Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Gary Lloyd

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

Larry Neal

I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

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.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Samuel Butler

One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground

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.

Jack Schweers

Regardless of who we're playing, we want to play as good as we can this time of year. We had a good practice (Monday), and we hope to be at our best (in the sectional).

Paul Bush

Regardless of whether you're looking at grapes, apples, cherries or any kind of fruit, you'll get the best color around here.

Rick Barnes

Regardless of what people are saying, N.C. State has not offered me the job. Texas is one of the best jobs in the country, and I'm happy here.

Kevin Marsh

Regardless of how I played, this was the best week of my life. It would have been the best week of my life if I had finished up on Wednesday, really. Being here for the first time you just want to soak up the experience as much as you can. But it also makes you hungry to get back, and prove that you really do belong.

Gloria Estefan

Regardless of culture or language, they really enjoy the album. And that to me, is the best thing.

Laurieann Gibson

Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.

Jim Shannon

Rebounding and defense were big keys for us. They're much bigger than us, but we more than held our own on the boards. And we got after them on defense. It was our best defensive game of the year.

Bob Myers

Rebecca and Christina are probably two of the best girls in the state; there's a very good chance they'll place in the top five at states. Those girls are just great leaders. I think we're going to win it all. The girls we have are good, they have two great leaders to follow.

David Pottruck

Recent trading volumes are propelling the company to its best quarter ever in terms of revenues and profits.

Paul Allen

Over 20 years ago, even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future...I called that future 'the wired world,'

Julie Myers

I was really excited with our first half. I think people worked hard and connected on the field. There was great teamwork all over the place, and everyone was able to rotate in and really contribute to the overall performance.

Marta says the interesting thing about fly-fishing is that it's two lives connected by a thin strand. Come on, Marta. Grow up.

Tim Fletcher

It doesn't constitute illegal market manipulation. It's not trading on any inside information. They are not a connected party with the company.

Hillary Clinton

I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company, as so many people who leave public life do.

Lisa Jennings

Maybe some representatives or senators are connected to that in some way, but I wouldn't know and can't speculate on that.

Richard Garland

He connected to the kids through the sports. That's one of the reasons I was interested in having him work with us.

Josh Bidwell

He connected really well with the kids. He shared some real solid truth with them.

David Becker

He connected all the dots, and it worked out.

Chris Stanton

Our passing game had a connection today. Brandon had a really good game and the receivers did a good job of helping him out by holding onto the ball.

Larry Davis

That connection stays strong as long as Tim Duncan is playing,

Kyle Davis

That connection is already there because he's a former ballplayer. He knows what it's like day to day, what the grind is like. He's already been through whatever we'll face, and he can tell you how he got through it.

Robert Nozick

That connection between evolutionary cosmology and the theory of objectivity that I was formulating pleased and excited me a lot.

Sheila Hyland

Pittsburgh is like a small town and you just make a connection with viewers, and they in turn make a connection with people they see on television. It will be hard to say goodbye.

Greg Graham

Maybe other players will venture up to watch Reggie play and keep that connection and make that grow for us.

Ashley Tisdale

I love keeping a connection with everyone I've worked with.

Jeff Ravencraft

The association models specification is a key differentiator from other wireless technologies. By providing a method for first-time product association, the specification helps ensure a secure connection between products from any vendor that complies with the Certified Wireless USB certification requirements. Certified Wireless USB supports the same ease-of-use and plug-and-play features consumers love and know from wired USB.

Robert Siegel

I think until there's a visual connection the impact isn't really the same. Once you have that visual impact you'll never forget.

Lillian Hames

That connects the whole 70 miles of corridor.

Ed Zander

The application server connects the Web-based user to back-office applications like transaction processing,coordination, and load balancing.

Pamela Anderson

Jungian therapy connects me to my grandfather. I feel his presence strongly. He is always with me.

Jessica Aiken

It connects with the soul. People connect with the environment and their surroundings and this painter really strove to do that with the landscape by finding the peace in it.

Tom Beckett

It connects the past, the present and the future for us. It's a spectacular hire.

Bill McDonald

He's been a pretty reliable guy. The troops like him, and he connects pretty well with the public,

Thom Mayne

We're producing spaces that accommodate human activity. And what I'm interested in is not the styling of that, but the relationship of that as it enhances that activity. And that directly connects to ideas of city-making.

George Lois

A truly great magazine cover surprises, even shocks, and connects in a nano-second.

Todd Rutherford

We still feel there's something intangible that connects all the music. Lots of people, regardless of the song, can hear it and know that it's Gram Rabbit.

Sue Olds

Some of our schools didn't meet the AYP criteria because they are large and ethnically more diverse, and they had to cross more thresholds.

David Rose

Our criteria for good data feeds are that they need to be dynamic enough to be interesting, something that users want to attune to throughout the day, etc.

Wayne Smith

Our acquisition pace has been strong and steady, and we have established a track record for not only finding hospitals that fit our criteria but also for successfully assimilating these facilities into our system.

Angela Merkel

It is not just meeting the ... criteria - this is a question of justice for the future, ... For me it is a question of destiny.

Leonard Hamilton

I don't have any say in the criteria that's already been determined and me making speculations right now would be just that, speculations. What we have to do is maintain hope, and hope that we've done enough during the season to go the NCAA tournament. Past that, there's not a whole lot more we can say.

Gary Bauer

For me, the criteria has to be to find that individual that has the right philosophy and the right experience to get through a confirmation process, ... There are women that fit those characterizations. There are Hispanics, African-Americans.

H. Hart

I think the number one criteria (for getting into NCAA Tournament) has to be how you did in your conference.

Dick Murphy

I don't think it will be that difficult to match the (10) highlighted criteria on this list. There are probably quite a few people out there who have done these things.

Jean Chenoweth

I would say, and we have always said, that this should not be used as the only criteria to pick a hospital. But it does say which hospitals are well-aligned.

Bill Hawkey

Patrick and I are feeling very good about this team. We saw some promising things in our first two scrimmages.

Eric Love

People need to speak out about their feelings to those of us who are in denial,

Scott Kahan

People may have a better feeling psychologically than they did at the end of the year. They're a little more comfortable. So this is a good time to do a self-assessment.

David Cline

People looking for a private retreat with a lot of land, seclusion and a feeling of living 100 years ago.

Simon Schoch

Our preparations have been perfect and right now we're feeling really confident.

Robert Kreps

Our team has really been talking about this game. I think everyone was in the zone tonight, and I was really feeling it.

Alex Rodriguez

Our state of mind right now is that we're feeling good about where we are going. We're playing with a lot of urgency right now. We're playing with a lot of grit.

Dan Marsala

Our first record wasn't really . . . I don't know . . . us. I mean . . . it had no feeling at all. People still loved the record, and that's awesome. But we didn't want to do that again. We wanted to sound like a real band.

Erik Palladino

Our feelings politically about war have stayed the same. We have a general code, we don't really talk about it.

Bob Good

Some of the fellows say they don't remember that, but I remember a lot of it.

Chad Campbell

I thought it was an honor that fellow players looked at me that way. I don't think I really put too much more pressure on myself. I just took it as a compliment.

Aaron Blake

I don't feel comfortable with my fellow students being out there until 3 in the morning, ... We are students, we need to study. We are students, we are liable to be attacked. ... leave that job to the police.

Sophie Hannah

I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter offering me a two-year fellowship where I could write; they would pay me a salary and give me a flat to live in. It was heaven.

Daniel Woodrell

I liked my fellow Marines. I didn't like pointless orders.

Chris Fisher

I find hope for the future because there are 100 of your fellow students 'dead' on the Rock today, in the rain, so that you will notice, so that you will listen, and so that you will care.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built.

Robert Jackson

(Grove City's) got a big fellow down low and their guards aren't too bad. (The loss to Marion-Franklin) was a setback, but it was probably a good thing for us.

James Browning

just liked it. I think we should do one of Fellowship of the Rings.

Ken Knutson

Our pitching is generally a year older with some really good arms. We have the players.

Brian Foster

Our start to the season has been generally encouraging,

Tomoko Fujii

Japanese institutional investors seem to have sought returns by selling dollar-denominated assets. That kind of repatriation is generally yen positive.

Samah Haggag

Late payments generally have the highest negative impact on a score.

Ian Spector

It exploded. Since last summer, we've had 50 million hits. We generally get between 500,000 and 800,000 hits a day.

Elizabeth Thomas

I think poetry was meant to be heard out loud. I am not doing this for the money. What I do is done from a passionate place inside of me, because I feel very strongly that young people need a positive outlet and some kids have that through sports, and some have it through music or art. Kids who have it through poetry generally aren't heard. They all can't be good at football.

Steve Rhode

It doesn't surprise me. People generally underestimate what they're going to spend for the holidays.

Joe Sacco

I think I'm generally a good listener anyway.

David Liss

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

Larry Walker

Reggie? Good luck. Congratulations. ... You guys win the championship down there?

Lydia Lenker

Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.

Gregg Hostetler

Recognition is always good for the program. I think they have to prove it to me.

Jane King

Realtors should be all over this. It's a good product.

Joe Torre

Reggie was one of those guys who knew how good he was and let people know how good he was. Some players resented that during those times.

Stephen Hadley

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Carl Pettersson

Pars are good. I had a good round going,

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player,

Doug Higgins

Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

B. B. King

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.

C. S. Lewis

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

C. S. Lewis

Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

Bette Davis

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

Greg Gilchrist

I want to win this race really badly,

Becky Cleary

It is a real race for the title this year.

Fernando Alonso

It is an important race in that I can become champion, but if I don't win on Sunday it is not the end of the world. I will race many years to come.

Troy Corser

I think the race is going to be pretty tight.

Bill Bowerman

If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you're a winner.