Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sandra Tsing Loh

I'd be lying if I claimed that, in spite of our amiable afternoons, I don't have an ache somewhere in my heart that my children will not be playing Carnegie Hall anytime soon.

Jill Wynns

At most districts there is an appropriate and professional way for the superintendent to leave - to talk about all of the good things that have been done and have an amiable parting.

John Adams

I have lived long enough, and had experience enough of the conduct of governments and people, nations and courts, to be convinced that gratitude, friendship, unsuspecting confidence, and all the amiable passions in human nature, are the most dangerou

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

Casey Williams

Most modular buildings are very amiable about custom changes.

Zoe Lofgren

He's got an amiable demeanor, and some people mistake that for being reasonable, ... He isn't. He is not a micrometer away from whatever the Republican leadership wants him to do.

John Whisenant

We will regroup, ... This, in no way, will be regarded by us as a firing. We both understand that a different direction would be best for both Henry and the Sparks. It is an amiable situation for us both.

William Warburton

High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.

Harold Prince

I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Nelson Mandela

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

Pietro Metastasio

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

Piers Anthony

We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.

Ovid

Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.

Ovid

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

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.

Daniel Gibson

I think what happened opened his eyes. Something you love can be taken at any time. He's borne that out through the season. He came out motivated.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

I went to elementary school in L.A. I was born in L.A. My mother was from Redondo Beach. My father was French. He died six months before I was born, so my mother went home. I was born there. Not the childhood that most people think. Middle-class, raised by my mother. Single mom.

Estelle

I will never say I am committed to somebody unless I'm serious about that person.

Rod Thorn

Unless we get very fortunate, ... we are not going to be a championship contender.

Hal Vogel

He wasn't going to give it up willingly. He didn't want to give it up unless he had to.

Armand Assante

I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.

Gore Vidal

I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.

Jacques Rogge

Unless something unforeseen happens, they are going to make it if they keep up this pace.

Charles M. Schwab

In the long run, no nation can prosper unless the world prospers.

Esha Gupta

You cannot just scream and yell unless you feel it in your whole body.

Hanya Yanagihara

I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.