Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Erik Anderson

What we're trying to do is trying to have reproduction of species in captivity so that if we do lose them in the wild, there's an option.

Bible Bible

Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

Bible Bible

For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

Roy Hallums

Coalition forces rescued American Roy Hallums and an Iraqi citizen from captivity in an isolated farm house located 15 miles (25 kilometres) south of Baghdad,

Bible Bible

Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

Bob Barker

There's only one solution to the tragic, the embarrassing elephant problem going on at (the zoo), and it's to release those elephants from captivity and place them in a sanctuary.

James Loney

I'm eager to tell my story of rescue and captivity but I need a little time.

Evelyn Waugh

Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.

Edward R. Murrow

When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

Jeff Morrow

Oh, wow. All you can say is, 'Wow.' It was like a circus, but a fun circus to watch.

Charles Bukowski

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

Dave Barry

I will spare you a gushy description of the dive itself, except to say that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

Matt Allen

I think it tastes like a circus peanut.

Denis Chatelier

I said, 'They gave me a transplant. Now people think I'm a circus freak.

Roberto Aguire

My progression into acting was pretty slow. I was constantly performing in different kinds of small shows. One year I would be in a magic show, the next year in a circus show, then a small play, and then a dance show.

Harper Lee

I think Ill be a clown when I get grown.. Yes, sir, a clown. There aint one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so Im gonna join the circus and laugh my head off Im gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks. Just looka yonder, every one of em oughta be ridin a broomstick.

Ray Moyer

I was proud of the kids. We kept our heads when that circus was going on.

Charlie Chaplin

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

Betty White

I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.

David Hume

How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and his elephant. It was never more applicable than to the present subject. If the material world rests upon a similar ideal world, this ideal world must rest upon some other; and so on, without end. It were better, therefore, never to look beyond the present material world.

David Brin

We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?

Arthur Mutambara

It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat.

Anton Chekhov

I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.

Bill Murray

You know...they say an elephant never forgets. What they don't tell you is, you never forget an elephant.

C. S. Lewis

It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.

Charles Laughton

I have a face like the behind of an elephant.

Louis C. K.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

Edward Hoagland

A writer's work is to witness things.

Kathleen Blanco

We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.

Elie Wiesel

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

John Pomfret

I think you're a witness and a recorder.

Cheryl Conway

Unfortunately, there were no witnesses and there's very little evidence.

Deon Santisteven

We did not actually get to witness the reunion.

Mark Bishop

Through witness interviews, we have two suspects, but as of yet, we have no descriptions.

Philip Brooks

Witnesses say he pretty much plowed into them, that he just tapped the brakes,