Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Green Ingersoll

Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough to shoulder a musket in defense of a boarding house. The prosperity and glory of our country depend upon the number of people who are the owners of homes.

Maya Angelou

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.

Brad Childress

The quarterback has to be on board because that's kind of the straw that stirs the drink. I didn't quite get it.

Those boards are all mass produced and there is no quality control. Hard-core surfers can tell the difference and they can't live with that.

Soledad O'Brien

I come to New Orleans so often that, one day soon, someone's going to declare me a native. I love the food. I love the music. I serve on the board of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra.

We are completely convinced that the Schering board sooner or later will recognize the attractiveness of the offer.

We are in the process of talking with our clients and our board of directors about the next step or steps to be taken.

We are in compliance with the new board policy, and therefore I don't think the superintendent did anything wrong going forward with the play.

Donald Kennedy

We are doing a systematic review of the editorial history of both papers and our procedures for evaluating them, to search for ways in which we might improve those. I have pointed out in the past that even unusually rigorous peer review of the kind we undertook in this case may fail to detect cases of well-constructed fraud. To support this effort, we are calling on outside experts, including members of our Board of Reviewing Editors and our Senior Editorial Board.

We are disappointed in the decision that the Board of Finance has made. We feel this was a very tightly crafted budget, and that we justified our expenditures in a number of discussions with the Board of Finance.

Brian Gionta

We'll go to the drawing board and tighten things up. I thought we dominated two periods and everyone was great for them. We learned a lot. We got here, and we learned something - learned that we have to be smarter in how we play.

We'll go back to the drawing board and get him schooled to give him back his confidence.

Tyler did a good job scoring. They played a box-and-1 on him and he really had to work for his points on the boards and in transition.

Unfortunately the only person who could tell us all of this information is the skipper of the boat and he is one of the deceased,

You do feel like a child and the grown-ups won't let you in. There is not a tradition of the union sharing information at board meetings.

Swami Vivekananda

Siva, O Siva, carry my boat to the other shore!

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

My website bulletin board is the place I interact with my readers.

Sophia Bush

I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.

Tanith Lee

I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

Mark Shields

Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.

Lisa Kleypas

I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.

Let Willamette's board deal with the consequences. This is a great time for Weyerhaeuser to be out looking for deals.

Ken Auletta

Let's concede that most journalistic enterprises need to make a profit, and to do that, they must be like supermarkets, offering a range of choices to their customers - international news, weather, sports, business, gossip, movie reviews and results of planning board meetings. But too often, journalistic supermarkets have become specialty stores,

Many of the Board members have been out of school for 30, or even 40 years.

Scotty writes all checks and approves all checks. There is no board oversight.

See a problem; find a solution; then tell the company that this is the way it's going to be -- get on board or else.

So far this school year I've had 21 hearings at the board office with parents whose children had at least 20 absences.

Michael Ramsey

(She) took all the raw notes of all the meetings of the board. They're better than minutes. Board minutes are notoriously dry and empty. Her notes will have a lot more color.

She was probably one of the first people to jump on board with our new system three years ago and really, what guard wouldn't want to run that type of offense.

We were both very, very struck with the sensitivity and reverence with which the men and women on board that ship are treating those remains,

Obviously, the township never intended to 'chill' the rights of employees before the board of commissioners. I understand why the ACLU took offense to that language.

Obviously, there are some very strong feelings here. The town board requested the state make a presentation to better see and hear the proposal. Please don't get argumentative.

Roger Penske

Obviously I've got a great team of people within the company. You can't operate all by yourself. We have a good board of directors and a big bench, and they can make decisions if I'm not around.