Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Lee Curtis

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

Ruby Dee

That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get up again.

Solomon Ortiz

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

Theodore Zeldin

The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.

Michael McCaul

Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.

Millicent Carey McIntosh

Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.

Melanie Chisholm

I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.

Bobby Ghosh

On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be smiling smugly to himself as satellite TV brings to the leafy boulevards of Abbottabad the somber images of New Yorkers commemorating those who perished in the Twin Towers.

Michael R. Bloomberg

On the fourth anniversary of the Sept. 11th attack here in New York City, we plan to mark this solemn occasion by asking siblings to take the lead in this year's ceremony. In this small way, we acknowledge the special bonds they share with their beloved brothers and sisters who died that day,

John Sarbanes

A deep cynicism is taking hold of the country, with more and more Americans convinced that big money calls the shots in Washington and that there is nothing that can be done about it. We must resist that conclusion and fight back on behalf of everyday citizens. Reform is possible, and it is imperative.

Anna Tibaijuka

This is the first effort of its kind on behalf of Safer Cities and we are proud to work with Tim and UNFCU to continue to strengthen civic responsibility within communities, engage youth and prevent crimes.

Ken Williams

There should be no question about the respect this organization has for Frank and all that he has helped us accomplish, including a World Series championship. He is the greatest hitter in White Sox history. At the same time, it is my responsibility to make the best decisions I can on behalf of the organization. Our plan is to continue to speak with Frank and his representatives over the coming months as more information is known about his health.

Les Kotzer

More often, it's the lawyers who have to work it out. And once a lawyer gets between your kids -- say the lawyer sends a letter to a sister on behalf of a brother -- their relationship won't be the same anymore.

Arthur Schlesinger

She was a quiet revolutionary on behalf of all women,

Mike Driscoll

He submitted claims on behalf of numerous individuals,

Greg Miller

We're all just amazed, ... that the Seattle Symphony people have stepped forward on our behalf like this. But I know that people in the LPO would have done the same thing for them. It's a small world symphonies are like families, so we're all sort of related.

Keith Primeau

He brings not only that (toughness) to the game, but also to the locker room. He'll be sorely missed on their behalf ... not necessarily so much on our part.

John Kline

For the immeasurable contribution of Ronald Wilson Reagan to the office of the Presidency, and to our great nation we all owe a debt of gratitude. Thank you, Mr. President. On behalf of all the men and women who served our nation under your Presidency, and those inspired by you who serve today. I salute you, sir.

Chet Culver

As a lifelong Iowan who has been a farmer, a registered nurse, a small businesswoman, a state senator and secretary of agriculture, Patty has spent her life devoted to her community and her state.

Jen Schlegel

Our theme is, ?Every walker counts in a community that cares,? because a walk like this shows the number of people who do care. I think the numbers speak loudly and are overwhelming that this is a great place to live.

Jeff Corey

are the types of tragedies that impact entire communities.

Danny Saenz

A positive response has occurred and we hope to continue to work together with the community to have a nicer place to live.

Mariana Boneo

The site is not perfect. There are a lot of community members that feel uncomfortable about that.

Alan Goldberg

The scientific community would like to go to in vitro approaches. They're quicker, offer better information, and are more humane.

Linda Williams

is honored for her dedication and generosity of resources and time given to projects enriching lives and enhancing the community through the arts.

John McNeil

I've been very happy serving in a smaller school. It's a way of life for me. The interests of mine and the community have been the same. Rural schools have been my life. Montana is one of the most rural states. There's a need to educate every kid in the state.

Kurt Woerner

I've been doing this job (in different cities) for 25 years. This is only the third time in any community that I've seen anything this bad.

Sathya Baba

This is bad; this is good - can such judgments be ever made about anything in God's creation when all are manifestations of His will?

Brian Eno

I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect

John Ray

The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.

Steve Stanley

At the same time, notwithstanding the lack of job creation, the economy is generally strong.

David Barton

You've GOT to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.

Brian Henson

I was already sort of mixing my science physics enthusiasm with entertainment and directing and puppetry.

Carine Roitfeld

Enthusiasm is something so positive.

Elbert Hubbard

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Norman Vincent Peale

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.

Dylan Moran

If you're talking about crowd enthusiasm, it varies. I have a decent following in Australia so I like there. I'm interested in playing everywhere.

Paulo Coelho

Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith.

M. Wolfe

But there is also an enthusiasm factor. Stoning the pillars is the last rite of hajj, and throwing the stones can be a physical release. People really want to get into it,

Dave Ellis

He was a nice guy. He was always helpful, he was always keen and enthusiastic about everything.

Kent Holsinger

She infects her students with her enthusiasm. I can't meet many people that get me excited about parasites.

E. Hicks

See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you've got the money!

Aretha Franklin

On the sly, scoping for love.

Bob Dylan

The executioner's face is always well hidden.

Bruce Lee

Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form.

Mitch Kupchak

What?s that expression? ... Thinking outside the box?

Dale Carnegie

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. Intelligence is like underwear, everyone has it, but you don't have to show it off. The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

Corazon Aquino

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.

Alexander Kluge

You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning.

Dylan McDermott

I always felt like I needed to act. Not that I wanted to act, but I needed to. And I still feel that same way. There's an expression that I get to have in acting that I can't consciously express in my life. It has always defined me and it always will.

Mahmud Abbas

President Mahmud Abbas on Friday November 11, 2005 laid the foundation stone of the mausoleum of the late president Yasser Arafat,

Randy Ridley

This is the foundation of the whole season. These are the guys that we really want to look at who we feel will be an important part of our season.

Bob Macey

This is the culmination of everything we said we would be doing. The foundation and the supporters of the foundation made this happen.

Ira Kurzban

The wet-foot, dry-foot policy has no foundation in law.

Vandana Shiva

I did my masters in elementary particles. But the foundations of elementary particles is quantum theory and there were too many conceptual problems around quantum theory that I couldn't live with. So I decided I was going to work on the foundations of quantum theory. That's what I did my Ph.D on.

Russell Feingold

Even the Heritage Foundation is interested in that kind of approach,

J. J. Johnson

This season our goal was to get better, and we did that. I hope we laid the foundation for the future.

Phil Gramm

Tonight we have laid the foundation to make history,

Jim Boeheim

Those two helped us to get off to such a great start, ... They laid the foundation for the success we've had.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

Lauryn Hill

Wisdom is better than silver and gold

Laura Miller

Tracking the shiny is so much easier than digging for gold!

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.

Martin Short

An actor can spew out thoughts, but they're not all gold.

Marissa Young

Getting here was our goal, but now that we are here, being here isn't enough. I want to take home a ball, preferably a gold one (for a state championship). We want to be a team that is remembered.

Jay Hakkinen

If it does become big, that would just be a gold mine.

Victor Flores

If the stocks are really factoring the move in the gold prices, stocks would be a least 10 percent higher than they are right now.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

To be sure, God shall call you, and us, only at the hour that God has chosen. Until that hour, which lies in God's hand alone, we shall be protected even in the greatest danger; and from our gratitude for such protection ever new readiness surely arises for the final call

Dean Koontz

The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss.

Bob Dylan

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

Dorothy Day

Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward.

Dalai Lama

In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn't come from having all we want; but rather from wanting and appreciating being grateful for all we have.

Debbie Macomber

Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity.

Andre Norton

There's no night without stars.

Ann Voskamp

Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times - it's ultimately the very will of God in hard times. Gratitude isn't only a celebration when good things happen. It's a declaration that God is good no matter what happens.

Robert Holden

Keep a gratitude journal. Write down at least three things a day you are either thankful for, made you smile or genuinely inspired you.

Gurudas Dasgupta

The strike will go on. We're ready for a settlement, but it has to be an honorable settlement.

Brenda Lee

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

Desiderius Erasmus

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

Miguel de Cervantes

My honor is dearer to me than my life.

Calvin Coolidge

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Peggy Corrigan

I was really shocked, very honored and very humbled. That was 30 years ago. I didn't really feel like I'd done anything special. I just did it because I loved it.

Steve Sparks

If they had anything in that arena, it would be an honor to work for this organization.

Laura Miller

She's very conscientious about the work she does at school and always has been an honor student. She's very interested in more travel and knowing how other people live and the things they like to do.

Pat Robertson

Ashok means without sorrow, and he lives up to his name.

English 14th Century Proverbs

A reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall.

Ronda Storms

This is a real victory for people in the community. And for moms and dads, and for people who are just trying to live their lives and have a neighborhood that's safe and that they can be proud of.

William Blake

Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.

Carol Nelson

There is no such thing as closure. My son lives in my heart. I see him in my other children.

Kathleen Blanco

We know that many lives have been lost.

Tamsin Greig

There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.

Mark Udall

We are, in sum, much safer than we were, and I say that as someone who lives just three miles from the site.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

Jeffrey Buttle

I stood there (on the medal podium) in disbelief. It was a really special moment. I wouldn't have been there without (my parents).

Albert Brooks

If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Ian Livingstone

We have spent tens of millions of pounds on it and we will spend more tens of millions of pounds.

Warren Ellis

If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

Malala Yousafzai

I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

Burt Shavitz

What do I need it for, millions of dollars? It just sounds like problems with the IRS to me.

Gary Barlow

We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.

Michael Parenti

The [CIA] Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media operations around the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio and television stations, and wire services, and has partially controlled many more.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.