some lives more than others.

Brian Tracy

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Robert Gerhardt

We thought we could get it out before May 1, but because the values for some of the neighborhoods were out of whack, we had to go back and fine-tune those.

Demi Lovato

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

Adelaide Clemens

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.

Miriam Santiago

Times have changed. It has already worn out its value,

Julius Baer

(It is) an acquisition which we would value as 'not really expensive.