Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brent Plater

Green sturgeon are on the brink of extinction, and we have a moral obligation to ensure that this ancient creature survives for future generations to enjoy.

Shari Arison

For most of my life, I have received messages - images and worded communications, sometimes even in an ancient language - that came to me from above.

Edward Hirsch

I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving to find a place for that grief.

Margaret O'Brien

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.

Robert Owens

We may look through ancient and modern history, yet scarce find a sovereign to whom God offered the privilege of bestowing on humanity a boon so vast.

Jack Gleeson

I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in.

Anne Dudley

I'm very interested in the color of sound. And I'm very interested in the juxtaposition of different things, ethnic instruments juxtaposed with symphonic instruments, and I'm interested in the ancient and the modern. I don't know why, but it has always been something that's fascinated me, from when I first heard a symphony orchestra I wanted to know how those sounds were made.

Bill Bryson

Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive, and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.

John Burnside

In many traditions, hawks are sacred: Apollo's messengers for the Greeks, sun symbols for the ancient Egyptians and, in the case of the Lakota Sioux, embodiments of clear vision, speed and single-minded dedication.

Dave Roberts

Khalil and I talked about it, ... He's just extremely confident that he can hit it out in this ballpark, because no matter where you hit it, it can go out of this ballpark. That's not the case in our park.

Joe Pistone

John and I go way back. We worked a lot of cover cases together,

Nigel Worthington

Johansson is a player that we have monitored for some time but with all transfers it is a case of waiting for something to happen and it being right for the club and player.

Patrick Guerriero

John Kerry and John Edwards would be smart to make their case for gay and lesbian fairness by not mentioning Mary Cheney.

Douglas Johnson

Judge Casey said his ruling was dictated by a 5 to 4 Supreme Court ruling in 2000, which held that Roe v. Wade protects partial-birth abortion.

Mike Ford

I suspect that this is another case of a senator hyperventilating on a Sunday talk show.

Neil Miller

I think I solved the case myself in jail just by sitting up there and thinking about it, the many holes that I found.

Richard Perle

I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing.

Phil Gramm

I think in the end, we'll have a trial, ... We will render a verdict, as the Senate has on 15 other occasions, in those 15 cases where there was an impeachment in the House and where the person impeached did not resign first.

Colin Trevorrow

Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on 'New Girl.'

Ben Dogra

Jon enjoyed the visit with the Jets. They did an incredibly good job with the visit. They got his attention. But his comfort level is in Philadelphia. Going into this I thought it would be between money and comfort level, in that order. Comfort level clearly proved to be more of a factor. He just decided signing with the Eagles was what he wanted to do.

Butch Williams

I think it's a clear violation. If you've got a lawyer and (police have) been notified, they're supposed to contact your lawyer.

Bill Cheney

I think it is clear that, whatever the economic outlook was on Monday, the outlook is shakier now, and there are stronger arguments for cutting rates.

Vladimir Putin

I think it is logical, clear and evident,

Susan Donofrio

I think it'd be a nonstarter. The size of those two airlines, as well as overlap, makes it prohibitive to (Department of) Justice. And you wouldn't have a clear leader in terms of the merger. Other deals being discussed, you know who's the buyer. With American and Delta, there would be more fighting.

Susan Donofrio

I think it'd be a nonstarter, ... The size of those two airlines, as well as overlap, makes it prohibitive to (Department of) Justice. And you wouldn't have a clear leader in terms of the merger. Other deals being discussed, you know who's the buyer. With American and Delta, there would be more fighting.

Dariusz Kowalczyk

I think it's mostly the uncertainty regarding the situation in Iran and the very clear decision of the IAEA to refer the country to the UN Security Council.

Joe Gallagher

I actually had shirts printed up for the kids that say F.O.O.L because as linemen they usually don?t get the credit they deserve, so we have to stick together like a fraternity. The line did an excellent job clear the way tonight.

Mohammed Morsi

Egyptians are always and will always be supportive of their Palestinian brothers, all Palestinians.

Peter Lacovara

We approached the Egyptians first. It was kind of the reverse of normal. ... At first they had to be convinced.

Mohammed Ali

This is good news after the recent sadness, it's the first time in a long time that all Egyptians stand together to support their team.

Ahmed Zewail

I can tell you that the majority of the Egyptians I know, they think of a much wider spectrum of people than the Muslim Brotherhood.

Ariel Sharon

Since then, I have worked tirelessly in all my meetings with Egyptians and others in order to do so,

Ariel Sharon

I think there is a heavy U.S. pressure on the Egyptians and the Palestinians on this issue,

Silvan Shalom

Starting from that moment, all the responsibility will devolve onto the Egyptians and also the multinational force, which is supposed to supervise,

Meles Zenawi

I am not worried that the Egyptians will suddenly invade Ethiopia. Nobody who has tried that has lived to tell the story.

Tim Threlfall

We have black, white and yellow Egyptians and Nubians. Race enters into it, but race is not the major issue of the show.

Ovid

As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.

Edward Abbey

The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.

Lorenzen Wright

We wanted to take the Hawks to the playoffs. That was the thing we were talking about back then.

Holger Schmieding

There could have been a heated discussion, with the doves preventing the acceleration in the pace of rate hikes the hawks may have wanted.

Atharva Veda

Those that ride on chariots, and those that have no chariots, those that are mounted, and those that are not mounted, all those, after they have been slain, vultures and strong-winged hawks shall devour!

Tommy Douglas

In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots.

Bob Johnson

But the hawks actually hone in on the smoke.

Howard Hawks

There's action only if there is danger.

Pat Listach

He just did what he does. He mixes his speeds up.

John Donnelly

He's a different kind of guy. He's a slasher. (Dave) was more of a speed guy. But we'll take another Fischer.

Marvel Smith

He's got the kind of speed you can't coach,

Mike Frosco

I think we'll have more speed than we've ever had. I think we're young, I think they'll step it up.

Joe Thornton

I think we have more speed than them.

Daron Rahlves

I don't know where the speed was today.

Sandra Cisneros

Being on a highway, all that speed and aggression, is very terrifying to me.

Anthony Chan

I just see it as a speed bump.

Steve Mariucci

You can see from watching that we have more team speed and quickness. That's exciting.

W. H. Auden

What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.

Philippe Starck

Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All things are symbols.

Diane von Furstenberg

For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.

Alfred Korzybski

Who rules our symbols, rules us.