Famous Quotes & Sayings

When the evacuees arrived here from New Orleans and other Katrina ravished areas, they had nothing.

When we walked out of the tent we were right in front of the house. We waited there for about two more hours until the family finally arrived home and the house was revealed.

Tom Sullivan

We are excited to have Nicole as part of our team. With the growth we are experiencing in our chemical and litigation practices, Nicole has arrived at a great time for LL&A and its clients, and she will be a terrific asset to both.

Romesh Gunesekera

Two of the first plays I saw after I arrived in Britain were 'King Lear' in Liverpool, and 'Antony and Cleopatra' at Stratford. One was produced with hardly a backdrop and the other with gigantic scene changes. I was impressed by what connected the two: the words and their life beyond the stage.

There have been a lot of changes and there were a lot of players I felt it was time to move on. There was a lot of discontent in the squad when I arrived and we had to start afresh. We need to work hard and stick together. When I came here I felt there was an unhealthy size of squad, if you get maybe a dozen players not playing games it's too many.

Arjun Rampal

I would be lying if I said I'm not flattered being voted as the 'Time's' Most Desirable Man of 2012. Frankly, I have no idea how the desirability quotient is arrived at. If it is just drop dead good looks, then I have to thank God and my parents for it.

The parties have to stand pat. You need a court order that hasn't arrived yet.

There is speculation that as much as 15,000 tons of copper from Chile and Japan arrived on Monday in Shanghai. Increased supply hasn't been able to cool cash prices, which indicates strong buying on the spot market.

Matthew Pearl

When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston Harbor, where he started, they had to keep it secret because there was such a mob of people expecting him, and they actually chased down his carriage at the hotel, the Parker House Hotel.

We thought maybe it was just a domestic thing and then when more officers arrived and they found out that both owners are dead.

We thought it was a domestic thing and more officers arrived and said both of the owners were dead.

Georges Pompidou

When I first arrived at the Matignon, my desire was to reconcile Parliament and De Gaulle. I had forgotten only two things. Parliament and De Gaulle.

I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.

Jack Ma

Before I left China, I was educated that China was the richest, happiest country in the world. So when I arrived Australia, I thought, 'Oh my God, everything is different from what I was told.' Since then, I started to think differently.

Laura Bush

Welcome to this happiest of traditions at the White House. In Washington, we know that spring has arrived when the White House lawn is filled with children for the Easter egg hunt.

Johnny Nelson

We were reflecting on the highlights of our trip, and she told me to see whether the train had arrived to start boarding. I returned to the table and beckoned for her to come on.

Jacques Kallis

We arrived this morning really believing we could win it, obviously we needed a few things to go our way.

Chang-Rae Lee

We arrived the way most emigrant families did. My father came first, and the rest of us - my mother, my sister and me - followed a year later.

Andrew Miller

We arrived in rescue mode, not recovery mode,

We arrived at this decision a short time back that these are the two players that we would pick from to make our first round pick.

Nicholas Kristof

When I was born in 1959, the hospital in which I arrived had separate floors for black babies and white babies, and it was then illegal for blacks and whites to marry in many states.

When our officers arrived at the scene, they found a black male lying in the roadway. He had been shot multiple times.

He arrived in Norway having not lost a pound,

He arrived here and said he was ready to throw, and he was not kidding around. The way he is throwing now, I can't see us having him for the whole year.

Henry L. Stimson

On Tuesday, August 14th, when the news arrived of the final surrender of the Japanese we had a little thanksgiving meeting in the Casino after dinner.

Originally it was just Squad 14 and Medic 14, but once they arrived and saw the scene here it was upgraded to a box alarm,

Officers arrived on the scene and shortly discovered three other bodies near the same property,

The one swan doesn't mean it has arrived here.

Barry Gibb

After all, when we arrived in London, we had nothing. We were unknown. We had no recording contract and no work.

Deborah Sampson

November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson's at Lisle. This respectable family treated me with every mark of distinction and friendship, and likewise all the people did the same. I really want for words to express my gratitude.

Christopher Dodd

not yet arrived at a product that we can present to this body that is a bipartisan proposal.

Amity Gaige

I wanted - and still want - to tell my mother's story. She fled Stalin's army in 1944, leaving Latvia, which was to be occupied by the Soviets for the next 50 years, and arrived to the U.S. when she was 11.

The storm was so intense and arrived so quickly that people were unprepared to protect their assets. But there won't be any negative effect on the quality or quantity of next year's grapes or wines.