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.

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.

Tom Snyder

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

Proverb Proverb

From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.

Robert Winston

It is possible that strong levels of belief in God, gods, spirits or the supernatural might have given our ancestors considerable comforts and advantages.

Dean Gilmour

There is a feeling of Elizabethan, and there's a feeling of timelessness. My desire is to make the past present, that it speaks to us today. A feeling of ancient ancestors who court and woo each other, so that it's kind of transparent and the audience can enter into this.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble offices about the face and especially serviceable at funerals to conceal the lack of tears. The handkerchief is of recent invention; our ancestors knew nothing of it and intrusted its duties to the sleeve. Shakespeare's introducing it into the play of "Othello" is an anachronism: Desdemona dried her nose with her skirt, as Dr. Mary Walker and other reformers have done with their coattails in our own day --an evidence that revolutions sometimes go backward.

Guillaume Soro

Our people ask for nothing more than the recognition of citizenship, nothing more than the right to live on the land where their ancestors were born. Nothing more than their identity cards.

Michael Specter

Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans share ancestry with apes are a few examples. Another is climate change.

Thomas Overbury

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

Hong Feng

When I arrive somewhere, I often ask local residents about their ancestry and tales and legends of the area. Enthusiastic villagers could help find the location and offer to lead the way. That helps a lot.

Jane Austen

. . . she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them.

Benjamin Franklin

Mr. Lincoln, I believe your grandfather was a farmer in Pennsylvania,

W. S. Gilbert

I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

John Caudwell

Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done.

Hitopadesa Hitopadesa

Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished?

Gary Lloyd

I got very interested, and I started researching my own ancestors. It's been a passion and a hobby since then.

Marcel Dionne

Until Charlie broke his ankle in Toronto, we were as good a unit as anybody.

Natalie Massenet

You can still wear trousers and show off your ankles - which are a nice body part on everyone.

Ian McGeechan

We're keeping our fingers crossed it's not a fracture. He's gone to hospital for x-rays. It might just be the join but you worry when you see the ankle twist like that.

Ray Scott

We're just trying to get Marc some work in. He turned his ankle a week ago and with not playing last Tuesday or Thursday, we decided to get him some work in, and he was a little rusty tonight, but he's getting better.

Randy Wright

She's still not 100 percent from the ankle injury. She's toughed it out and goes through a ritual with taping it every day to make sure she's ready to go.

Jody Conradt

She's day to day. I know she will not be 100 percent on Sunday. At this point in the season we're being cautious because we know how ankles are. So it's going to be probably game day before a determination is made and there's no pressure on Tiffany to come back. Obviously, I'm hopeful. And, obviously, there's 24-hour surveillance and treatment trying to get her ready.

Kylie Bax

Some tell me I'll break my ankle on my high heels - but I live in them. I'm known for doing speed dashes and leaps and bounds in heels. No problem.

Suzy Menkes

Shoes? I have loved them all: '60s pumps; white Courreges ankle boots; platform soles from the first time around, in the '70s; more boots - ankle, calf, and knee-high; 1980s sneakers; pin heels and wedges; Mary Janes and stilettos.

Russ Halverson

She got clubbed a little bit before that, which she was fighting through. It looks to me like a rolled ankle ... but I think she'll be back. She's pretty tough.

Renee Martin

We know from strong evidence that we'll see a decrease in the youth smoking rate, a decrease in health-care costs associated with smoking, and revenue we'd like to see go towards prevention and education programs.

Bob Woodward

Ultimately I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us, but, is it good news quality information that defines who somebody is?

Dick Thompson

The outbreak is in northern Iraq. There are lots of challenges there, largely associated with terrain and weather. It's cold and wet, and there are steep sided valleys that the team is moving through.

David McKeown

The outbreak is confined to residents and staff and people closely associated with this one facility, so it's not a general public health risk.

Bob Schultz

We are proud to have been associated with this extremely significant mission. Working with Stanford and NASA, we formed a powerful team to develop the challenging technologies needed to take a giant step forward in helping understand Einstein's theory of general relativity.

Bob Schultz

We are proud to have been associated with this extremely significant mission,

Idan Ofer

We are proud to be associated with DP World and look forward to working with them into the future.

John Reid

We believe that there are elements of Iranian society - I put it no higher than that - who may well be associated with the attacks on British troops,

David Heymann

There are some feelings that possibly live game markets might have been associated with some of the earlier cases, but this is only hypothesis.

Lindsay Whalen

We knew they were going to make a run at us. We just had to settle down. We weren't panicking. We just became more ticked off at that point.

Rick Baker

Very early in my career, I became disappointed with the limitations of make up. There's only so much you can build up on some people before it stops looking believable and starts looking like a mask. You're also limited by the face that you're working with. If you have a big nose, the make up has to have a big nose.

Chuck D.

Ultimately, the Reaction Motors turbo pump became stalled in development, so another 4-chamber Reaction Motors engine, this one fueled by liquid oxygen and diluted ethyl alcohol, was slated for installation,

Monica Lewinsky

I think probably the qualities that I look for in a man are somewhat different than they were before I became a public person, but not that much different. I think that, sort of, the element of trust is certainly much bigger for me, but the other things that - the other qualities, intelligence and kindness and sense of humor, those things.

Vicki Long

The only reason it became a class is we needed insurance to book these buildings.

Tommy Tuberville

We are proud of Blake Field, ... He became our starter with an hour's notice. He did a great job handling the football.

Sara Labberton

We believe that she had the best of intentions, but that she just became overwhelmed with the number of cats and the cost of cat food and medicine for the cats.

Louie Anderson

One time, I came off stage and a guy named Roman Decare, God rest his soul, he was a comic. 'Louie, if you do that family stuff, and you're a clean comic on stage, you'll become famous.' And, for some reason, a switch clicked, and I started doing the family stuff, and it became a giant part of my life.

Louie Gohmert

It was no accident that just minutes after Israel became a nation, the United States... became the first nation in the world to recognize what was prophesized throughout the Old Testament about Israel returning after its absence.

Catherine Fisher

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

Cary Sherman

There will be no breakout. When we changed for the single, we never specified what the breakout for sales to streams were.

Ludovico Ariosto

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

Eddie Irvine

The people who don't know me only see me through sound bites, and everything's changed around. Things I've said are changed to suit the magazine or newspaper concerned. The people who know me have a very different view, I would say.

Tammy Cox

We stopped at the edge of town, changed our clothes, and took the decorations off the car.

Theresa Adams

We started out in a 2-3, which wasn't a very good defense ... because they can shoot the 3, and two of them can drive to the goal. So we changed it to a 3-2 and it worked much better.

Faye White

We started off well in the second leg and got a goal, which is what we needed. We can't complain about the first part of the game but it all changed when they got a penalty,

Leos Carax

I changed my name when I was 13. I don't know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I wanted to reinvent myself.

Lauren Worsham

My brother sings. My brother is a singer-songwriter. His name is Parker Ainsworth. He changed his last name to his middle name.

Peter Harris

We are pleased with initial customer reactions to our merchandise assortment changes and store service improvements. While still early, we are making visible progress with our targeted initiatives.

Dan Roberts

We've already noticed some changes in the water.

Derek McLuckey

We are making adjustments in the first quarter of this year because of changes in our military support business. These changes have forced us to make this necessary decision to ensure our competitiveness.

Juergen Boos

We are looking forward to presenting in Frankfurt the great changes that have taken place in India over the last 20 years.

Bill Belichick

There are changes every year. It's hard to tell how all of those will pan out. But there's a lot of work to do.

Frank Robinson

We started making subtle changes during the course of that (1988) season and got prepared for '89,

John Ashcroft

Where there are responsible changes to be made, we will make them, ... Where there are mistakes to acknowledge, we will not shy away from doing so. Those who step forward to voice their legitimate concerns will be welcomed, and often their ideas reviewed and embraced.

Nicolas Roeg

I've always loved the future. But I must say the future changes a lot quicker than it used to. An era used to last thirty or forty years - now we're lucky if it's five.

Brian Morrison

We're not going to put asterisks on any of our records. There have been so many rule changes, and so many changes in the style of play, and so many other things to consider over the years that we're not going to go there.

Kathy Collins

She's good. She's at home at this point. She's recovering from her injuries. She has some facial bruising and some lacerations to the back of her head.

Mike Wilton

There are some things that are really hard to see (on video), like facial expressions. That's important. That shows how he reacts. That shows what kind of teammate he is.

Henry Hall

Jim will not make it but Michael, who has a facial injury, will play. And Scott, who has been training with us, will help out by being on the bench.

Jim Tracy

I was glad to see him standing and no facial swelling.

Pam Grier

Yeah, but people aren't comfortable with a woman who looks very masculine or rides a motorcycle or wears leather or has facial hair or has short hair.

Fan Bingbing

Also, I use facial masks diligently. I use at least two a day - one for moisturizing and one for whitening. I think I go through at least 600 sheets of facial masks every year.

Don Lemon

When someone is in our tribe, I think it's particularly easier for us to tell them apart, because we're used to their facial features.

Rich Cohen

The Toothbrush mustache is the most powerful configuration of facial hair the world has ever known. It overpowers whoever touches it. By merely doodling a Toothbrush mustache on a poster, you make a political statement.

Taha Champsi

To see results you have to keep getting the same service, not just treat a facial or massage as a luxury. You have to incorporate it into your life.

Rainer Guntermann

If anything it was a slightly more hawkish spin (than we were expecting).

Ted Dexter

I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.

Lena Headey

I think I look slightly like a horse. Hand on heart, I think I'm pretty average.

Simon Doonan

Her style is gorgeous, provocative and ever so slightly deranged.

Michelle Gomez

I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.

John Godfrey

I'm always for a weakened Conservative party, slightly or massively,

China Mieville

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

Paulette Goddard

I'm always slightly embarrassed to meet other actresses of my vintage. We have so little in common. They're all so dedicated. I find - so desperate.

David Schwartz

A lot of these structures are going to come down.

Charles Spurgeon

The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.

Dave Barry

The porpoises said hello to Molly. She told them all her teeth were green.

Edna O'Brien

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

Carl Sandburg

The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time

Janet Frame

I like to see life with its teeth out.

Cecil Beaton

I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth.

Akbar Rafsanjani

Why try to untie a knot with your teeth if you can do it with your hands?

Alice Hoffman

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

Christopher McDougall

human urine is both nutrient-rich and an effective tooth whitener

Denise Levertov

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

Ayumi Hamasaki

If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward.

Dick Wolf

I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.

Debra Messing

I'm naturally lean and I'm constantly walking.

Craig David

I'm walking away from the Troubles in my Life...

Ronnie Elmore

I thought they did the right thing walking Tripp. I would have done the same thing in their position.

Jerry Stone

That was kind of like walking in a dream.

Charles Lamb

Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.

Donald Miller

I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

David Blair

We know we have a long ways to go with the Missoula public.

Jacob Lew

There are lots of ways to work together.

Reid Hoffman

Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world.

Mike Sanford

I feel like we've improved, and we still have a long ways to go. By far, we have not arrived.

Chris McCray

It can only go one of two ways now, up or down. I think this year we really want it." ()

Jesse Berger

For me the play is about preservation and transformation as ways of storytelling.

Devin Brown

There are so many different ways you can do that.

Rudy Gay

That will be a ways away. Whenever that happens, it happens. Right now it's just me and my team.

Colin Devine

There are ways to get around that, though.