Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Vernor Smith

No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.

Kerry Thornley

Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.

Kevin Yoder

Certainly in the Capitol you do get moments were you sort of take a deep breath and think of all the historic figures who have been in that building, like Abraham Lincoln, who have stood right in those same rooms to make the landmark decisions.

Sathya Baba

Love is the basis of all forms of worship of which Abraham was the human prototype.

The Archives

Look, you know and I know that it's either Abraham or Einstein, but dammit, a free beer is a free beer!

Brooks Bollinger

We're just trying to stay upbeat,'' Abraham said.

Robert H. Connelly

Riders that spy the most Lincoln sites will be eligible for a prize drawing. Participants will win either way because they'll have the opportunity to ride where Abraham Lincoln once walked.

Bruce Feiler

One of the reasons Abraham is an important figure in the world today is because he is not a saint,

Bible Bible

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? / Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: / And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

Mick Ralphs

When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one.

Eddi Reader

I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

John Green

When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and then you get the feedback. When you do work online, the moment you're finished making it, people start responding to it which is really fun and allows for a kind of community development you just can't have in novels.

Neil Peart

It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to make it true enough to the image in your head, and that's where technique and technology come in, for sure, and knowledge. It's not true and will never be true that someone who knows nothing can sit in a basement and make great music.

Patricia Edwards

People were crying - they couldn't believe that they had come so far. And the very first thing I did was to bring everybody downstairs into the basement so we could have a family prayer meeting.

Candice Olson

Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.

Robert Coleman

From my basement I heard an explosion and I ran and I called for my family to come downstairs. And I saw fire bursting out of the basement, so I got them as quickly as I can and I came outside and the fire started upstairs.

Michelle Miller

I don't have to throw stuff into the garbage that is perfectly good. I'm cleaning through my basement and closets and have been able to offer a lot.

Clinton Sparks

I don't even know what made me start wanting to do music. It just... happened. Because I sat in my basement all the time, and music was my best friend, and I just wanted to be a part of it.

Shimon Peres

We were at the point where all of us could have lost control of the situation, and the bloodshed reached an unbelievable proportion. ... we pray for a day without funerals.

Alan Shearer

I'd like to play for Newcastle United before I retire. The club is in my blood.

Charlotte Bronte

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.

Charles Dickens

He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying up, on every side. There was another vessel before them, toiling and labouring in the howling storm: her canvas fluttering in ribbons from the mast.

Charles Caleb Colton

If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

Richard Eastman

The problem with the former cutoff of 140 is that by the time people were diagnosed with diabetes, about 20 percent already had complications, ... We know that the risk goes up sharply for those complications when the blood sugar gets to be about 126.

Yaron Ezrahi

The real change is that for the first time we have three people in the leading parties ... and none have the reputation or the record of a heroic military general or a bloody ruthless fighter.

Ehud Barak

The real cause is Arafat, ... paid with the blood of his people.

Isotonu Achor

There is blood all over him and I'm scared they'll come for him here. If he doesn't get urgent treatment he will die.

Ron Carey

What the union historically has done is gone in, negotiate a contract, then brought it back to its members when they reached agreement. What the company has been dictating and intimidating and threatening people is that they want to shove this contract down the members' throats. That has never been done in the past,

Honeysuckle Weeks

When 'Foyle's War' ended in 2010 after seven series, I was sad but not despondent. After all, ITV had already axed the show once in 2007, then brought it back due to public demand.

Charles Spurgeon

When facts were weak, his native cheek brought him serenely through

LaDainian Tomlinson

When he first got here, he said he had some nastiness to him, and that was one thing he was going to bring. He's definitely brought it. ... I mean, the guy has brought a different mindset to the defense.

Kenneth Stethem

We want him to be brought to justice. We want him to be tried in the United States.

Steve Begin

We were already playing good hockey before the Olympic break. We were playing with confidence, and it's that confidence that we brought with us on this trip.

Sam Castree

The fact that maybe he upset some people in prior departments... I don't know that that's surprising as someone who's brought into many of these departments to institute community policing measures.

Mike Massey

When I'm doing it for charity I feel the freest and the best, ... I lived the life of a hustler for quite a few years, but God brought me out of it and made me a champion.

Mary Cimbalnik

We used to have kids brought here through a church, refugees with life-and-death stories.

Carl Bernstein

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

Tommy Amaker

We have no more information on him. He's out indefinitely.

Bryan Whitman

We have no information to suggest they have done so.

Dr. Gerberding

We have no information to suggest any problem with the vaccine.

Dennis Brugos

We have no information that words were exchanged between them . . . or of any prior neighbor dispute. We have no information about what Miller was doing outside. The motive is unknown.

Florence Hartmann

We have no information that something particular has happened.

Bobby Hernandez

We have no information on who did it or why, and (we) are investigating.

Alexandra Milenov

We have no information. He is not in the tribunal.

Aaron Swartz

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

Kianna Smith

We've seen so many types of presses. I think I could sleep and still go through them. I knew that wouldn't be a problem.

Joe Cocker

When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't even name half the new groups.

The Weeknd

'House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.

Abby Wambach

As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.

Theresa Russell

My mother was 18 when I was born. She split with my father when I was 6, and married another man when I was about 7. My mother was about 25, my stepfather was about 26, I'm six or seven, I was looking at them and I knew they were just too young.

Kirk Hinrich

We know we had Madison Square Gordon, so we knew we were in the driver's seat.

Tori Kelly

I know Pentatonix. I knew them before they were even a group.

Ekaterina Gordeeva

I knew there were a lot of friends out there, and I wanted to be with them.

Khloe Kardashian

I knew I didn't look like my sisters and I didn't have those shapes, but I didn't think that was wrong.

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.