Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

Charles Caleb Colton

A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.

Charles Stross

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.

Charles Spurgeon

The first thing in faith is knowledge. What we know we must also agree unto. What we agree unto we must rest upon alone for salvation. It will not save me to know that Christ is a Saviour; but it will save me to trust Him to be my Saviour.

Charles Spurgeon

Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.

Alan Moore

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

Alan Moore

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

Al Pacino

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

Al Pacino

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Alan Sugar

I find it strange that Gisela Gschaider a 1974 immigrant from Germany is on the brexit panel telling us British what we should do .

David Aebischer

We are going to have to win over Germany and Italy, that's where we focus.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

Boris Becker

It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

Tom Wlaschiha

The system in Germany is different, as you sign up with a company for two or three years, and you work exclusively with them; you can't do any film work on the side.

Adolf Hitler

Nearly all Bolshevist agitators in Germany and elsewhere were Jews.

W. G. Sebald

You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

Gunter Blobel

As soon as I heard there were people in Germany who wanted to restore the old part of Dresden, I wanted to help. Even before the Nobel, I had started this group, the Friends of Dresden. The destruction of Dresden made a big impression on me when I was a child, and I wanted to do this.

Eddie Vedder

We want them to be heard for the first time when the record comes out.

Tom Renney

When you've heard from the ref once, you've kind of got to suck it up.

Tom Renney

When you've heard from the referee once that you've got to kind of suck it up and quit yapping, you should probably do that.

Charles Kuralt

You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'

Ednita Nazario

It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me

Michelle Evans

We were at a cross-roads last week when we heard the news that Ft. Chaffee was no longer sending hurricane survivors to the area.

Dan Doherty

When we heard the news yesterday, everyone was just devastated. He made a huge impact at Pearl River in a short time 5 1/2 years.

Tom Eagleson

When we heard it was her appendix, we all thought the worst. But then, it turned out to be kidney stones.

Todd Helton

When we heard about (Barmes), we were thinking, 'That's terrible, what are we going to do,' ... Then the skipper leaves and his daughter's having seizures, and it puts it all back in perspective really quick.