Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Banks

I realize many of my ancestors fought so I could have the opportunities I have today, and I appreciate them for the sacrifices they made for us.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.

David Brin

Is this a horrible future? Or actually a return to what we've always had in the past? Think of old villages. Everybody knew everything about everybody else. Strangers were intimidating and worrisome. This will be like the village our ancestors grew up in, only with 7 billion people.

It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to head out onto the plains, where some were probably hit by cars

Kim Edwards

I find my husband's family history fascinating, as they can trace the family lineage back to ancestors who fought, and died, in the first battle of the Revolution, as well as to many other interesting people.

Jerry Coleman

All these ancestors of mine, when they arrived here, there weren't restrictions on them as there are now. Who's to say whether they would have been able to come themselves if there had been restrictions? But I'm glad they did, because here I am.

Lonnie Bunch

This is too important to fail, because it is holding a nation's--holding a people's--culture in my hands, ... My litmus test will be, Would my ancestors be happy?

Paul Robeson

My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave.

Louise Leakey

It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future.

William Warburton

High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.

Harold Prince

I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Nelson Mandela

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

Pietro Metastasio

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

Piers Anthony

We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.

Ovid

Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.

Ovid

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

Ron Williams

Just within the few seconds we had arrived and carried Taylor to the car, he had deteriorated rapidly. By the time we had arrived at the hospital, Taylor had completely lost his vision and was choking and unable to breathe on his own. I was pounding on his chest to help keep him breathing.

Robert Parker

Joan and I separated in 1982 and reunited in 1984, at which time we had arrived at the conclusion that it probably wasn't a good idea for us to share the same living space twenty-four hours a day.

Johnny Depp

Grilling Tim on the set was how I prepared for the part of Victor, ... I feel lucky that these parts arrived in front of me.

Christine Sinclair

I think a lot of people thought women's soccer had arrived and it was here to stay and it was going to be huge, but that wasn't realistic. It has progressed slowly.

Tony Parrish

I don't know what it is. Ever since I arrived in San Francisco, it's kind of been like that. I guess it's become a little more of a motivation for me to shake off whatever nicks I might pick up, because I'm really just trying to be there for the guys.

J. Taylor

I don't blame them for organizing. If I was a newly arrived immigrant in this country, because we are all at one point or another immigrants, I would be upset with the rhetoric being thrown around in response to their hard work and efforts in this country.

Silvio Berlusconi

He is already in Italy. I think he arrived overnight.

Dave Calloway

He has shown vast improvement since he has arrived at Monmouth and I think we are starting to see the benefits.

Oliver Fang

President Chen made it very clear today that he's serious about the plan. That's very bad indeed, and phone calls just arrived in droves (from clients) asking to unwind their positions.

Ken Klee

Having said that, I'm glad to be back. I wanted to be a Maple Leaf and it seems they wanted me.

Marty Schottenheimer

He's a big target with great hands and a terrific player. We're glad he's back.

Chris Linsley

His personality shined back through, and we knew we still had our old Dillon. He looked at his mother and mumbled the words 'Mama,' which made us glad to hear that.

Laurie Glass

I thought we executed our game-plan very well. We served very aggressively, and that got them out of their offense. They've had a great season, and they have a great volleyball program here, and I'm glad we got out of here with a win.

Andy Palmer

I thought that last one of his looked good. He had the responsibility on top of that zone and that's a lot of work, but I'm glad to see him play well.

Rep. Baxley

I think all those things together do raise your presence and I'm glad they come.

Alex Rodriguez

I think it was the last one he threw. I'm glad he threw one. He had us talking to each other, and really nothing was said that was helpful.

Mike Holmgren

I think it was necessary, and now in retrospect, I'm glad I did it.

Ko Simpson

It has been a great experience. You only go through it once in a lifetime. But I'm kind of glad it's going to be over soon.

Buck Showalter

These things have a way of working themselves out over a 162-game season.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Robert MacIntosh

They wanted to give themselves some flexibility, which they didn't have with that language.

Aldous Huxley

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Jen Kirkman

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Steve Lambert

I would say that by the end of the month, we will know whether it can work.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Gary Sherwin

If you're part of the community, whether you like it or not, you're part of the brand.

Deirdre O'Kane

You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.

Enrique Morones

We still don't know whether it will be a march, a strike, or a fast.

Rivers Cuomo

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.