Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pedro Noguera

The fact is if a hurricane hit any urban city, you would have seen the same thing, ... Poverty is right beneath the surface.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was a graveyard from the whaling some time in the 1920s-30s.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Where one despises, one cannot wage war. Where one commands, where one sees something beneath one, one ought not to wage war.

Bill Cosby

She (his wife) is the wind beneath my wings.

Peter Frenzen

Mount St. Helens certainly reminds us of the power of nature, and we can certainly see that in the evidence of the 1980 eruption that's all around us, ... And here we just have an opportunity to see sort of another chapter in its history and to understand the forces that lie beneath our feet.

Laurence Hope

Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, / Less than the weed that grows beside thy door.

Melvin Van

So I told everyone that I was making a porno film, ... Because the only films they (the union people) didn't bother (to check on) were porno films because that was beneath them.

Kathy Redmond

She was beneath them, that was their perception.

Fra Giocondo

Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.

Steve Mooshagian

When everybody found out he was available, it was like a kid in a candy store. We're lucky we got the candy first.

Bruce Bowen

Watching the players in their environment was impressive. They were all great guys. I was like a kid in a candy store.

Alan Stern

We'll be like kids in a candy shop.

Margarita Lopez

To produce this kind of candy is sickening. This is targeted to children.

Kathy Hendricks

She used to go the hospital each week. She was a Pink Lady - sort of an older Candy Striper,

Kym Whitley

Cooking for my son is a challenge. I have to feed him right. He can't eat French fries and candy every day.

Jill Anderson

I am taking the goodies home. We're trying to hit the high points - you know, a little lobster, a candy apple, some local food and drinks.

E. O. Wilson

None of these kids have ever seen snow or been on a frozen pond, so everything is a first for them. They're like kids in a candy store.

Tom Durkin

There is nothing illegal in our ingredients, and they are ingredients that are in most hard candy in the United States.

Mitch Basefsky

Whenever we see clouds at all, whenever we see any rain, there tends to be a decrease in the use. People feel better about life, I guess, when it's rainy or cloudy, in terms of the life of their plants.

Charlotte Bronte

I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.

Therese of Lisieux

I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit is lost in the clouds and a humble grain of sand trodden underfoot by passers-by.

David Mitchell

Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds.

David Mitchell

What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.

William Shakespeare

Yon grey lines That fret the clouds are messengers of day.

Sathya Baba

When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding for a little time, the splendor of the Sun.

Helen Sharman

During launch, the outside of the rocket is covered in a protective fairing, so we couldn't see outside, but as soon as that was jettisoned, my first view of the earth was over the Pacific Ocean, which was this wonderful deep blue, with clouds just over the top, and sunlight streaming in through the window.

Eckhart Tolle

Watch the clouds. They will teach you about the world of form.

Eli Whitney

I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

Robert Wilson

What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures.

Marla Shavin

Natural fabrications such as linen, silk, cotton sateen and voile are the foundation for this trend.

Bob Livingston

I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane!

Steve Lund

Welcome Back, Cotton. We're delighted. The Cotton is back, and it's better than ever.

J. G. Ballard

Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.

Percy Sledge

As a kid, on the cotton fields, I had this tune in my head. I hummed it and sang it. It was the same melody as 'When A Man Loves A Woman.' I could never, ever forget it.

Hoss Johnson

We were going to play these games even if it was in a rice patty or a cotton field. If there is anything we can do when we are down there, we are going to do it.

Nate Berkus

Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count.

Brent Weeks

Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn't matter, but those who climbed it and those born at its base who could never climb at all knew differently.

David Mitchell

...A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty...

Bryn Terfel

For the mountains shall depart

Jase Robertson

Group texts are the worst. They're like a terrible, technological snowball, coming down a mountain, and you can't stop it.

Alain Robert

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

Alan Alda

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'

Al McGuire

There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.

Edmund Hillary

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Edward Ruscha

When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.

Kara Walker

I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.

Bob Gaudio

But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn't slide on anything - and this show is that story.

Brad Rex

We're getting on a roll at the right time.

Diablo Cody

I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

Tiger Woods

I don't feel like I'm on a roll at all,

Austin Stowell

I want to get out there and do anything, but I still don't know about riding roller coasters. I've never been on one. There is something about being strapped in and on a track; I always feel like we're going to be launched off somewhere.

Randy Foye

We've got to get it together. We can't wait for them to roll over and die.

Jon Garland

When one person starts it off, it all seems to roll from there.

Chris Aronson

We think the juggernaut will just roll on.

Carol Leifer

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Charlie Crist

I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me.

Orlando Cabrera

When I did that I said 'Wow,' ... I got the video, and when Tejada saw the play when he got out, he started clapping.

Brian Wilson

I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.

David Sedaris

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?

Gabrielle Zevin

My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

Jandy Nelson

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

Roman Gutierrez

We still saw some of our inexperience today. That will be the case, but there were still some steps of improvement.

Brian May

I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.

Ava Gardner

I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood

Allen Ginsberg

Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?

Anthony Hopkins

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

Muddy Waters

Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

Oprah Winfrey

What I know for sure is that every sunrise is like a new page, a chance to right ourselves and receive each day in all its glory. Each day is a wonder.

Jeannette Walls

I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn’t really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.

Jeannette Walls

If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.

John Muir

The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere

Sorin Cerin

Sunset is the wail of Time and sunrise is its smile.

Eckhart Tolle

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.

Edward Norton

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

Bruce Campbell

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

James Arness

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Ayn Rand

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Will Hobbs

I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Frank Mauro

Western New York is probably characterized more by stagnancy than anything else.

Clint Eastwood

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.