Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abdullah Gul

We have completed our mission to the EU, now we are on our way to the Balkans. Our ancestors went on horse back, we are going by plane.

Louise Leakey

It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future.

Jim Walsh

With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench.

Bhagavad Gita

Worshippers of the demigods go to the demigods, the worshippers of the ancestors go to the ancestors, and the worshippers of the ghosts go to the ghosts, but My devotees come to Me (and are not born again).

Tom Snyder

Misers are no fun to live with but they make great ancestors

Kate Forsyth

When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.

William Phelps

I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations between us.

Joy Harjo

My ancestors include Monahwee, who was one of the leaders in the Red Stick War, which was the largest Indian uprising in history, and Osceola, who refused to sign a treaty with the United States.

Will Rogers

My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.

Alan Titchmarsh

I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum.

Francis Wacziarg

The fact that it is set in a phantasmagorical island somewhere in ancient Sri Lanka throws up immense possibilities to explore this cultural hybrid, whether it's through costumes, sets or simply because of the Hindu environment that forms the spine of the story.

Sarah Monette

I would love with all my heart to be able to speak Greek, classical or modern or both. It is a beautiful language, both aurally and in terms of the intricacy of its construction. I took four semesters of Ancient Greek in college, but it's all rusted away now - and I never learned to speak it anyway.

Theodore William Richards

If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must even now be engraved in the atomic weights.

Tim Birkhead

The human eye has long fascinated lovers, artists and physicians. The ancient Greeks dissected eyes, but struggled to understand how they worked, unclear as to whether they received or emanated light.

Eula Biss

There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.

John Pearson

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

Marguerite Gardiner

The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.

Brady Corbet

I did all sorts of cartoons and stuff. And every once in a while I still do. It's rare, but it happens.

William Steig

When I was an adolescent, Tahiti was a paradise. I made up my mind to settle there someday. I was going to be a seaman like Melville, but the Great Depression put me to work as a cartoonist to support the family.

David Sedaris

The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.

Nick Park

My dream was to draw for 'The Beano.' When I was 10 years old, I started drawing cartoon strips with 'The Beano' in mind. I lived in that world. You own a comic, it's yours and adults don't understand it. You could pile them up under the bed, and if you were off school ill, you'd go through them all.

Twyla Tharp

Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests.

Dennis Prager

There have been huge Muslim demonstrations against cartoons depicting Muhammad and any other perceived insult against Islam. But I am unaware of a single demonstration of Muslims against Muslim terror directed at non-Muslims.

Tyga

Sour Patch, Swedish Fish. I love candy, man. I can't go without candy. And when I'm recording, I always have a TV on with cartoons - on mute, though. When I'm recording, I like to look at the TV now and then and see some crazy, wacky stuff. When you're thinking creative, it just keeps you creative. Everybody got their way of making music.

Flemming Rose

We would run these cartoons the same day as they would publish them.

Bruce McCall

I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.

Roger Germann

She's been a pioneer because she hasn't played the woman card. She's stuck to her guns and carved a proven track record.

Alan Reed

I come from a family of painters. My dad Ken is still a working artist. His dad used to paint as a hobby, and my great grandfather carved ships' figureheads. I discovered quite early on I had talent, but like all abilities it needed work and dedication.

Eddie Trunk

Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.

Ed Mullins

We've had a member whose leg was carved up as they took a sample of leg hair.

Debbie Harry

The word 'iconic' is used too frequently - an icon is a statue carved in wood. It was shocking at first, when I got that reference. It was a responsibility, and it's impossible to live up to - you're supposed to be dead, for one thing.

Ye Ling

We send professionals to the original sites to source jade articles, all of which are designed and carved by skilled local craftsmen.

Will Self

Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry that has been cut up and carved away. It says, 'This is the ultimate polis, through which humans move like nematodes.'

Butch Vig

We didn't want to reinvent ourselves with the new album. We felt that we had carved our own turf on the first record and we wanted to take everything we did and make it better, ... Version 2.0.

Sally Drucker

He carved so many of them that the house used to look like a Cracker Barrel.

James Spencer

We're not going to tell people to hide in a cave and only come out at night. It's not realistic.

William Burns

Mr. Cave obviously has a huge investment in this land, and he can't sit on it forever.

John Ashcroft

No cave is deep enough to escape the patient justice of America,

Mike Crews

Getting down early like that. And this late in the year, it would have been pretty easy to cave in a little bit. To our kids credit, they didn't do that. It's good to get that first conference win.

George Harrison

I either finish this tour ecstatically happy and want to go on tour everywhere, or I'll end up just going back to my cave for another five years.- Talking about his North American tour in 1974.

James Buchan

The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was long ago exploded by the historians.

Charles Browne

Why don't you show us a statesman who can rise up to the emergency, and cave in the emergency's head.

William Stone

Caves are whimsical things, and geology on a local scale is random and unpredictable.

Colin Morgan

I read 'The Crystal Cave' book by Mary Stewart, and I thought it was a really, really interesting part of the legend, in which Merlin could enter into the cave with these crystals and see reflections of the future in them and learn how to use that and harness those powers for himself.

Carol Leifer

I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it.

Carol Moseley Braun

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

Carol Vorderman

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?

Carol Vorderman

I'm very pleased how my children have turned out.

Carlos Mencia

If God made Adam and Eve, they had children... wait a minute... that means someone banged their sister!

Carlos Fuentes

Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency

Carlos Fuentes

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

Carlos Castaneda

The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.

Carl Andre

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

Mitch Kapor

If advertisers want to decorate their ads to increase their conversions by showing what users think, that's a good thing.

Kim Kipping

People are learning that they can decorate their homes well using items from a thrift store or consignment shop. They can find a lot of things. Used furniture doesn't have the negative connotation it once did.

Jamie Cullum

Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries.

Chris Vance

The process has worked extremely well and Republicans support it. When the Legislature drew the lines, there was nothing but lawsuits, acrimony and delay.

Hadi Jawad

We're grateful because it was time, in our opinion, that someone drew a hard line the way she has.

John Madden

We need the quarterbacks. It's a passing league and a quarterback-driven league. We need the Peyton Mannings in football uniforms out there playing - the Tom Bradys, the Drew Breeses, the Philip Riverses - we need those guys instead of them standing on the sideline.

Jim Gaylor

When we weren't scoring early in the game, Drew kept us in it. We made a few a plays there for him. He mixed his pitches well. He's a competitor. He's not an overpowering guy, but he's got good stuff.

George Herbert

Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back / Guilty of dust and sin.

Chris Savage

We've scouted them a few times. They have a lot of good athletes. They're in a tough league (City League-North Division). We drew a tough opponent.

Jerry Rice

My hat goes off to Drew and Cheryl. It's well-deserved.

Scott Brown

Nobody trains harder than Drew Switzer. He's as hard a worker as I've ever seen.

Tom Izzo

I don't think I can be harder on Drew than Drew is on Drew.

Tempestt Bledsoe

I love helping people put their homes in order.

Lauren Herring

When I was little, I used to feel a lot of pressure. Before matches, I'd want to throw up. But now, I've adapted. I do get homesick sometimes, but I have to remember why I am there and what I have to do to go pro.

Beatrix Potter

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

Michael Chertoff

making provisions for people in nursing homes or hospitals to get them out so they are out of harm's way and don't need to be rescued.

Jack Campbell

There are the ones who have a lot of land and want to be annexed because they want the sewer to make the land more valuable and the lots smaller. Then there are the people with homes with working septic tanks that don't see why they should pay to hook into a sewer system they don't intend to use.

Michael Burgess

Nursing homes should be a last resort, and that's what a lot of this is moving toward.

Tom Morris

Getting people in homes is real important towards improving the quality of life in the parish.

John Ortberg

Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen.

Hilaire Belloc

From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,There's nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends.

Karl Lagerfeld

There is a softer, romantic tough by some of the prints and by the colors. It's not harsh. Some is body-conscious. Some is completely fluid.

Joan Rankin

It was a joy-of-celebration piece, and the first time I put it out at a show, it sold, ... I never had any prints made.

Miuccia Prada

So there are prints that look kind of geometric, but it's kind of a diamond, computerized tone ... with shades that look like light,

Asif Kapadia

As a filmmaker, you complete a film you have spent years obsessively making, and you know the release prints will never look quite the same; prints get scratched and dirty.

Carl Barks

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

C. S. Lewis

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Sandra Cisneros

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Brent Spiner

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Bret Easton Ellis

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

Diane Setterfield

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

Diane Setterfield

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Diane Setterfield

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Ross Davenport

We stuffed the Australians in their own backyard.

Sam Brandon

I thought he showed he was ready,'' Walls said.

Geoffrey Chaucer

That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.

John B. Keane

There were no ceilings. The walls were collapsed.