Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesse Moore

Back in 1957, African American teachers were a dime a dozen.

Jesse Jackson

The tallest tree in the history of African American journalism has fallen, but has fallen gracefully. The tree that stood tall for over 60 years and a tree that planted a forest, a tree with widespread limbs and full of fruit. He connected to Africa and African Americans. He shared the pain of Emmett Till, the development of Martin Luther King Jr., and was a source of information and inspiration. He was the number one black publisher for 60 years. His impact had been felt through the whole world of journalism.

Steve Jones

This is a process, not an event. It's not going to happen over night. It's clear that we as African American men are unique and only we can articulate what it's like to attend a private college. But all of us would also agree that it was worth it, that we are successful today because of it.

Milton Bradley

This is a special moment for baseball, a special moment for African Americans. Just like it is every time April 15 comes up. I think last year was really special because I was wearing the uniform that Jackie wore.

Joyce Banda

It's heavy, but I am able to carry it. Why? Because I'm an African woman. An African woman carries heavy loads anyway. That's how we are trained; we are brought up that nothing is unbearable. I use that now, positively. I use that now to have the thick skin that I have, and not fear, and move forward, and push; and push forward.

Eric Holder

While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where he was in uniform, and was told that African Americans, blacks, Negros, were not served. And in spite of that, I've never known a man who loved this country more than my father did.

Kgalema Motlanthe

I know exactly what I will do. I will go and work with the Congress of South African Students.

Ryk Neethling

What happened when we won that relay in Athens was the beginning of something great. We were a surprise package. No one expected us to win or to break the world record. I think it changed a few things in South African swimming.

Thabo Mbeki

Throwing money at African governments is not the answer,

Liu Xiang

I hope to be at the starting line of the finals at Athens and win a medal at Beijing,

Rick Barnes

Back in the beginning of the season when I was looking at the schedule I knew it was going to be a tough finish for us.

Dwyane Wade

Our defense is coming along. We're getting our rotations down. The communication is better. The main this is we're all beginning to understand what everyone is doing.

Joey Kalmus

People should not judge us on where we stand at the beginning of the season. If we start 3-7 in our first 10 games, it's OK if I see promise.

Brad Cashman

An unintended consequence of such liberalization has been the often-reported blending of the dark-colored home-team jerseys and the light-colored visiting-team jerseys, creating confusion on the part of players, officials and spectators. Beginning in 2010, that confusion should be eliminated.

Linda Pagnella

Some people say it's the beginning of the social season, whatever that means. It has normally been scheduled around the end of January/Valentine's day, so people do mark it on their calendars around this time of year.

Ned Colletti

This is one of the proudest days of my life, if not the proudest, ... From humble beginnings ... I find myself in one of the greatest places, Dodger Stadium, with one of the greatest franchises of all-time.

Marshal Cohen

This is the beginning of the disappearing tag. Smarter merchants are trying this, and if it's done right, the design inside romances the product even more.

Julie Davis

This win gives us a new start to beginning our season. We will use this to help propel us into conference play in a couple of weeks.

Robert Whiteley

There are ways to reduce you operational burden if you do it from the beginning. The no-no is not planning or budgeting for it.

Bill Belichick

Any time a player goes from one system to another, one thing that could be a problem is breaking old habits. It's not that you don't understand what the new responsibilities or plays are, but just the fact that you've been doing something a long time - it's a habit - and that's not what's required in the other system. And that means kind of undoing something before you can even start to do something new.

Jim Leljedal

As far as we can tell at this point, those men had a right to be at that corner, they weren't breaking any laws. They had a right to have guns in their pockets and they may have been justified in returning fire.

Dave Lambert

As far as I can see, this looks a complete dog's breakfast of a clause as it fails to consider that many so-called 'hacker tools' have perfectly legitimate uses.

Merab Mamardashvili

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

Jessica Leonard

People who don't eat breakfast are twice as likely to be obese.

Chris McKay

Operating in one community doesn't lend itself to a big TV buy. You get a broad reach, but it's cluttered. The challenge is breaking through...intercepting consumers where they shop or are entertained communicates that we are a local company investing to give them more TV and broadband choice.

Chris Cichocki

During the break for the Olympics (in the NHL), there's certainly a chance we might get some players.

Matt Sayers

During the afternoon, the clouds break up and the sun returns.

Karen Bell

During spring break we take a family trip, but this year they're on their own.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

Lanny Wadkins

The thing that put the question mark in a lot of people's minds was the swing change. I, like a lot of other people, questioned it just for the fact that if you think back to all the great players from Hogan to Snead to Nicklaus, Palmer, Watson and Trevino . . . none of those guys ever changed their swing to get better.

Michael Solomon

Technology has changed how people feel about sharing their identity.

Jim Anderson

Your communication with them -- NBC -- and the forwarding of this negative information to them changed the way they think.

Elton John

I'm a great lover of children. I never thought that one day I'd actually be a father, but I'm very pleased that I changed my mind. Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.

Katharine Towne

Yoga changed my life. I go between 4 and 6 times a week. It's incredibly grounding and an intense level of focus.

Karen Traviss

Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate learning experience.

Jim Yong Kim

Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.

Kathleen Sebelius

American research and resources have literally changed the face of humanity, by tackling deadly and once-deadly diseases.

Robert Vincent

People are very sad. Our people called and gave because they knew it would be there for generations. We just never expected this.

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

O. Winston Link

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

Thuy Trang

We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify.

Daniel Barcelo

While the refining outlook is expected to remain highly profitable through 2007, the equities have for the most part priced this in.

Hector Ruiz

We had a fourth quarter that was better than most people expected and, frankly, a little healthier than we expected.

Brendan Shanahan

We expected a big challenge. We knew we were going to have to win a game on the road. We've proven we can this season.

Pierre Littbarski

We are under much more pressure now because they made the grand final. It's a very complicated game for us because we're expected to win and they have nothing to lose.

Mitch Moore

We scored five goals in about 14 minutes, which is kind of what I expected to happen.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Jim Davies

A few points here and a few points there and the score could have been 5-4 for Iowa Falls-Alden/Hampton-Dumont.

Paul Feasby

A few played for other teams, and we had some turn out for the reserves, but hopefully this will be a fresh start after all that's happened off the field in the past two to three weeks.

Jan Popa

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

Stewart Cink

A few people called in about something that happened out there in the waste area,

Gerard Hopkins

A few other little things; some in sprung rhythm, with various other experiments.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Steve Kerr

This ranks right up there, ... Right up there at the top with anything that happened with the Bulls.

Terrell Owens

When I haven't been outside signing autographs, I've been on the inside (rehabilitating) my groin. And that's what happened today.

Colin Anderson

She was there when her mom died. She saw what happened to her mom.

Dan Reeves

because of what happened to us last year.

James Doe

I don't remember. It happened a long time ago.

Amy Martin

From the time that he died, something happened a week or so earlier.

Reuben Droughns

For me, this is like my cathedral. But I wasn't using what happened to me as motivation. I just poured my heart and soul into it.

Brian Dawkins

For me, what happened this year, with this team, with all the injuries and stuff, I can't put too much into it.

Kim Phillips

They're competitors. They compete. The medley relay time is a consideration all-American time. That's great.

Larry Coker

There's always been talent in South Florida, it just didn't stay here.

Brad Paisley

I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.

Carroll Quigley

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

Mark Shields

John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.

Cal Brown

Ah, to be young and in love, in Southern California.

Joe Tex

Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.

Mike Colter

You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.

Luke Grimes

I'm so southern Ohio. And Cleveland is a different world, you know?

George Mason

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

Kent Evans

It wouldn't surprise me if there are more in the future,

Vance Taylor

It wouldn't surprise me if one were Target.

Jeremy Trill

Things are going very well. I am surprised how well it's going.

Frank Sacks

This is really groundbreaking. We were very surprised by this data.

Irv DeGraw

This is the big surprise of the day, but it's unclear why it's happening.

Brett Favre

Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.

Carnie Wilson

I can be a lady - surprise!

Dan Garton

Do they like what we're doing? No. Are they surprised by it? No.

Steve Smith

We weren't surprised by any of them. We were just surprised by so many of them. In my recollection, that's the most anomalies that's ever come up.

Michael W. Smith

Is it going to win an Oscar? Probably not.

Bai Ling

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

Art Buchwald

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

Benito Mussolini

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.

Brian Blessed

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

Jamie Foxx

I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

Buster Keaton

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Al Franken

When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.

James Beattie

Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.

Frances Chaney

It would be just too embarrassing if we won again.

Daniel Handler

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

Cloris Leachman

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

Aristotle

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

Albert Einstein

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

Christopher Walken

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

Anne Rice

My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself

Confucius

If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?