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.

Lonnie Bunch

This is too important to fail, because it is holding a nation's--holding a people's--culture in my hands, ... My litmus test will be, Would my ancestors be happy?

Paul Robeson

My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave.

Louise Leakey

It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future.

Jim Walsh

With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench.

Patrick Rose

He used to drive a boat around the lake and pull us behind on inner tubes. He also read campers' mail, from mom and dad and from grandparents. And if someone's mom baked cookies, he would make the camper get up on a chair and jump up and down for them, without telling him why. All of this happened at lunch, in front of everybody.

Chad Smith

I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It's really fun and there's a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium.

Mark McKinney

Then my uncle would give off the smell of freshly baked bread which I love.

Pat Gallagher

The whole thing is low key, low cost, very inexpensive, and at the dinner last year I had the best baked tuna I've had in my life. Some local folks got together to cook for us and did a great job. Just delicious.

Laura Wasser

I think if you're going to be in a relationship with someone, you need to be able to share the responsibility, the knowledge, the worry. It's not like it was when our parents or their parents were having lives where the mom just baked bread, and the husband worried about it, and the wife didn't know there was any problem.

Scott Fujita

The first time I had a baked potato, I was eight years old at a friend's house. Most white kids growing up have a baked potato every day. I didn't even know what to do with it, how to open it. I was the only white kid in high school eating octopus.

Julia Cameron

Life is a creative endeavor. It is active, not passive. We are the yeast that leavens our lives into rich, fully baked loaves. When we experience our lives as flat and lackluster, it is our consciousness that is at fault. We hold the inner key that turns our lives from thankless to fruitful. That key is "Blessing.

Ray Murphy

Well I mean it's a great recipe. I mean it's the ground beef, it's marinated with a little red wine. We've got the vegetables in there, got our champ, which is our garlic mashed potatoes baked on top.

Jonathan Eunice

While perfectly ready for prime time today, there are still some ingredients that have not yet been completely baked and the process of evolution is still underway.

Derek Parra

He just floats on his skates. It's like God lifted him up when he was born and said, 'You're going to be a skater.

Sufjan Stevens

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

Phil Harrison

There are the born teachers who just want to do it. People will do it because they want to put something back into the community. Or they will have a passion for what they do and want other people to share that passion.

Laura Schlessinger

Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.

Emily Dickinson

Had I not seen the Sun, I could have borne the shade, But Light a newer Wilderness, My Wilderness has made

Jeffrey Kluger

I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

Carlo Rubbia

I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

Daniel Gibson

I think what happened opened his eyes. Something you love can be taken at any time. He's borne that out through the season. He came out motivated.

Spanish Proverb

I wept when I was born and every day explains why

Tom Schrader

We're primarily up because we're oversold and oil is down. The breadth is decent, but the volume is low. There's just not much of a catalyst to move us.

William Cobbett

Without bread all is misery.

Kathleen Ligocki

Renee brings tremendous breadth of experience to Tower. Her energy, insight, and international depth will be crucial as Tower Automotive emerges from reorganization and continues to grow as a successful global automotive supplier.

Wayne Worner

Part of the price of maintaining community schools is that you don't have the richness or breadth of curriculum that other places may have.

Chris Jackson

PC-Duo v4.0 is the most extensive and comprehensive update to our flagship product suite in years. New and existing customers will notice a dramatic improvement in the breadth of depth of enhanced product capabilities, all in the same high-performance, scalable and flexible desktop management offering we've had for years.

Sydney Smith

All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.

William M. Thackeray

. . . it tastes well, the bread which you earn yourself.

Henry Rodriguez

They have separated families, and they took their bread and butter. Why didn't they wait until something happened up in Congress? Families are devastated. It is a very terrible situation.

Game McGimsey

Oh, my goodness, yes, this is what we live to see. This is our bread and butter. We study this. To see it actually happening is just so exciting.

Lamar Butler

He crossed his legs. He folded his arms. He was just talking like it was a normal conversation.

Gwen Stefani

L.A.M.B. is a fashion line that -- fingers crossed -- will just get more and more sophisticated, ... What's different than what's out there is the way I put things together. And, if you look inside the pants, you'll find secret details in there.

Whoopi Goldberg

I think actually there's another young lady who would like to do it and so I've got my fingers crossed for her. I think it's Ellen. I think she would be good.

Adrian Aucoin

If there is any doubt, normally you go upstairs. He's not giving us any leeway. That's accountability on his part. You gotta be a man about it. Clearly, everybody thought it crossed the line.

Atharva Veda

By His Grace, servant Nanak has crossed over this terrifying world-ocean; I am united with my Beloved.

Vijay Batra

around two dozen stranded passengers have crossed into our side. They are being sent home.

Raziq Bugti

An anti-tank mine was planted in a stream and when the vehicle crossed the water there was a very heavy blast.

Greg Smith

All of us are, I guess, in our 40s except for one of us that just crossed the great divide (into 50).

Rob Enderle

They have completely crossed over into La-La Land.

Billy Joel

I thinking of people like Phil Ramone or George Martin,

George Kell

Changes your life, getting into the Hall of Fame. For the rest of my life, I'll be known as Hall of Famer George Kell.

Ben Jonson

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith.

Kweisi Mfume

Our minds are open, ... I reached out to George Bush. I wanted him here.

Eddie Jones

If you remember back in 2000, Sam had an outstanding season with Queensland and was really pressuring George for the Wallabies spot.

Will Wright

Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.

Fred Hartsfield

I hope I have had an impact. I'm very impressed with George and how hard they play.

David Elliot

They don't have much in the way of legal resources remaining other than a clemency petition to President George W. Bush.

Billy Donovan

It's teams like George Mason that give so many people hope in their lives, just seeing what great things can be accomplished.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

Winfield Scott Hancock

Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.

Kathleen Blanco

These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will.

Diane Ravitch

You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops.

Tim Walz

My first mission is to take care of our troops. I take that mission very personally.

Richard Myers

It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat.

B. F. Skinner

We've never done anything like this before. It's going to be difficult, but we'll be there as long as the troops need us.

Katherine Jenkins

No-one had anticipated troops being there as long as this.

Erwin Rommel

There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.

Seth Greenberg

Deron Washington is a wonderful kid. What he did was wrong and I can't condone it.

Armstrong Williams

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

David Remnick

Washington as a Surveyor. We should have been clearer.