Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesus Sanchez

When they first saw us digging there, the local people just couldn't believe there was a pyramid there. It was only when the slopes and shapes of the pyramid, the floors with altars were found, that the finally believed us.

William A. Ward

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altars of conformity and popularity.

Joseph Howe

Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?

Wilfrid Laurier

Two races share today the soil of Canada These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.

Dax Maier

I was just a little scared because, one, what if I miss it; two, what if I slip, I might fall into the river. And so I just kept on looking up and got directions, and then next thing you know I was on the gondola and they brought us down.

Chadd Moore

James brought him to me. I saw he wasn't paying no attention, so I just took a chance and stole the ball.

Keith Johnson

John brought it out front and I crashed the net. I was yelling for the puck and he got it over to me.

E. Hicks

John has brought a new level of professionalism to the Texas Rangers over the last four years. During his tenure the organization has improved on the field at the major league level while enhancing the minor league system.

Matt Williams

John has been brought in to learn about international preparation and at this stage it is just part of his development. But we would be looking for him to be knocking on the door of international selection in the near future.

Troy Glaus

J.P. has brought in pitchers and hitters to help out and that's just what we're going to try and do. We're going to try to put this team back to the level it's been before and the level it deserves to be.

Charles Sims

I think it's a big victory for Rosie. Who doesn't?, ... Rosie didn't want this fight. She wouldn't have brought this lawsuit if they didn't sue her (first). She just wanted to show that the claims were unjustified.

Robert Lewis

He led one public life ... but there was a second side, a hidden side to Henry J. Lyons, a side that caused him to be brought here to this seat,

Tony Jaa

I love every type of martial arts, but with Muay Thai in general, I want to see it being brought to the public more. There is no movie that has Muay Thai incorporated into it, so I want to bring that to the public.

Michael Ignatieff

If you say that we're going to intervene to stop ethnic cleansing but we're only going to do it at 15,000 feet, you can't actually do it.

Michael Ignatieff

I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.

Ron Johnson

The core value that differentiates Apple is our ability to innovate.

Ron Johnson

Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.

David Campbell

That's the dirty little secret of Mormon growth. Lots of baptisms don't necessarily translate into long-term membership.

Joseph Howe

They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other.

Michael Ignatieff

What we want is to become masters in our own house.

Stockwell Day

The rights and freedoms that citizens enjoy - give a little here; take a little there - are still the same as they were in the beginning.

Ron Johnson

You need a very, exceptionally clear vision. And to me, a vision is something that you can say in one sentence. The fewer the words the better.

John Cornyn

He did commiserate with me a little bit, ... I hope that he will be able to give the United States Supreme Court's ruling some coherence, because frankly they are way out of step with what the founding fathers intended.

Galeazzo Ciano

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Todd Kolson

The people who are setting the foundation are the mothers and fathers. I think we are just giving students recognition for the good habits that parents are instilling in them. We can't wake up 900 students and make sure they always go to school. That's up to parents.

Ashley Hanewich

He (her father) figured out I'm not going to see anything on the inside and if I did, I could still turn on it. It seems like that's just what teams do because they figure you are weaker hitting the outside pitch.

Umberto Eco

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Woody Harrelson

I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to get around all the obstacles - the gun turrets, the walls, the moats, the sentries - that were wrapped around my heart. My heart at that time needed her ... I think it's the best thing going, parenthood.

Will Arnett

I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.

Steve Young

My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.

Samuel Johnson

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

Marion Bartoli

I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that.

Ed Garland

They're in violation and we're waiting to see a permit application.

Patricia Miller

Because of the new regulations, our permit for doing this work expires at the end of the year.

William Robertson Smith

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.

P. G. Wodehouse

Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

Terry Tempest Williams

Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience.

Madeleine L'Engle

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

Shailene Woodley

I feel like I'm kind of an obvious person. I like to keep some things in my life sacred, like keep the sacred, sacred. Apart from that part of my life, I'm a very open person.

Sherman Alexie

Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.

Mark Russell

The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples.

Robert M. Pirsig

In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them there.

Rufus Choate

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no 'as far as possible' on the question of untouchability. If it is to go, it must go in its entirety from the temples as from everywhere else.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The body is God's temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple.

April Winchell

Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.

Tertullian

Woman is a temple built over a sewer.

Charles Eastman

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.