Famous Quotes & Sayings

The municipal water districts should be playing not just provider of the water, but playing the water cops.

Tom Tancredo

Now he's had to resign, he's been forced down, ... If he'd done this before, he could have taken on this guy (the district attorney) seeking to prosecute DeLay.

Now, large subdivisions are being built. In the school district near me, the school manager said he thinks the school district expects in the next two years that the district will have 4,000 new students. That didn't happen 50 years ago, you didn't even get 200 new students then.

Pat Rice

And there's another 439 rooms scheduled in the district for 2007.

J. J. Johnson

Sometimes in a high-visibility position, a district has to pay a little to retain the employee that they want to keep. Our football program is going in the right direction, and we don't want that to shift into reverse.

Teaching in the district and a two-minute commute to practice had a lot to do with (leaving UA). I was living in Worthington and my kids were going to school there. It was an opportunity to start your own thing. You get to start all the traditions, pick the uniforms. Who wouldn't want to do that?

Rural schools in my district also face difficulties in obtaining qualified teachers to teach math, science and foreign language courses.

I've never seen this before. I've been representing school districts since 1973, and I haven't seen anything like it.

It was very exciting to see her do that in her final district meet.

It was tough for me to leave that because I enjoyed the people I worked with in my district and the other legislators I worked with.

It was an exciting way to win the district title ... or any other game.

The state removed Latino voters from District 23 because they were Latinos.

The state has already allocated money to the districts for transportation costs, ... I hope the state steps up to help us, or this will be money that will come out of the classroom.

The substitute right now is on hold. He's out of the rotation for substitute, just as long as the district needs to look into it and find out exactly what happened.

That's where our strength is, in the middle of the lineup. We only lost one district (singles) match in the regular season.

That's golf and that's what makes it a great game. Everybody can find a stroke here or there, and you realize the importance of it in such a competitive district like this.

The mobility rate in our school district is relatively high, ... We want to be respectful of the fact some parents just need to move.

They've been on for a while, but it would be safe to say in recent years there's been more of a push. The school districts I've talked to do say it's helped with the discipline.

They took it as a learning experience and it fired them up for the sectional and district meets.

A lot of people can say what they want, but people are really interested in making this district work. We've really just got to keep our sights focused on the kids and education. If we do that, the rest of it's going to come together for us.

A lot of the girls were very disappointed, and I know they really wanted it. Clarissa really wanted it. My seniors wanted to go out with four district titles in a row, especially Whitney Townsend. They were very upset.

A lot of the girls are already talking about next year. They're expecting nothing short of a district championship.

A lot of the districts aren't going to have money to pay their teachers come July if they don't do something.

A lot of those teams normally are district teams for us, so we can kind of see how we measure up.

This is huge for us. The district has been tight all year, and you know nobody wants to finish in the fourth spot.

This is great. All the years before, we had good teams but just couldn't get over the hump. The last three years in the district we lost in the ninth inning.

This is a positive step in the transformation of the First District from an industrial sector to a recreational destination.

Chris Baker

This is a tough tournament with a lot of good teams. But I think it's gonna be good for us because after we come out of this we go back into district and play. This should give us an advantage.

This is the first I've ever heard of a district to sell naming rights for a stadium.

This is the first double-digit season we've had in wins in several years (13 in 2000-2001) and the first time we've had four district wins in a season in some time.

This is the first district championship in school history. This is great. This is the world. But this also means this isn't it ? we want to keep going.

This is not all the growth in the district by any means.

Harold Brown

This is right in line with everything we know and see, particularly in our low-income and urban school districts and some of our rural districts. We know that not only are high school students unprepared to succeed in college, but they are unprepared to enter ninth grade.