Famous Quotes & Sayings

The transformation we're going through now, it could take Islam to enlightenment, or it could take Islam to the dark ages for a long time to come.

I love my children and care greatly for their future. If they decide they just want to loaf around for a bit between the ages of 16 and 25, that's perfectly fine by me. I did it, and I'm doing fine, thanks. Sometimes 'leaving kids to their own devices' is the best thing for them.

Marie Lu

In general, I write for ages 12 and up - although I've received emails from readers between the ages of seven and seventy. My books are science fiction.

Martin Rees

Indeed, evolutionists don't agree on how divergently our own biosphere could have developed if such contingencies as ice ages and meteorite impacts had happened differently.

Robert Ingersoll

In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings

If you go on correcting a script, you may lose your enthusiasm. It almost happened in this process, too, when we spent ages changing scenes and moving back and forth; but in the end we returned to the original, and the final version of the film is very close to the script.

I'm looking forward to this. This will be another opportunity for women of all ages to come together and get refreshed.

It's definitely the dark ages for federal support for higher education.

Tiffany Shlain

It was like the Dark Ages back there for a while, but we've come out the other side.

I've learned how to work in large groups of people. It's very challenging, as we are all from different walks of life, different ages and with different levels of education. It can sometimes be really difficult, but you learn how to be more patient and understanding of different people's situations.

It was so tragic Maury wasn't able to see it through. Had he remained healthy, we would not have gone into the dark ages for so long.

Scott Michael Foster

It was a small farm in a little rural town by the Indiana state border. I lived there from ages 5 to 12, I would say, before we moved to Dallas. We had chickens and a vegetable garden, and I had to get up to milk the goats at seven in the morning or do it at seven at night.

Mary Grandpre

It's a challenge to take a character and make sure he ages correctly and make sure he looks like he would look if he were to get a year older.

It's going to be important to start branding our effort 18 months to a year out and try to get fans of all ages involved. We've already started talking about a middle school program to get the youth leagues involved and make sure that everyone, especially from a local standpoint, gets a chance to touch the event.

Terry Wogan

It's only a matter of time before it all starts to fall apart, before things start to fall off. Short legs, long body. The kind of person who in the Middle Ages would come up over the hill on his horse, and they'd say, 'Get Wogan,' and I'd be there with my shield, the first to die.

Lynsey Addario

I'm not the kind of person to sit and dwell for ages on something that happened. I go through something, I experience it, I try to learn from it, and I move forward.

Hans Blix

In the Middle Ages when people were convinced there were witches they certainly found them. This is a bit risky,

In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.

Interest is overwhelming. The phones haven't stopped ringing. Catholics are joining in droves. We have protest leaders of all ages who are very devoted people: priests, college students, parents, and grandparents. They're motivated because they realize that if our culture doesn't respect the rights of God, it won't respect its own leaders and fellow citizens.

INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing -- mostly memorial, intended to commemorate the fame of some illustrious person and hand down to distant ages . . . e.g., the name of John Smith, penciled on the Washington monument.

If you want to know where kids ages 4, 5 and 6 are on a Saturday, go to Badger Field on the east side of town.

Elizabeth Blackburn

In my lab, we're finding that psychological stress actually ages cells, which can be seen when you measure the wearing down of the tips of the chromosomes, those telomeres.

Ruth Glick

In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it split apart, so that you had serious fiction and genre fiction.

Jade Jagger

I think my husband and dad were both very happy that I had a baby boy, to get some testosterone in the family, because there are a lot of girls. It's not a perfect family, but it's a strong family. The nice thing is how the different ages interact.

Joe Wright

I read the novel and I was shocked by what an extraordinary piece of observation it was. How honest and truthful its writing was. I was also shocked by the ages of the characters (Elizabeth is 20 and Darcy is 28). It struck me that these were young people experiencing these emotions for the first time.

He writes his plays for the ages - the ages between five and twelve

Children have a good number of teeth by the time they reach a year old. Their moms usually have them on bottles during the ages of 6 months to a year and that can cause tooth decay, because what the children are drinking stays on their teeth.

Arlen Specter

Chief Justice Roberts has great potential for the future to bring a consensus to the court, to have a better recognition of congressional authority and, as he put it, to understand the Constitution responding to the changes in the ages and responding to societal conditions.

Lord Byron

The lapse of ages changes all things -- time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing ''about, around, and underneath'' man, except man himself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The middle ages showed us the results of thinking without experimentation, our present centuryshows us what experimentation without thinking leads to.

Jamie Dixon

Their shots were deep, and oftentimes we had a hand in their face. Our guys made plays and there were very few mistakes. Some of the shots Notre Dame hit were from 35-40 feet. If you step out on those, it's bad defense. It was a game for the ages and I'm just glad we battled and found a way to win.

Mary J. Blige

When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.