Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

Mr. Lincoln, I believe your grandfather was a farmer in Pennsylvania,

Samuel Butler

One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground

Hong Feng

When I arrive somewhere, I often ask local residents about their ancestry and tales and legends of the area. Enthusiastic villagers could help find the location and offer to lead the way. That helps a lot.

W. S. Gilbert

I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Gary Lloyd

I got very interested, and I started researching my own ancestors. It's been a passion and a hobby since then.

Jane Austen

. . . she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them.

Larry Neal

I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.

Diana Quick

I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I've often been cast in exotic roles - Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks.

Raquel Welch

I knew my mother was - well, her ancestry dated back to John Quincy Adams, so she was totally not Latina. She was definitely whatever you call it - white bread, shall we say?

Isla Fisher

I don't really watch many heist movies. Actually, I have quite eclectic tastes, but I tend to watch just foreign films. I don't know why that is. I'm not particularly deep or anything, I just like foreign movies.

Aaron Huey

Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.

Wayne Norris

Lenders are taking a deeper look into things ... maybe than they were eight months ago.

Emma Goldman

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the definer of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Gary Smith

Last year we had a really exciting playoff experience so you would think that we would again. But we got unlucky in the middle of the season and we dug ourselves in too deep of a hole.

Zhai Kun

Lee's visit can be regarded as a tour for deeper political ties.

Edward Kennedy

Sen. Ashcroft has a deeply disturbing record on issue after issue of vital importance to millions of Americans.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted.

Robert Brady

Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it.

Gary Stevens

Like a drunk staggering home after last call.

Legal Maxim

Let him who sins when drunk be punished when sober

Ludwig Beethoven

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, it is the wine of a new procreation, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for men and makes them drunk with the spirit.

Travis Hedrick

Getting drunk is an paradox! When people party they feel like royalty at the village pub, but feel like an outcast while kneeling at the porcelain throne?

Nicholas Hoult

Gabriel and I were always getting the giggles, but he was really scary when he was in character, ... drunk and screaming and shouting at me. At one point, he held a gun to my head and I could feel my heart racing. Then, afterwards, he'd just be fun Gabriel again, having a laugh.

Eric Idle

Because we hate each other. I'm perfectly happy to get drunk with the rest of them. I was just in London, and we had a really spectacular dinner. But I think it should go no further. We've earned that.

Lauren Eigen

If they're too drunk I'm not sure they would actually look at their key ring and think about it.

Tom Araya

A good wine has many qualities, I think. If drunk moderately, it is healthy and good for your heart.

Andrew Lang

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.