Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary LaGrange

From a commercial and psychological standpoint, this is five stars. This shows the people of New Orleans their city is back in business.

Gretchen Mol

She finds herself in New York City and she is making a living posing for photographs. A lot of it was her not really crossing the line and looking at what people were doing with the photographs.

Joey Harrington

It is definitely in the back of all of our minds. You see the construction and people getting ready to have a mass of people come to Detroit. What better way to show off the city than having your own team there.

Michael Bloomberg

It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.

Rod Smith

I think this was done a little underhanded. I didn't even hear about any outside proposals until two months ago. After working for the city for 30 years and helping put this whole project together, its like a slap in the face.

Jerome Bettis

I'm so thankful for everything this city has done for me.

Paul Bailey

I'm shocked at the low turnout. I thought we had people in this city that needed jobs.

Mark Rowland

I'm heart-broken to leave the city that I love, ... It didn't have to be this way.

Wayne Bryan

We've told the city that we'd happily like to continue these discussions. One would think that if the city wants to figure out the most efficient management of the building, they'd want input from the people who've been there since its inception.

Henry David Thoreau

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

Rachel Carson

Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.

Rachel Carson

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.

Rachel Carson

For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.

Rachel Carson

Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.

Rachel Carson

The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Sophia Loren

Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature - equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities.

Rush Limbaugh

When the media would call and want to interview me, I thought it was 'cause they really wanted to find out what I thought about things. I thought it was because they really wanted to find out who I am. That's not what they wanted. They already in their minds knew who I was and they didn't like it, and they wanted face-to-face opportunities to expose my defects and my problems and my racism and bigotry and all this.

Thomas Mann

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

Tony Dungy

How you use the opportunities your given to affect the world around you will determine the legacy you leave behind.

Steve Ballmer

I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There's so much opportunity. Let's just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it.

Ron Paul

I'm always looking for an opportunity to bring progressive Democrats together with some conservative libertarian types, because there are places where we can agree.

Sam Rayburn

Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does.

Bobby Jones

During the season on Saturdays, I usually sleep in until about 1.

John Shelby Spong

It's the 21st century, and somebody has to rise from within this faith tradition and retranslate it for the post-modern world. The Earth is not the center of the universe, therefore, God is not a being who lives above the sky, who splits the Red Sea from time to time, or creates a miracle, or whatever.

Joshua Slocum

As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first.

George Washington

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.