Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louise Hall

We spoke no German, nor ate any German foods.

Charlie Batch

We were always on the run and just ate whatever was there. We never sat down as a family because we were always on different schedules.

Neel Mukherjee

I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at mealtimes. We ate meat about once a month, if that.

Marc Kleinman

They got knocked into the toilet. My dog ate my homework. Oh, and it ate my pain medication. ... They got stolen.

Dennis Jones

It rained like heck. We toured the farm in a van and sat on bales of hay in a barn and ate country food.

Frank Robinson

It was important for him to go seven tonight. He didn't have a high pitch count, so he should be OK on Sunday. We got our cake and ate it, too, tonight.

Eric Zorn

We probably ate breakfast with you a couple of times and you didn't know that.

Teri Hatcher

I went to a restaurant and sat at the bar and ate by myself. I have my iPad, which is my favorite instrument of all time. I talked to a few people next to me. I'm just trying to be out. It's a little bit scary.

Kym Whitley

Back in the day, we ate fresh; our parents cooked. Now, we're starting to think things are fresh because they're in a can, they're in a box, or they're frozen. That's not fresh. It's difficult to get real fresh.

Louise Leakey

Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.'

Gary Owens

The potential of getting hit from behind is always there. And at night, it becomes so much more difficult to judge the situation.

Rig Veda

The person blessed with a pure mind is noble and he inevitably becomes great and liberates himself from the darkness of ignorance.

Reed Kroloff

When you think that the population of metropolitan New Orleans before Katrina was 485,000 and it's now 150,000, so two-thirds of the city is gone. The question of how to rebuild becomes very difficult.

Nick Park

Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free.

Richard Geist

Whenever you get a traumatic event happening in society, you tend to see certain reactions to it, such as irritability, depression, confused thinking and sleep problems, ... In that context, rational decision-making becomes very difficult. People tend to begin to let their thought processes be guided by their anxieties.

Ai Sugiyama

Whenever we have the Olympics or the Fed Cup, our schedule becomes very tight and I couldn't play the last couple of years. Everything is fine with me this year.

Eric Goldstein

When folks find out the garbage is from New York, all of a sudden it becomes even more of a political issue.

Jason Calacanis

Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.

Antonio Tabucchi

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

David Emerson

We are pleased with this decision because it reflects the position we have maintained all along. The United States can no longer claim that its measure is WTO-consistent.

Adam Ereli

There are claims of responsibility. They're really, quite frankly, hard to verify. I wouldn't be able to tell you that we know who's responsible at this point.

Bill Nye

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

Wayne Allen

We have no suspects and nobody has claimed responsibility at this time,

Membathisi Mdladlana

We want issues related to compensation and pension claims to be addressed urgently since we do not want to see families of these workers starving.

Bill Maher

You can't claim you're for peace if you're not willing to disturb it.

Norman Finkelstein

I don't claim to know Israel. I don't speak Hebrew; my contacts are pretty limited. But I didn't know Vietnam; I didn't know Nicaragua, El Salvador or Honduras. It doesn't mean you can't reach your conclusions.

Gareth Peirce

We express incredulity that the senior police officer would have made extravagant claims from the outset without first informing themselves of the true facts.

Jeb Bush

There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.

Doug Barry

We want people to see us as part of the cultural vitality of the greater Hilton Head area.

Patrick Stump

We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'

Krisztina Nagy

The region needs peace, economic development and real exercise of cultural rights for Kurds.

Stephen Lewis

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

Tom Lake

Working there, excavating, is truly like taking a ride in a time machine as you uncover cultural artifacts that see the light of day for the first time in thousands of years.

Steve Biko

We regard witchcraft, as part of the mystery of our cultural heritage

Tim Callahan

It's just another instance where the cultural wars are going to be fought out in our classrooms.

Stephen Perkins

It's a side of museums that many people don't see and sometimes don't understand when they see it in your budget. It's something that happens out of the way and it's not flashy but we're ensuring the long-term health of the cultural legacy of the area.

Stan Perkins

It really starts with the day Elvis Presley went to Sun Studios to record a song for his mother. Sam Phillips didn't like his singing, but a secretary did and kept his phone number. Sam Phillips said one day he needed a white kid who could sing black, and she had Elvis' number in her drawer.

Brandon Johnson

It only gets called if the officials see it. I saw it. I had to hold Elvis back. But the right people didn't see it, so Vick got to keep on playing.

Bruce Springsteen

See, I was nine years old when I saw Elvis on 'Ed Sullivan', and I had to get a guitar the next day. I stood in front of my mirror with that guitar on. . . and I knew then that's what had been missing.

Kenneth Blackwell

And what I've told people today is that Elvis is dead, and I'm not gonna fret over Jesse Jackson's misinformation and confusion.

Brian Billick

Elvis was very interested and wanted to go out of his way to get a familiarity with me, and me with him,

Jerry Leiber

Elvis was incredibly cooperative. He would try anything. He wasn't a diva, no prima donna. When it came to work, he was a workhorse.

Jack Soden

Elvis sells all over the world, and that's where the real opportunity for growth lies for us, to take more of Elvis and Graceland out to the world,

Mike Pierce

Elvis is an icon in Nevada in his own right. It is a very unique day. How often do you get to see Elvis on skis?

Grayson Robbins

We're planning a tournament to take place during the Elvis Presley Festival. We hope it's going to be one of our larger tournaments, since it happens during the festival.

Ron Pollack

It's the equivalent of throwing a 10-foot rope to someone in a 40-foot hole.

Andy Ramirez

It's the equivalent of running a goal-line defense. It makes no sense at all.

George Campbell

It is really disappointing and that fine is the equivalent of three weeks wages for our total squad.

Donna White

Or it's the equivalent of going to the moon and back four times.

Rick Smolan

Do you realize the FBI filing system from the '50s was much more secure? How could you have stolen that data? It was on notecards. Now someone with a thumb drive, or remotely, can take the equivalent of millions of those notecards.

David Sherman

Something roughly equivalent in features could be worth more or less in a different setting,

Terry Lanni

I've said many times, what we are seeing now is the equivalent of last century's Industrial Revolution,

Robert Harris

I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want to buy.

Ronnie Mamba

This is equivalent to the government subsidy for public transport for the next 100 years.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Benjamin Harrison

I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.

Bob Riley

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

Billy Ray Cyrus

All gave some, Some gave all.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

Edgar Lee Masters

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

Charles Schumer

It's Memorial Day. It's important that we remember the sacrifices of the dead,

Dennis Dorman

It was important to her and I wanted to see that it was done. It was kind of a memorial to her.

Paul Wright

As long as any memorial put on the mountain is just a plaque or a stone with a name on it, I can't see any problem with that.

Tom Johnson

The simpler the message, the better the memorial will be.

Michael Bonnette

He's probably sleeping. He hasn't slept for two days, he told me.

Damaso Marte

I think I slept on it wrong. It's not that bad.

Ed Roth

I?m sorry, I haven?t slept in two days.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Armstrong Williams

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

David Remnick

Washington as a Surveyor. We should have been clearer.

Michael Bennet

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

Seth Greenberg

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