Famous Quotes & Sayings

When I moved out here, they told me they were building a hospital down the road; I was one of the original staff members.

We use snowboarding as a vehicle for building self confidence, not an end; so you can feel that, if you can do this, you can do anything.

Elizabeth Cheney

The people of Syria deserve the opportunity to build a better future and to live in freedom.

The people in this community have spent a lot of money on the buildings here over the years, and I think the maintenance and facilities here are as good as any in the state.

Thomas Perez

From the outset, the Obama administration has recognized that building a robust skills infrastructure means building strong partnerships with community colleges.

In 'Sisters of War,' I got to do one of my own stunts. Running out of the building because the Japanese were firing, with all these little spark plugs are going off, looking like explosions and bullets flying down. That was really fun.

Azim Premji

There are three lessons in philanthropy - one, involve the family, especially the spouse. She can be a remarkable driver of your initiative. Two, you need to build an institution, and you need to scale it up. Choose a leader for philanthropy whom you trust. Three, philanthropy needs patience, tenacity and time.

Azim Premji

How can you contribute towards building the Indian society and the Indian nation? No better way than to upgrade the quality of young people in school, particularly the schools which are run by the state government in the villages.

A. S. Byatt

You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.

Bela Karolyi

A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.

Edmund Hillary

I was certainly seriously emotionally affected [ when Louise Hillary and Belinda Hillary died], but we were building the hospital at the time and I decided that the only thing to do was to carry on and complete the hospital - and it was a jolly good hospital too, I might say. So I really did it by working and working on the things that Louise and I had been working on.

Edwin Land

In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.

When you see it increasing quarter after quarter, there seems to be something going on here. We're building more homes than are being filled.

We're not going to create (the right) system and culture for the current superstars, but we are building the right system and culture for future superstars. To make the business work, we need top players to play top events.

Kris Jenner

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

I've been awed by the incredible opportunities that automatically float to the Harvard undergrads I once taught - from building homes for the poor in Nicaragua to landing prime White House internships.

I have either run private equity funded companies or been a partner in a private equity fund since 1982. I've had a front row view of the vital role private equity continues to play in building and keeping American businesses competitive in the global economy.

Curtis Joseph

They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.

Phil Jackson

As much as we pump iron and we run to build our strength up, we need to build our mental strength up... so we can focus... so we can be in concert with one another.

Cullen Hightower

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Damien Rice

Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.

Peter Zumthor

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

Peter Zumthor

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

We played with so much inconsistency this year, but we told them the record is out the window now. This is a new season. We just want to build off this and keep it going.

We plan to get more involved with our church and our church work. I go to the Thomas Street Church of Christ and our building just burned down. We are in the middle of rebuilding that, so we are planning on doing a lot of stuff like that.

We plan to cooperate with China Network Communications Corporation (CNC) and China Telecom to build a national geographic name network. Another 15 cities are expected to launch way-asking hotline service by the end of this year.

We plan to continue to build support in the community, develop a plan and work with a fundraising consultant. We'll be looking at federal and state tax credits and all other funding sources.

We plan to build new services around this technology for our partners.

George Lewis

We probably won't be able to actually build a new house for a while, because of the (sewer) moratorium. What our first project may well be instead is a rehab project, taking an existing home and improving it so that it is inhabitable.

Svante Paabo

I want to know what changed in fully modern humans, compared with Neanderthals, that made a difference. What made it possible for us to build up these enormous societies, and spread around the globe, and develop the technology that I think no one can doubt is unique to humans.

Steven Sinofsky

I always feel great. I get to come to work every day and see the build from the night before, and every day we do more stuff.

Seth Berkley

You can't stop wars to build tertiary teaching hospitals, but you can say, 'Let's stop for a couple of days to immunise the kids.' It has been done.

Trent Reznor

Nine Inch Nails is like building an army to go conquer. We build it, then we play, and we have to play so much to validate building it, financially. It leads to getting burn-out because a tour that would be fun if it lasted three weeks has to last 15 weeks.