Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Specter

Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans share ancestry with apes are a few examples. Another is climate change.

Jeremy Hardy

For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as long as one kind of connection does not have primacy over all the others. Heredity, race and nationhood are not the best criteria by which to judge our fellow humans.

Lord Chesterfield

The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.

Thomas Overbury

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

Hong Feng

When I arrive somewhere, I often ask local residents about their ancestry and tales and legends of the area. Enthusiastic villagers could help find the location and offer to lead the way. That helps a lot.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others.

Samuel Butler

One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground

Gary Lloyd

I got very interested, and I started researching my own ancestors. It's been a passion and a hobby since then.

Jane Austen

. . . she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them.

Charisma Carpenter

I'm a mixed breed and hope to live longer because of it.

Vicki Kramer

The more water you have, the more breeding grounds you have for mosquitoes.

Jesse Miltier

A lot of people now are breeding their Alaskans with the fastest of the German short-hairs.

Stephanie Shain

They had so many Dalmatians, that they were difficult to place. And you had Dalmatians coming from puppy mills, or breeders that are not reputable breeders -- people just quickly breeding their dog to make a quick buck. Those were not quality dogs.

Sheldon Steinbach

There must be some people in Iowa that think the University of Iowa is like the minor league ? preparing people for their next step. I don't think that is saying anything disparaging about Iowa ? it just seems to be a good breeding ground in the eyes of search committees at more prestigious institutions.

William Shatner

I've been breeding Dobies for years. Almost won the breed in Westminster at one time.

Greg Gilchrist

That's huge, not only so much monetary-wise. In the breeding shed, that makes tons of difference. ... Those certain races kind of distinguish horses. It's very large.

Stephanie Shain

Breeders that are interested in speaking with us are not the ones we are worried about. It's the ones that get into the breeding business only to turn a quick buck after the movie.

Atal Vajpayee

fertile breeding ground for political unrest, economic chaos, and social fractures.

Michael Chertoff

We're going to need more than just brute enforcement,

Sir Scott

And the brute crowd, whose envious zeal Huzzas each turn of fortune's wheel, And loudest shouts when lowest lie Exalted worth and station high

Harvey Lodish

Right now, the techniques for gene therapy are kind of brute force. You put the gene in and hope it goes into the right place. There's no selection. What we would like to do is put the gene into stem cells, grow them and watch them to be as sure as one can be that we've got the right gene into the right cells and nothing untoward has happened.

John Walsh

The way I would describe it is brute force. We just threw more people at the process.

Eduardo Galeano

The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.

Edgar Allan Poe

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man

Keith Davis

We lost a couple of major sponsors this year, and that was a real let down. We are making this concert happen by brute force. Cancer doesn't care about hurricanes.

Bible Bible

But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

Michael Chertoff

We need more than brute enforcement, ... We need a temporary worker program as well.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Eileen collins

I've been in your shoes many times so I understand.

Nigel Gault

It wouldn't be unusual at all for them to stop and start again.

Ed Walker

This is the first time any scholarly work has been done on him.

M. Hardman

We'll do it again. We're going to see it through.

Pat Coyle

She turned it really good. And I'm not sure of the status yet.

Judy Pardonnet

I don't think it's anything specific to this area, but it's still under investigation.

Shannon Stevens

She said every place she went, he showed up.

Christine Baranski

I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship.

Adam Davis

That stuff comes and goes. It's something you've got to play through.

Charles Schumer

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

Buffalo Bill

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

Cal Thomas

Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

Benjamin Franklin

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

Che Guevara

A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.

Vincent Brooks

They taught and they trained, and they showed what it meant, really, to be a soldier in the United States,

Wesley Clark

We know we will be able to work this out, as soldiers always do,

Chinese Proverbs

The soldier who retreated 50 paces jeered at the one who retreated 100 paces

MJ Eckert

Sometimes you get a response, but a lot of the soldiers don't respond. I just think they are probably kind of busy.