Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lactantius

When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.

Jamie Rappaport

We won't have many more success stories like the bald eagle if the Pombo bill becomes law.

Christine Lavin

At the concert I'm going to crown the best looking man, Mr. Tampa. Bald men definitely have an edge.

Chuck Palahniuk

My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite.

Valerie Fellows

The delisting of the bald eagle is a very positive step and the eagles will still be protected by other acts.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

On the bald street breaks the blank day.

Shani Davis

No one loves you more than your mother. It's like on the Discovery Channel where you see a bald eagle do everything it can to protect its young. People can say whatever they want, but it's a sticks-and-stones thing.

Mark Shieldcastle

There are more opportunities today than ever for Ohioans to observe bald eagles in the wild as the population of these magnificent birds continues to expand throughout the state.

Robert Zeigler

Maybe, it's gonna be like growing old. You never quite notice it one day to the next until you look at the mirror and you are bald and have grey hair.

Bryan Cox

She later recanted. It was investigated and documented that she lied.

Emmett Brown

One of the most troubling pieces of evidence (submitted by WRMA) was that 53.6 inches was at great odds with the documented information.

John Lewis

The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobilized in over 30 states to stop it. These efforts are very partisan.

Deborah Nigrelli

I don't think society as a whole realizes that there are needy families in South County, that the numbers have been documented over the years. A lot of people do fall through the cracks.

Harold Pinter

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

Mark Fuhrman

I think you have to look at these cold cases. If they're done properly, if the homicides are done properly, and everything's documented properly, you have a lot of concrete statements from those people that they would be able to look at them and refresh their memory.

Peter Watkins

I think it's safe to say that it's Southwest. I think it's well documented that he likes Southwest, Tex-Mex.

Mayor Manross

There are many known, documented secondary impacts of those kinds of businesses, especially when you have them configured with private booths.

Jorge Mujica

We don't want to go from being poor, undocumented workers to being poor, documented workers. It's not going to give us health care; it's not going to give us the overtime employers are not paying us.

Dave Barry

Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube.

David Swanson

Activism has always been the driving force for change.

Nick Pisca

We started driving around together as soon as we got our licenses. We love to drive.

Elbert Hatchett

This sudden jump turned her driving experience upside down and her whole world upside down. She lost the most precious thing there was to her. Her intoxication had nothing to do with that.

Mike Wittner

When you step back and put it all together, it's nice timing. It's a New Year's reminder of the geo-political factors that are driving the market higher.

Carl Edwards

It's not supposed to be easy. It's not supposed to be driving down the interstate.

Tracy Harris

When you run with those girls every day, you can't help but get better and that is what is driving them.

Bob Krueger

We want everyone to get home safely who may be impaired from driving for any reason.

Ryanne Floyd

When we were first driving through the town, I was at a loss for words. It looked like the hurricane had just come through the day before we got there. I can not even imagine what it looked like six months ago.

Chip Kelly

I'm not going to mortgage the Eagles' future for Marcus Mariota.

Chinua Achebe

Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

English 16th Century Proverbs

Where the carcase is, there shall the eagles be gathered together.

Bill Moyers

I've always thought the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing. The right wing would see to it that economic interests had their legitimate concerns addressed. The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it's no longer an eagle and it's going to crash.

C. S. Lewis

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

Chanakya

A person becomes great not by sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. A crow does not become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building.

Andrew Shue

When I was in high school... I had to measure up to my older brother, who is an Eagle Scout. And that's not a good thing.

William Shakespeare

The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.

William Shakespeare

All furnished, all in arms; All plum'd like estridges that with the wind Bated like eagles having lately bathed; Glittering in golden coats like images; As full of spirit as the month of May And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.

Krystie Schiele

She's not as friendly as Bob, I'll tell you that much. When we let her go she flew into the light, and we had to get a ladder to get her down.

Anne Miller

She flew to Houston and couldn't find a place to stay, so she got back on a plane and flew to Las Vegas,

Geoff Stults

I've flown halfway around the world to kiss a girl. I jumped on a plane and flew to Australia.

Andrew Kluger

We are saddened and surprised by this news. Ron was an exceptional friend and pilot who flew a great many successful missions. We still miss him dearly.

Robert Brown

One of the first places that they flew me to after the hurricane was San Antonio. I was separated from my wife, and I was looking for her. It just so happened that my stepson and my grandson were in the same place getting their medicine. And they were looking for me and told me that my wife was in Plano, safe.

Alan G. Poindexter

I was a typical American boy. I did a lot of outdoor activities, played a lot outside with my friends, loved to go the beach, liked to hike, boating and fishing, and I flew a lot of model airplanes as well.

Johnny Damon

My four years in Boston, he never flew out.

Michael Biehn

'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is a movie that I just find flawless. Jack Nicholson... I just saw 'The Shining' again the other day; he's so brilliant. He's such a brilliant actor, just unbelievable.

Jim Hall

We want someone who knew the pilots, who flew with the pilots,

Fritz Todt

In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

Brian Riedl

Montana is getting more highway pork, but so is every other state.

Rick Warren

What you see from the highway will be brick. It's going to be a pretty building.

Gerry Reid

We're operating snowplows in St. John's 24 hours a day. I don't why we couldn't do that on the main highway in our province.

Anthony Foxx

People are sitting in traffic longer, and the types of solutions that are needed to relieve that congestion are ones that are paid for by the Highway Trust Fund.

R. Robinson

Two mobile homes were demolished on (U.S.) Highway 70, ... and there was one injury in one of those mobile homes.

Janet Wright

When people come up on Highway 94 . . . they can come out and sample wine and purchase wine. Eventually, that would be nice.

M. Thompson

I think they should reduce the tax. I realize they use the money for highways, but our highways will be this way when we're long gone.

Anthony Sanfilippo

Those barges you've seen on Highway 90? They're our casinos.

Alan Perlis

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

Marc Ward

For years people had never seen a nest hatch, but they're seeing them now. It's incredible.

Alice Munro

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Nick Clooney

Our nest eggs, no matter how small, are safe.

Rich Ballinger

We're really proud that our students can go play Raven Nest for $5 on weekdays and $8 on weekends.

John Heywood

It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.

George W. Bush

I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.

Horace

Hatched in the same nest.

Jack Hanna

Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

John Updike

In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip.