Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Stoppard

Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it.

David Blunkett

What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism.

Eartha Kitt

I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.

Susan Lieberman

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happiness - a sense of belonging and at the same time gratitude that I'm so privileged that I can live my life in my city.

Ilham Patu

Her family said a number of chickens belonging to her neighbors had died suddenly before she fell ill. So, she must have contracted the virus from the sick birds.

Robin Clifford

Personnel belonging to either of these categories who remain in Kosovo after midnight tonight will be subject to robust KFOR enforcement,

Joe Solmonese

The fact that that she is so proudly a born-again evangelical Christian belonging to the Valley View Christian Church makes my blood run cold.

William H. Hunt

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.

Kevin Hall

When we go out to sing, we are unofficially recruiting people to the school. After they hear the choir sing, they want to come to VCU.

Paul Robeson

Yes, I heard my people singing!--in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews--and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.

Kelly Rowland

I actually started singing in church when I was about five years old. I remember looking at the choirs and just hearing all of those great big beautiful voices. And there was this one woman who could just wail. And I remember trying to sing like her when I was like going home.

Kelsea Ballerini

I grew up loving music, like, loving it. I was involved in church choir, leading worship and all the choirs in my school - even glee club.

Sydney Wayser

I made my own fictional land, which is 'Bell Choir Coast.' It was a response to feeling really, really lost, and it was what I was looking for.

Sydney Wayser

'Bell Choir Coast' is about a fictional land where I was able to start over, discover myself, and learn to take life a lot less seriously.

Charles King

I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing.

Blake Lively

I was in a show choir. I can't sing or dance to save my life, but I was very passionate. People said my parents paid the choir director to let me in. It was actually the parents who started that one!

Chris Greene

To me, the choir is my service to the Lord and fellow man, ... and you can't put a price tag on that.

Kay Granger

Seventy-five percent of the airports will meet the deadline, ... Most airports can make it. For those who can't, what is the solution for them? This is the solution.

J. J. Johnson

Mr. Duncan will be meeting with our investigators tomorrow.

John Ashbrook

Mrs. Schmidt had a meeting with Mr. Tancredo about his support for her. We understood it to be an endorsement.

Michael Brown

meeting the needs as they are communicated to us.

Sabrina Carpenter

My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'

Joe Gottfried

None of this was a reaction to the situation with the University of Mississippi. Our meeting with him as the result of it being the end of the season.

Alexander Bunegin

Next Sunday, I go to the camp, I meet her and that was it. We stick together until today.

Mike Castle

Obviously, they need some votes. Otherwise, they would not meet with us for 45 minutes.

Phil Esposito

When you're an athlete, you meet a lot of people.

Angel Guzman

Now that I have this opportunity to show them that I can pitch, I have to just go out there and make pitches.

Brian Aldridge

Obviously, it does give us an opportunity to start off (conference play) with a win and not a loss,

Jeff Suppan

Obviously, if you get the opportunity that's great,

Laveranues Coles

When you're a quarterback, I think that's the most important thing for you to get the opportunity to get out and not only show the world, but show yourself and prove to yourself that you still have everything.

Chris Cuomo

We in the network world are used to having time constraints and saying only what you have already thought through 150 times, because you don't have that much expansive opportunity.

Daniel Adair

I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.

Uday Kotak

The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.

Charles R. Swindoll

While God is not the author of evil and He never prompts or condones sin, nothing occurs without His sovereign oversight. Others may choose to do evil deeds and God's people may suffer in the short term, but He will transform the evil intentions of evil people into opportunities for the enrichment of those in His care.

Dick Van Dyke

Anyone who doesn't sing and dance at every opportunity is missing out on the joy of life.

Erica White

One of the things we always wrestle with is trying to get parents to read to them at home. Time is a factor, and work schedules. A lot of them work at night.

Christopher Darden

My grandparents and parents urged me to go to school and do well in school so that at the end of the day I'd have options, choices.

Rep. Hogue

I feel real strong that violence should be in (the statute). We need to give parents a tool to protect their children.

Parry Aftab

I have 11,000 volunteers working for me, and I still can't keep up. I don't know how parents would.

Tom Riley

She was just a victim of her parents' callousness,

Vanessa Williams

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.

Chang-Rae Lee

I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish wish on my part.

Missy Clark

We had no clue. We want parents to do the research, get informed, talk to their kids.

Darin Lee

Murphysboro presents a whole different challenge. It's going to be a very, very tough sectional.

Alessandra Ambrosio

My little girl, Anja, is really excited. We had a baby shower yesterday and she took the presents from everyone for me and was telling them, 'No, it's my baby.'

Ewen Bremner

As parents, I think we're always novices, and every day presents a new challenge.

Michael Watkins

I think the superintendent makes the recommendation, presents it and we vote on it.

Jim Crews

They switch some, they play a little zone, they play man. They look different all the time. That presents problems.

Eduardo Paes

You cannot deal with a city if it's not socially integrated.

Le Corbusier

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

Noam Chomsky

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

Ludwig von Mises

Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

Ludwig von Mises

Socialist society is a society of officials.

Ludwig von Mises

The system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

Ludwig von Mises

Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.

Gary Knowles

We are doing it for their own protection. They are subjected to not just violence, but also social diseases.

David Cross

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

Nell Newman

I know I could make a difference by supporting the right causes.

Teresa Johnson

He wants to win and we're just supporting him.

Debbie Smith

I think the winds are changing. We're all tired of supporting the scandals.

Marcel Dionne

The only thing is we didn't have the supporting cast.

Robin Butler

I'm still undecided about who I'm supporting for governor, but I'm a person who supports the anti-Nussle campaign.

Steve Gillis

They say they're supporting the troops, but they're not.

Robert Maillet

You need supporting actors to help to tell the story. For me, I'm lucky to be a part of the films. Being an actor, I'll take any role, whether it's supporting or leading.

Waris Ahluwalia

Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.

Robert Lowe

The E.U. has a long tradition of supporting the Palestinians.