Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Lilley

I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, 'No, it's for me.'

John Harrison

We have victims from around the country, as well as from outside the country. They (scam artists) promise the world, but can never deliver. They victimize communities; they victimize families and the elderly in particular,

Jane Fonda

I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

Orson F. Whitney

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

Jaclyn Smith

Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.

Tony Judt

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

Harry S Truman

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know

Lindsey Graham

What would you like history to say about you when it is all said and done,

Alec Reid

history will prove that this is the end of the IRA.

Leonard Teitelbaum

History indicates that less than 10 percent of the meat recalled over a time period such as this is actually returned,

Brian France

I think it's going to go down as an important point in our history. And I know they're (BEGIN BRACKET) Toyota (END BRACKET) looking at it from a long-term view.

Larry Hughes

It hurt. That initial sting and me having the history of it you have to make sure everything is good.

Giorgio Rocca

It is a big honor to have my name in the history of skiing.

Tony Buzan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Jose Bergamin

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Jonathan Swift

From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.

Henry David Thoreau

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

Muriel Rukeyser

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Muriel Rukeyser

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Nikki Giovanni

ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter....

Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

Margaret Atwood

poetry is where the language is renewed.

Jayme Braasch

I'd do about anything for her, she is pretty much the sister I have never had.

Willa Ford

My major influence was my ten years older sister.

Jodi Picoult

I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words.

Marilyn Monroe

Just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.

Marilyn Monroe

Sisters make the best friends in the world.

Natalie Wood

Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.

Pam Brown

It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.

Oprah Winfrey

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

Marcel Carne

My father's sister never married in order to raise me.