Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Brown

I have always been a firm believer in participation so there were no cuts. We practiced three times a week but if a student had an academic conflict, academics took priority.

Raquel Welch

My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60 years old, but apparently when he was 17, he had already planned his entire academic curriculum so that he could graduate high school and enter college in the United States. That's how much he wanted to come to this country.

Rodney Brooks

I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.

Chuck D.

When I first started the Project, I could not have expected so much to be accomplished in such a short time. None of my concerns about giving money to an academic institution came true. They've done high quality work with real-world relevance.

Jim McBride

We need to upgrade Wyoming's academic standards and reputation. The Hathaway scholarship has put us on a road to be the best and the first in education.

Hampton Sides

I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.

Don Knezek

Understanding and using technology are critical components of all students' academic careers and, most certainly, barometers of their future employment prospects. Given the president's emphasis in the State of the Union on the importance of developing math and science skills in America's students in order to keep America competitive globally, we do not see how eliminating federal education technology funding advances his global competitiveness agenda or helps our students.

Greg Graffin

Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can't expect much praise from scientists. My goal both as a singer and an instructor is to educate through provocation and entertainment.

Gary Locke

We've made great strides in raising academic achievement during the past seven years. I am especially proud that Washington led the nation last year in reading scores for African-American fourth graders. African-American eighth graders in Washington scored better in math than in all but three states. We are closing the achievement gap.

Rich Conover

She's a combination guard with good size and is a really good athlete.

Bob Scott

Mick was a good athlete. A 50-year-old guy looking at Mick had to love him. He was living the life they wanted to live but very few had a shot at. I don't think he had any desire to go pro, but there weren't any pros that he wasn't friendly with.

Bob Gaudet

Mike Devine has done a great job. He played all of 30-some odd minutes (34:22 to be exact) last year as a freshman. Coming into this year, we had Sean Samuel who looked like the goalie that was going to start for us. Mike kind of wrestled it away and got a chance and made good by it. He's a real calm kid, he's very athletic and the guys really enjoy playing in front of him. He's a guy that really hates to get beat. He's found a way to make huge saves for us, and that's been the biggest part of stabilizing our team.

Joe Fussner

William Paterson is a very athletic team. We put pressure on them. We made one mistake at the end when we left their shooter wide open.

Cassidy Freeman

I think I give off a strong energy. I'm 5'9, I'm pretty athletic and I'm pretty outspoken.

Lisa Walker

It ensures this person is educated, holds a degree and passes national boards to be a certified athletic trainer.

Jessica Uecker

It feels great. We worked hard for it. We've got a bunch of athletic girls on this team.

Tommy Felty

We're blessed with a lot of athletic kids, and it was nice to see all of them get on the field. Not only that, but they executed well and didn't make many mistakes.

Philip Knight

We endured many significant challenges in the second quarter, in particular, a soft U.S. retail market for athletic footwear and apparel. Despite these challenges, we met our bottom line expectations as we began to see an impact from our efforts to control expenses in a weak retail environment.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Ogden Nash

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

S. Walker

We want all students to be reading at grade level and meet the AYP (adequate yearly progress) requirements of the No Child Left Behind,

Charles Dyer

We feel very strongly about all children having an equal opportunity for education,

Lesleigh Drye

We got our favorite cookie and our favorite chocolate and our favorite nut mix. And then we got suckers to make our children happy.

Mona Simpson

We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of raising children than our grandparents gave them, when women by and large stayed at home.

Mark Finkelstein

We're very excited about this. This is a great thing for the children.

Nina Holland

Very young children can just not protect themselves as effectively as adults can.

Dick Enberg

said Simms. ''It's a matter of time. The game is much faster in the TV booth. It's so hard to get it done in a three-man booth. There's less time to talk. With only two guys, Troy will be able to set it up, and decide what he wants to show and tell. I'm sure he's going to enjoy it. I'm also sure he liked Cris and working with him. But this is about freedom.

Jason Gibson

We decided to go in another direction at quarterback. He's (Leak) a big, strong kid and he's got a big-time arm.

Olga Pomar

We don't think the residents of Cramer Hill should be forced out of their homes and that their homes should be taken by eminent domain. They had already selected the developer and decided on the proposal they would use before they had objectively evaluated the neighborhood and heard from the public.

Nancy Allen

Since it happened in our area, and it?s the Oxford Lions, we thought we?d step up. We decided last Thursday at our meeting. We wanted to get it out and do it quick.

Brian Adams

Shelters here are less than comfortable, and poor sanitation can develop quickly. Residents who decide to stay in the county, even those who go to local shelters, are risking their health and safety.

Sanath Jayasuriya

I thought about it long and hard and decided that's it. It's a very emotional moment, but I guess every good thing has to come to an end.

Jakaya Kikwete

We promise to respect people of all creeds: those who are Christians, Muslims as well as those who have decided not to follow any religion.

Ed Rendell

I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.

Horacio Gutierrez

Transparency is vitally important in what can be a very opaque process in Brussels. We've decided to open this up so people can understand the issues.

Travis Paquet

We were down by two with eight seconds left to go, but they made some foul shots and we couldn't convert.

Torii Hunter

Seven or eight home runs. He's got like 12 at-bats with eight shots.

Scott Palin

If we score more than six runs, we should win. Eight runs have got to be enough to win. We've got to do a better job defensively.

Jason Isringhausen

He worked his butt off for eight innings, and I go out there and give up the lead not once but twice.

Mark Schlereth

I was spending eight to nine hours a day there, and some of that was dillydally time,

Rick Chaussard

I would be surprised to have as many qualifiers as we did last year. I'm expecting to have seven or eight kids qualify.

Michael Spiller

If the setups take too long, you wind up losing momentum. Momentum is very good for comedy. Not having to do eight setups in a single scene and have it take five hours is very good for comedy.

Jeff Judkins

She scored more points in eight minutes than she scored in the first half. That really hurt us.

Ben Agosto

She's lived in the U.S. for eight years now. So really, this was more of a formality.

Stevie Smith

You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

Stacy London

You don't need money to look fabulous. There are so many awesome new designers, so many designers doing collections for mass retailers.

Mary Ellen Mark

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.

Lisa Kleypas

I need you for a lot of things, Hardy. A lifetime's worth of things.

Paulo Coelho

Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back. Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person - nothing is irreplaceable, a habit is not a need.

Marissa Mayer

Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.

Marjane Satrapi

I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.

Nick Vujicic

Sometimes we need to get over ourselves and actually realize that sometimes, God has a better plan. God's ways are higher than ours.

John Ruskin

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

Richard Edwards

Trading at Next Retail for the past seven weeks was much worse than feared.

Michael Perkins

We don't have any one particular star. It is a team approach. One player can do well one night, and the next night it's a different player. That's what makes it tougher for teams when they play us.

Helmut Jahn

Success on one project does not necessarily mean success in the next project. You've got to be prepared in everything you do.

Alan Trammel

We're not sure if he'll (Bonderman) be able to make his next start. We'll have to wait and see.

Craig Austrie

We're not roommates, but we room next to each other and we know we've got to do this together.

Alex Azar

We are overdue for the next pandemic. None of us, nobody, would have immunity.

Linda Evans

I was born in Connecticut. But my parents brought my sister and I to L.A. when-Hollywood, actually, when i was 6 months old.