Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sammy Davis, Jr.

When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.

Tom Rooney

My great uncle Pvt. Tommy Rooney, USMC, was killed on Guam during the Pacific Campaign in World War II. I was named after him, so I always thought about him and wearing the uniform. The JAG Corps gave me that opportunity after law school.

Tom Petty

When I met Elvis, we didn't really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sort of grunted my way. What stays with me is the whole scene. I had never seen a real mob scene before. I was really young and impressionable. Elvis really did look - he looked sort of not real, as if he were glowing.

Rick Riordan

My dear children!" Nellie whopped him upside the head with her backpack. "Ow!" Uncle Alistair curled over, cupping his hand over his good eye. "Nellie!" Amy said. "Sorry," Nellie muttered. "I thought he was one of the bad guys.

Rick Riordan

Sadie got up and kissed Amos on the forehead. “Leave it to us, Uncle. I’ve got a plan.” “That,” I said, “sounds like very bad news.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

Renata Adler

My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred because all the suitcases fell off the luggage rack onto him when he was in his teens, and so forth. Death was an acquired characteristic.

Roger Miller

My uncle used to love me, but she died.

Roger Rosenblatt

Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.

Phil Klay

I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.

Ben Macintyre

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

Bashar al-Assad

Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.

Bashar al-Assad

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

Bashar al-Assad

In any war, people will pay the price.

Bashar al-Assad

Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington's approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Bashar al-Assad

In the war, you lose areas, but you recapture another area. So, it is difficult to tell whether you are losing or gaining or it was a standstill. No-one has this answer.

Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

James Payn

Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.

Mary Quant

I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.

Joshua Malina

Now everybody's got a video camera, so go make videos with your friends or see if you can get a part in a film school thing that's being done.

Michael Jones

So she's got that anti-art school thing going on.

Dean Winters

School and I never seemed to walk hand in hand.

James Dodson

The school was only on lockdown for about 20 to 30 minutes.

Rashida Jones

The school reassured us that everything would be replaced.

Kevin Morris

The school is going from 600 to 800 students capacity,

Jeff Kinney

I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.