Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Rorty

What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?

Sam Bush

I am the age of the some of the grandparents that are bringing their young grandchildren to hear the music. I have been fortunate enough to see multiple generations of families come see my shows.

Zhang Xin

I'm afraid what we are building today will not have the same impact and sustainability of the architecture of a 100, 500 or 1,000 years ago. The buildings of those days were miracles. We don't perform such miracles today. So we should be a little more modest. For my part, I'll be glad to show one of my buildings one day to my grandchildren and say: I'm proud of that.

Katie McGrath

I want to have a little toy version of Morgana. I can then show it to my grandchildren one day. So I can say I used to have a waist.

Joan Rivers

[When told that her grandchild had her nose:] I didn't get this nose until I was thirty-four.

Joan Rivers

Grandchildren can be annoying - how many times can you go: "And the cow goes moo and the pig goes oink"? It's like talking to a supermodel.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

Joe Lieberman

Shame on us if 100 years from now our grandchildren are living on a planet that has been irreparably damaged by Global Warming, and they ask, 'How could those who came before us, who saw this coming, have let this happen?'

Edie Brickell

I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

Oscar Wilde

Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

Oscar Wilde

The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

Howard Simon

Kids now are smarter than we were. They want the facts. They want to know what's happening. That's why being open and honest with them is so important.

Richard P. Feynman

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

Richard Dawkins

...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.

Richard Widmark

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

Richelle Mead

In fact I was fairly certain there was no one in the entire world quite like Adrian Ivashkov.

Umberto Eco

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.

William Manchester

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

Woodrow Wilson

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

William J. Clinton

I did have a relationship with Ms Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible.