Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Foster

The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew.

Jimmy Chamberlin

It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.

Buddha

On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought of serene faith, will be such as have honoured many hundreds of thousands of Buddhas, such as have planted their roots

Epictetus

I have a lantern. You steal my lantern. What, then, is your honour worth no more to you than the price of my lantern?

Laurie Lee

That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.

English 15th Century Proverbs

A prophet is not without honour save in his own country.

Rudyard Kipling

And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!

Geoff Mulgan

Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never have its own jubilees, palaces or honours system.

Nicholas Boileau

Honour is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside.

William Shakespeare

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

Charles Spurgeon

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

Anne Spencer

Is any prophet come to teach a new thing Now in a more apt time?

F. Schumacher

You do not need to be very prophetic to say the Championship is over.

Bob Dylan

I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe

Bible Bible

And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

P. J. Harvey

Servant is who you are; prophet is what you do.

Janeane Garofalo

No no no! Don't clap! No no no, you make me seem like I'm like a prophet or something and I'm so not!

Muhammad Ali

If I could meet anybody? The prophet Muhammad

Jewish Proverb

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.

English 19th Century Proverbs

Scratch a Russian and you find a Tartar.

English 17th Century Proverbs

So many mists in March, so many frosts in May.

English 18th Century Proverbs

Keep your own fish-guts for your own sea-maws.

Thomas Peterffy

You win a few, you lose a few.

Turkish Proverbs

Part with your head, but not with your secret.

English 14th Century Proverbs

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

Scottish Proverb

We'll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.

French Proverbs

One may go a long way after one is tired.

Eddie Vedder

The love received is the love that is saved.

Bob Watson

What we're going to do is save a roster spot for him. He can't make up his mind.

Sarah Newton

We didn't want to have them come down to do the work if we weren't sure we would be able to save the building.

Claude Julien

Jose made some big saves in the third to keep us in the game.

Lauren Kellin

It all starts with Amy. She doesn't get any credit. She makes all the big saves and makes us look good.

Lauri Kemper

What we have is better than nothing, but it may not be sufficient to save the lake.

Richard Sommer

I think it's really important to save a little as a benchmark.

Kevin Klette

He made some big saves for us when it counted. He's been doing that all year for us.

Mike Strauss

There is no better way to put it other than it saves lives.