Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Wald

Roger was a Democratic activist who was involved in many campaigns for several years, but if he was going around making promises for job interviews he was just lying.

Elliott Abrams

President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection and to advance their cause.

Lance Palmer

It helps the bear out to not have to keep his mouth closed the whole time. It's kind of unfair to the bear to keep him muzzled. We want it to be fun. We don't want it to be a sport. That's why the animal activists don't know what they are taking about when they come out here and try and go against what we do.

Jonathan Tisch

Citizen activists look in the mirror, see what they're really good at and then apply their talents to solving social problems. It's skills-based volunteering.

Cindy Sheehan

If peace activists really want to make changes, they have to start putting intense pressure on their elected officials. Of course, everything should be non-violent, because we are trying to create a peaceful world, and violence can't produce peace - no matter what George W. Bush and his buddies say.

Justin Sane

I had the blessing or curse to be born into an activist family. My mom and dad were into the protests way before I was born. And once I was born, they raised me in that activist environment.

Chris Gabrieli

Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools.

Matt Rossell

I know, personally, how frustrating it can be as an activist with your eyes open, really seeing what?s happening.

Van Shaver

I have personally provided hundreds of various documents to people who have requested them. Having started my political career as a citizen activist and having several times been prohibited from addressing government bodies I am especially sensitive to making sure anyone and everyone who wants to address county government has that opportunity. I wish we had a room full of concerned citizens at every meeting.

Juanita Johnson

I was just blessing God. As a mother, I was terrified. But now, instead of weeping and thinking that could have been my daughter, now I'm weeping to thank God she's with me and praying for the others.

Matt Hasselbeck

Had I been a first-round pick -- which never would have happened -- and they made me play, I wouldn't have done any good. I would have been bad. So I wasn't ready. So it's kind of a blessing in disguise for me.

A. Johnson

I thought something like this wouldn't happen until maybe next season, ... I know how hard it is for offensive linemen to break in on this level. Getting back to my natural position has really been a blessing for me. I'm much more comfortable now.

Joe Mesi

I think that, as crazy as it sounds, the two-year layoff might be a blessing in this situation.

Marvin Oliver's

I think it was a real blessing for all of us. It's not always going to be sunshine. Even in a rainy situation, you can still prevail. Sometimes, you just have to see what modifications you can make.

R. Robinson

Don't be concerned with what you can't do. Work on what you can do - then count your blessings.

Joan Anderson

When will I ever learn to accept what is given instead of always yearning for more? My lavish expectations too often tarnish my blessings.

Jim Wilkes

He had to be hungry. And I look over, and he's saying the blessing before he eats.

Eleanor Cooper

He is a blessing to me, ... All these people, these ones who were once strangers (from Alabama), they are blessings to us.

Derek Parra

He just floats on his skates. It's like God lifted him up when he was born and said, 'You're going to be a skater.

Sufjan Stevens

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

Phil Harrison

There are the born teachers who just want to do it. People will do it because they want to put something back into the community. Or they will have a passion for what they do and want other people to share that passion.

Laura Schlessinger

Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.

Emily Dickinson

Had I not seen the Sun, I could have borne the shade, But Light a newer Wilderness, My Wilderness has made

Jeffrey Kluger

I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

Carlo Rubbia

I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

Elizabeth Blackburn

I was born in the small city of Hobart in Tasmania, Australia, in 1948. My parents were family physicians. My grandfather and great grandfather on my mother's side were geologists.

Will Allen

We're not worried about what happened the last couple of years. This is a new team. This team was only born six months ago.

Shaun White

I don't even think I've made the finals in the U.S. Open. It's just been a cursed event for me. I didn't really want to come. I was nervous because last time I hurt my knee when I was here. ... To overcome all that, and to actually win it, it's insane.

Larry Brown

I didn't curse him. I hadn't talked to him the whole game. Obviously he thought I went over the line and that's his prerogative. Those things happen. It's the first game I got kicked out.

Ron Artest

I'm looking forward to being bashed and cursed out. That's going to be a lot of fun.

Phyllis Bottome

Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!

Greg Bear

All things will be ambiguous, for this is the curse of wisdom.

Lance Johnstone

It's not like the position is cursed here.

Jason Zebehazy

They are the greatest curse of all great men, daughters.

Alaina Huffman

I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.

Carlos Ponce

I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

Chris Duncan

I always felt I had to prove I was worthy. Especially being a first-round (supplemental) pick and having your dad as a coach. I don't want anything ever to be just handed to me.

Phyllis Lehman

He was a good dad and a good provider. He'd do anything for you. He'd give you anything he possibly could.

SuzAnne Miller

He was a wonderful dad and a wonderful man.

Nick Saban

He'd come and visit his dad in the summer,

Bill Scott

He kept telling me he was ready and his dad told me he was ready. After we missed the extra point, I figured enough was enough.

Richelle Nice

There are so many things, so many things. Scott Peterson was Laci's husband, Conner's daddy -- the one person that should have protected them.

Daniel Baldwin

My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.

Rob Sheldon

I think Zach is the first to qualify for the state tournament, It was the highest I've ever seen his dad jump. He's not an athlete, but he was up there.

Mitchell Baker

What we have is 95 percent there and what we are doing at the moment is actually polishing.

Andy Schulz

I thought you saw the momentum swing once we got the lead. That was a big factor.

Alan Pardew

We're playing with a real exuberance. We were very strong individually at the back and at the moment I am very pleased.

Takenori Kanzaki

I think we have the momentum to get a majority, and I want to keep up this momentum right to the end.

Nick Saban

I think that was really probably the turning point of the game, that we could recapture the momentum and come right back and make a big play and score and keep them three scores behind,

Joshua Lederberg

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.

Carl Jung

But why didn't you just ask me?" I set down my fork and glare at her. "Because you were sleeping," She says, taking a sip if Chardonnay. "I was taking a nap, Mom. It wasn't intended to be some kind of Disney fairy-tale hundred-year snooze.

Janet Ray

He was sweet from that moment on. I don't understand what happened.

Jack Bicknell

I don't know what to say to someone who doesn't know what's going on with his mom and dad.

Daniel Healy

It angers me and scares me, ... I remember Vietnam. I remember how the protests started out back then. I'm here to do whatever I can.

Krishna Sitaula

We will intensify the protests until we get rid of the autocratic monarchy.

Grace Gealey

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

Scott Porter

I was raised around music.

Paul Loriquet

As soon as he raised his weapon was when the shot was fired.

Richard Genthe

This is the sixth consecutive year we've raised over $6 million.

Robert Thomas

It raised our spirits up and made us feel good. It makes us ready to play.

Dinaw Mengestu

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

Howard Wolfson

No wonder Ms. Pirro raised so little money,

Victor Herrera

The rumors that Mexico's rating is going to be raised imminently are groundless.

Derrick Williams

I used to live here. It's because they raised their rents I had to leave.