Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I was adopted by two amazing people: a Salvadoran mother and a white father who were incredibly supportive of me and my work. I am eternally grateful for them.

William Atherton

I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life.

Abraham Lincoln

Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.

Sandip Gupta

The overwhelming adoption of our solutions worldwide clearly demonstrates the demand for professional caliber software in the hosting market. We expect the significant growth that we experienced in the first quarter to continue its momentum in the remainder of the year.

Jin Renqing

The overseas-funded firms who have entered Chinese market will be permitted to enjoy preferential policies that they had been enjoyed before we adopt the new taxation systems,

David S. Goyer

What Christopher Nolan and I have done with 'Superman' is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the 'Batman' trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in.

Vladimir Prelog

For many years, when still a Yugoslav citizen, I was already a Swiss patriot, and in 1959, I obtained Swiss citizenship. However, I consider myself a world citizen, and I am very grateful to my adopted country that it allows me to be one.

Mary Struckhoff

The 3-point shot has been one of the greatest things we've done for the game. The first year it was a state adopted rule. The next year because of overwhelming success, people were pleased with the rule and it became the norm.

Tom Ojienda

The approach adopted by the government to muzzle the press must be resisted by all Kenyans.

Yael Grobglas

Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

Yanis Varoufakis

In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.

Tina Brown

Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away.

Ice T

My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

Idris Elba

If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'

Isobelle Carmody

I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.

Gavyn Davies

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.

Donald Trump

You've seen my statements; I do very well. I don't mind paying some taxes. The middle class is getting clobbered in this country. You know the middle class built this country, not the hedge fund guys, but I know people in hedge funds that pay almost nothing, and it's ridiculous, OK?

Zadie Smith

It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'

Thich Nhat Hanh

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

I don't stay out that late. I never really stay out that late. I used to, and after a while you begin to realize that a little sleep works wonders, you know?

William Kirby

I would hope we would begin a series of projects that would do more to bring the different parts of the university together in the study of Asia, for example, in the study of the professions in Asia.

Vitruvius

When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.

Abraham Lincoln

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

Ezra Taft Benson

Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.

Ezra Taft Benson

When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.

Ellen Key

The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Robert Hayes

The overwhelming bewilderment begins with the scores of competing plans that are being offered,

Idina Menzel

I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.

Ian Mckellen

It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.

Isabel Sanford

I was very comfortable having a steady job on a hit show, and who knew if 'The Jeffersons' would catch on?

Constance Marie

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

Clotilde Hesme

People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.

Evangeline Lilly

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

Evangeline Lilly

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

Ben Carson

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Beeban Kidron

When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.

Huston Street

That says everything right there. That's how monumental that win was.

Michael Ramsey

This is a monumental problem. It overshadows all the other problems we have.

David Makovsky

This is a consequential election, with monumental events. It's all about one idea: borders.

Marty Smith

That was two too many. The first rule was you must shower every day.

Doug McBride

We have to have rules in place before we can do it.

Alan Dooley

We need to put the rules together very, very soon.

Dwight Mitchell

We haven't ruled out anything at this stage.

Stephanie Parker

You just don't want to rule anything out.

Lawrence Dallaglio

I wouldn't want to rule out the possibility of a return. It is something that has to be thought about very seriously.

Grant Teaff

What will come out of this is there will be uniform rules set.

Thomas Heywood

Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.

Guru Singh

He has no rival, no attacker, no enemy. His rule is unchanging and eternal, He does not come or go.