Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Banks

I realize many of my ancestors fought so I could have the opportunities I have today, and I appreciate them for the sacrifices they made for us.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.

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

Kim Edwards

I find my husband's family history fascinating, as they can trace the family lineage back to ancestors who fought, and died, in the first battle of the Revolution, as well as to many other interesting people.

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.

Ruth Reichl

It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals.

Jan C. Ting

All Americans are either immigrants or descendants of ancestors who came from somewhere else, including Native Americans. We should all respect and admire immigrants.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.

Don Fehr

Kirby played the game with such passion and enthusiasm that he was beloved by players and fans throughout all of baseball.

Megan Dorfner

He's also a beloved figure in the community. We thought people would be interested in coming to see him.

Ethan Russell

He is beloved for his integrity as an artist. I think that matters.

Lewis Carroll

The further off from England, the nearer is to France - / Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

Kimberly Elise

Making 'Beloved' was an awesome experience.

Justin Bieber

My beloved beliebers I'm officially retiring.

Jim Oakes

All of the Louisiana Tech family grieves over the tragic loss of Shannon. He was a true Tech man - loyal, dedicated and beloved by all that knew him. His big smile, wonderful spirit and tender heart will never be forgotten.

Holly Black

Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.

Yossi Sarid

This is a war. You must understand, this is a war over the character of our beloved country.

Amanda Hocking

I was always depressed growing up. There wasn't a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot; and that was how I dealt with it.

John Garang

He cried to him, 'Oh my people, oh my people, who will set you free?'

Herman Melville

Grub, ho! now cried the landlord, flinging open a door, and in we went to breakfast.

Ri Kyong

I cried throughout the movie because many of the scenes were similar to the experience I had.

Jan Denise

I cried, and cried some more. I told God that I was weary of trying. And, God told me to quit trying. It doesn't sound like a revelation, but it feels like a revelation. Because I got it on a deeper level. I'm going to quit trying. When I forget, I'm going to remind myself. I'm going to do what I want to do; and I'm going to quit trying to do the rest. It's not the doing that's exhausting; it's the trying. The doing is exhilarating!

Joe Horn

It's devastating to us. I've cried three or four times. Seeing kids without any food, elderly people dying and the government saying that help is on the way -- that's the most shocking part.

Jesse White

They just cried and were happy. Just ecstatic about everything. I mean, look at the house. It's theirs now.

Anthony Robbins

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such amanner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.

Dakota Fanning

At the Empire State Building, I cried in line for 45 minutes because I didn't want to go up. I pulled my visor down, but I loved it once I was up there. I've never been up that high before, so I didn't really know what to expect. And then when I got up there, the view was spectacular. It was really fun.

Martin Freeman

'The Hobbit' would have been very difficult to pass on, do you know what I mean? It's not the kind of ship that comes into dock very often.

Piet Smith

It's quite a large fire on the side of the mountain facing the dock area.

Richard Meyer

It's going to be good. When I retire I can just wheel my luggage down to the dock and go for a cruise.

William Shakespeare

Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility.

Brian Ross

People put them in businesses, on the street, in their homes, even on a dock on the lake.

Sue Clark

We see all those people going down that river everyday and not a place to stop so, we're excited about having a place for them to dock and visit us.

Mitch Glenn

There's a giant by this dock that I've got to try for. I'm talking 3 pounds.

Dan Griswold

More ships dock at the Port of Dubai than at any other port outside the U.S..

Robin Gibb

I couldn't stay there. I still find Miami very hard, because from my dock I can see the hospital. I can't stand there and look at it.

Rekalin Sims

I was knocking down shots. I hit the offensive boards. I just played better. Sometimes you have good games, sometimes you don't. I just felt like my rhythm was a lot better.

Jacki Gemelos

I was in the air, and I felt a pop in my right knee.

Terri Johnson

I was interested in these two performers who felt they could do something quite symbiotic,

Damien Chazelle

I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be a drummer? Nah, I wasn't interested in that.

Phil Jackson

Kobe fought his way through it tonight. It was one of those games where the numbers of shots he took was too high, but he thought he was going to get fouled and he took the shots because he felt the pressure on him.

Dick Franti

I would say it's been a learning process. We were somewhat inexperienced when we started the year. Simon Store was really the only guy back with a lot of experience, so I kind of felt there would be come growing pains and there have been.

Nancy Giles

I yearn for a time when we are more engaged. When Dr. King was alive, no matter how you felt about him and what he was saying, people were talking.

Joe Williams

Kelly was also second in the 1600, so we felt pretty good about our young runners.

M. Thompson

Just to get that hit, it felt great.

Greg Wilkinson

We're like everyone else. We're trying to gather information, but information is hard to come by.

Granth Sahib

The day of my wedding is pre-ordained. Come - let's gather together and pour the oil over the threshold.

Thabo Mbeki

The matter rests with all of us gathered here,

Eric Heitmann

I took Thomas' passing pretty hard, ... The things that are helping us are to talk about Thomas, and to re-live his life. On the plane on the way home, we gathered a big group of us, and we just sat and rehashed everything we could remember about Thomas. There was just so much joy in his life.

Bible Bible

And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.

Fred Allen

A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Henry B. Eyring

The Holy Ghost will testify to our hearts, and the hearts of those gathered around with us, what He would have us do. And it is by keeping His commandments that we can have our hearts knit together as one.

Gene Luen Yang

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

Larry Pleau

We're trying to gather the information. At that time, we'll know what his options are and we'll make a decision.

Leslie Moonves

I think talking to ghosts may skew younger than talking to God,

Shirley MacLaine

All those ghosts were hanging around. ... If I had been them, I would have gone to work,

Bob Dylan

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.

Bernie Bickerstaff

When you play here in the Garden, it always has that special quality to it. The ghosts are still here. We try to remind the young guys that this is a great stage to perform on.

Ian Mckellen

There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.

Russell Simmons

Whatever they can imagine for themselves they can accomplish.

John Schuerholz

I think it's obvious. If he doesn't do what he's doing for us, I can only imagine where we'd be. I can't imagine a player on a winning team being more valuable to his team than he's been.

William Rhodes

I'd imagine over time you'll see more moves,

Al Franken

I don't know why they did it and I don't know where the money went. I don't know if it was used for operations, which I imagine it was. I think he was robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Peja Stojakovic

I can imagine him coaching, ... but I can't imagine him in a suit.

Richard M. Nixon

The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time — it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine.

Robert Osborne

I can't imagine any one more delightful to sit and talk with about movies on a regular basis.

Roger Waters

I feel I have the potential to reach an audience beyond anything I can imagine.

Chris Porter

Knowing you're a part of this ... is something.

Fernando Alonso

Knowing what it takes to win a title, I think they need a year running at the top first. Next year is more realistic for them. They'll make a big step at some point.

Ben Wallace

Knowing Tony, I know he wouldn't go in the stands for no reason. You've got to protect your family.

Katha Pollitt

knowing that it's there for them if they really need it.

Tiki Barber

Knowing Stray, he'll play. He was walking around, but he wasn't walking all right. But he's always ready to play, even when he's hurting, he's OK.

Manny Acta

Knowing Pedro, he doesn't want to participate just to participate.

Bubba Tyer

Knowing Jon, he might have taken it off.

Mark Lewis

Knowing it's going to work is the rarest part of that equation. It was all at once for us.

Anthony Fauci

It is an indescribable experience knowing that what you are doing will have an impact on the lives... of millions of people.

Stuart Eizenstat

has the potential to rank ... as a landmark event.

Bible Bible

He shall not return into the land of Egypt, and the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

David Allan

We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample droppings for viral tests,

Martin Freeman

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.

William Robertson Smith

The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.

William Jennings Bryan

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.

Woody Guthrie

As I went walking That ribbon of highway I saw above me The endless skyway I saw below me The lonesome valley This land was made for you and me.

Woody Guthrie

This land is made for you and me.

Willa Cather

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.

Anthony Curtis

I think it makes sense. The only thing left that's new might just be old. If you've already got an old place, you wouldn't want to tear it down and start from scratch if you didn't have to.

D. H. Lawrence

He liked to watch his fellow-clerks at work. The man was the work and the work was the man, one thing, for the time being. It was different with the girls. The real woman never seemed to be there at the task, but as if left out, waiting.

Mike Dunne

He left voluntarily. He said it was time to move on.

David Broder

He left his editor, our editor, blindsided for two years and he went out and talked disparagingly about the significance of the investigation without disclosing his role in it.

Mark Lamoreaux

There is more left in the car. That's the encouraging part. I've had a perfect car. This one isn't there yet, but it's pretty good.

Ani Difranco

we thought we left possession behindbut truth is i was yours and you were mine

John Sacchi

There aren't any soft spots left in our schedule. We need to realize that every upcoming match is going to be a brawl and we better be ready fight.

Wayne Brady

I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

Orlando Bloom

Right where i left you... Not where i left you?

Libby Smith

I'll try to think of it as just another tournament; just think of it as the first round of about 120.

Sarah Brightman

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

Samantha Fox

It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

Rich Miller

This is really like our first round of the playoffs.

Cliff Thompson

Overall, I'm happy. During the first round of the state tournament, you just want to get a win and get the jitters out.

Lefty Grove

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

Bob Dylan

You've got a lot of nerve, To say you are my friend, When I was down, you just stood there grinning

Hermann Maier

This time, I took it easier. I stood up before it so as not to crash again.

Do Won Chang

When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.