Famous Quotes & Sayings

Telly Savalas

I'm a proud Greek. I carry my Hellenism like a badge of merit.

Scott Turow

I think the first serious novel that interested me was The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane.

Brian Tucker

When they practice, our new kids are practicing with some of the best kids in the state of Ohio. Those people get on them and encourage them. It's a badge of honor to run in the front with a group like that.

Asif Kapadia

In a film called 'Senna,' the clue is in the title, and we have a Brazilian badge on our sleeve as we were making it. We were making it from Senna's point of view, with Senna narrating it.

Juliette G. Low

You wear the badge to let people know that you are prepared and willing to be called on because you are a Girl Scout.

Gary Brewer

The driver of the Jeep slowed down and Thomason got out of his car with his gun and showed the driver his badge and demanded that he step out of the Jeep.

William Shakespeare

Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

Mohandas Gandhi

The badge of the violent is his weapon, spear, sword or rifle. God is the shield of the non-violent.

Howard Wu

You tell people, 'I'm an orange badge at Microsoft,' and pretty much everybody in the tech industry knows exactly what that means. It's practically a subculture in Seattle.

Goran Ivanisevic

He is strong in the head. You can't win a junior Grand Slam and knock out the world's No. 25 player in your first senior tournament if you're not strong in the head.

John Whitehead

We are going to open up Monday at 7 a.m. and we are going to stay open until 12 p.m. Tuesday. After that, we are going to reopen Wednesday at 7 a.m. and have our grand opening just as we had planned and stay open for 24 hours.

Charles Darwin

There is Grandeur in this view of life,

Lindsay Davenport

I want to win this title again. I think that you are really, at the end of the day, judged on how many Grand Slam titles you have, and probably how many titles you have.

Ernie Els

I'd like to win the Masters and the PGA and complete the career Grand Slam.

Richelle Mead

Was it weird having a witch grandma? Scary? Was she always, like, threatening to cast spells if you were bad?" "Most of the time she just threatened to send me to my room." "That doesn't sound so scary to me." "That's because you haven't met her.

Richelle Mead

When she left for a third time and returned with a giant box, I started to get irate. "What is this?" I demanded, taking it from her. It felt like it had bricks in it. "Grandmother needs you to carry some things," Paul told me. "Yes," I said through gritted teeth. "I sort of figured that out fifty pounds ago.

Russell Baker

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

Russell Baker

It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.

Julie Bell

We're one of 189 agencies, nationwide, to receive it this quarter.

Richard McGinn

I think we're doing a lot of things well, and I think it's been received well on the street, ... Street Sweep.

Christian Winthrop

He has received a lot of support from Yonkers and Westchester. A lot of them were contributions that were under $200 that were not itemized.

Victor Chayet

Recent generations didn't receive telegrams and didn't know you could send them.

Benjamin Franklin

Receive before you write, but write before you pay.

Bea Arthur

If you would have told me ten years ago I'd be doing this and being received like I am now, I'd say you're crazy.

Chuck Clarke

I may have received it, but I probably didn't read it.

Jerry Glover

I have never received one dime. This is all volunteer.

Volodymyr Lytvyn

I have not received the resolution for signing.

Ronald Reagan

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Ronald Reagan

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

Ronald Reagan

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.

Zell Miller

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

Miguel Cabrera

Forget the veterans. They havent told me anything, and they better not come tell me anything, either.

Henry George Bohn

A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.