Famous Quotes & Sayings

There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us.

We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment for us as we are for him.

Pat Summerall

So, I didn't get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and I passed the test. And they realized that I was sick enough, and as soon as the liver became available, I got one.

Pat Summerall

When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.

Caryl Chessman

The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive.

Caryl Chessman

If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated.

Caryl Chessman

How, possibly, could the police have made the 'mistake' of charging the wrong man with the notorious Red Light Bandit crimes? That also is something that is fully revealed in the Pandora's Box of facts I have prepared.

Ryan White

Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.

Fred Korematsu

All of them turned their backs on me at that time because they thought I was a troublemaker.

While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.

Phil Rizzuto

They've got so many Latin players we're going to have to get a Latin instructor up here.

Pete Rozelle

Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.

Pete Rozelle

I think the big thing I've had going for me in that regard has been the success of the league. I don't have quite as much control over things as people believe, so I frequently receive more credit than I deserve, and occasionally more criticism as well.

Pete Rozelle

I'm not saying that the press is wrong to report any internal differences we have, but at the same time, I think it's our job to keep them from becoming public issues, for anything that detracts from the purely athletic aspects of the sport is bad for us.

Pete Rozelle

At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was.

Paul Prudhomme

After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service.

Ernie Harwell

We had a dog in those days named Blue Grass and the players used to give us their Wheaties for him. Blue Grass loved Wheaties and so did I.

Ben Linder

So, instead, I try to put in light and hope for the best.

Brent Musburger

You are watching what greatness, is all about.

Dale Earnhardt

If we're going to run for points we need to run in the top-five every week.

Dale Earnhardt

To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen.

Dale Earnhardt

People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.

Dale Earnhardt

That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.

Dale Earnhardt

With 20 top-10 finishes, I feel we're on the right path.

Isaac Disraeli

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world.

But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.

I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.

Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night.

A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned.

I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.

I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world.

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.