Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Sanders

I'll miss it very much, ... It's going to be very, very difficult when we leave. I've watched families grow up here. Children that were born here are now married and now have their own children. I'll miss it all.

Sopheeng Toun

I have three sisters and two brothers. My younger brother and I were born here, but the rest of my family is from Cambodia. My family went through hard times in Cambodia and came here in the early '80s.

David Harrington

I heard George Crumb?s ?Black Angels? and I knew that I had just heard the music that I was born to play.

Carlo Ciampi

I'm proud to be able to call myself a European citizen, born in Italy.

John Caudwell

I'm known for value for money. I was brought up to be frugal, and it's definitely a factor in my success. I was born in the Fifties, which was a frugal era, and my family had to be very careful with money out of necessity.

Orlando Jones

I'm from that part of the country. I was born in Mobile. Ala. and grew up in South Carolina. I have family in Miss. Having gone through a number of hurricanes myself, none obviously as devastating as this one, one of the things you forget about is that at least as a parent, you're able to understand what has transpired in your life. But for a one- or two-year-old, it's a completely different level of devastation because everything that they know and have ever known is gone.

John Patrick Shanley

I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands. He and his brothers had been shepherds there, cattle and sheep, back in the early 1920s. I grew up surrounded by brogues and Irish music, but stayed away from the old country till I was over 40. I just couldn't own being Irish.

T Bone Burnett

If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.

Frances Burnett

If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.

Amanda Bynes

I remember people saying that they brought cousins or people to the set and they had no idea that was me. So, that was really cool. I was proud that we fooled people.

Michael Keaton

I remember my mom threatening me, half-serious: 'You know what? I should take you to Pittsburgh and put you in dance lessons just to keep you occupied.' Well, that brought everything to a screeching halt. 'Jeeze, dance lessons.' In retrospect, it would have been awesome, but then, 'Ugh, dancing - dancing's for sissies.'

Chauncey Billups

I love that young kid's game, man. He's been playing really well, and he's brought some hope to that franchise. He will be one day where I am at -- one day fast.

Marnie Stern

I know of dude-bands who've brought big, crazy dogs on tour. Everybody loves their animal.

Robert Horry

I hadn't seen the spin move in a long time, and he brought that out. He looked really good. I hope he can maintain it.

Pamela Anderson

I'm vegetarian, ... I can't do a roast. No, that's why I brought my vegetable, so I could eat something tonight.

Dan Powers

In general, we've been pleased to see that the larger notion of competitiveness has been, in a sense, brought into the document in ways that it hadn't been before, ... Just the recognition that Boulder needs to perceive itself as being in a regionally competitive situation is a step forward, from our point of view.

Mike Hamilton

In his first year at Tennessee, Coach Pearl accomplished more than we could have hoped for. His energy and enthusiasm have brought new life to Tennessee basketball.

James McCartney

I'm naturally guarded because of the way I was brought up. But I understand people are interested in who I am.

Dennis Smith

We talked to our doctor and had him tested and he said he definitely did not have ADHD.

O. Henry

Leslie definitely had a great race, and so did Jackie. That's a good deal. I think New Mexico was represented very well there tonight.

Mark Rosenker

Learning how to drive while distracted is definitely a recipe for disaster.

Roger Federer

Many people say I'm better on other surfaces but I know I can play well on clay. The French Open is definitely a goal of mine.

Angus Gluskie

Seven's put together a reasonable case. They've definitely got an issue that they need to explore through the courts.

Joe Gibbs

Sean can definitely play receiver, ... He has a big wingspan and great hands. We're trying to get him in a few situations where he can maybe make a play for us.

Todd McCullough

Sept. 11, so many things happened that year. This game isn't life or death, but I definitely remember sitting in my room with my old roommate, Ingle Martin, putting everything in perspective." ()

Reilly Poirier

She's the leader of this team. She's a sophomore, but she definitely leads this team in everything she does. She does everything a point guard is supposed to do.

R. Robinson

She took a real late flight last night so she could get in. She called on Tuesday night and said she would definitely be here.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Anne Tyler

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

Alva Myrdal

Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity with the traditional pattern certainly is no guarantee of the happiest results.

Anne Roiphe

I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.

Anne Sexton

we do not explain my husband's insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead. Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.

Danny Kaye

I am a wife-made man.

Daniel Day-Lewis

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

Confucius

It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

Ambrose Bierce

DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.

In some places it's known as a tornado. In others, a cyclone. And in still others, the Idiot's Merry-go-round. But around here they'll always be known as screw-boys.

William McKinley

We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.

William Gibson

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

Will Durant

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Solvency feels better than anything you can spend money on.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Money ... it's both the most complicated and the most passionate relationship in our lives.

William Feather

A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.

William Feather

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

William Feather

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Professor Galbraith is horrified by the number of Americans who have bought cars with tail fins on them, and I am horrified by the number of Americans who take seriously the proposals of Mr. Galbraith.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Grade

I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Sarah Caldwell

Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.

Sarah Burton

Do what you love and believe in, and work hard.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Success is not just money in the bank but a contented heart and peace of mind.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary.

Sara Blakely

When I was growing up, my dad would encourage my brother and I to fail. We would be sitting at the dinner table and he would ask, 'So what did you guys fail at this week?' If we didn't have something to contribute, he would be disappointed. When I did fail at something, he'd high-five me. What I didn't realize at the time was that he was completely reframing my definition of failure at a young age. To me, failure means not trying; failure isn't the outcome. If I have to look at myself in the mirror and say, 'I didn't try that because I was scared,' that is failure.

Samuel Smiles

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

Robert Duvall

The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not necessarily true. I try to stay loose but sometimes the best thing to do is get yourself away and take a good nap.