Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Leakey

Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.

T. D. Jakes

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

Harper Lee

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

Iyanla Vanzant

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Hugh Jackman

My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.

Yiddish Proverb

Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble

Rebecca West

Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him, 'In your lifetime, have you known peace?' wait for his answer, shake his shoulders and transform him into his father, and ask him the same question, and transform him in his turn to his father, I would never hear the word 'Yes,' if I carried my questioning of the dead back for a thousand years. I would always hear, 'No, there was fear, there were our enemies without, our rulers within, there was prison, there was torture, there was violent death.

Russell Baker

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.

Umberto Eco

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Sheryl Swoopes

I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

Author unknown

The Truth that is to be Realized may be summarized simply as the Realization that no matter what is arising, no matter how many others are present, there is only One Being. This is precisely different from the childish but common religious notion that even when you are alone there is always Someone Else present, Who will look out for you if you do the right thing. True freedom is not a matter of striking a deal with an All-Powerful Parental Deity; no such God exists. True freedom is in the Realization that there is only God and You are That One.

O. Singh

Through their stubborn mindedness, and by wearing their disguises, they are deluded, they suffer in pain from the love of duality.

Rich Beem

You have to play by feel and I love that,

Sylvia Earle

You have to love it before you are moved to save it.

Cynde Frankel

The one thing they share is a love of animals.

Daniel Barenboim

When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.

Nate Longshore

We all love Steve. It was sweet watching him do his thing.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself:""Mankind."" Basically, it's made up of two separate words - ""mank"" and ""ind.""What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

Herb Williams

Who's coaching? I'm not sure. Maybe me. I don't know.

Brad Duke

Who knows? Maybe they are right here with us.

Victor Hobson

We haven't talked about that, maybe we'll talk about it during the week. We're just trying to get wins, and get on a roll.

Paradorn Srichaphan

I won maybe three times with that. It really shows my flexibility.

Howard Gordon

I wish that were the case. It's not true. But I think on some unconscious level, maybe we know more than we think we know.

John Waters

I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.

Mitch Kosht

I still haven't totally decided, but I think maybe I'll go to (the University of Colorado).

Hassan Adams

You always think that maybe there's something you could have done or should have done.

Will Stofega

It's a very young industry, and over the past two years it has done wonderful things, but I'm waiting for it to reach the next step.

Bob Baker

It's back running production volume and over the next year that will ramp up.

Blake Darcy

It's a year 2000 event. This year it's wireless trading and after-hours trading. Next year it'll be the computerized advice, customized service.

Paul Weller

I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I don't necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years... I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.

Suranand Vejjajiva

We probably have to take it into consideration for our next step.

Chris Houston

We practically have a whole new team, so this is a rebuilding year. We plan to have some success here next year and the year after that, definitely.

Bob Newhart

I can't do a one-camera show. I don't know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line.

Arthur Ransome

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Wayne Dyer

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Mary Lou Retton

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Princess Diana

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

Princess Diana

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Leontyne Price

If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.

Lev Yilmaz

I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.

P. J. O'Rourke

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

Pablo Picasso

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.