Famous Quotes & Sayings

Augusto Bastos

There were epochs in the history of the humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.

Melissa Gilbert

Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield.

Paul Greening

Be prepared to give honest, specific examples of when you've used your skills at work. Showcase yourself.

Sven Eriksson

Many times the words I say don't come out in the papers. I could have as many examples as you want.

Joseph Yam

one of the rare examples of a smooth change.

Tom Megeath

Obviously, we can't go back in time and look at the Trapezium when it was still forming, so we try to find younger examples in the sky.

Philip Solis

Examples show that this single technology has the flexibility to be included in a huge variety of applications.

Shyam Selvadurai

I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.

Jill Paton Walsh

I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing.

Clay Johnson

Workers should be treated as individual professional public servants, not as bureaucrats. We tend to give everyone the same raise whether they're a fantastic worker or a mediocre worker.

Torrie Wheat

It's killing us having to wait so much because that was a very disappointing game. It was a combination of them playing some fantastic hockey and us not playing our best. You never like to lose, but it's made us more focused for the home opener.

Aaron Baddeley

It's fantastic winning here and it's great to keep it in Australia.

Stephen Robinson

It's fantastic to be back in the frame again,

David Ellis

It's fantastic that this top horse is going to be staying in New Zealand, owned by New Zealanders and trained by Mark Walker, our top man.

Jacqueline Gold

It's fantastic that people are adventurous - but they need to be careful.

Susan Sontag

It's fantastic knowing you're going to die; it really makes having priorities and trying to follow them very real to you.

Bryan Smolinski

They played a fantastic road game. We kind of ad-libbed and got away from our game and you saw the result.

Bob Faduski

The young kids did a fantastic job, especially on defense.

Hubertus Pellengahr

For a long time, the Germans held the deutsche mark as a proof of normality, something that held them together.

Robbie Keane

That was a great result for England, but it has gone and I don't think the Germans will be welling on it when we play them this summer.

Daniel Bruhl

We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.

Norbert Lammert

The past weeks have shown us how much not only we Germans need this Remembrance Day.

Frank Lloyd

in 1943, many Germans went to the Wright household and held musicals.

Claudia Schiffer

The way Germans work is that they are slow to warm up but when they do they are your friend for life and very loyal.

Al Jourgensen

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

Chris Colfer

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

Eartha Kitt

I used to teach dance lessons.

Bear Grylls

The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.

Denis Waitley

Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

Mike Scioscia

We are at the point of the year where if you push him back, it could mean one less start at the end of the year. We need to make sure that he can pitch. If we do push him back, we want to make sure we have the matchups we need at the end of the season.

Mark Patterson

Whenever someone takes a lesser role in the operations, it's not too uncommon to see this type of thing.

Marjorie Gubelmann

When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.

Donald Sterling

When you're winning, anything you say has value. When you're losing, the less you say, the better.

Sylvia Hatchell

They make it sound like we're going to have coffins lined up at practice. It won't be that bad.

Brad Turner

There were about 300 or 400 people already lined up.

Ethan Harris

This is one of the very-easy-to-interpret reports. In this one, everything lined up like the planets.

Eric Van Lustbader

I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.

Harold Rogers

And they were lined up in a parking lot, end on end?

Randall Eliason

We've got a lot of quartets lined up and ready to go.

Aaron Smith

You get to the point where you're not thinking mentally straight because you are worried about getting back, getting lined up. You're not thinking about the little things that go on.

Frostee Rucker

I'm always toast when I'm lined up versus 5.

William Williams

If they give you lined paper, write the other way.

Benjamin Harrison

I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.

Bob Riley

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

Billy Ray Cyrus

All gave some, Some gave all.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

Edgar Lee Masters

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

Charles Schumer

It's Memorial Day. It's important that we remember the sacrifices of the dead,

Dennis Dorman

It was important to her and I wanted to see that it was done. It was kind of a memorial to her.

David Nevins

In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always interested in trying to get the culture of the place - trying to get it right.

Paul Wright

As long as any memorial put on the mountain is just a plaque or a stone with a name on it, I can't see any problem with that.

David Gross

reaffirmed the role of technology to the world and preserved the unique role of the U.S.

Norm Brunswig

These are not parks. They're not recreation areas. These (islands) were preserved to protect the birds.