Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Cain

I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American.

African Proverbs

Dogs do not actually prefer bones to meat,it is just that no one ever gives them meat. Akan proverb, West Africa

Robert Harris

It was a minor injury. He was running when it happened. We took him to hospital in South Africa because we just wanted to make sure he was okay, and that done, he is now back to work.

Carsten Fritsch

It's likely to be another difficult year for the rand. As the yield gap narrows, that will make it more difficult for South Africa to attract the investment it needs.

Gerry Adams

It's good to be here with your heroes and heroines. South Africa has been a beacon for freedom-loving nations, and what you have here is not only about the past but also about the future.

Derrek Lee

It's easy to take a team like South Africa lightly because we didn't know anything about them. But we didn't and we played well today.

Phil Lilienthal

When the whites ruled South Africa they displaced three to four million people from their land. Pre '94 it was pretty tough, we mostly work with kids from that area.

Mo Ibrahim

Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are we going to stand up on our feet?'

Mo Ibrahim

I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism.

Tony McCoy

Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world.

DeLoss Dodds

It was a minor mistake and the money was paid back to the university out of his own pocket. Still, it is a violation.

Jon Rauch

It was a very minor surgery. It was more a cleanup than anything else. It wasn't like a labrum or rotator cuff tear. I bounced back quickly and I'm ready to go.

Brenda Ueland

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

Barry Eichengreen

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

Jane Smiley

The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.

bell hooks

In 2014, when Hillary Clinton was not yet running for president, I stated that I was not in agreement with her politics. More recently, when asked my thoughts about Hillary Clinton during a public conversation with Gloria Steinem, I stated, "she embodies the very best of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't vote for her."

Diana Vreeland

All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.

Brian Regan

I like to go on stage with a variety, with some stuff that's been around for a handful of years, some stuff from the last year, some stuff is from last week, and some stuff is brand spanking new. Those are the moments that excite me - when I'm coming up to a brand new bit. The more virgin the snow, the more fun it is to run on.

Blaise Pascal

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Dennis Quaid

Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate.

Dee Dee Myers

In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They didn't buy his alleged concern for the middle class.

Carroll Quigley

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

David Sibley

They talk about Southern hospitality, but Southern hospitality has nothing on this place,

Frances Townsend

Two in South Asia, two in Southeast Asia.

John Thomas

By this afternoon, I'm sure there will be some emergencies.

Gar Heard

He'll be back, I am sure he'll be back.

Tom Fisher

He's a veteran quarterback. I'm sure he'll be on top of his game.

Chance VanGundy

I thought for sure we were a top-10 team in our district.

Bob Shoop

I'm not sure what to make of them.

Bob Brenly

I'm pretty sure Tony has already been ejected from this ballgame,

Jim Ryun

I'm sure there will be more things done before it's over,

Becky Hale

I'm sure there's something out there. I'm just not sure where.

Richard Baldwin

I'm sure there's going to be a deal. At a country-by-country level, everyone can win.

Patrick Smith

That play took a lot out of us.

Alice Temperley

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Tom Daschle

He took charge, and it made a big difference,

Hassan Adams

We were well-prepared. It took us a week to get ready.