Famous Quotes & Sayings

Florence Belcher

Another special thing about our bridal show is that we are incorporating cultural wedding traditions into our activities. Greek, African, Pacific Islander, Jewish, Asian and Hispanic cultures will be showcased, because they are traditions that can be shared by all cultures. You don't have to be a member of the African American community to jump over a broom.

S. Walker

Another reason for starting at Constitution Hill is because of the impending same-sex marriage case being heard at the court and because of its link to the South African constitution, the first in the world to enshrine the right to sexual orientation in its Bill of Rights.

Li Changchun

As developing nations, China and African countries are connected by our common experience and tasks, which make us friends under every circumstance,

John Gurdon

As a brand new graduate student starting in October 1956, my supervisor Michail Fischberg, a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford, suggested that I should try to make somatic cell nuclear transplantation work in the South African frog Xenopus laevis.

Abdoulaye Wade

As a disciplined African head of state, I will follow the decisions of the Economic Community of West African States and the African Union on how to resolve the Ivorian conflict,

Nico Kelder

A weaker currency combined with the continued expansion of the world economy could support South African manufacturers to become more competitive on the international market.

Graeme Smith

Australia has always been a scary and daunting prospect for South African teams.

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.

Rod Nilsestuen

As electricity prices continue to rise in Wisconsin and the costs of renewable energy systems continue to fall, a growing number of the state's large farms are implementing anaerobic digestion to reduce their utility bills and improve the environmental performance on the farm.

Bernadette Chiaro

As huge energy bills hit California mailboxes this month, there is no better time to jumpstart a mainstream solar power market. Today's vote promises to eclipse expensive and imported fossil fuels with clean and homegrown solar power.

Jay Alan Sekulow

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

Sam Bodman

As a result of tight oil and gas markets, and the damage done by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, it's likely that consumers will see an increase in their heating bills this winter,

Steve Tasker

The Buffalo Bills are a punch line. We were always the team that couldn't win the big game. But we kept getting to the big game.

F. Stone

As of 2004, the New York State wine industry brings in about $3.3 billion in New York State. It'd be nice to get a piece of that in Jefferson County.

Duaner Sanchez

As long as it ends this way, I'm OK with it. I just wanted to be sure Billy had a lead when he came in.

Jason Napodano

Off the top of my head, $1.3 billion sounds like a lot of money. I think it will be a billion dollar drug but it will take some time.

Mark Hansen

The Senate passes dozens of bills every year to crack down on drunk drivers.

John Caldwell

Any sort of economic data that is going to make the case for solid economic growth but no need for the Fed to raise rates any further is going to be well received. The market is comfortable with one or two more rate hikes, and then a pause.

Raul Gonzalez

A second miracle is happening in the case of Elian. It seems that God is guiding us.

Raul Gonzalez

A second miracle is happening in the case of Elian, ... It seems that God is guiding us.

Bruce Terry

As has been the case with many of the storms in the region this year, it's going to have high winds and heavy precipitation.

Klaus Zumwinkel

Asia, in general, is the growth market. But China is a test case to maintain the growth ... and personally I expect a lot from China.

Geraldo Rivera

As far as I'm concerned, the case is closed. I want everybody to remember who made the factual error and refused to correct it.

Henry Blodget

A settlement as broadly described would represent a positive for the company and stock. Importantly, however, the states have reportedly not yet signed off on such a settlement, and without their support, the case will likely still head back to the district court.

Justin Modray

As a result, you need to keep a close eye on these investments to make sure, for example, the discounts do not pose a threat to performance and the trust is not overly geared. For reasons such as these, advisers tend to shy away in case their recommendations backfire.

Steve Harris

As a practical matter, the case is over.

Patrick Sullivan

A whole holiday about studying the Constitution just sounds like they're pushing, like they're trying to make more national pride and glorify the country, ... If one or two want to do it, that's fine but don't make it a holiday that everyone has to celebrate.

Butch Otter

Our Constitution was put together for a free people.

Jose Mujica

Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.

Rebecca Brown

Yes, there is a topic (the Constitution), but what we have to think about is whether we think it is appropriate for the government to select a topic.

Roger B. Taney

Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory except insofar as the powers of the states in this respect are restrained, or duties and obligations imposed upon them, by the Constitution of the United States.

Pope Theodoros II

The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.

Hoshyar Zebari

We want a good, solid constitution. We don't want to force a deal on any group that they're uncomfortable with.

Alpha Konare

through peaceful means and dialogue within the framework of the Constitution and the law of the country.

Ibrahim Jaafari

We are trying to move from a state constitution to a constitutional state,

Hilly Kristal

As far as I know they will have to take us to court to make us leave. We are going to fight it.

Robin Cook

a Scottish court administering Scottish law under Scottish procedures and Scottish rules of evidence.

Jamal Boykin

At home I had a court outside. Here, I needed something I could play music and shoot around to.

Henry Hyde

As in any court proceeding, witnesses are necessary during a trial so that evidence may be thoroughly weighed and tested before a conviction,

David Crane

Rant and rave at the system, defy the court and then eventually simmer down as the trial moves forward.

Jim Hood

Prior to the trial, a relative of Edgar Ray Killen threatened to kill the trial court judge and other individuals in the courtroom,

Geno Auriemma

Probably another week and a half, (the trainers) said. That's the word that I got, another week and a half. They don't want to rush her back. She did it once. She hurried up to get back on the court because she's been out for so long.

Sandy Wright

Our deal is we are going to be the underdog all year. My goal is that we get better each time we step out on the court and in each practice.

Jacquia Winstead

Of course, we spend a lot of time on the court but off the court, too.

Lauren Fine

Rather than meeting the chef, we heard more from the CFO and even had a review of the financials.

Craig Sher

Sometimes the vocal minority is heard over the silent majority.

Tedy Bruschi

I've talked with a lot of people and heard a lot of opinions,

Douglas Rappaport

I've tried to set up a meeting with them and haven't heard back. So, technically, the ball's in their court.

Tom Snyder

I've never heard of this happening, ... Intentionally shutting down the Internet. That's news.

Edward Meyer

I've never heard of him. He's nowhere in our archive.

Robert Garrity

I've never heard of him, and I've never heard of the writer.

John Fossum

I've never heard of a situation like this before,

Shelton Quarles

I've never heard it so silent in here.

Cherie Blair

No, I don't want to be like Hillary Clinton.

Mary Wilson

I think these are things Hillary has exhibited forever.

Grady Jackson

Spring Hill is one of the oldest communities in DeLand.

James Smith

Midnight, yet not a nose From Tower Hill to Piccadilly snored!

Tommy Tuberville

It doesn't make a hill of beans. I remember being at Miami and I don't think we ever were a Top 10 team (in recruiting) and we won three national championships.

Clifford Heinzer

In 2001 at this time of year, those hills would have been a sea of pink and white.

Gail Devers

I'm 39 but I'm not over the hill yet.

John Hiatt

He's on a mission of mercy to the new frontier, he's gonna check us all on out of here. Up to that mansion on a hill, where you can get your prescription filled.

John McNeil

It's the 'Mansion on the Island' now. You didn't realize how big that hill was until the hill was gone.

Jane Hamilton

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

Shyla Nelson

So in that sense, it's a story that really is vitally linked to a staged situation.

Jeff Gordon

I'm just another link in the chain.

Tony McCoy

I don't like missing links on my CV. I really want to win the National more than anything else but you know what the race is like. Anything can happen." ()

Gen. Hermogenes

It is presumed that they have already linked up.

Mike Price

They don't seem to have a weak link on their team, offensively, defensively or special teams,

Eddie Jones

There may be one or two others that we may rest and they may also be medically linked as well.

David Mitchell

There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Antisthenes

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Barbara Mertz

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

Jane Hamilton

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

Anthony Trollope

That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.

Connie Sellecca

I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.

Susan B. Anthony

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

Susan B. Anthony

I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!

Tracy McMillan

Yes, I have 'failed' at marriage - a lot.

Jamie Newberg

As long as Pete Carroll is there, I don't see any reason why anything is going to change.

David Greenberg

Personalization is one reason the school is so successful.

O. Singh

no real reason you can't all live harmoniously.

Sathya Baba

No season for Love, no reason for Love;

Robert Richardson

Any organization of reasonable size is going to be attacked.

Peter Simonson

Anything she says could be construed as a reason for discipline.

Bernard Cornwell

The one thing I will not do is read other peoples' unpublished work. The reason for that is that it doesn't help.

Al Attles

The most important thing is that they won the game. And that's what I've always said about Wilt's 100-point game. We won the game. ... That's the reason you play.

Claire Danes

It was uncomfortable, I have to say, but I did think that it was relevant and useful, ... Also, it's erotic. There's no reason to pussyfoot around that. I thought it was vital, so I stripped.

Jill Johnston

All women are lesbians except those who don't know it ...

Fiona Apple

For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.

Catharine MacKinnon

If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality.

Jessie J

Sexuality shouldn't define you. It should be part of who you are.

Jessie J

Sexuality shouldn't define anyone. It doesn't define me. Love should be at the core of what you do.

Goldie Hawn

I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.

David Bowie

Sexuality and where it is going is an extraordinary question, for I don't see it going anywhere. It is with me, and that's it.

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.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.

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?

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Greg Knapp

This is the first year that he's starting off in the same offense, healthy, back-to-back.

Jim Lett

You're starting to be real competitive, aren't you?

Brian Tracy

If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now.

Edwidge Danticat

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

Bob Henricks

We are at a better starting place than Sweetwater was.

Dwight Howard

This team is trying to go in a dramatically different direction. We're starting over young.

Gary Sheffield

This team is resilient. We don't quit. Now we're starting to come into our own.

Jeffrey Eisenberg

We feel like we're starting from scratch. The only thing we know is that we don't know anything.