Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Banks

I realize many of my ancestors fought so I could have the opportunities I have today, and I appreciate them for the sacrifices they made for us.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.

David Brin

Is this a horrible future? Or actually a return to what we've always had in the past? Think of old villages. Everybody knew everything about everybody else. Strangers were intimidating and worrisome. This will be like the village our ancestors grew up in, only with 7 billion people.

It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to head out onto the plains, where some were probably hit by cars

Kim Edwards

I find my husband's family history fascinating, as they can trace the family lineage back to ancestors who fought, and died, in the first battle of the Revolution, as well as to many other interesting people.

Shirley Gritz

As he was doing it, he was saying maybe these are some of my ancestors and my people here. It really was something for him.

Nick Clooney

Our ancestors were very smart people. I have a sinking feeling they were much more educated than we, and that they got smarter much younger than we.

John Burnside

Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi.

Paul Lopez

Our ancestors taught them how to sow maize, later how to sow the seeds of this country. And now they treat us like this . . . treat us like criminals. Our people just come here to work.

Rob Oertel

It can be a little slow, and it's not the most popular sport in America. People aren't educated enough about it.

Rick Harris

Whatever it is, it's pretty much an educated guess. That's like saying, 'How many illegal moonshine stills are there in Alabama?' Nobody really knows for sure.

Mick Cornett

If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomethings with choices, you're probably going to succeed.

Masayoshi Son

Being educated in the United States gave me a good understanding of American culture. I think I got a lot of influence from the entrepreneurial mind in the United States.

Thomas Jefferson

the man that reads nothing is better educated than the man that reads nothing more than newspapers

Kiana Tom

Our viewers are very educated, they can tell if I train or not.

Michael Ramsey

They're a well-educated jury, better educated than most.

Philip Dick

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

Youk Chhang

Propaganda doesn't serve the truth. Cambodians and foreigners should be educated about the tragic past but publicity like this is not necessary. Scientific explanation does more to help people understand.

Guillermo Coria

I was losing feeling on the hand, ... It has been happening for four days. I had a lot of treatment...but during the match, the more I serve, the more it gets tight -- the forearm, the shoulder. I knew it could happen. That's just the way it is.

Robbie Grinestaff

I wouldn't say I'm fully recovered. I'm still kind of feeling it.

Jerry Miller

Jordan was feeling a little flat out there. I'm not sure why. We'll sort that out. We've been working pretty hard.

Keith Jones

I talk to them the way I talk to them. Missy talks the way she talks to them. The way Sam talks ? 'You're going to be OK; this is what you're feeling; this is why you're feeling it.' ? is a little different. Then we send them to the pit bulls. They do what they need to do to get it done.

Steve Foley

Guys don't want to feel that feeling again, ... We just have to make sure it motivates us in a positive way.

Bruce Miller

He's a great one. He really is, ... Sorry. This is too good to be true. Here's a kid that lost everything. And we could accommodate, that we could provide him something that he wasn't going to have, it's just a good feeling that comes over you.

Torry Holt

He said he was feeling better. He has a pretty good spirit about things, and that's the most important thing. That helps us. If he's high-spirited, then we can go out and be high-spirited.

Mamadi Diane

He seemed like he was hitting it from everywhere. After he hit that 3 way off the line with the guy in his face, I knew he was feeling it.

David Towne

I think their feelings were that a deal's a deal. But I think they said they would think about it.

Robyn Davidson

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

David Daniels

He's got to be smarter with his pitches.

Tony VanHorn

I think it was a smart move, but not something we would do.

Mel Gardner

He wasn't overpowering like he usually is. He wasn't throwing as hard, but he pitched a smart game.

Robbie Coltraine

Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop.

Truman Capote

Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.

Rick Riordan

He had no idea where the stereotype of dumb giggly blondes came from. Ever since he'd met Annabeth at the Grand Canyon last winter,when she'd marched toward him with that Give me Percy Jackson or I’ll kill you expression, Leo had thought of blondes as much too smart and much too dangerous.

Tucker Max

I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius, and so I wanted to go to the hardest academic school I could to see if I was really as smart as I thought I was.

Tucker Carlson

Politicians are interesting people, most of them are smart and hard-working-I mean, they keep schedules no one else would think of keeping. Some of them live down to the caricature, but most of them are good people and they are charming.

Roger Ailes

I think I have a good eye for talent. I think I'm smart enough to figure out what the mission is and achieve it. I achieve it by hiring good people.

David Daniels

He's got to be smarter with his pitches.

Bob Dylan

Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Education doesn't make you smarter.

Tibor Kalman

You'll never go wrong when you work with someone smarter than you.

Michael Lewis

Why isn't someone smarter than us doing this?

Kevin Heath

I'm a lot smarter than I was a year ago.

William Dugan

We're a lot smarter now than we were in 1999 and 2000.

Brian Billick

I think Marvin would have been the smarter hire, but I'm biased,

Ethan Hawke

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

Larry Brown

I wanted to play some of the younger kids. I didn't think there was a way we were going to get back in that ballgame, the way it was going.

Ruth Rendell

I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Martin Parr

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

Bianca Lawson

I am so lazy. I really don't have a regimen. When I was younger I used to be into cardio and taebo and step-orobics and hiking. Lately, I haven't done anything at all. I'd like to get into yoga, but I've been really bad.

Tamara Ecclestone

When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.