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.

Amy Chua

I am definitely a Type A personality, always rushing around, trying to do too much, not good at just lying on the beach. But I'm so thankful for everything I have: wonderfully supportive parents and sisters, the best husband in the world, terrific students I love teaching and hanging out with, and above all, my two amazing daughters.

Anne Robinson

We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.

Anne Roiphe

Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power is so oblique, so hidden, so ethereal a matter, that we rarely struggle with our daughters over actual kingdoms or corporate shares. On the other hand, our attractiveness dries as theirs blooms, our journey shortens just as theirs begins. We too must be afraid and awed and amazed that we cannot live forever and that our replacements are eager for their turn, indifferent to our wishes, ready to leave us behind.

Anne Roiphe

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.

Anne Sexton

And within the house ashes are being stuffed into my marriage, fury is lapping the walls, dishes crack on the shelves, a strangler needs my throat, the daughter has ceased to eat anything....

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.

Lindsey Scherf

I've been running for 10 years now. It's a genuine love of the sport that kept me going. ... The fact that I love to go out and go for a run every day, regardless of how fast I was, kind of helped keep me going.

Mariel Hemingway

I've been depressed. I've had suicidal thoughts. I realize I'm not really full-on there because I never could plan it. But the fact of the matter is, there is a way out, there is help.

John McCamant

This is rather large. The fact that Monsanto did it right in front of a trial, they (the university) must have had a lock-shut case.

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.

Tom Taylor

They don't want to wave red flags and become targets.

Otto Rehhagel

This is undoubtedly the pinnacle of my career. Hats off to the team. I hope that all Greeks will be flying the Greek flag tonight, rejoice and savor this grandiose win.

Elizabeth Blackburn

If a test showed you had telomere shortening, it would be a red flag suggesting you should take a look at possible risk factors.

Todd Bodine

We needed long green flag runs. That's when our truck is always the best, and it was no different tonight, ... They started slipping and sliding. Skinner got loose one time, and I ran under him.

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.

Sting

I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.

Val Kilmer

Where [a]can you trust your own thoughts and your own intentions? Everywhere, hopefully, but it isn't always that easy. Sometimes, you have to help yourself along.

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.

John Scanlon

Come on over anyway, John would have loved it.

Bobby Cox

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

Caroline Leavitt

I'm big on story structure. I studied with John Truby, who mapped out story by means of moral wants and needs, and that's what I do. Hey, so does John Irving.

Rob Lowe

I like all of John Carpenter's movies. 'The Thing' is my favorite.

Tony Agnone

We feel at this point that John isn't going to be back in New York.

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.

Brian Idalski

This is special because it's my alma mater and being to be a part and have that success here. We didn't get here because I'm a genius. This is a players' accomplishment and a testament to the kids we've had play here.

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.

Brad Goreski

I was a little chubby, rosy-cheeked kid.

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.

Joan Bonvicini

We did everything we possibly could with what we had. These kids aren't used to losing, particularly like this.

Jamie Oliver

Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.

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.

David Hawkins

We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.

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.

Thornton Wilder

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.

Robert H. Schuller

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

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.

Gary Bartlett

Turnout is not anything to be proud of this year.

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.

Bernie Sanders

I am very proud of the campaign we ran and the supporters that came on board.

Travis Gray

This year has been great. I'm proud of these guys. I feel like I'm part of the team.

Jane Haddam

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

Mir Hossain

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

Matt Giampietro

There is so much respect for that name.

Ambrose Bierce

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

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.

Rene Descartes

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

Thomas Huxley

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Thomas Cochrane

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

Thomas E. Mann

Whose best and most fruitful gift was the power of admiration, which made it possible for me to learn. Now, as in my youth, I am looking up to the truly great creations of the past, which I see high above my own and which alone deserve the name of greatness.

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.'

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

R. Robinson

Every day, he talked to us about being responsible,

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.

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,