Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Johnson

As brothers go, I'd say that if we weren't twins, then we were pretty much damn near close.

Denis McDonough

As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.

Mel Sachs

The brother is doing everything possible to get control of the estate and knock Diane Wells out.

Jim Seals

Back in December I decided to become a donor. Two factors swayed me. My brother-in-law received one from his dad; he lasted four and a half years until he died of pneumonia, ... I was very close to him for a brother in law. That was 30 years ago, and it's still in my mind after all these years.

Rodriguez Zapatero

As long as I can remember, I had long conversations with my father and brother about politics, law or literature in the evenings.

Nancy Cooper

Our families are safe. My brother doesn't know if he has a house any more, but he'll be OK. There are so many people with so many problems, we just need to do anything we can to keep this in front of people. That's what the ribbons are all about.

Robert Brusca

People don't look at economic data. But they know their own firm, they know if it's solid, they know if it's hiring and if people are getting raises. Even if they're not looking for a job, they know what's going on with their brother or sister or friend's job search. That's what makes these surveys powerful.

Kyle McDuffee

Colin did well and his brother Casey had a strong day. Lee did well, my captains all produced today.

Tim Vine

Apparently, 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese. And there are 5 people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother Colin. Or my younger brother Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Harry Lapow

a freak in my neighborhood. My father wasn't interested in sports.

Charles Flynn

a friend, counselor, father figure, and a true gentleman.

Salim Ahmed

After I got news of the stampede, my wife and I could not sleep throughout of the night. We tried till 1 a.m. to talk to my father but could not get through.

Robert Thompson

Thank God that somebody did find it. I grew up with her father -- we all kind of grew up together -- so I've known them forever.

Atharva Veda

Save me, O My Father God. I am worthless and without virtue; all virtues are Yours.

Quincy Jones

I've never looked back in my life. I don't want to see that stuff. I had blanked out a lot of stuff ... putting my mother in a straitjacket, my father holding her down, screaming.

Bill Snyder

I've not been the kind of father that I should have been, and the kind of husband,

Andrew Solt

It was the true father of all the variety shows.

Kathy Collins

Any time a person intentionally strikes a law enforcement officer we take it very seriously. It's a felony. It's a very brazen act. It's not tolerated.

Roger Butler

Back then it was part of life. Today, they want to make another law.

Sam Gerdano

People think the (bankruptcy) law is going to be repealed on Oct. 17. It's not.

Terry Palmisano

People seem to think we say to kill it, that that's our first recommendation. But it's not....We always look for another way. But in the end, the law does say we can kill the animal.

Antonin Scalia

Antitrust law is not there to protect the merchant, but to protect the consumer,

Don Roberts

The self-employed person can't just go to the end of the year and say here's how much I owe. You are required by law to make payments during the year.

Velimir Ilic

No way are we going to settle for a run-off, and that is now the law for everyone in this country.

Mike Graves

Sometimes that's the only law you can find.

Goldwin Smith

Roman law in the same manner was a rule of expediency, rightly or wrongly conceived, with comparatively little tincture of religion.

Lord Chesterfield

Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.

Arthur Conan Doyle

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

Carl Sandburg

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Bryant H. McGill

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Bryant H. McGill

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Charles Clarke

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

Jane Austen

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Anton Chekhov

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

Dana Gioia

Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.