Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Helprin

In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is inconstant.

Dale Flatt

Property is cut into littler and littler pieces, until all that's left is a cemetery and parking lot. We're in a race to document the old cemeteries before they disappear.

Richard Veit

Cemeteries are interesting. They're worth visiting and they're worth studying. If we take the time to listen to what the stories might tell us, we have a lot to learn.

Henry Wallace

By that time, we'll have found houses, cemeteries and other sites selected for more extensive excavation.

Richard Veit

Most people think of cemeteries as scary, spooky places you want to avoid. But we like to think of them as places where you can go to learn more about history.

Rick Anderson

Our national cemeteries are in fact national shrines -- places to memorialize the service of our veterans, our way of life, keeping us free. We intend fully to maintain this cemetery as a national shrine.

Sean Moran

In these two cemeteries repose the remains of more than 1,000 people. They are in a pretty failed state of condition.

Charles de Gaulle

The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

Holly Lisle

Don't talk about writing. Write. Don't show unfinished work to anyone. Don't show finished work to non-writers. Get your opinions, not from friends and family, but by sending your work out to editors. An endless stream of rejection slips means you need to learn more. So learn more.

Bill Clinton

We were in a land where there was endless profit. There was no tomorrow ... and now we're suffering a hangover from that binge.

Craig Brown

It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from the endless round of looking for this, that and the other.

Stjepan Hauser

It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello... there are endless possibilities.

Tracey Anders

There's endless opportunities when you have enough students.

Sylvia Earle

I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.

Susan Minot

Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do - Freudian as that is.

Barbara Sher

'Now'' is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

Max Mutchnick

It was time for us to come up with a new series, and Peter Roth, whom we work for at Paramount, really liked the story of our (personal) dynamic. Everything pretty much that goes on with us speaks to our history, and we thought this would really be a great place to write from, because we would just have an endless supply of stories to tell.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.

Holly Lisle

I always wrote, you know, but it was just this thing I did; what I intended was to become a terribly famous artist, perhaps with a stopover as a singer.

Bertrand Russell

It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

Martin Freeman

Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'

William Shakespeare

A merry heart goes all the way, - A sad one tires inan hour.

Norman Wisdom

When you're as famous as I am, stories take on a life of their own.

Natalie Massenet

My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics.

Carl Jung

It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Skip Richter

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William Shakespeare

I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me.

Michael Brown

There is no question in my mind, that at the highest levels of the White House they understood how grave the situation was.

Houssaye Houssaye

The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as.

George Parnham

A woman with this notoriety, with this type of offense charged, would be at risk ... I have grave, grave concerns.

Christopher Morley

Prophets were twice stoned - first in anger; then, after their death, with a handsome slab in the graveyard

Genrikh Padva

This is outrageous. This is a grave punishment.

Nelson Mandela

Even if I go to my grave I will wake up and come and vote. One of the manifestations of pride (in your country) is to vote for your country, and I am very happy for it.

Charles Steinberg

We inherited a policy we have grave questions about. But we haven't come up with a new policy.

James Rubin

the timetable for the ... grave situation we're in today.

Peter Nicholson

Some were simply overwhelmed and largely destroyed. However, many miles of levees performed satisfactorily, even many that were overtopped.

Doug Parker

The weakness has been largely concentrated in the technology sector.

David Stern

What we're doing here is largely symbolic. But it tells everyone that we've got to help. We've got to do better.

Andy Neff

Gateway's positive glimmers of stabilization were largely reversed.

Anthony Marra

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

Bruce Schneier

When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer. Politicians naturally want to do something in response to crisis, even if that something doesn't make any sense. But unfortunately for politicians, the security measures that work are largely invisible.

Mark McKinnon

Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the past.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

In my grandfather's time, the FN was founded largely as an anti-Communist party.

Jacob Snow

That has a lot of potential because, at this point, it's largely undeveloped.

Chris Christie

The first thing we need to do to make America stronger is to strengthen our military.

Chris Christie

We talk about our military being degraded over time and yet we've had folks who've been a part of Congress who have participated in sequester; who participated in the degrading of this military over time.

Edward Gibbon

It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced a slow and secret poison into the vitals of the empire. The minds of men were gradually reduced to the same level, the fire of genius was extinguished, and even the military spirit evaporated.

Edward Gibbon

[A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience.

Edward Gibbon

It was [Totila's] constant theme, that national vice and ruin are inseparably connected; that victory is the fruit of moral as well as military virtue; and that the prince, and even the people, are responsible for the crimes which they neglect to punish.

Edward Gibbon

[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.

Dean Acheson

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

David Hume

Heroism, or military glory, is much admired by the generality of mankind. They consider it as the most sublime kind of merit. Menof cool reflection are not so sanguine in their praises of it.

David Hume

It is on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular.

Jennifer Deer

It's just really silly, if you think about it. I don't know why they can't just put everything into one section and keep it at that.

Patrick Swayze

There were wonderful sections of Winnipeg that you could play for New York easy.

Mark Hatton

We play as well defensively as any team I have seen in this section in a long, long time.

Dave Esse

I've been here for 15 years and this is the toughest the section has been top to bottom.

Jeff Ackermann

We didn't win the section this year, and, after that, we set this as our goal.

Pu Zhiqiang

This section is the most important part of the paper.

Jordan Lawley

I feel like everything after sections was just extra.

Jack Kirby

I'm OMAC! Evacuate this section! I'm going to destroy it!

Rick LaFerriere

Our section should do very well in the WPIAL. And at the state level, our section could have two or three state champions.

Kristan Higgins

I think it's always interesting to learn what the seemingly spontaneous one-nighter actually reveals about a character.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Bob Doyle

We want to stand on our two feet.

Jorge Cruz

We want our voices to be heard. Us students, we will take action. We will stand up for what we believe.

Charles Handy

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Rose Johnson

They should be able to stand on their own after that.

Wendy Palmer

It stands for the big three in my life. God, me and family.

Joan Maloney

It stands for a time, not a place.

Susan Wheeler

There wasn't anything that would stand in her way of doing something.

Johnnie Hayes

It was still standing and a tree was on it, but it was flooded. Everything we had in there was ruined, our TV and all our furniture.

James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

Nina Hoss

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Nobu Matsuhisa

When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual.

Hugh Johnson

They tend to be like sheep. They are followers. It's called piling on in football, and I think it's the equivalent. It's unprecedented.

Chris Jordan

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

Ezra Taft Benson

An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.

Colton Haynes

I used to do a lot of yoga, but I tend to lose a lot of weight when I do that.

Louise Nurding

I used to think you should keep on experimenting and seeing new things. But after seeing a lot of the world, I now tend to return to the same spots. I enjoy the familiarity.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Serge Daney

The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.

Martin Parr

Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.

Narendra Modi

Ladakh's Prakash, Paryavaran, Paryatan are a strength for both J&K and India.

Raul Hernandez

Tourism is all we have. Nobody's coming. Things are sad.

Karen Hughes

The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.

Werner Herzog

Tourism is a mortal sin.