Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shirley Gritz

As he was doing it, he was saying maybe these are some of my ancestors and my people here. It really was something for him.

Will Rogers

My ancestors didn't come over in the Mayflower -- they met the boat.

Jeff Jackson

My generation, our generation, isn't so much concerned with where you're from. We don't have as much of a connection, a feel for the politics of our ancestors ... we are losing the idea of separate identities between the North and South.

David Brin

Is this a horrible future? Or actually a return to what we've always had in the past? Think of old villages. Everybody knew everything about everybody else. Strangers were intimidating and worrisome. This will be like the village our ancestors grew up in, only with 7 billion people.

It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to head out onto the plains, where some were probably hit by cars

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

In the modern era, Jewish sovereignty over the land of our ancestors is a relatively short phenomenon. From the time of the successful Maccabean revolt to the Roman annexation in 63 BC constitutes about 100 years of Jewish rule. Combined with Israel's independence in 1948, this is about 160 years of effective sovereignty.

Michael Crespi

We should never forget that all of our ancestors were once strangers here.

Elie Wiesel

Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers.

Dennis Miller

Everyone wants answers and wants to know what the timeline is,

Donald Rumsfeld

If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't, I'll just respond, cleverly.

Rajneesh

Every answer will make more questions

Rick Riordan

More minions!” he shouted. “Come to me!” That couldn’t be good. Another round of giant crocs and we’d be dead. Why don’t we get minions? I complained to Horus, but he didn’t answer.

Timothy Olyphant

I'm not looking for answers when I show up to the set. I'm just asking the questions, over and over.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.

Ruth Benedict

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

Rosie O'Donnell

I couldn't imagine doing a show where I'd once again have to answer to corporate interests.

Robert Moeller

The building was put up for sale, ... and I had a thought that maybe we ought to consider trying to buy it. And then a couple of other people expressed the same thought to me.

Andrew Fox

The building is heated hydronically, entirely by hydro-air, ... We built the heating system around 11 primary water-to-air heat exchangers that range in capacity from 3,500 to 18,500 cfm per unit.

Jeffrey Hunter

The Mountains to Sea Trail is an important link in a planned 5,000-mile trail system here in the Southeast. Participants in the volunteer vacation will help to take us one step closer to building out this great trail system for future generations.

Kathy Johnson

School can be a terrifying place, but it really is a loving place. Everyone in the building is there to help your child and you.

Alan Jackson

I've played this thing as long as I can remember, I guess. I'll tell you what ? this building sounds a lot better than the other one.

Brian Millard

It would be a better building if we went to Samuelson. It will be a much safer environment. It's a newer building in much better shape.

Tim Paddock

These seniors were fantastic to go from a three-win team to a 10-win team and for many that may not sound like a lot but when you are building a program, that's huge.

Frank Coleman

The state money is restricted for only instruction and instruction-related support and student services costs. We can't use state funds for maintenance and operation of the building or utilities.

Joe Mansueto

I spent the bulk of my career on building my company, and Morningstar is where the passion is.

Bob Crawford

Dreams do come true, but you have to work for them.

Carl Pettersson

It was a little easier in the dreams, ... It's nice to finish it off the way I did.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

Nido Qubein

This is a turning point for High Point University, ... Mr. Wilson's gift will enable us to fulfill many dreams and heighten our standards to new levels of excellence.

Eddie Jones

You enjoy being put in that position. You want to be in that position. As a kid you always think about making big shots to win a game or send a game into overtime. Even to this day, I still have dreams like that.

Bobby Byerly

Never did I think we'd score 15 runs on this bunch. Never in my wildest dreams.

Jean Chatzky

People with financial plans are much more likely to feel prepared, even in tumultuous times. They're more likely to feel that their dreams and goals are secure. And, oh yes, they do actually save significantly more.

Joe Galli

Never in my wildest dreams or fantasies did I think I would be running an Internet company, ... I was as traditional as it got.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

If thou shouldst never see my face again, pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

Charles Eastman

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

Richard G. Scott

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

Bob Dylan

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Mircea Monroe

When I did that '3 Days of Normal' one, we had no budget, and we were all staying in a house in New Hampshire. There's no trailers, and it's just a family environment. There's not much of a crew; you just do what you need to do.

Bible Bible

And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

Bhagavad Gita

And when immorality prevails, O Krishna, the women of the family become corrupted; when women are corrupted, social problems arise.

Tom Cooper

Each family, as we all know, is very, very different. They have different spending priorities and they have different teaching and learning priorities.

Linda Maxwell

Evelyn was the glue that held the family together.

Philip Glass

And then I went back to New York and found other people doing it. A handful of people.

Randy Ridley

This is the foundation of the whole season. These are the guys that we really want to look at who we feel will be an important part of our season.

Ira Kurzban

The wet-foot, dry-foot policy has no foundation in law.

Boris Kodjoe

I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn't know in what capacity, but I knew that I had found someone who was going to be close to me for a long time. We became great friends fast.

Russell Feingold

Even the Heritage Foundation is interested in that kind of approach,

Gary Mills

Urgency fuels defense. These guys found some urgency.

Matt Thissen

We talked about other people stepping up. That was a huge 3. They were double-teaming Kim, so somebody had to be open and she found her.

Heather Matarazzo

My eyes and spirit have opened up since I found someone that I get to share my life with.

Anne Hathaway

I would never have gotten married if it weren't for him. You have to want to be married to someone. You have to feel that reciprocated. Marriage for marriage's sake doesn't make any sense to me, and I found someone with whom I could put my money where my mouth is, I guess.

Bruce Dickinson

Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.

Edmund Burke

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Donna Karan

My favorite journey is anywhere I haven't been

Dan Brown

She saved my life...and I’ve ruined hers. They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had nothing to say. They were strangers, after all, on a brief and bizarre journey that had just reached a fork in the road, each of them now needing to find seperate paths.

David Archuleta

I made up my mind not to care so much about the destination, and simply enjoy the journey.

Confucius

With a heavy load and a long journey

Confucius

Every journey starts with a single step.

Confucius

The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step.

Confucius

Please stop waiting for a better and more appropriate time to become happy and focus on the moment you live in. Happiness is not an arrival, it is the journey itself. Many people seek for happiness above the height of human beings, some below. Yet, happiness is exactly at the exact height of human beings.

Babe Ruth

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ashley Smith

Live life messy and love every moment of it.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Ayn Rand

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

Ayn Rand

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Laurie Halse Anderson

The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard.

Kim Mathers

I am trying to move forward with my life.

Mike Babcock

We weren't thinking, we were just kind of going, and that was nice to see. We looked like we could move.

David Sloan

I don't think we did the wrong thing. We spent a long time on this. We consulted experts. We looked at it ourselves, and looked at the totality of the circumstances and we didn't see anything egregious.

Wayne Allen

Have we ever looked at something like that?

Jim Murphy

He's a special kid. He's someone to be looked at down the road.

Mike Price

He's just running around a little bit. He looked good, though.

Bobby Cox

He looked like a 20-game winner today. He really did. He can't pitch any better than he did today.

Kirk Ferentz

He looked a lot onside to me. But I'm biased.

Bobby Frankel

If there is speed, I want to get the same trip. If there is no speed, he can go to the lead. It looked like the other day he could get the distance. He was very impressive.

Phil Garner

I looked at their lineup, and that's better than some All-Star lineups. And they don't even have (Vladimir Guerrero) out there. That's impressive.

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Rig Veda

People who are soft spoken and truthful are loved by all.

Audrey Johnson

When he saw her, he meant to have her. That was what he always said. He just loved my mother.

Lizette Hernandez

I didn't want him to ride, but oh, my God, he loved them.

Rachel Remen

I did this because the person I loved wanted it.

Freddy Mella

They loved the idea and I have been registered with them since September.

Ted Nelson

The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.

Jerry Pournelle

You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.

Hillary Clinton

Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption.

Jennifer Connelly

I had a good time working with Russell Crowe, Ron Howard and Ed Harris. It was a great cast and Russell worked really hard, doing tons of research and questioning everything

Harold Urey

[Pure research] is worth every penny it costs.

Larry Richmond

I'd say it's a unique car. I've done a lot of research and don't really know much about them, but I think it's an interesting car.

James Franco

I become kind of obsessive about research.

Shinya Yamanaka

I like the freedom of research. Plus, if I fail in science, I know I can always survive because I have an M.D. This has been my insurance policy.

Edwin Land

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

Sophia Loren

I can't bear being seen naked. I'm not exactly a tiny woman. When Sophia Loren is naked, this is a lot of nakedness.

Wislawa Szymborska

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

Chris Isaak

I put music on and I drive around town.

Steve Zahn

I lived in Minnesota in a small town.

Ewan McGregor

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

Amanda Walker

With no students, the town is pretty quiet.

Ernest Hemingway

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.