Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Mazanec

The report was spot on expectations, signaling continued growth in the U.S. employment sector. It should bode well for the economy, but the reaction is null and void in the market as we await Greenspan.

Rabindranath Tagore

Objects of knowledge maintain an infinite distance from us who are the knowers. For knowledge is not union. Therefore the further world of freedom awaits us there where we reach truth, not through feeling it by senses or knowing it by reason, but thr

Sarah Nie

I think, like everyone else, I am a little scared and a little excited. You've been at school all your life and now what awaits you is much different.

Chris Fox

I am pleased that the existing policy has been deemed fit for purpose and we now await any IPCC recommendations.

Marcelene Cox

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

Orison Swett Marden

Live in the very soul of expectation of better things, in the conviction that something large, grand, and beautiful will await you if your efforts are intelligent, if your mind is kept in a creative condition and you struggle upward to your goal.

Orison Swett Marden

Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us.

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Kerry Nelson

Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.

Britt Ekland

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

John Romano

Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.

Tony Buzan

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

Sugata Mitra

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

Sugata Mitra

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Sugata Mitra

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

Ann Veneman

There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need.

Julio Ziegelmann

We're on the eve of the millennium, right between Christmas and New Year's when things should be dead, but liquidity just keeps holding out.

Will Ferrell

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!

Saint Augustine

He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

W. C. Fields

Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.

William Arthur Ward

Christmas is more than a time of music, merriment and mirth; it is a season of meditation, mangers and miracles. Christmas is more than a time of carols, cards and candy; it is a season of dedication and decision.

William Arthur Ward

Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.

Wilferd Peterson

Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man.

Washington Irving

The dance, like most dances after supper, was a merry one; some of the older folks joined in it, and the squire himself figured down several couple with a partner, with whom he affirmed he had danced at every Christmas for nearly half a century.

William Tecumseh Sherman

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

Steve Lundholm

It always makes it nice when the team performs this well. I'm not surprised with the way they played. They have been playing better; I hope they peak at the right time with districts on Tuesday.

Tom Suelzle

I think it's going to be a good district tourney. If a team gets hot, anything can happen.

Chris Williams

I think it's fair to say that high schools all over the district are over capacity, but the north end is especially bad. We desperately need a new high school.

Mike Johnson

I think that people can see the results of everything that's going on and the progress in District 8 during my time in office, ... We've provided everyone a seat at the table.

Steve Larson

We look at the developments that are occurring in the School District area.

Augustine Ruiz

I don't know what to expect. I would just like us to go out there and play hard. We have some good teams that we are going to play early in the season. Hopefully, that will prepare us for district play.

Todd Vesely

He was trying to stick the landing, and that's what you want. He had just watched two teammates in front of him stick their landings, and he was going for it. He's a competitor, and he's been in this position before. What I'm most pleased is the way the team improved from district to this meet, and hopefully that will continue.

Eldon Hoy

We can enjoy this and celebrate, but we know they are a team that we will see in the District 4 playoffs. We can't forget that.

Eric Davis

Right now the district tournament comes through Ellensburg. We have as good a shot as any team to win the tournament.

Lloyd McClendon

That's a miscommunication. In fact, Freddy did the right thing." ()

Barry McGuire

I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know.

Jermaine Dye

You can let the game come to you and we did that tonight. We haven't had one of these in a while. The offense showed up and Freddy went out there and did what he needed to.

Haley Barbour

Fred may be right, and I may not have heard it, ... I do not recall his saying that.

Kelly Middleton

Fred (Hester) and Terry Stanfield have done a phenomenal job for years. It takes unbelievable organization to put this together.

Ozzie Guillen

Freddy is supposed to be a big-game pitcher. Everything is in Freddy's odds. He should be all right.

Alessandra Ambrosio

My little girl, Anja, is really excited. We had a baby shower yesterday and she took the presents from everyone for me and was telling them, 'No, it's my baby.'

Tony Lazzeri

They didn't get along. Gehrig thought Ruth was a big-mouth, and Ruth thought Gehrig was cheap. They were both right.

Reggie Jackson

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

Robert Cormier

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

Woody Guthrie

Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me. He said, "Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea, But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me."

R. Lee Ermey

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

Evangeline Lilly

I wasn't actually going to see the original film [Lord of the Ring], because I didn't think it was possible that a film could represent the books appropriately. So I was protesting, and I wasn't going to see them. And then my family all took a jaunt together, the entire family, to see the movies, and were like, "What, you're just going to stay home?" So I saw the movies and was thoroughly impressed that Peter Jackson managed to make my vision of the book come to life, as well as my sister's and my father's, and my aunt's and my uncle's, everyone's.

Jules Verne

It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth.

P. G. Wodehouse

What I'm worrying about is what Tom is going to say when he starts talking." "Uncle Tom?" "I wish there was something else you could call him except 'Uncle Tom,' " Aunt Dahlia said a little testily. "Every time you do it, I expect to see him turn black and start playing the banjo.

King Krule

I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.

Kim Harrison

Face it, you stupid little cookie maker,” Jenks said, almost sounding fond, “in the last couple of days you’ve seen what it’s like to be in a family, with all the touchy tempers and irritation that goes on. Now you get to see the other side, where we do stupid stuff for each other just because we like you. Rache is the little sister. Ivy’s the big sister. I’m the uncle from out of state, and you’re the rich nephew no one likes but we put up with you anyway because we feel sorry for you. Just let me help, huh? It won’t kill you.

Kevin Powers

The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.