Famous Quotes & Sayings

The purpose of zoning land for agricultural preservation is so that prime and unique farmland may be converted to urban use last,

In New York, it's all about restaurants -- prepared food. Nobody cooks because nobody has a kitchen, or if they do, they've converted it into a shoe closet,

I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.

That may be one of very first major projects other than houses being converted and constructed.

They were converted to a larger-size tank but they just can't get it right. All of a sudden it starts cutting out.

This is why we really emphasize people getting at least a yearlong lease. Month-to-month is dangerous, especially in Florida, because so many rental properties are being converted into condominiums. That reality can really surprise renters and hit them hard.

When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.

Bryant McGill

Through death all life is converted into food for the inconceivably vast maw of eternity.

The thing is, when you have an inside game you have a greater tendency to draw fouls and contact. Honestly, we don't have an inside game. We don't have back-to-the-basket guys. Our '5' guys are really '3s' and '4s' and I've converted them because you have to play somewhere inside of 10 feet. It may not be fair to them, but that's the situation that we're in.

Jim Lee

I want all my stuff to be converted into digital format so I can have my reference library to carry with me wherever I go.

So much irony in this story. We the leftists converted suddenly and started to pray for Sharon's health.

Shawn Amos

At the height of his popularity in 1977, Cat Stevens converted to Islam and dedicated his life to educational and philanthropic causes.

We converted all our grade-A scoring chances. That was the difference. The kids were seeing the net. I hope that continues.

We made a lot of mistakes and have to learn from those mistakes. They converted four fourth-down conversions. We have to play better in those crucial situations if we are going to keep playing for the next 10 games and hopefully further.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

Jeremy is a player we did our homework on. He's a defender, but is actually a converted forward. There are a lot of things we liked about him.

Michael Perry

The 10-0 run put the game away for us. We got some transition opportunities and converted on them. It really ignited our play in the game.

which could easily be converted into improvised explosive devices.

I think I've converted a lot of Washingtonians to Pittsburghers. (But) there will be some Seahawks stuff (on the walls). It's not just Steelers.

I converted Ethiopian Birr into dollars, ... and spent 32,000 dollars for one, 12,000 for another.

I converted C2K at the Venetian from a showroom into a club.

Our pressure defense really started to work. We didn't let Morgan settle into their offense and when we forced a turnover, we converted on the other end.

Our press has been good to us most of the year. We used different types of presses ? we used a diamond-and-one and a we switched to a 2-2-1 ?Êand I thought our kids read it real well. What was really big off the press was that we converted some easy lay-ins. Those were some big points for us.

Becky G

When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

V. S. Naipaul

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

Tom Hollander

My father was ethnically Jewish, but his family converted to Catholicism.

When you see our drives, we took them the length of the field, converted third downs and converted inside the red zone, which was something we struggled on in some of the other big games we have played this year.

Madonna Ciccone

I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.