Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendy Kopp

Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.

Douglas Porter

I suspect there will be enough positive news in other areas to persuade consumers there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that the economy is moving to better times, but it will be a gradual process, and confidence may be flat in the next couple of months.

John Eade

I think investors should be ready to buy on the dips, particularly in long-term focus areas like technology or health care.

Bruce Schneider

I think in general things are getting worse, not better. There are lots of little victories. Spam is one of our industries shining victories. But there are lots of areas where we aren't doing very well.

Nancy Bell

It can seem so complicated, but to me it's really not all that complicated, ... There are certain areas we would never want to see developed.

Alireza Jafarzadeh

It can carry a nuclear warhead and it allows the regime to reach areas in far distances,

Graeme Smith

He (Clark) was unbelievable. He got the ball in the right areas and got it to go both ways.

Maurice Luque

Having an engine dedicated to the valley is a step in the right direction so other units may remain in their respective areas for proper coverage.

Nancy Carter

I think it's an outstanding reinforcement of our intention to make this one of the safest areas in Charlotte.

Peter Ambenje

We can confidently say the rains have established. In many arid and semi-arid regions, the drought is already alleviating, the dams are filling up and there is water for livestock.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect.

Paul Conroy

The words impoverished, cluttered and arid come to my mind, ... The main roads were paved, but when you moved into the residential areas, the roads were just ruts in the sand.

David Hare

that the erotic charge is very important in his writing. It really doesn't matter whether he was gay or not, which is a rather arid argument, but what's more important is that he wrote in an openly sexual way. And sex is a vital part of his romanticism.

Johan Rockstrom

We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and thriving, but it can also tip over and become an arid steppe if pushed too far by warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss.

Todd Zillweger

Most people forget the region of France especially is very similar with arid climate as Arizona and they're beautiful in our environment.

David Hemphill

When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.

Dave Roberts

Khalil and I talked about it, ... He's just extremely confident that he can hit it out in this ballpark, because no matter where you hit it, it can go out of this ballpark. That's not the case in our park.

Joe Pistone

John and I go way back. We worked a lot of cover cases together,

Nigel Worthington

Johansson is a player that we have monitored for some time but with all transfers it is a case of waiting for something to happen and it being right for the club and player.

Patrick Guerriero

John Kerry and John Edwards would be smart to make their case for gay and lesbian fairness by not mentioning Mary Cheney.

Douglas Johnson

Judge Casey said his ruling was dictated by a 5 to 4 Supreme Court ruling in 2000, which held that Roe v. Wade protects partial-birth abortion.

Mike Ford

I suspect that this is another case of a senator hyperventilating on a Sunday talk show.

Neil Miller

I think I solved the case myself in jail just by sitting up there and thinking about it, the many holes that I found.

Richard Perle

I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing.

Phil Gramm

I think in the end, we'll have a trial, ... We will render a verdict, as the Senate has on 15 other occasions, in those 15 cases where there was an impeachment in the House and where the person impeached did not resign first.

Al Bowman

Just to put that in perspective, a traffic ticket is a summary offense. It happened years ago in college. I think, obviously, Mike has changed quite a bit, as we all have, in these last eight years or six years. I'm sure he's not proud of these.

Craig Hansen

I think it really changed the way some scouts look at Northeast kids and how they play ball.

Jim Zandri

I think it is a combination of things. A lot has changed in New Year's over the past few years.

Olympia Snowe

He didn't repudiate what he said (in 1985), ... What he did say is that he has changed since that time over 20 years, and of course the court rulings have also been issued that established the precedent and reaffirmed Roe.

Jeffrey Lichtman

He did not want the life his father had lived. He changed diapers, he drove a minivan.

Mark Dubach

He did a tremendous job of going to the rim and he's the one who changed the game for them.

Dan Johnson

Heck yeah I knew I was playing. That's the only reason I changed my pants.

David Anders

The only thing that's changed is they've come out and made it very clear and public. They're being very vocal.

John Cleveland

Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.

Suzanne Somers

I was actually going to be a chef before I got sidetracked. I used to make deserts for restaurants as a young teenage mother to make money.

Jim Bell

He's done a wonderful job as far as when he's represented Desert Vista High School.

Thomas B. Macaulay

He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, been characteristic of apostates.

J. Horton

I love the Desert Survivors, because this group goes to all those places other people just drive past. And I've grown to love the desert because of all its wide-open spaces. They provide me with a true sense of peacefulness and freedom.

Henry Rollins

When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.

Libba Bray

Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery.

Og Mandino

Green grass grows where dry desert ends.

Joel Kinnaman

My father is American and deserted the Vietnam War.

William Drummond

The last and greatest herald of Heaven's King, / Girt with rough skins, hies to the deserts wild.

Yao Ming

Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.

Paul Stamets

Mycologists are few and far between. We are under-funded, poorly represented in the context of other sciences - ironic, as the very foundation of our ecosystems are directly dependent upon fungi, which ultimately create the foundation of soils.

Bruce Tognazzini

The iWatch will fill a gaping hole in the Apple ecosystem. It will facilitate and coordinate not only the activities of all the other computers and devices we use, but a wide array of devices to come.

Barry Commoner

Because the global ecosystem is a connected whole, in which nothing can be gained or lost and which is not subject to over-all improvement, anything extracted from it by human effort must be replaced. Payment of this price cannot be avoided; it can only be delayed. The present environmental crisis is a warning that we have delayed nearly too long.

Tony Vecchio

We've always taken a special interest in the health of coastal ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. This fascinating lecture is a way we can educate the public about the importance of our coastal environment and its fragility.

Ian Johnson

Sound management of ecosystems is key to a responsible path to growth.

Bryant H. McGill

There is a deep interconnectedness of all life on earth, from the tiniest organisms, to the largest ecosystems, and absolutely between each person.

Louie Schwartzberg

I love all of the ecosystems - mountains, deserts, rainforests. They're beautiful, and nature has so many different flavors to it.

Janine Benyus

There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city,

Kyle Rase

I talked to the kids about giving free passes, free runners, those are very costly. There was a perfect example of that with all the free runners they had tonight.

William Shelton

I think it's a good example of wishing a problem away. Unfortunately, more than not, we face these issues as they arise. It's like putting out fires.

Thomas Wilson

He was a great example of love expressed that expands and does not contract.

Rob DiMaio

He led by example and the way he played. He didn't have to talk. He was one of those guys who just played.

Rod Marsh

He leads by example, but he also thinks about the game as well,

Roberto Luongo

Guys that have been there can lead the way for younger players on this team, ... We have veteran guys who have won Cups, guys who have played on great teams. They know what it takes and know what it takes to put pucks in the net. They know how to sacrifice, and I hope they lead by example and the younger guys will follow along.

Patrick Robinson

He's a good example of what can be done wrestling outside of the scholastic program. The vast majority of our kids don't. But they also play other sports. Wrestling is Dan's only thing.

Todd Chanko

Here, you have a great example of two sister operations with mutual needs being satisfied by the other,

Gene Cohen

He's a very good example of just living well,

Willard Van Orman Quine

Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.

William Hazlitt

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

Joseph Brant

Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value.

Robert Wilson

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.

Jessica Young

This is a landscape bird. It specializes in using very small pieces of a very large landscape.

Gordon Schnulle

I want to see what the landscape is really like now.

Carmella Hoffman's

The next time we talk to (Jeremy) will be when he lands in Atlanta, back on U.S. soil. Man, we can't wait for that moment.

Newt Gingrich

I will not rest until I have transformed the landscape of American politics.

Kate Green

Touch is the landscape / of what is possible.