Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Terry

People live up here because they love the outdoor world they want to turn a plain old backyard into a living space.

Carnell Williams

I was playing backyard football wanting to play organized football, but my mother wouldn't let me.

Mark Clayton

I was out in the backyard catching balls.

Robert Patrick

I was working around the backyard and I looked up, 'Is that snow? Right on.'We don't have to go all the way to the mountains to see that now.

Jerry Angelo

I didn't like how we ended that '01 season. We got beat. It made us look weak, and I've got that taste in my mouth still. We just didn't look like we were ready to play. We got beat in our own backyard and got our butts kicked.

Chuck D.

I think it's going to be a backyard brawl and it would be great to get that first 'W' on the board. But it's going to be like a street fight. This is the best JB team I've seen since I've been here (18 years). They've got good size and are physical. So we're expecting a fight.

Susan Williamson

Because of that, we thought search-and-rescue would be important training. I think it's only a matter of time before Molly will try to open the backyard gate. It could be a matter of months.

J. R. Moehringer

Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it's a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches.

Rasim Ljajic

I have never heard of a funeral which is conducted at night, in the backyard of the family home and without the presence of the family.

Robert Belshe

Recently, some strains of bird flu viruses have infected people in Asia. There is concern these new strains could cause a pandemic, but they are not infecting people in the United States at this time. Rather than wait for that possibility to occur, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is testing avian influenza vaccines.

Mardan Mamat

Patience and putting, I think my putting is working very well today. To birdie the 3 par 3s out of 4 par 3s, I think it was a bonus for me. As you know, par 3 here is tough to play, especially with the wind.

Mike Cooke

Our main danger is either going to be birds brought in inadvertently on a plane or something like that or perhaps people even smuggling birds in.

Pernessa Seele

People have gone to sleep on HIV. We know more about mad cow disease in England or the bird flu.

Henry Ward Beecher

Success is full of promise till a man gets it; and then it is last year's nest from which the birds have flown

Ken Torkelson

Some of the birds holding pretty close to their nests, so that's and indication they probably are.

Maggie Jones

Some people are mistaken, they think birds need feed to survive, but they don't. The main reason to feed birds is to enjoy them.

Charlie Johnson

Our friend Robbie Taylor called the bird in for him on our farm, and he nailed it. Not bad.

Louis MacNeice

Our freedom as free lancesadvances toward its end;The earth compels, upon itSonnets and birds descend;And soon my friend We shall have no time for dances.

Mike Cooke

Our main danger is either going to be birds brought in inadvertently on a plane or something like that or perhaps people even smuggling birds in.

Henry Ward Beecher

Success is full of promise till a man gets it; and then it is last year's nest from which the birds have flown

Ken Torkelson

Some of the birds holding pretty close to their nests, so that's and indication they probably are.

Maggie Jones

Some people are mistaken, they think birds need feed to survive, but they don't. The main reason to feed birds is to enjoy them.

Louis MacNeice

Our freedom as free lancesadvances toward its end;The earth compels, upon itSonnets and birds descend;And soon my friend We shall have no time for dances.

Bill Allen

Our birds are hand-fed by ourselves. Birds don't like to be handled, but hand-feeding is our forte,

Ray Atkinson

Our birds are all sheltered in indoor structures that are climate-controlled.

Steve DeMaso

Reports from the field indicated a good number of birds in the northern part of the state, but hunting conditions were not always as bountiful.

Juan Lubroth

I think that wild birds may introduce the virus but it is through man and man's marketing systems (the poultry trade) that the disease spreads. It is also possible that poultry can transmit the virus to wildlife when they share the same ecosystem.

Ariel Sharon

Regardless of the job Shimon picks, it is crystal clear he will be a full and central partner in the diplomatic process.

Sandra Hughes

Record high gas prices won't keep Americans from traveling this holiday. Despite gas prices that are nearly 50 cents per gallon higher than they were a year ago, record numbers of travelers will hit the highways.

James Bennetts

Price of Herald three cents daily. Five cents Sunday. Bennett.

Bill Owens

Our parking lot has had license plates from surrounding states. ... It's had regional appeal, ... I think it's been wonderfully successful in every aspect, and it has generated significant economic impact for us here in the center and downtown.

William Hague

Our relationship with the United States is central to our foreign policy and ought to be one of a deep and enduring partnership.

David Cole

Parrish is rich in history. Part of the goal in creating a new community center is to have a shared history, so that everyone can feel a part of that story . . . it will be a place where everyone can come together.

Michael Brown

Paula, the federal Government did not even know about the convention centre people until today.

Gary Glenn

Patriotic Americans should observe a day of prayer and thanksgiving for this stunning and historic reversal of half a century of misinformation and judicial distortion of the document that protects our religious freedoms.

Phil Harper

Patients always have their option to choose either ambulatory surgical center or the hospital for outpatient care. Their surgeon would work with the patient in determining where to schedule the procedure.

John Snow

Rebuilding efforts will give GDP (gross domestic product), jobs and our overall economy a lift by the first quarter of next year,

Thomas Delare

Ordinary Iraqis, domestic entrepreneurs and foreign investors have all been waiting for stability, predictability and greater security.

Mihir Vora

Some of the money the domestic mutual funds have raised will also come into the market now. That's one reason why the market refuses to go down.

Ian Shepherdson

Overall, solid domestic final demand, but the second quarter will be much weaker. We expect growth to slow to 3% or less, led by a sharp slowing in consumption.

Stephane Deo

Our view that the domestic economy will improve this year is very much on track. We saw already that investment growth is starting to kick in and that will support consumption eventually.

Xiao Tian

Our athletes' performance in Turin will help us forge partnerships with more international and domestic companies.

Margita Thompson

most rigorous protections in the nation for domestic partners.

Trent Lott

It is a worry about maintaining a domestic industry, which I think has national security implications,

Erik Autor

Larger U.S. retailers have recognized for a number of years that the domestic market is mature. In order to grow sales, they have to look outside of the U.S.. China, however, is a big emerging opportunity.

Will Estes

I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where they put down thousands upon thousands of animals every day.

Deborah Levine

There has been a level of complacency that has helped the epidemic spread.

Connie Baker

We can't let it go because it's escalated. It's like an epidemic right now.

Chuck Klosterman

I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird flu. That terrifies me.

Christopher McDougall

One of the most dangerous and best-kept secrets of the medical profession is the epidemic of anesthesiologists who are addicted to their own drugs.

Jared Diamond

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.

Greg Poland

What we really don't want to see is an epidemic of panic.

Brad Pitt

Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.

Dennis Kucinich

We must work to repeal trade agreements that impede access to affordable generic drugs. We must work to cause the IMF and the World Bank to reduce and eventually eliminate the debt that takes poor nations' resources away from crises like AIDS. We must focus America's leadership on addressing and ending this epidemic.

Mike Gempler

There are about a half-dozen farms that are very scared. We need lots of people. It really is different this year.

Debi Mazar

We go to several farms and look at foraging, and throw backyard parties with friends. We want to let people know they can enjoy a sense of Tuscany anywhere.

Ed Shea

They were all very nice. I went to farms like Coggeshall in Bristol.

John Pike

There's some interest here in retrofitting barns. Most farms in Southern Illinois don't have a lot of on-farm storage. And the local elevators and terminal elevators are not set up to hold grain. They have to move it out.

Auwalu Haruna

We have 30 farms that have been affected, and we're still counting.

Mark Olson

The farms are getting so huge. You know, they can farm so much. The guy that's got the land, he tries to get some more.

Chenjerai Hunzvi

Your security on the farms is given and it is given not only by me but by the president. All other things should stop.

Theodore Sturgeon

There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.

Stefan Molyneux

To see the farm is to leave it.

Charles M. Blow

While the word 'bisexual' was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to refer to myself in part because of the derisive connotations. But, in addition, it would seem to me woefully inadequate and impressionistically inaccurate.

Kusnanto Anggoro

In many regions, soldiers are too emotionally involved, partly because of inadequate logistics support, and of rivalry or (ineffective coordination) within the army.

Stanley Smith

We had plans for a 5,000-square-foot library, with inadequate parking.

E. B. White

The strength of the materials was inadequate to support the slope over time. It was a soil-like material, not a rock material.

David Rowland

The offers are inadequate and would entail unacceptable levels of risk.

Dick Cheney

As long as we do things or pursue policies that don't increase the supply, then what we'll find on the other end is inadequate supply and spiking prices,

Damon Dash

Read the rich list in Forbes. When you see all these people with all different kinds of money, it will make you feel inadequate and keep you focussed.

Jack Reed

There was inadequate planning, inadequate recognition of the problem at every level.

Dr. Katz

You can't. Routine tests will not show inadequate intake.

Jonathan Schwartz

I think our product set is stronger than at the peak of the dot-com bubble.

Dan Hill

So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they're living off their passions.

Chuck Hill

It always takes a toll. These are the peak weeks for warnings and it's going to be worse than normal, but we probably need a little of that.

Jim Skipper

But at the peak of traffic, you can't run that stop sign or you will get killed,

Dee Lee

If someone walked in today with $100,000, I would say 'Go for it.' Other times I would say the market's at its peak so let's put this in over some months.

Jeff Tedford

He doesn't go through the peaks and valleys that some people would. He just has an easy-going attitude.

Mike Jensen

I think we're starting to peak at the right time.

Michael Mosley

'Scrubs' has always had a very loyal fan base. When it started out, it was an explosion because it was after 'Friends,' but I think there have been times where it has peaked and valleyed.

Scott McCloud

Typically, you're going to set your peak in August," ()

Alan Miller

Our reporter on the scene talked personally to the governor, who told her the 12 were alive.

Claudia Vercellotti

Participating in the legislative process has been personally devastating and a rude awakening. We never stood a chance.

Paul Meyer

Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals.

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Philip Gonsalves

Some of the showers could be a little heavy, but only for short periods of time.

David Beamer

Our personal reaction was one of relief, because they got it right.

Holly Hatton

Our performance was not good. We weren't in it from the beginning.

Randy Jepson

Our performance as a whole was not that bad. We weren't outstanding, but we weren't poor either.

Andrew Ference

Our second period was awful. We started to play too much of their style.

Amartya Sen

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

Bill Gates

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Ashley Judd

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

Groucho Marx

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of bandages and adhesive tape.

Tertullian

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

Mike Bianco

Right now, sugar is not so sweet. Everybody's raised their prices.

Ron Gardenhire

That was (coach Paul) Molitor yelling at the umpire, not me. I just raised and said, 'What?' and he told me to get out of here.

Jessica Stroup

I'm such a tomboy - I was raised in the South - and I also really wanted to work in New York, being so different from California, though it was a freezing-cold winter.

Grace Gealey

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

Robert Milmore

If another bidder comes in the stakes could be raised on TWA to where AMR doesn't think it's worth it.

Sharon Cody

I was raised with a sense of not throwing things away.

Sally Field

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person.

James Gimpel

He hasn't spent that much because he hasn't raised that much.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.

Celine Dion

This is the season for families. Hold yours close.

Diane Ninemire

We are disappointed. It was just two teams that didn't want their seasons to end, and I think that's why it went on for so long.

Annie Dillard

These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.

Brian Dawkins

I will never have my best season.

Don Meyer

Don't be in a hurry to change during the season.

Jamie Sharper

I've only had two winning seasons in eight,

Chris Bolt

Third place is very satisfying. We've had some tough seasons and to have the seniors go out like this is awesome.

Brian Payne

I do swimming, but that's only two seasons out of the year.

Heidi Klum

I like to wear things for longer than one season.

Joe Torre

Spring Training is probably going to make up our mind,

Eric Chavez

Spring training doesn't matter. Stats don't matter. You take that time, especially the veteran guys, to get ready.

C. S. Lewis

Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.

Carl Safina

[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got physically ill when I learned that ospreys and peregrine falcons weren't raising chicks because of what people were spraying on bugs at their farms and lawns. This was the first time I learned that humans could impact the environment with chemicals. [That a corporation would create a product that didn't operate as advertised] was shocking in a way we weren't inured to.

Bernard Barton

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

Bernard Berenson

I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

Bill Vaughan

As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.

Bertrand Russell

As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up.

Carl Sagan

If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.

Carl Jung

The other side of midnight’s hour strikes a herald thrice rung Seer, Shadow, Sun—together they come Sixteen winters hence—the light shall be eclipsed Leaving darkness to ascend beneath a sky bleeding fire

Dave Mattson

If they keep this up for years they are going to completely wipe out winter tourism.

Chris Frantz

You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

Carroll Quigley

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West

Brandon Jay McLaren

I would say just the weather in Vancouver in the winter can be kind of unforgiving.

Atom Egoyan

One of the huge advantages of shooting in the winter is that locations that wouldn't have been available to us suddenly were, like Yorkville. ... It's just specific streets and specific angles. I think that's what's always kind of shocking about some cities: they are really about intersections.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

Alfred Stieglitz

My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment. My patience was duly rewarded. Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired pictures.