Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harper Lee

Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.

David Riesman

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

Debbie Stabenow

The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture, was a reaction to the specific problems facing producers at that time.

Deion Sanders

Just think about the game. Think about playing great, having a great time. Helping my team win.

Debbie Meyer

I knew all these people had the same goals I did, but the one that worked the hardest would come out on top. That's what drove me all the time. But I had fun. I did better every day, and that's what made it fun.

David Vitter

Ronald Reagan's vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves.

Dorothy Hamill

I don't really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there, I think they could see that I really enjoyed it.

Dorothy Hamill

It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.

Carrie Chapman Catt

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way.

Carlton Fisk

It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.

Dave Winfield

Now it's on to May, and you know about me and May.

Dave Winfield

I am truly sorry that a fowl of Canada is no longer with us.

Dave Winfield

But I'll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest her soul. I had a good foundation at home, so when I was able to go off and do these things in baseball there was always support.

Dave Winfield

To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it is fantastic. I have to say this about them, there are so many of these guys up here that were my role models, people I looked up to, people I wanted to be like.

Dave Thomas

I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.

Dave Thomas

In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it.

Dizzy Dean

Practice, work hard, and give it everything you have.

Dikembe Mutombo

Basketball Without Borders is a leadership camp that takes basketball to different places around the world, to Africa, Europe, America and Asia. It's a camp that brings players from different parts of the continent to one city that's been assigned as the host city. We've been going to a different city every year.

Christopher Gadsden

It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending.

While it's important to look for foods made without trans fat, that's certainly not the only value to pay attention to. Americans have a tendency to overreact over the latest buzz term in the nutrition world. The low-fat craze of the '70s and '80s is the classic example that threw America off balance.

While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made in calling me to be his in the first place.

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

With ocean capacity razor thin from Europe to North America, we have to be innovative and creative.

Pat Brown

Without solid connections between homicides, we may have the reverse problem of believing three local murders are the work of one serial killer when they may actually be the work of three!

Avi Arad

Without giving too much away, obviously there'll be a little bit of the origin and then we come into our real world. What makes Captain America such a compelling character is that it allows you to judge history so you see where he came from and you see what he stood for.

Kevin Carter

With the CBA right now, we've got a good thing going. The owners, the players and fans are the ones reaping the rewards because there hasn't been a strike in 20 years in the NFL. It's been great. We're the No. 1 spectator sport in America and why is that? It's largely because of the CBA and the parity that exists because of it.

Kathy Bates

We need to let black America know, we do want you, but we want you on the terms of the United States of America, ... And we want you to be full and complete human beings.

Wally Schirra

We have managed to hang in for 55 years, which isn't bad. My wife says our marriage has lasted so long because I was away half the time!

We must change the culture of illegality that shrouds those who came to America for a better life.

Amy Hill

We must be doing something right - 1.3 million people choose to work for Wal-Mart.

Matthew Simmons

We moved the energy heart of America in the bullseye of hurricane alley. That is the story of Katrina,

Dennis Prager

When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run in a district where where you might lose, you will move to the center. That is the beauty of the two party system in America as opposed to the parliamentary system in Europe.