Famous Quotes & Sayings

You could probably tell from the early beginnings maybe a tenseness and the pressure that was on the home team. We never have that luxury.

It's really the beginnings of a day resource center.

That really placed him on the archaeological map. It really helped the beginnings of the rewriting of Egyptian history.

It was 200 years ago that the folks who settled Watertown, the Coffeen's, the Massey's, et cetera, gathered here on this location and formed the beginnings of a community. We are what we are today because they were willing to take the chance and move here with their families, facing an uncertain future, no real livelihood, and probably a pretty foreboding environment,

Amr Moussa

This flexibility has not been enough, but there are some signs that show the beginnings of a development on the part of the Israelis,

This map is truly a new window on the Antarctic continent, providing new beginnings in our Earth science studies there,

It was the beginnings of what would later become electric blues and eventually become rock and roll.

Elizabeth Blackburn

Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of time.

Susan Minot

'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together to tell a larger story. In 'Lust and Other Stories,' there are nine stories - three, three, three; the beginnings of love, the middles, and the afters.

Ned Colletti

This is one of the proudest days of my life, if not the proudest, ... From humble beginnings ... I find myself in one of the greatest places, Dodger Stadium, with one of the greatest franchises of all-time.

You can't deny where we're located. We do have the beginnings of gang activity. We do have some inner city issues, (which) if we want to make this a welcoming cultural center have to be addressed.

Ivor Novello

As the growth of the film industry has progressed from humble beginnings to its present important position, the play has prospered.

As issues of climate change, energy security and fuel prices start to crop up more on consumer radar screens, we need to be able to meet that shifting demand. What you're seeing is just the beginnings of a growth in demand, but it's a very clear trend.

People from all walks of life and all over the world look at me and know my humble beginnings and know that everything I've done has been through hard work. People respect me as a marketer and brand builder.

Laurie Lee

What happened was unpredictable but it also reminded many readers of their beginnings and their family recollections.

Bob Etheridge

New facilities are about new beginnings and endless possibilities,

On a macro level, we are at the beginnings of an economic recovery, not as fast as some people want, and we may have some altercation with Iraq in the next six months. That uncertainty is putting the foot on the accelerator and pulling it off the accelerator at the same time.

Sandra Bullock

Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but its the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning.

McDonald's has done a terrific job of turning around. We're starting to see the beginnings of a sales resurgence in Europe, and that's exactly what we've been looking for.

We have some items in the museum that were donated directly by Wolf's family, ... Even though he moved to Chicago, he still returned to Clay County to hunt and fish. We have Wolf's personal hunting rifle on display, as well as unpublished photographs and even Wolf's passport from when he toured Europe and the UK. Basically, we have the museum structured to tell Wolf's story -- from his beginnings in White Station until his death in 1976. It's a tribute to his life.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long novel, and it's so long that I get confused and sort of tread water sometimes. But there's definitely a goal to it. People who just dismiss it as shallow, that's their prerogative, but it's not really my intent.

There is intelligence information that there are people in Khartoum who were not in Khartoum before. In these situations it is to a certain extent conjuncture (but) it would be unwise not to take the beginnings of such warnings seriously.

We have a good nucleus and the beginnings of a team, and it is now a case of putting the right people with them.

Alex Miller

When we took the company over it was a remnant in a way, compared to the major company. With two South Island owners, its really back to the beginnings in a way.

Sherwin B. Nuland

Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors are most likely to view the Hippocratic Oath of approximately two-and-a-half millennia ago as the first codified set of statements to which they can look for guidance.

Blake Lively

My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning - 'no foolishness,' as he would call it.

We've climbed a long way here, gone a long way toward discounting the beginnings of this economic pickup. I don't really want to do any investing here. I'm raising cash on the hope that I get a better opportunity and better prices on a pullback.

Phil Klay

Though I continue to tell stories about Iraq, I sometimes fear this makes me a fraud. I feel guilty about the sorrow I feel because I know it is manufactured, and I feel guilty about the sorrow I do not feel because it is owed, it is the barest beginnings of what is owed to the fallen.