Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Astaire

People think I was born in top hat and tail

Jason Burke

I feel extremely fortunate to be able to lead this squadron, ... My oldest daughter was born in Meridian and my family just loves it here.

Sathya Baba

Men are born with a helpless lamenting cry; they should die with a smile of happy joy.

Sathya Baba

Mothers of those days were women of great piety and noble character.They practiced virtue and set an example to the children! only from the wombs of such noble women were born sons of high character!

Sara Sheridan

My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an English/Irish/Catholic father, there is no form of guilt to which I was not subjected in my childhood. Members of my immediate family live all over the world - a diaspora of cousins, aunts, uncles and more in a dizzying mix.

Patrick McGreevy

One man said he was born there in 1924 and he was going to die there,

Sarun Chan

One hundred and fifty thousand Cambodian people in the United States now were either born in a refugee camp or their parents were born in a refugee camp. The person that sits next to you in class may be a refugee.

Stephen Bennett

No one is born 'gay' and COMPLETE change is COMPLETELY possible.

John Nugent

Jazz was born in New Orleans, and it's a tribute to Woody's love of jazz that he will perform this benefit.

Charles Eastman

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

Bob Dylan

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Mircea Monroe

When I did that '3 Days of Normal' one, we had no budget, and we were all staying in a house in New Hampshire. There's no trailers, and it's just a family environment. There's not much of a crew; you just do what you need to do.

Malachy McCourt

In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.

Steven Van Zandt

Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

Richard Branson

I've been very lucky. I come from a very close family.

Ryan Lochte

My whole family swims! You can pretty much say chlorine runs in our veins.

Karen Anderson

This shows you that people actually can see that he's not just a number --that he was a man with a family that needs comforting. Even after a year, people are reaching out and that's nice because while our lives go on, Mike's life doesn't.

Thomas Kyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs

Seth Godin

We've had people who were yoga instructors. ... We have a former marine, and we have everything in between,

Candy Olson

We had to get more formal . . . and more transparent. It's not only that we do it well but also that people see it as well.

Amy Tan

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

Ricky Martin

I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right.

Steven Berkoff

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

Michael Haneke

A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation.

Milan Baros

I feel that my form is good, that I can score goals.

Elvis Costello

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

Brent Weeks

It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

Matthew Henry

He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.

William Moffitt

My understanding was that he was to plead guilty this afternoon.

Cindi Measles

Six have pled guilty already. There's two left to go through.

Gene Weingarten

I am not saying Rubin Carter was guilty. I am saying he was very likely guilty.

Patty Onderko

I don't know how many parents are actually doing it, in the midst of all the other things parents have to do. We haven't written about it because we don't want them to feel guilty or pressured.

Andrej Pejic

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

Nikki Giovanni

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Fred Wilson

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

Elizabeth Banks

I got Twitter identity theft.

Trafalgar Square

As soon as the result is known, there will be an immediate announcement.

Phil Goff

What would have to be demonstrated, and hasn't been demonstrated, is that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction and there is a direct, likely and immediate threat that such weapons would be employed,

Vijay Bakaya

Our requirement is for 35,000 tents because winter is approaching and there is an immediate need for shelters.

Richard Durbin

The secretary testified without even indicating to the members of the Senate that this story existed, about to be disclosed to the American people. That is unacceptable.

Rick Nielsen

If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

Thomas E. Mann

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

Jim Moore

As you can imagine, it's been an ordeal for all members of the family.

Norm MacDonald

Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I've seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he's lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.

Theo Rossi

My uncle who helped in a big part of raising me from when I was young, had moved from California, and would just tell me these legendary stories of these motorcycle clubs that he was around and that he used to ride with.

J. K. Rowling

Your aunt and uncle will be proud, though, won't they?" said Hermione as they got off the train and joined the crowd thronging toward the enchanted barrier. "When they hear what you did this year?" "Proud?" said Harry. "Are you crazy? All those times I could've died, and I didn't manage it? They'll be furious...

Woody Guthrie

Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me. He said, "Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea, But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me."