Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Brown

I have always been a firm believer in participation so there were no cuts. We practiced three times a week but if a student had an academic conflict, academics took priority.

Raquel Welch

My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60 years old, but apparently when he was 17, he had already planned his entire academic curriculum so that he could graduate high school and enter college in the United States. That's how much he wanted to come to this country.

Rodney Brooks

I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.

Chuck D.

When I first started the Project, I could not have expected so much to be accomplished in such a short time. None of my concerns about giving money to an academic institution came true. They've done high quality work with real-world relevance.

Jim McBride

We need to upgrade Wyoming's academic standards and reputation. The Hathaway scholarship has put us on a road to be the best and the first in education.

Hampton Sides

I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.

Don Knezek

Understanding and using technology are critical components of all students' academic careers and, most certainly, barometers of their future employment prospects. Given the president's emphasis in the State of the Union on the importance of developing math and science skills in America's students in order to keep America competitive globally, we do not see how eliminating federal education technology funding advances his global competitiveness agenda or helps our students.

Greg Graffin

Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can't expect much praise from scientists. My goal both as a singer and an instructor is to educate through provocation and entertainment.

Gary Locke

We've made great strides in raising academic achievement during the past seven years. I am especially proud that Washington led the nation last year in reading scores for African-American fourth graders. African-American eighth graders in Washington scored better in math than in all but three states. We are closing the achievement gap.

Tim Williams

If we could just run him up or see him, we could say we know where he's at, we know he's there. We could start with a battle plan.

Yuriko Koike

This is a ground battle for reform! Let's change Japan!

Tim Kimmel

We had some open shots and didn't take them. We just have continue to battle for a spot in the playoffs.

Derek Davis

The battle fronts are the Supreme Court, the presidency, the Senate, the House, all the state legislatures, ... That's where most people think these battles are being won. To me, they're forgetting where the battle should be won: houses of worship. That's where indoctrination should take place, not in the halls of Congress.

Reuven Paz

The battle experience that jihadists gain in Iraq,

Matt Hinkle

These two kids battle pretty closely, but we can't have the interceptions. But we stuck with our running game.

Marta Coursey

This is just going to require another ongoing battle for us, to make sure we can protect the women of South Dakota.

Brad Woodhouse

Not once did we discuss that we'd have to fight the Social Security battle all over again.

S. Hughes

It's not always the results. Sometimes it's seeing their poise or lack thereof. You want to see if they'll battle when it gets tough.

Bobby Lee

My dad had the idea in 1963. As a promotion, it's been a gold mine ever since.

Wayne Gretzky

Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, 'This is what we're going to do,' and bought an annuity with it.

Tracey Ullman

Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'

Cheryl Peters

Our 17-year-old has never seen his dad without MS.

John Schneider

I had a working mother. She worked for IBM. My dad lived in another town - not very far away, but another town. So food was - I guess food was my friend.

Jonathan Tropper

I whispered to Dad during Rosh Hashanah services, "Do you believe in God?" "Not really," he said. "No." "Then why do we come here?" He sucked thoughfully on his Tums tablet and put his arm around me, draping me under his musty woolen prayer shawl, and then shrugged. "I've been wrong before," he said. And that pretty much summed up what theology there was to find in the Foxman home.

Kelley Armstrong

He bent, lips coming to mine and — 'Derek? Chloe?' It was Kit, opening the back door. Derek let out a low growl. 'Never fails.' I turned to Kit. 'How is she?' 'We’re going to take her back to the house now. She’s unconscious again.' 'Then we’ll walk back,' Derek said. 'Give you room in the van to lay her down.' His dad agreed and went back inside. As we walked toward the steps, I looked down at Derek’s hand, holding mine. 'No one’s around,' he said. 'And we can take the back way.' 'Good,' I said, and entwined my fingers with his.

Kelley Armstrong

I slid closer, feeling his arms close around me, tightening. Our lips touched-- "Derek?" his dad called. "Chloe?" Derek let out a growl. I laughed and backed up. "We seem to get a lot of that, don't we?" I said. "Too much. After we eat, we're going for a walk. A long walk. Far from every possible interruption." I grinned up at him. "Sounds like a plan

Kelley Armstrong

I told him what my dad had said. That got him laughing and as we pulled into the school parking lot, even the sight of Rafe waiting for me only made him roll his eyes. We got out. I glanced at Daniel. He sighed. "Go on." "You sound like you're giving a five-year-old permission to play with an unsuitable friend." "If the shoe fits..." I flipped him off. "Watch it or I won't marry you," he said. "Truck of no truck." I laughed and jogged over to Rafe. "Did he just say...?" Rafe began.

Robby Krieger

Jim died in 1971, and the problem of trying to replace him was insurmountable at that time. But after 30 years or so goes by, it doesn't seem so insurmountable.

Bobby Scott

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

Derek Smith

We're at a fork in the road. You have a choice. You can go out and fight or you can lay down.

Clara Barton

While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

John Abizaid

We must fight the terrorists together so that we can have a free and prosperous future for the Iraqi people,

Lou Freeman

In the strongest possible terms, George maintains his innocence. He's going to fight them all the way.

Condoleezza Rice

inspired a whole generation of people to fight for freedom.

John Quinn

(Against H-F) we got down and did a great job to fight back. We were one shot right there from being in the final four.

Freddie Roach

After this fight we'll take a week off and then we'll be straight back into Morales mode,

Marcus Washington

It's been a tough fight these last six weeks. We ain't ready to go home yet, so we're going to keep sawing wood.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Rita Atkinson

We've had one practice. I gave them Saturday off. We're going to keep doing what we do. You don't have a week or two weeks off to plan like the Super Bowl. We're just going to try to win with our original game plan.

Rick Binder

We'll just keep working and just try to get back. We don't play a league game for a while, so we need to get our rotation right.

David Walker

We'll help them stage the game as much as we can, and we're happy to do that for them. These are unique circumstances.

Andrew Morris

Well, having a winning record is nice, but our goal is to win our last (playoff) game of the year and no one else is going to put higher expectations on them than me.

Rex Grossman

We all didn't play the game that we practiced and got ready for. What can I say?

Robert Tucker

Every single time we win a game (on TV), I have about 200 e-mails from guys saying, 'Good job. I want to send you a tape,'

Derek Jeter

Every game you lose is a missed opportunity, every one of them. At this point, we have 20-something games, and every single game is important, whether we're playing Tampa or playing Boston, Toronto or Baltimore.

Joel Retornaz

Every game we win is a surprise for us. But we're just proud winning games for the curling.