Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Charles Dickens

When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.

Charles Dickens

Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.

Charles Dickens

"We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them."

Charles Stuart Calverley

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

Charles Studd

Send us people with initiative, who can carry themselves and others too; such as need to be carried hamper the work and weaken those who should be spending their strength on the heathen. Weaklings should be nursed at home! If any have jealousy, prides, or talebearing traits lurking about them, do not send them, nor any who are prone to criticize. Send only Pauls and Timothys; men who are full of zeal, holiness and power. All others are hindrances. If you send us ten such men the work will be done.

Charles Studd

The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.

Charles Stanley

We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million homes in America plus radio on satellites. We just acquired the NAMB FamilyNet television network, and with that expanding possibilities of the gospel.

Charles Spurgeon

What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding , I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven.

Dave Barry

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

Alan Kulwicki

It's basically the same, just darker.

Bobby Unser

Nobody remembers the guy who finished second but the guy who finished second.

Henry Ford

Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.

Jesse Ventura

Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.

Murray Walker

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.

Jimmy Fallon

Tomorrow President Obama will host NASCAR racing champion Kevin Harvick at the White House. They both said they look forward to spending an hour or two not having the slightest interest in what the other is saying.

Mario Andretti

The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses.

Roger Staubach

If NASCAR racing gets any more exciting, I may not be able to stand it.

David Suzuki

We can no longer tolerate what's going on in Ottawa and Edmonton. What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act.

Bernhard Goetz

Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.

Eartha Kitt

Dallas is where Kennedy was shot, and that's where I was put in jail.

Ed Koch

Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

Ed Koch

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

Eliza Dushku

The letters from jail are always disconcerting.

Burl Cain

We have to have a jail or we can't ever restore order and rebuild the city.

Chen Guangcheng

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

Charles Manson

I'm in jail because people wanna keep me in jail. It ain't got nothing to do with the law.