Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Page

Contrary to the dire predictions that have become popular over the last decade, the sky is *not* falling on the Y. This research clearly demonstrates that natural selection has effectively preserved regions of the Y chromosome that have no mechanisms with which to repair damaged genes.

Nobutaka Machimura

The resolution was a clear message representing the international community,

Youssef Squali

What we are not seeing is a clear indication for the 2002 revenue numbers and that will continue to be somewhat of a question mark.

Charles Olson

Whatever you have to say, leave the roots on, let them dangle, And the dirt, Just to make clear where they come from.

Gunter Pleuger

We missed a clear signal that transfer of sovereignty to Iraqis will be accelerated, ... The role of the United Nations, in particular of the secretary-general, could have been strengthened even more.

David Beckham

We will support the manager until he leaves at the end of the tournament. That's clear for the players.

Jack Turner

We went 5-0 out of district and it didn't help us any. Kevin is a heck of a competitor who wants to be out there, but if you're not close to 100 percent, I'm not going to clear it.

Gareth Thomas

We welcome the valuable information and insights that this work provides. It makes clear that importing countries, like the UK, have a key role to play in ensuring that our imports come from legal and sustainable sources.

Kurt Barnard

What's happening is very simple. The numbers we saw today are clear evidence that the American public is shell-shocked to the point of being frightened over a big long list of circumstances surrounding the economy over which they have no power, no control.

Mark Shields

Due to the vast quantity of material, it will take some time to review them all, but so far we have observed no celebrities, no politicians, no senior police officers, members of the clergy, or sporting figures on any of the images.

Angie Martinez

The fact that they're taking this service away is disheartening.

Thomas Hobbes

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Mike Cooley

You know I have not seen people doing back flips about the fact that he's mountain biking. But I think we'll see a few more people getting into it. I know the governor has turned into quite a cyclist, and I think there are other people out there that will probably sample it now that the president has given it a go.

Keith Cooper

We couldn't get over the hump, but I liked the fact that after they got up 25, we battled back.

Mike Holt

He's never complained, and the fact he's never complained and said anything negative through this whole ordeal is inspiring.

Derek Smith

I don't like the fact that someone is in there playing dominoes with their friends while we're out there practicing. I didn't like the fact that they're in there sleeping on the rehab table while we're out there practicing, and then they just come out Friday because they think they're that good and they can come out and play.

John Bisio

I do not know for a fact that any plans have been made.

Michael Walsh

I do have some reason for optimism this year. The fact we've had a relatively mild spring bodes well for the season.

Gil Reyes

He was ready for the battle, but I think we'd be kidding ourselves if we totally ignored the fact that it's a 35-year-old body.

Arabian Proverb

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

Richard Leakey

Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.

T. D. Jakes

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

Harper Lee

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

Iyanla Vanzant

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Rebecca West

Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him, 'In your lifetime, have you known peace?' wait for his answer, shake his shoulders and transform him into his father, and ask him the same question, and transform him in his turn to his father, I would never hear the word 'Yes,' if I carried my questioning of the dead back for a thousand years. I would always hear, 'No, there was fear, there were our enemies without, our rulers within, there was prison, there was torture, there was violent death.

Russell Baker

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.

Umberto Eco

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

Salman Rushdie

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

Irish Sayings

When the fruit is scarcest its taste is sweetest

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Kerry Washington

My understanding of Twitter was that it was a bunch of famous people telling you when they're going to the bathroom. And, that was not something I wanted to be part of.

Mahatma Gandhi

Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

Mahatma Gandhi

A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.

Mahatma Gandhi

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

Mahatma Gandhi

The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.

James Joyce

Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

George Farquhar

How a little love and good company improves a woman.