Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandy Norwood

I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.

Allan Sherman

There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother.

Ann Hood

I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell.

Ann Hood

I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint our toenails hardened. Our favorite videos gathered dust. Her small apron was in a box in the attic. Her shoes - the sparkly ones, the leopard rain boots, the ballet slippers - stood in a corner.

Anne Sexton

Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them in like a circus hand....

Anne Rice

Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.

Anita Hill

I work every day to live up to my mother's model. She was a very proud woman. And she really prepared me to go off into the world as a proud daughter.

Anita Diament

The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.

Anita Diament

It's a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more to me than the voiceless cipher in the text. Maybe you heard it in the music of my name: the first vowel high and clear, as when a mother calls to her child at dusk; the second sound soft, for whispering secrets on pillows. Dee-nah.

Bob Johnson

I can get a piece of fruit or a vegetable or produce or whatever and I can find various recipes for that particular item, and it can display that recipe, print it out, take it home, use that recipe, and we're integrating that with the locator system to show where all the ingredients are within the store for that recipe.

Rey Mysterio

Reading helps me be more creative, it helps my imagination and I like the fact that it gives me some quiet time,

James Mcewan

People hate the fact that they kidnapped people, including a little child.

Peter Lehman

The technology needs to get out of the lab and into the factory to reduce costs,

Jeff Holland

Quite honestly, I don't know anything about (the fungus). I guess it just reiterated the fact that it's important to be careful.

H. Hunt

The sad fact it is could have been anybody. My feeling is that whoever is involved in this is still walking free.

James St. James

I've sort of come to accept the fact that when I'm 80, people will ask about Michael Alig. I've had to realize that this is part of who I am.

John Manion

This is special, ... The fact that you have a game with two teams undefeated this late in the season is rare.

Melanie Sloan

The way that they've presented it makes it look more independent than it in fact is, and that's misleading.

Bob Keller

This does underscore the fact that West Nile is a potentially fatal disease.

Craig Ross

Four successive national anthems -- it was just an unbelievable sight. To have the New Zealand flag raised four times ... very moving, very emotional, and just great for our sport.

Chad Lavalais

If it was illegal the ref should have thrown a flag then and there, but being that I haven't really established myself in this league and he has, they're going to protect the quarterback and I understand that. They lost the game and we won. That's all that matters.

Robert Brown

I don't think the flag is going to come down. That's not in the cards. It's unpredictable at this point how it will go. Right now it's an outstanding violation, but compromises can always be made.

Zebulon Pike

On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.

Sue Jones

It's just completely nuts. We have banners and flags and hats just kind of decked out all over the place.

Terry Nelson

The reason we're investigating is potential violation of international piracy laws. We have jurisdiction on the high seas if it is a U.S. flag vessel or the victims are U.S. citizens.

Jahmile Addae

We're toting that flag for right now. We just want to come in and do what we have to do as a team, and hopefully come away with a win.

Orson Scott Card

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

Matt Hasselbeck

We raise that flag before the game, and some people might not understand it. It's something I didn't understand at first. But it means something to people. It means something to our team, it means something to our coaches, it means something to the people in the city. I mean, the thing's hanging from the top of the Space Needle right now.

Daniel Burns

It was unbelievable, ... but I knew it was helping us.

Paul Tagliabue

The state of Texas, and San Antonio, are helping shelter hurricane victims. That is the most important mission right now.

Charles R. Swindoll

It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I.

Elie Wiesel

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

Howard Dean

At this point, my position is pretty delicate, ... If I come out in the newspaper (with my opinion), it may not end up helping New Hampshire's position.

Ray Kroc

The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.

Tony Abbott

Mates help each other; they do not tax each other.

John Travolta

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

Madonna Ciccone

My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.

Peter King

Now John Kerry voted for the war and now he says that he would still vote for the war, so what's the difference?

Robert Brown

Who fished the murex up? / What porridge had John Keats?

Steve Jordan

John wanted to make a statement that night, and he was able to do that.

Melissa Peterman

If I could have a time machine, where I could go back and tell 12-year-old Melissa that someday John Schneider was going to play her ex-husband, junior high would have been so much easier. I'd have had something to go for.

Bobby Cox

Roger should have won in the low 20s this year and John should have won 18, 19 or 20.

John Peterson

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Don Yaeger

John Wooden made a name as a coach but also a life as a mentor.

John Romero

To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero.

Gene Luen Yang

To be able to write 'Superman,' to be able to work with the legendary artist who is John Romita Jr., I signed on as soon as I could.

Tom Stern

It was tough for every wrestler to get through (to state). There are a lot of kids that aren't going who could be.

Bow Wow

My fans saw 'Roll Bounce,' but also that older crowd who might not have been familiar with me on the music tip saw 'Roll Bounce' and loved it. 'Roll Bounce' opened up that door for me to have older people love Bow Wow and opened up that door so all of the kids would love Bow Wow. My fan base is really diverse; it's all ages and all colors.

Jason Dominick

This win is a real tribute to our kids. We lost a lot from last season's team and these kids really put in the time during the summer in order to get back to this point.

Butch Cassidy

Kid, the next time I say let's go someplace like Bolivia. Let's go someplace like Bolivia.

Busy Philipps

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.

Jamie Oliver

Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.

Jami Gertz

My kids and my family are number one; I enjoy them the most.

Janet Jackson

Add to the world's confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don't adhere to ourselves.

Miley Cyrus

I always love coming to Disneyland but celebrating my birthday here with my family, friends and the kids from YSA is really awesome!, this is a night I'll never forget.

Victoria Principal

It used to be you wanted to marry up.

Booker T. Washington

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Don Ward

When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.

Albert Einstein

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.

Dalai Lama

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

America Ferrera

The most important thing you wear is your personality.

Chuck Norris

A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

T. D. Jakes

Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

Robert Holden

Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagion: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Swami Vivekananda

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Bai Ling

You have to be proud of who you are.

Asa Butterfield

I can clap really fast. I can beatbox. I can type the alphabet in under 2 seconds. That's probably the one I'm most proud of.

Jane Garvey

We have, I am proud to say, successfully transitioned in a very uneventful way.

Britney Spears

Yes I'm a virgin and proud of it.

Dave Ramsey

Be very proud of what you do, and if you aren't then change it.

Steve Spurrier

toward the end there, my give-a-damn was busted. This is not the way I ever coached...I'm not proud of what happened, but there it is.

Ozzie Guillen

First of all, I feel proud of my players. We went through a lot, a lot of tough times.

Alvaro Garcia

The time has come to be proud of what we are.

Mike Brey

What an afternoon. I'm proud of our group.

Mir Hossain

Enough is enough. The manufacturers must show some respects to their workers by complying with safety rules.

Angelo Scola

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

T. S. Eliot

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Thurgood Marshall

What is the quality of your intent?

Thurgood Marshall

What is the quality of your intent? Certain people have a way of saying things that shake us at the core. Even when the words do not seem harsh or offensive, the impact is shattering. What we could be experiencing is the intent behind the words. When we intend to do good, we do. When we intend to do harm, it happens. What each of us must come to realize is that our intent always comes through.

Thorstein Veblen

There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

..the United States is subject to the scrutiny of a candid world ... what the United States does, for good or for ill, continues to be watched by the international community, in particular by organizations concerned with the advancement of the rule of law and respect for human dignity.

Thomas Mann

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

Thomas Carlyle

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

Adam Timmerman

I think it says a lot about him being unselfish and seeing the talent in Steven himself.

Dmitri Young

He has a presence. You knew, right from the get-go, he was the manager, and what he says goes.

Brittany Snow

I have a ladybug on my wrist that I got when I was doing 'John Tucker Must Die,' and I have a tattoo on my ankle that's in Sanskrit that says 'Fearless.'

James Hansen

There's no win for us in talking about this.

Dorothy Allison

I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)

Adolf Hitler

I don't talk for the sake of talking. I do become intoxicated with sound. When I open my mouth, it's to say something.

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

Martin Edwards

We'll talk about it when we get back to the jail,

Anthony DeCurtis

Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to know what you want and go about getting it.

Andy Stanley

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Sri Chinmoy

How do we meditate silently? Just by not talking, just by not using outer words, we are not doing silent meditation. Silent meditation is totally different. When we start meditating in silence, right from the beginning we feel the bottom of a sea within us and without. The life of activity movement and restlessness is on the surface, but deep below, underneath our human life, there is poise and silence. So, either we shall imagine this sea of silence within us or we shall feel that we are nothing but a sea of poise itself.

E. B. White

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

Plato

Is virtue something that can be taught?

Gordon B. Hinckley

God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.

Leonard Cohen

I taught him how to dress. He taught me how to live forever.

Jurgen Moltmann

Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.

Paula Abdul

And I have been taught never, never to lie,