Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

To pray is to mount on eagle's wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth.

Edgar Allan Poe

The Romans worshipped their standard; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one tenth of an eagle,--a dollar, but we make all even by adoring it with tenfold devotion.

Eddie Vedder

I remember back in 1994 when the Eagles charged more than $100 for tickets. They said, 'We ain't Pearl Jam.' That's back when records were selling and the Eagles had sold just about as many as anyone on the planet. And years later we're still charging less than them.

Sean Payton

I worked with Joe at the Eagles and the one thing you can say is that his players always excel.

I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then maybe he's flying along, low to the ground, and the fish pulls a worm out of the ground. Now that's a documentary.

Steve Breen

I loved practical jokes. I loved being goofy on the playground, and I loved doing silly cartoons, but I was not this subversive little delinquent. I am an Eagle Scout, after all.

Benjamin Franklin

Where carcasses are, eagles will gather, And where good laws are, much people flock thither

Kevin Renbarger

We have had great teams and individuals play at Oak Hill. These kids get to go down in history with those guys as a part of Eagle basketball. They got to do it with a win at home on senior night.

Kathy Clark

Unlike the northern states, eagles that reside in New Jersey are pretty much year-round residents ? they don't migrate out because we always have open water.

Jim Edmonds

Scott's healthy and it looks like he's nice and strong. That is going to be a huge plus for us.

Gillian Anderson

Motherhood has been enormously healthy for her. She's more secure.

J. J. Johnson

Obviously, the key with somebody like Trot is they come in and they're healthy and they do their thing -- and he looks really good,

Debra Messing

I'm just eating really, really clean healthy foods,

Dean Ornish

An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

Gail Shearer

For young healthy people and families, they may well end up being the winners; the problem is somebody else is likely to be the loser.

Abdul Kalam

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

Kathy Holleman

We want to make sure they're healthy in every way. We don't want to have two patients after the operation, so we put them through a pretty thorough exam.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Lynn Williams

I didn't want to do something on Native Americans or Rosa Parks and this seemed interesting.

Jon Voight

When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out.

Dave Barry

Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota.

Casey Miller

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.

Beau Bridges

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

Dennis Banks

What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility to Indian people. That there are treaties; that textbooks in every school in America have a responsibility to tell the truth. An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong. And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. From that, our own people began to sense the pride.

Chief Seattle

Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.

Chief Seattle

Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.

Chief Seattle

All things are bound together. All things connect.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Joss Whedon

For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy.

French Montana

Every time I look at Twitter, there's always somebody showing support.

Phoebe Philo

I do like the idea of women not showing too much, of them being quite reserved in a way, and quite covered.

Nicki Minaj

Like to me, I did the 'Harajuku' stuff. I did the crazy stuff. And now I kind of want to tone that back, and it's not toning my personality back, it's just showing like I don't only have to do that.

Brene Brown

There’s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen.

Brene Brown

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

A. Johnson

Just showing off my personality. Once I get in the end zone, that's all it is.

Hideo Kojima

The painter has total control over what they're showing to the viewer.

Robert Horan

He wasn't showing affection, he was killing them. Do you understand that?