Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marc Morial

I think the important message today is that an ordinary person -- a quiet, humble person -- can ignite a movement,

Rachael Scoggin

Humble is tied for first place, and I think we played them a pretty quality game.

Tommy Moore

He was kind, considerate and a very humble person, but he was a lion in politics.

Rose George

The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.

Roger McDowell

I've experienced every aspect of pitching. I know the reality of what these guys are going through. You can be going good, and the game is going to humble you. But the challenge is how to get through the difficult times.

William Feather

No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.

Rich Mullins

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

Richard Rohr

The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.

William Blake

The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

Rick Riordan

The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

Rick Riordan

Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” Percy called down.

Rick Riordan

The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed cleanthrough her body as if she were made of water. HISSS!

William McDonough

We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.

Sarah Bernhardt

... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.

Sappho

I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.

Rebecca Stead

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

Richard Rohr

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

Richard Dawkins

To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in it, he [Douglas Adams] mimed a wonderfully funny imitation of a puddle of water, fitting itself snugly into a depression in the ground, the depression uncannily being exactly the same shape as the puddle.

Woody Allen

Problems are like toilet paper. You pull on one and ten more come.

Richard M. Nixon

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

Warren Buffett

Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning out his desk, than an American worker earns in a lifetime of cleaning toilets. Forget the old maxim about nothing succeeding like success: Today, in the executive suite, the all-too-prevalent rule is that nothing succeeds like failure.

Joel Madden

I like getting toilet paper thrown at me.

Bob Dylan

I was lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere, I was lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair. I looked way up my chimney hole, I even looked deep inside my toilet bowl.

Andy Warhol

I will go to the Opening of Anything, including a Toilet Seat

Rick Riordan

I didn't understand how. But the toilets had responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing...

Seth Green

The chili I ate made for an explosive bathroom experience. I don't know how to put this delicately, but I missed the toilet entirely.

Jack Kevorkian

I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.