Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Richard Thompson

the prerogative of the elected members of the school board and consistent with science education.

The president will try to get the nationalists on board but if that fails, he may go for a quick election.

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.

Like I said, we had 45,000 square miles of geography, 88 counties, board of elections, 50,000 folks that ran a great election on election day.

I will talk to the board president and then issue guidelines to Chappell.

I won't say we would have won, but we would have gotten on the board first, and maybe manufactured a run or two more.

Michael Gerber

I was uncomfortable with the timing, ... We were getting millions less from the federal government for Medicaid and having to search for funds to restore some of those cuts and I just did not think it was right to put a pay raise on the board that would cost tens of millions of dollars.

I was told I didn't need to because I was not a board member. If I'm provided with the form, I'm certainly happy to fill it out.

I was hoping that they would have addressed that. I want to hold chairman Whitehead and the LMDC to that statement he made at the board meeting in June.

I was getting good position, crashing the boards offensively and defensively. I sensed they were a little tired. We knew we had to execute offensively and defensively.

Andy Reid

It felt good yesterday. Toward the end it started to get a little tight on him in the second practice. It's the same as it was the day before. We got to go back to the drawing board here, see how he does today, and then within the next couple days we will see how he's feeling.

I still have issues, ethically, with how the rest of sitting board members came to power. I would probably do even more because I would expect more from them.

I still support the boards decision (to opt out),

I think our school board needs to be more involved with parents. When parents are closer to the school board, that's how we get the good publicity that we really want to get.

I think school boards will have the sense to create at least one very broad major, label it humanities and offer what would essentially mirror what students do right now.

I think our board will be much more united,

I think our boards are finally the worst in the league. They're getting there, at least. It's just amazing. At least six shots like that. They seriously have to take a look at them. It's getting ridiculous.

It doesn't really matter about the 12 in a row. We wrote on the board that we are 2-0 in the region and we're shooting for 3-0. It is really the only thing that matters right now is staying on top of our region.

Eddie Jordan

I tell you what, Toronto's got a scrappy, young team, ... They kicked our butts on the boards early in the game and they just keep coming at you. The young guys really give them a spark and I didn't think Graham was going to miss at first and then they just started hurting us on the boards. It's a good scrappy team and we were lucky to get out of it with the win.

I think if you look at the statistics objectively, you're much safer on board a cruise ship that any community in the United States. We have good security programs in place.

Jim Fox

I think if we go down this line of attack, all our decisions as a board will be compromised.

It has been a delight to work with both of these dedicated volunteers. Their service has been very valuable, both on the board level and also on the program level. It is very unusual to have spouses both serve on a Board of Directors.

Brian Roberts

It has become clear that there is no interest on the part of Disney's management and board in putting Comcast and Disney together,

When it's over, she will have put numbers on the board that will validate her greatness. I think that's unusual to be able to say about a freshman point guard competing in the level of competition that we do.

We put on our board (in the locker room) the word 'spurt.' Teams play even. Then somebody goes on a spurt and then another. Most games are won by spurts. Whoever has the most spurts wins games.