Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Charlton

I've been asked about that goal every day for the last 40 years. We didn't have the technology back then to show whether it was a goal or not, which led to the controversy. I'd like to think one day we'll have the technology to show whether or not it was a goal.

Ellen DeGeneres

When I asked her what she missed the most right now she said, 'My friends. I don't know where my friends are,' ... Tonight, let's show people on the Gulf Coast that they have friends all over the world . . . to give them shelter from the storm.

E. Hicks

When I moved out here during the late '70s, I had a neighbor who was a farmer who asked me 'What do you produce? ... I said, well, I don't produce, I publish, but he meant, you know, 'Do you grow tomatoes?'

Nicole Brown

We also asked the congregation to write family bios and a brief message to the future congregation of 2105. Also included is a gift to that congregation, an engraved Wedgwood crystal bowl.

Craig Stevens

We already know that the true capacity of Yucca Mountain is significantly greater, that's why we've asked for a change in the law.

Chad Caldwell

We already heard talks of it happening so we had a public computer sit out in a lobby and asked people to vote. When they sat down to vote, most of them couldn't because it said they already did.

Dirk Koetter

Everybody had their doubts if Rudy was ever going to be able to play, and he's been awesome in this whole camp. I love the way that guy's worked. He's improved everything we asked him to. I hope nothing happens to Sam, but you've got to have more than one guy.

Dallas Baker

Everybody else would take the chance to go to college. They look at the Marines as some hard-nosed stuff you can't make it through. I asked him about it and he said if he had the chance he'd do it again. He said it was one of the best experiences he ever had.

Marcus Miller

Everyone was talking about her and telling me I had to check out Donny's daughter, ... I had a gig in Japan at a festival and I wanted to bring in something new, so I asked her to perform. She was just so musical, so fantastic. Every once in a while she would hit one of those notes that would make you think of her father. We've been working together off and on since then.

Shelby Seyrafi

They grew at 14 percent. That's very impressive. I expected them to grow at 12 percent.

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Michel de Montaigne

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Joshua Simmons

I love history. I'd like to find more about the history where I live at.

Ken Smith

That's a lot. It was one of the most we've made in my history.

Bobby Jindal

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

Nathaniel Philbrick

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

Leon Krier

Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history the size of rural or urban communities.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Hjalmar Branting

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal

Adam Savage

Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.

Maya Angelou

At our best, we're all teachers

Meg Whitman

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

Max Beerbohm

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

Max Brooks

I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.

Matthew McConaughey

A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.

Maria Montessori

The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

Maria Montessori

The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this is the book of the teacher; this is the book which must inspire her actions . . .

Maria Montessori

In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet; they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit.