Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willie Aames

I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.

Rudy Giuliani

Donald Trump is going to take our Army up to 6,000. And Obama and Hillary are going to take it down to 4,200. He is going to take our Marine Corps from 23 battalions to 35 battalions. And he's going to reestablish and modernize our nuclear program.

Jim Lehrer

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.

Chesty Puller

Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed.

Chesty Puller

They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.

Catherine Bell

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

Ralph Cooper

The ol' Marine sergeant is gone. We're all going to miss him.

Paul Watson

We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.

Donald Trump

We will build a Marine Corps based on 36 battalions, which the Heritage Foundation notes is the minimum needed to deal with major contingencies. Right now we only have 23.

Earl Wilson

I've been around, and I see what other cities are doing, and I think, 'Why not us, we're a proud people,'

Ed Dumas

This is not a radical group of hard-line, right-wing people making unrealistic demands. It's a reasonable group of officials that are seeking some rational solutions to immigration problems that our cities and our communities face.

Aravind Adiga

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

Ben Nicholson

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

Jane Jacobs

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

James Weldon Johnson

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.

James Weldon Johnson

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

Benjamin Disraeli

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modem times.

Alan Garner

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

Patti Brooks

I think it's just an honor, but I don't know what Herbie would think of it. He didn't like all that. Like having a street named for him in St. Cloud, that wasn't his way.

Danny Costello

I think it's an honor to win this.

Jack Schrader

I think it was a well-deserved honor. He was a two-time player of the week and the only underclassman on the first team.

Scott Ross

It is my understanding that the parents did not want the police to become involved so we honored their wishes.

Woody Johnson

I am honored to serve on this committee.

Tyler Perry

The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.

Willard Libby

We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.

Willard Libby

You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.

William Watson

Best they honor thee Who honor in thee only what is best.