Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amity Gaige

I was born on an even keel. Family lore says I never cried, even at birth. I felt at ease on earth, in the right place. And like many children, I took comfort in life's regularity: Every few days it rained, the school bus came and went, and my parents were rooted in their union.

Connie Baker

I think sewing is a stress release. I'm not sure people are born quilters, but I do think it's in their make?up to get such joy from it. It's a way to express yourself.

Joanne Woodward

Well, I was born and raised in south Georgia and South Carolina, and I went to school in Louisiana. Nature is very much a part of life in those areas.

Asif Kapadia

Weirdly enough, I live in London - was born there and have lived there all my life - but I hadn't made a film in London for a long time. I hadn't found the right subject. I liked going away, to some far flung place.

Swiss Proverb

You learn through mistakes - no one was born a master

Roger Edmondson

You know if it gets predictable, it wouldn't be interesting. It's been nice to see our concept born out and have drivers from other disciplines want to be here.

Marianne Williamson

We are born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Ernst Zundel

But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

Herman Melville

If Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to be born.

Michael Bond

My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.

Melinda Gates

I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.

Melissa Etheridge

I had to go see the Glee concert with my daughter - oh my God, shoot me.

Michele Bachmann

I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Florida, after the debate. She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter.

Michael Tolkin

On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.

Michael Stipe

I knew [Kurt Cobain] and his daughter. And Courtney [Love] came and stayed at my house. R.E.M. worked on two records in Seattle and Peter Buck lived next door to Kurt and Courtney. So we all knew each other. I reached out to him with that project as an attempt to prevent what was going to happen.

Michael Parkinson

It reassures parents that we are aware of the employment difficulty and that we are doing as much as we can to provide information to their sons and daughters, and to help them deal with the post-graduate reality.

Michael Ondaatje

Kirpal's left hand swoops down and catches the dropped fork an inch from the floor and gently passes it into the fingers of his daughter, a wrinkle at the edge of his eyes behind his spectacles.

Max Miller

My wife's father said if you marry my daughter I'll give you three acres and a cow. I'm still waiting for the three acres.