Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Granholm

Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

Georges Bizet

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

Jean-Luc Godard

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

Frederick William Faber

The music of the Gospel leads us home.

Erica Jong

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

Harriet Tubman

Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

Harriet Tubman

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

Gracie Allen

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

J. D. Salinger

I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.

Jack Ma

For ecommerce, the most important thing is trust.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

Bela Bartok

Competitions are for horses, not artists.

B. R. Ambedkar

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

B. F. Skinner

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

Jazmine Sullivan

I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or pop music and people are not as interested in it. But it's something that I believe in and I feel that it's needed, so that's why I do it and I will keep doing it until everybody hears it and gets it.

Candace Bushnell

The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.

James Herriot

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

James Dyson

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

James Earl Jones

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

Janelle Monae

One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.

Janet Fitch

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

Jane Pauley

Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.

Jane Pauley

I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.

Ernest Thompson Seton

The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks.

Erna Solberg

A critical issue for women is the possibility to be a mother and the ability to participate fully in the workforce.

Erik Satie

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

Cassandra Clare

It is a far greater thing that I do now, than I've ever done before.

Fulton J. Sheen

In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.

Frank O'Hara

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

Christopher Hitchens

What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.