Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Taylor

What I tend to see from people is their wanting their children to appreciate the legacy that's being passed. You can either treat life disrespectfully and be self-centered, or you have a true calling or a passion.

Ralph Reed

What I don't appreciate - and what I'm confident the voters will reject - is the attempt by some of the media and others to engage in guilt by association. To associate me with the misdeeds of others is unfair, it's wrong and it will be rejected at the ballot box.

Hari Kondabolu

I want to write my own stuff, and, you know, it would be nice to put myself in it. But I would like to hope that there are going to be better roles offered as well and that I don't need to do everything. You know, like, I appreciate my career being somewhat DIY, but it would be nice to get some help.

E. O. Wilson

The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on it in ways that people haven't even begun to appreciate. Our existence depends not just on its existence, but its stability and its richness.

Drew Barrymore

When you work in film, you learn to appreciate a distributor. You can have this great little film, but if you don't have a distributor, you are sitting in your living room with a great little film.

Donatella Versace

I've learned how to appreciate what I have. And it's a lot. I'm very lucky.

Douglas William Jerrold

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

Dalai Lama

As human beings we are all the same. We have this marvelous intelligence, which sometimes creates problems for us, but when influenced by warm-heartedness can be very constructive. In this context we need to appreciate the value of having moral principles.

Dalai Lama

Appreciate how rare and full of potential your situation is in this world, then take joy in it, and use it to your best advantage.

Thad Schultz

We hope to have at least 50 kids, somewhere between 50 and 75. The people calling are very excited, very positive about what we did last year.

The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.

Toby Hall

It's such a slow pitch, it catches everybody off guard. I love calling it because I love to see the expressions on the hitters' faces.

Gary Condit

When folks start calling my dad a murderer or suggesting my mom and dad had something to do with the disappearance, that's too much, too far, unfair and it's wrong,

Desi Arnaz

I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille.

Anthony Bourdain

Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

Don Beck

We don't like calling him a janitor. He does way more than that.

Ali Rodriguez

We are not putting pressure on others. We are calling for contributions.

Chopper Mello

We've been calling it Super Tuesday. I spent an hour (Monday) just talking to our kids. I just wanted to get a gauge for where they're at heading into the match.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Barbara Mertz

Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

Ogden Nash

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Celine Dion

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

Ann Romney

I said tonight I wanted to talk to you about love. Look into your hearts. This is our country. This is our future. These are our children and grandchildren. You can trust Mitt.

Toby Britt

Everything happens for a reason. Maybe helping those children will help my own scars heal.

Willy Wonka

everything in this room is edible. yes, i amedible but that, children is called cannibalismand is frowned upon in most societies.

Sandra Dials

Even now, where you have single fathers raising their children too, not just single mothers.

Ron Oliver

Eat a Prime Rib Dinner here to help Feed The Children who are victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Lute Olson

I live in the Foothills and have 13 grandkids who are either going to Foothills schools or have gone through the Foothills schools.

Jose Luis

I have never had either the passion, or the interest, or the circumstances of meeting him, it's very curious, I guess these are the necessary paradoxes that lead one to be prime minister of the government.

Olivier Rochus

I have never been so disappointed. It could have gone either way. It was that close.

Brent Ibata

If either of these two (proposed) schools had been in the northern part of the district, I probably would have voted yes.

Lute Olson

If either of those two gets left off, something's wrong.

Jim Yanko

I can't fault either one. We're going to have to do a lot to pick up the slack.

Bryan Robson

I can't guarantee that to either of them because I've got other players in front of them in the squad.

Jim Rosborough

Channing has had a fabulous year. He's going to be either the rookie of the year or runner-up. I would make him the rookie of the year.

Todd Souza

By the end of the season he and Emery I was comfortable with either one in a big game.

Sam Smith

Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Raquel Welch

People do stop me and talk to me about something they saw that they loved. It is very satisfying, but I have my own opinions.

James Nesbitt

People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.

Phyllis Pedrizzetti

People don't want to work that hard. You can't just take over. You have to start your own business. It's not like starting a 7-Eleven.

Cindy Mannes

People don't want to tell you they have them.

Gary Shaw

People don't want to come in. They feel they're unsafe in the shopping area.

Lucy Ivins

People don't want to be managed, they want to be led.

Josh Homme

People don't want their actors acting like musicians.

CeeLo Green

People have always questioned, Was I crazy? And I'm like, 'No, I'm not crazy. I'm just totally committed.'

Asif Kapadia

People have always been recording what's going on around them in one form or another.

Katherine Center

Beauty comes from tenderness.

Aaron Hill

We may not be the richest, but we know how to treat our residents,

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Laura Bush

but we'll see if it's true once we get to New Orleans.

Ellen G. White

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charlize Theron

Beauty is more than skin deep.

Marilyn Monroe

When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.