Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sylvia Pankhurst

A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.

Mark Wigley

Any city that only tries to preserve itself is already dead. The great tragedy would be to embalm New Orleans by simply rebuilding it the way it was.

Tom Vilsack

The state and this city are engaged in a global competition for economic opportunity,

Jerome Forneris

The second year, people outside your city recognize your face. 'I can pick Brett Favre out of a lineup.' The third year, people know your issues and character. 'Hey, Brett Favre , heart of a champion.' That third year, people start to describe you as a person as opposed to a football player. But remember, that's three years of staying at a very high level with your play.

Peter Deblieux

The second wave of disaster is when you welcome the people back and the infrastructure of the city is not in place.

Mayor Espy

The solidarity of this administration will hinge upon continued cooperation from all city employees and positive input from the citizens.

Brian Finegan

The studies that were done don't demonstrate that there will be gridlock. The important thing here is that you can't require one project to solve all the ills that have accumulated in the city and the county over years that are unrelated to that project.

Lambis Nikolaou

The speculation concerning my role during the third voting round in the 2012 (host) city elections are completely without foundation.

Damon Hewitt

The simple request was this: the people who are displaced, let them vote from wherever they are located. Don't force them to come all the way back to New Orleans or to some other city in Louisiana to vote.

Mark Merritt

A disaster of this magnitude ... has never happened on this scale in U.S. history.

Jeanne Salvatore

The one thing about this disaster is there are going to be a lot of total losses. People with standard policies will be getting only what's in the policy.

Herman Frazier

The scope of the disaster is indescribable. I'm sure our fans will respond with overwhelming support and provide much-needed funds for the victims of this catastrophe.

Paul Wolfowitz

The scale of the disaster is so enormous that, frankly, a big part of the effort has to go to figuring what the needs really are.

Tom DeLay

It would be such a disaster ... I think what you see is a combination of gratitude and prudence.

LeBron James

It would have been a disaster if we couldn't win this game after being up by 25.

Bob Pratt

T he whole nation needs to come together and do whatever we can on all levels, so that we can help the people struck by this disaster.

Christine Whitman

This is far and away the worst natural disaster I've ever seen. Many people are just not going to be able to get into their houses for months.

Thad Cochran

This is going to be the most expensive natural disaster that's hit the United States in history. It's really quite phenomenal.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Dave Chanley

Other people stepped up, and we got enough production to win.

Ben Gordon

Other people may be surprised, but I always thought I should go No. 1.

Patrick Taylor

Other people could come up with different models.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Nick Kamberis

People scoff at that, but they're legit. We sent his tape out and all 122 are on there.

Sarah Waters

People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now, just as Dickens was writing about his society.

Edwin Whipple

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Cam Newton

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

Reba McEntire

We did, Monday, a read-through, the first act; Tuesday, the second act. And then we did two shows.

Charles R. Swindoll

First impressions never have a second chance.

Bear Bryant

Don't give up at halftime. Concentrate on winning the second half.

Milan Baros

We were down psychologically after that second goal, but there was still so much time to play,

Keith Andrews

We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter, I thought was huge.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

There is so much more than second thoughts in that affidavit.

Vanna Bonta

What appears to us solid is ultimately both a particle and a wavelength, and on that realm everything behaves as both a particle and a wave.

Elaine Chao

The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known,

Chester W. Nimitz

If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh.

David Byrne

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

Stein Vaaler

We welcome this decision. We think this is fair.

Charlie Ward

He said, 'You're welcome to come on full-time now,'

Walter Wriston

Capital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated.

Yang Yang

You come. You will be very surprised. I will be there to welcome you.

Paul Singer

You have got to welcome and embrace complexity.