Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Banks

I realize many of my ancestors fought so I could have the opportunities I have today, and I appreciate them for the sacrifices they made for us.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.

Michael Specter

If people want to believe that our ancestors were riding around on dinosaurs or that the protracted, increasing, and devastating warming of the Earth is just nature doing its thing - I guess I feel I have more useful battles to fight.

Carl Zimmer

I'm really interested in the history of life in general. How life began to how birds evolved to what our ancestors looked like.

David Brin

Is this a horrible future? Or actually a return to what we've always had in the past? Think of old villages. Everybody knew everything about everybody else. Strangers were intimidating and worrisome. This will be like the village our ancestors grew up in, only with 7 billion people.

Danish Proverb

They brag most of their ancestors who are unworthy of them

It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to head out onto the plains, where some were probably hit by cars

Kim Edwards

I find my husband's family history fascinating, as they can trace the family lineage back to ancestors who fought, and died, in the first battle of the Revolution, as well as to many other interesting people.

Wilbur Wright

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who...looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space...on the infinite highway of the air.

William Warburton

High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.

Harold Prince

I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Nelson Mandela

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

Pietro Metastasio

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

Piers Anthony

We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.

Ovid

Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.

Ovid

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

Dave Mitchell

I would think the pheasant season will be half as good as it was last year, because there are going to be half as many birds out there. You're not just going to be able to walk out on the Game Lands and expect to shoot a bird.

Albert Osterhaus

I think it is a worrisome situation, especially because we think that swans could be an indicator species, meaning that swans are relatively susceptible and so it could well be that other aquatic birds could be infected. Now we have seen it in Greece and Italy and now Germany. It is spreading all over Europe.

Irwin Redlener

Within the next six months, we'll have infected birds in the U.S..

Juan Lubroth

I think that wild birds may introduce the virus but it is through man and man's marketing systems (the poultry trade) that the disease spreads. It is also possible that poultry can transmit the virus to wildlife when they share the same ecosystem.

Juan Lubroth

It is important to underline that there is no evidence that the H5NI virus is present in poultry in Italy. At the moment, the disease remains confined to individual cases in wild birds only.

Dave Mitchell

Later in the season, I think it's going be pretty slim pickings. Pheasant season is ... a stocked, put-and-take situation. Once those birds are dead, they're done and there are no native birds to hunt. That's just the way it is.

Dennis Richardson

He's been both personally quite generous and he's been generous with Birds Eye resources, ... I'm hoping we can tap into more of his time.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

... there is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.

Bill Allen

Our birds are hand-fed by ourselves. Birds don't like to be handled, but hand-feeding is our forte,

Rudyard Kipling

King Solomon drew merchantmen, / Because of his desire / For peacocks, apes and ivory, / From Tarshish unto Tyre.

David Fink

Know what you want. Become your real self.

Keisha Brown

John knows what it takes to win and be a leader. He has the desire to win and he always steps up as a leader. Sometimes in the locker room, I don't need to say what needs to be said because John has already done it for me.

Chris Gordon

J.R. expressed a desire to be a part of something on (The Team) again.

Steve Cleveland

He just lost his desire to play competitively. I have full respect for that. We wish him the very best.

Sigi Schmid

He is the type of player that has a tremendous desire to win. He needs to be an example to our younger players. He needs to be a vocal player, but he can't do any of that until he gets on the field, so first he needs to get healthy.

Dan Gilroy

I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.

Catherine Butler

I think it's just this desire to express themselves to their peers. They want to be accepted, be cool.

Andre Agassi

I threw myself in with eagerness and desire, but it was just too much, too soon.

Jim Gibbs

Jim was a jokester, a great guy and a private pilot. He took flying seriously, that was his passion.

Richard Branson

It already has been through the rigors of flying around the world.

Joker Phillips

He's flying around and looking like his old self.

Kevin Finan

I don't fly as much as I'd like to, but it's one of my passions.

Paul Morris

I can fly before I can drive. I'm ready to get my driver's license.

Michael Hunter

I am living something that I was told for 20 years that I would never be able to do. Hardly a day goes by that I don't get to fly my airplane.

Kyle Wright

He is just flying by guys this spring and making plays.

Andrew Walpole

He'll miss the test and fly to the United Kingdom tomorrow to see a specialist. His availability for the remainder of the tour will be reassessed.

Ed Iacobucci

We can guarantee people if they make a reservation we're going to fly them even if they're the only one on the airplane.

Bertrand Russell

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly

Ciputra

The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.

Max Heindel

An animal takes freely anything that it wishes: it commits no sin and is not held responsible for its action because it knows no better. But as soon as the idea of 'mine' and 'thine' has been imprinted upon our consciousness, then also the responsibility comes.

Lewis B. Smedes

God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.

Madeline Albright

Aung San Suu Kyi should be able to travel freely in her own country,

John Wilson

The support thing from their wives is huge, because they give freely of their time.

Thorne Smith

Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists.

Jean Giraudoux

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Bill Scannell

Never before in the history of our nation has government permission been required to travel freely in our country. It's un-American. It's unconstitutional. It's just plain wrong.

Mary Johnson

He is the same in person as he is in public. He didn't have anything handed to him on a silver platter.

Sofyan Djalil

If the number of weapons handed in doesn't reach 25 percent, let's say only 20 percent, then the number of troop (reinforcements) that will be withdrawn will also be the same, 20 percent,

S. Walker

Any time you have the opportunity ... look, we all realize that we can get our butts handed to us in a heartbeat.

Loretta Ake

They wanted a ransom at that point. Other than that, they handed him over to another group.

Josh Pastner

They kicked our butt last year (in Tucson), and we got lucky toward the end (in Pullman). They handed it to us last year.

Raul Reyes

none of our members would be handed over to other states.

Raul Reyes

None of our combatants will be handed over to another state.

Jared Leto

I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have.

Thaddeus Kennedy

She wasn't burned. But when we handed her over to EMS, she was pretty lifeless.

Don Young

If you had a national highway system set up on tolling you'd never get anywhere.

Og Mandino

Failure is... the highway to success.

James Mason

It's outrageous, ... highway robbery. ... Who can pay on a $200,000 house 15 percent for fees?

Robert Salerno

It made no sense. There is no reason for such a major highway to have such a low speed limit.

As we were driving, we saw a sign that said ""Watch for Rocks."" Marta said it should read ""Watch for Pretty Rocks."" I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!

Liz Walton

They don't know the history of what was here. Highway 100 was unique.

Steve Finley

At least in Phoenix, you can get off the main highways and take side streets to where you want to go. In L.A., you can't. You're stuck.

Justin McNaull

Thanksgiving's the most intense travel period of the year, when you look at the sheer numbers of people taking to the skies and highways in a short period of time. It makes for crowded, and sometimes treacherous, roads.

Attorney Morano

You wouldn't leave your kid on the side of the highway without supervision. You shouldn't put them on the Internet highway without the same type of supervision.

William Shenstone

The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.

Spike Jonze

I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's all relationships.

James Altucher

Infinite patience gets you immediate results.

Epicurus

But the universe is infinite.

Richard Smalley

It turned out that the buckyball, the soccer ball, was something of a Rosetta stone of an infinite new class of molecules.

Poul Anderson

Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.

Leonardo da Vinci

It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.

Arthur Cayley

Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.

Mother Teresa

To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite.