Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dontrelle Willis

I did it twice in the bullpen, as well, ... It's funny. They still believed in me. I thought I was going to get released after that. I thought I was horrible. They definitely saw something that I didn't.

Kevin Porter

I found out the next day, after I'd gone public that I wasn't going to run, that the city manager probably wasn't coming back and so I decided to stay in the race. With Jared leaving and a new mayor coming in, I believed it could be a benefit for me to stay.

Charles Greene

I believed enough in this project that I thought it would turn into something pretty big, so I sold my house and brought my family down, ... The idea was to make journalism a little better in Latin America.

Kim Miller

He impacted a lot of kids, he always had a smile, and he believed in living life to the fullest.

Phil Bennett

He doesn't sugarcoat anything, and that's one of the reasons why I liked him. I believed in him. He knew coming in here there would be some tough times, but he's been a great mentor to me being a first-time head coach.

Mike Johanns

I never would have believed as a candidate for the U.S. Senate that the U.S. government could buy GM without a hearing, with no vote, yes or no. There are billions and billions of dollars at stake here.

Joanne Harris

I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that catch on to the hem of your skirt when you've been sewing, and different colored threads would mean different things... Of course, all that influenced me quite a lot as a child.

Marjane Satrapi

If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise. But we are not living in paradise, we are living in hell. What does it mean? That means the majority of people are wrong. So I never believed what people told me.

Steve Barnett

If you had told me two years ago that we'd have that kind of increase, I wouldn't have believed it, ... It's been phenomenal. They're a great bunch of kids and have worked extremely hard.

Bobby Lee

My dad had the idea in 1963. As a promotion, it's been a gold mine ever since.

Wayne Gretzky

Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, 'This is what we're going to do,' and bought an annuity with it.

Tracey Ullman

Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'

Cheryl Peters

Our 17-year-old has never seen his dad without MS.

John Schneider

I had a working mother. She worked for IBM. My dad lived in another town - not very far away, but another town. So food was - I guess food was my friend.

Bill Harmon

I know why Mom and Dad took Dick first. I'd have done the same damn thing.

Jonathan Tropper

I whispered to Dad during Rosh Hashanah services, "Do you believe in God?" "Not really," he said. "No." "Then why do we come here?" He sucked thoughfully on his Tums tablet and put his arm around me, draping me under his musty woolen prayer shawl, and then shrugged. "I've been wrong before," he said. And that pretty much summed up what theology there was to find in the Foxman home.

Kevin Bacon

My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.

Kelli O'Hara

I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

Michael Jackson

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.