Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Bobby Jindal

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

Erwin McManus

When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.

I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's the main event of my books. It's my characters.

Nicolas Berggruen

I was living in Paris, which is a very beautiful, very wonderful place, but a tight place as a city, a tight place culturally. Its people are very brilliant, thoughtful, the place functions, but it's a historical place in some ways, like a big museum.

Lil' Kim

My love for the female hip hop movement has always been genuine.

Laura Anne Gilman

Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

Valerie Simpson

We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.

Vanessa Minnillo

Well, the thing about my high school, which I loved, is that we had uniforms. But whenever we had a free dress day, it was prep-ville, with sweater vests and polo shirts and khakis and Dockers.

The kind of young woman who can be a terrific torchbearer has high standards all the time, not just in her prom dress, but every, ordinary day.

Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace.

Nathaniel Philbrick

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

Nathaniel Philbrick

If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.

Johan Santana

We did this together. We, as a team, made history tonight.

Banksy

Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.

Leigh Lezark

Heels are a must. The higher the better. And when in doubt, go with black.

Leon Krier

Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history the size of rural or urban communities.

Plato

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

P. J. O'Rourke

I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.

Noam Chomsky

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Bjarke Ingels

I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.

will.i.am

When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.

You look at the strength of your bench, and you see what high quality it is.

Simon Wiesenthal

When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.

Sonia Sotomayor

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

Tryon Edwards

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.

Tom Brokaw

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

Willie Geist

Bachelor parties would pay a lot of money to hire Pat Buchanan to come.

Wang Leehom

The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.

In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.