Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Martin

Our mission is to provide every last opportunity for a person to turn his or her life around. We don't give up easily. These men exemplify the true spirit of Christmas - looking inside yourself and finding hope.

Tim Smith

(Spring break) is getting to be another Christmas.

John Heavener

Some of the upscale retailers and those who sold electronics were way up - some 30 percent. Some of the traditional department stores and low-end department stores may not have even made 5 percent. The week before Christmas may have made the difference for us (in Georgia).

Caroline Sunshine

Our family's special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent's house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and I love hearing her tell old funny stories.

Britt Beemer

Overall, the moderate-priced stores such as J.C. Penney, Sears and Wal-Mart had good traffic levels. We think luxury sales were probably flat this past weekend because more people said they decided to go away on vacation before Christmas this year than last year. So this could have impacted spending on other high-end items.

Richard Hastings

Retailers know that many people will wait until after Christmas for the big purchases. So they don't want to go too far into the holidays with excess inventory that they eventually will heavily discount.

Richard Hastings

Retailers have very big orders from vendors ready for delivery right before and right after Christmas. They want to look really, really good. That's when they come out with the richest displays of winter merchandise, and it culminates with Valentine's Day.

Ed Perkins

Resorts generally are starting to feature Christmas, New Year's packages that include some kind of holiday entertainment.

Kurt Barnard

Remember, there are still over 2 million unemployed workers and over 5 million are on part-time jobs. Christmas will be moderately better simply because last year was so bad. But unless this jobs picture improves, it's hard to say that the retail industry has finally turned the corner.

Yoshihiro Kawaoka

Patient 1 had not had any known direct contact with poultry, but had cared for her 21-year-old brother (patient 2) while he had a documented H5N1 virus infection,

Pete Johnson

People know me more as his brother now, even though I'm older by seven years. But he's certainly more famous than I am, and we're a close family, so I'm proud of it.

Aaron Neville

Success to me is being together as brothers and still looking out for each other.

Martin Short

Steve got his first job in comedy as a writer on the 'Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' because he was dating one of the dancers. Oh, by the way, Steve, Tommy Tune says hi.

Jesse Segall

Stan, when he was here, he was very active. He did everything like any normal brother would do.

MC Hammer

Some people call God, some people call Allah; I want to see the fruit of the love, I want to see the love, the love to help the brothers who may not be as fortunate as us.

Ted Bailey

Our focus is to look at my brother as a person and look at what he has done with his life and look and make sure we are by his side. Because the only thing that matters to us is his recovery.

Ray Henderson

On the sidelines, we were all going crazy. But we were trying to keep our composure at the same time. We're a family. It's just like if someone went after your little brother or little sister.

Julie Tanner

Our clients at Christian Brothers Investment Services don't want to profit from certain things and we want to see things change in corporate America.

Bethany Dillon

I'm trying to learn how to listen to people and how not to think that this is all I am. It's not going to change the fact that at home I'm going to put away the clean dishes, and I'm going to have to be nice to my siblings. It encourages me, but it doesn't define me.

Ahmet Zappa

I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone.

Brian Ferneyhough

Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside.

Alexander Skarsgard

I'm not very active on social media. I'm not on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram, or anything like that. But I think it's wonderful that they're out there. They're fantastic. I have a lot of siblings and friends that use it, and it's great for them. It's such a connected world.

Aleksandar Hemon

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

Henry Fonda

No one could have nicer sisters. No sibling problems there.

Anne Lamott

Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to you, while a chilling voice thundered, "We *told* you not to tell." But that was then. Just put down on paper everything you can remember now about your parents and siblings and relatives and neighbors, and we will deal with libel later on.

Albert Bandura

The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life

America Ferrera

My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.