Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Suzuki

Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that we are both inhabitants and stewards of nature in our neighbourhoods.

Nikolaas Tinbergen

As a boy, I had two small aquaria in our backyard in which I watched, each spring, the nest building and other fascinating behaviours of sticklebacks.

Nicholas Kristof

Maybe our best family trip started at Victoria Falls, which drenches you with spray and is so vast that it makes Niagara Falls seem like a backyard creek. Then we rented a car and made our way to Hwange National Park, which was empty of people but crowded with zebras, giraffes, elephants and more.

Kate Klise

Every writer dreams of having a backyard cottage, similar to Dahl's 'writing hut.' English cottages and charming huts might seem out of reach, but a good carpenter could build a modest cottage on the cheap.

Brennan Manning

We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.

Tracy Koon

sit in their backyard and read trashy novels.

Jon Fleischman

Since the beginning, we've been very fortunate. There have been no reports of injuries to any persons, and the only structural damage is one gazebo in one backyard of one property.

Greg Biffle

We need a strong run to rebuild the momentum we have lost in the last few weeks. A win this week would be a great rebound from the points we lost last week, and a victory in Ford's backyard is always something we want.

Charles Walker

She worked every day. She swam in the backyard pool with her daughters. She had just put the pool in.

Richard McGrath

We want to set the right example and send the right message. Even though this money is coming from contributions, we still think it's very important to be cost-efficient and responsible with expenses.

Luke Pasqualino

Pretty good, you know it's nice when you get people coming up to you saying 'Can I have a photo or an autograph'; it's a compliment, I think.

Michael Strahan

The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that's something I picked up from home.

M. Night Shyamalan

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

Michael Farr

The post-Labor Day rally, I wasn't sold on. The fact that we didn't really crash over summer, I thought was a terrific blessing. I think sentiment is going to drive the market from here. The numbers are there, the numbers have not changed. The economy has not changed, it is still good, slowing down a little bit. We've got a nice stable platform. Earnings for second quarter were fabulous. They ought to be pretty good, I think, coming in here to the third quarter.

James Awad

The positive today is that oil is coming down, the negative is that the housing numbers are worse than expected.

Mark Potok

The point of doing all of this is so that we as a society can move forward. And the time is really coming when we really are going to turn and face the future.

Terry Borr

The pleasant surprise was how our defensive line played. One question I had coming out of preseason practice was how we would play defensively.

Carly Rager

We are seeing a lot of the taffeta coming back with side pleats and drapes.

Alan Moore

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

Mark Cuban

I like being involved in businesses where you are kicking ass.

Neil Dougherty

When things are going well he's patting someone on the butt. And when they aren't going well, he is kicking them there.

Dave Ramsey

Let some one else take the butt kicking on devaluation.

Phil Anselmo

I wake up, and I'll just start reading and trying to brace myself for the rest of the day, and all the while I'm doing that, I'm kicking myself mentally.

Rob Thurman

Writing monsters is fun, and it's easy. When I want one, I just reach under the bed and pull it out, kicking and screaming.

Buddy Gouldsmith

Maybe we needed that kind of tail kicking to wake us up.

Dwight Yorke

Every ball that is kicked, Martin O'Neill will be literally kicking it

Tom Bradley

keep it in perspective and tend to their knitting. The same people patting you on the back were kicking you in the butt not too long ago.

Charles Caleb Colton

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

Charles Dickens

In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

Charles Stanley

God’s Word is absolutely true. You may not understand how God is going to bring about what He’s promised you, but He is keeping every promise that He has ever made. He will never deceive you or disappoint you, and He will never change His mind about what He’s told you.

Charles Spurgeon

Every threatening of God, as well as every promise shall be fulfilled.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

C. P. Scott

When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.

Charles Williams

The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.

Daymond John

When you sell a product or service, you're making a promise to your audience. If you don't understand your audience, you'll never be able to keep that promise and you'll ultimately let them down.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

David Krumholtz

I'm not sure I enjoyed doing [Gigi Does It]. I'm cool with just being an actor. If anything, I learned to be proud of being an actor.

Catherine Ashton

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

Catherynne M. Valente

Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.

Vickie Simmons

We are proud we can give teachers the kind of salary we do.

Justin Glover

We are proud of the improvements that we have made since 2004. We are going to keep striving to do better.

Stefan Pryor

We are proud of the effectiveness of our procedures.

Chad Bankston

We still, obviously, have a lot of work to do, but I'm proud of them.

William Shakespeare

Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.

Ed Harris

When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of

Walter Leger

The other teams have left, and they're still not really back. We haven't left, and we're not going anywhere.

Alain Vigneault

We've already made the decision. Most teams put five, but we're going to put six.

Paul Davies

When the three of us are on, we're really tough. There are not a lot of teams that can keep up with us when we play like that.

Steve Rodecap

We're just still searching, just trying to find out what teams are the best.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Most teams that you have, they have one or two go-to guys. They've got a go-to team.

Matthew Faltys

Most of the teams at the top just didn't give up as much ground.

Tyler Mitchell

When we started out as freshmen, we were ok, but there were other teams out there who were a lot better than us.

Marissa Chovanec

Many of them play on the same travel teams and know each other well.

Eric Ferguson

SEC teams are going to make runs. That just happens. It's part of the game, man.