Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have repeatedly warned that some of the world's oldest and smallest indigenous groups are at high risk not only of displacement, but even of extinction because of the Colombian conflict. All indigenous communities have close links to their ancestral land, on which their cultural survival depends.

Stanley Hauerwas

The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is a pain to me.

There is close cooperation and a regular exchange of expertise.

Considering we only got five to state last year and with how deep that sectional was, yeah I think we surprised some people to get eight out of that sectional. I think we wrestled well and won a lot of close matches and that's how you get down to state.

Do we want to win? Yeah, we want to win. I don't think we've been struggling ... but we've got to be able to win some close games.

Craig is not going to overpower anybody, but he did what we needed and that is to work at least seven innings. He threw close to 120 pitches, and we felt like he was very comfortable in his delivery. Craig is the story of the game.

Covenant is a good shooting team and their three-pointers made it a close game.

Lionel Richie

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

Eddie was very close to all of his nephews and nieces. He was like their grandfather.

Daniel Boone

Earnings growth has been surprisingly low for drug stocks and there is more of that to come as we go through a cycle of patent expirations, ... But I think the stocks are close to being washed out and if you have patience they will do quite well over a longer period of time.

Drew is tough as nails. It was our team defense that won the game for us. We were able to close out their shooters on the perimeter. It was just a great team effort.

Duke loves his wife and his kids, and their support, as well as the support of a few close friends, has sustained him through these last few difficult months.

Jeff Tedford

Each game we learn new things. By no means did we come close to our potential tonight.

Early in the season when we were really successful, we were closing out halves. That's something that we haven't done lately, and tonight we didn't close out the half. I think having that momentum going into the locker room probably helped them.

Arlen Specter

especially in light of your close relationship with the president and the key positions you have held in the White House.

Especially early in the season, we were in so many close one-run and two-run games, so it's nice to finally get a few things to go our way.

Joffrey Lupul

Five out of eight points is pretty good. Any time you can go on the road and close some ground is pretty good.

Ted Kaczynski

Fitch is as improved as you want to see and a very good team. They had won four in a row. It was a close game and we played okay. We had to be perfect down the stretch and we're not good enough to be perfect.

We have done a real good job in close games this year. It's always good to be in close games and even better to be 9-2 in one-run contests. I hope we can keep on doing it.

We have different genres that are complementary to jazz and close to the idiom. This is the 37th outdoor music festival I've organized and I think it's going to be spectacular.

We like to play teams that will make us better for the tournament. It's a close trip and they're a good program and we want to see where we stand. We could have played someone who isn't very good tonight. Hopefully, it didn't hurt our confidence going into the sectional. That's the only thing I worry about.

David R. Brower

We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.

We count on our officers to closely scrutinize these offenders year-round. We don't see Halloween as a time to get serious about keeping an eye on offenders.

We could very much be close to the peak at this time.

We could only put out three buoys to sail around and were very close to the shoreline. We were having some fierce competition and we needed to expand our race site.

Brian's death was a real blow. It hit home on a personal level because he was a close friend to all of us. But it hit home at a political level, too, because he was such a crucial part of the community.

Brittany had a really close relationship with her teammates. Just seeing her there, she had a great time. She's in a lot of pictures and it was fun.

Brookings has had a couple of really close scares.

Everything has been so close to him that he's painted into a kind of a corner.

Bill Johnson

Everything was close except the score. When you shoot 15 times and don't score, you're not going to win.

Everything was actually very close in line where we thought it would be.

Every time I'd go down there to close up, everybody thanked me.

Every time I'd get close to sleeping, I'd start coughing.