Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amity Gaige

I was born on an even keel. Family lore says I never cried, even at birth. I felt at ease on earth, in the right place. And like many children, I took comfort in life's regularity: Every few days it rained, the school bus came and went, and my parents were rooted in their union.

Connie Baker

I think sewing is a stress release. I'm not sure people are born quilters, but I do think it's in their make?up to get such joy from it. It's a way to express yourself.

Joanne Woodward

Well, I was born and raised in south Georgia and South Carolina, and I went to school in Louisiana. Nature is very much a part of life in those areas.

Asif Kapadia

Weirdly enough, I live in London - was born there and have lived there all my life - but I hadn't made a film in London for a long time. I hadn't found the right subject. I liked going away, to some far flung place.

Swiss Proverb

You learn through mistakes - no one was born a master

Roger Edmondson

You know if it gets predictable, it wouldn't be interesting. It's been nice to see our concept born out and have drivers from other disciplines want to be here.

Marianne Williamson

We are born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Ernst Zundel

But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

Herman Melville

If Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to be born.

Ron Moore

Wind systems are so new we don't have anything in our zoning ordinance that addresses this type of electrical generation. There are counties in Illinois that have wind energy systems. Those are Bureau, Henry, Lee, McLean, and Mercer. McLean County, I believe, is going to be producing the largest wind energy system in the state, if not the Midwest. I think that's somewhere around a $300 million project.

Scott Young

Huge. County championship. Oughtta be another big one.

Sandy Greenberg

The county needs to educate the public and come up with better recommendations for what types of trees should be planted.

Jack Mathers

To turn a negative into a positive we need to have a symbiotic relationship with the county commission.

Brad McClellan

At least 90 percent of registered voters will not vote. There's probably only going to be a 10 percent turnout. We've already got 12 million registered voters who can sign our petition, and we have a number of people from Montgomery County who have pledged support.

Tom Hanson

As much as Lincoln County is growing, there must be more revenue. My focus will be to stick to those three things.

James Matthew

About one-third of the county probably doesn't know we have a health department.

Kayla Hooper

It's been since 1980 a girls team from Houston County has gotten this far. We're proud of what we've done so far and we're proud to represent our community.

E. O. Wilson

It seems like every time we come up with something good to raise money, everybody all over the county starts doing something similar.

John Mayer

It seems like the other 20 people in the county know what is better for us than our own representatives.

Tom Wopat

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

Stevie Wonder

Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.

Steve Jobs

It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

Sam Houston

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

Victor Hugo

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Susan Ward

Train your staff (if you have any) to be always helpful, courteous, and knowledgeable. Most importantly, give every member of your staff enough information and power to make those small customer-pleasing decisions, so he never has to say, "I don't know, but so-and-so will be back at..."

Susan Ward

The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!

Sophocles

A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

Stephen Mitchell

Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.

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.

Michael Tolkin

One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer.

Patricia Briggs

My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.

Laura Linney

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

John Updike

My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to me from him, and for the first time his death seemed, even at its immense stellar remove of impossibility, a grave and dreadful threat.

John Stuart Mill

If I have accomplished anything, I owe it, among other fortunate circumstances, to the fact that through the early training bestowed on me by my father, I started, I may fairly say, with an advantage of a quarter of a century over my contemporaries.

John Piper

Don't wait for a feeling or love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your heavenly Father, and you know that this stranger is created by Him, but separated from Him... so take those first steps in evangelism because you love God. It is not primarily out of compassion for humanity that we share our faith or pray for the lost; it is first of all, love for God.

Martin Luther

Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

Michael Schroeder

Unlike a lot of retailers, they are somewhat limited in what they can offer. I just don't think they are ever going to make much money on their retail stores.

Roger Lewis

With a passive tag, the transmissions are limited as the only signal comes from a transmitter/receiver and tend to be spasmodic.

Scott Draper

This will be a first-come-first-serve procedure. We have only a limited number of slots available.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Valerie Azlynn

I like a man with some extra padding.

Orison Swett Marden

The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.

Bobby Moynihan

I've worked with Method Man and Shaquille O'Neil on multiple occasions. I'd never have thought. It's like, 'Oh, those guys. They're my movie buddies.'

Andrew Vachss

I didn't start out angry. I started out a young man wanting adventure.

Saadi

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.

Sallust

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Sallust

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

E. B. White

"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

Anne Bronte

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

Ivan Turgenev

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

Ivan Turgenev

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

Ivan Turgenev

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

Ivan Turgenev

Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel

Iris Murdoch

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Igor Stravinsky

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

Hyman Rickover

It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting to control it-as if technology were an irrepressible force of nature to which we must meekly submit.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Mike Lowry

I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs.

Rose Smith

I think it's time for us to do something.