Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abdullah Gul

We have completed our mission to the EU, now we are on our way to the Balkans. Our ancestors went on horse back, we are going by plane.

Louise Leakey

It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future.

Jim Walsh

With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench.

Bhagavad Gita

Worshippers of the demigods go to the demigods, the worshippers of the ancestors go to the ancestors, and the worshippers of the ghosts go to the ghosts, but My devotees come to Me (and are not born again).

Tom Snyder

Misers are no fun to live with but they make great ancestors

Kate Forsyth

When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.

William Phelps

I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations between us.

Joy Harjo

My ancestors include Monahwee, who was one of the leaders in the Red Stick War, which was the largest Indian uprising in history, and Osceola, who refused to sign a treaty with the United States.

Will Rogers

My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think Americans want to believe in this country again.

Carol Moseley Braun

I am determined to try to rebuild and renew this country in ways that will build community and level the playing field. ... To me, that means making certain that the fight to preserve our civil liberties is waged, making certain the fight against discrimination is waged, making certain that women have opportunity in this country.

Carlos Mesa

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

Carlos Mencia

America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.

Carlos Mencia

I'm not white, I don't apologize for what my country did to become great

Carl Andre

People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

C. S. Lewis

Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I row East in my coracle. When that sinks, shall I paddle East with my four paws. Then, when I can swim no longer, if I have not yet reached Aslan's Country, there shall I sink with my nose to the sunrise... and Peepiceek will be head of Talking Mice in Narnia

C. S. Lewis

He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

Chamlong Srimuang

We have said for a long time that if the premier made this announcement we would stop. We are not stubborn, we have the interest of the country in mind.

Mark Nation

When he got to the school, they would not let him in and he was later told Christopher had been shot.

Umberto Eco

There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.

Bryan Adams

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

Ernst Toller

Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves.

Mark Cuban

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

Jon Stewart

Wow. I can't wait till later when we see Oscar's salute to montages.

Claire Tomalin

'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat.

Bill Nighy

It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.

Tom Stoppard

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Charles Baudelaire

I throw fresh seeds out. Who knows what survives?

Vandana Shiva

When you control seed you control food

Anthony Chan

I think the seeds are in place for a soft landing.

Deepak Chopra

In every perceived failure or setback is the seed of success.

E. B. White

Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.

Mike Hayes

The seeds germinated, but as it leafed, it died, ... You'd come back a day later, and it would be dead.

Martha Washington

We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.

Sylvia Hatchell

I don't think the other No. 1 seeds are having to do this.

Federico Garcia Lorca

My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered.

Khalil Gibran

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

Carlos Mencia

I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you.

Dave Barry

I was a middle-of-the-road Democrat more than anything else. I know I voted for Carter. Watergate taught me how bad the Republicans were.

Bryan Stevenson

My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.

John McEnroe

This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

Alan Watts

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

Alan Paton

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Juvenal

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

Cass McCombs

When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.

David Sedaris

I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.

Caroline Flint

I have read some of [the Lisbon Treaty] but not all of it.

Jane Austen

I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

Bill O'Reilly

The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.

Charles Manson

I treat everyone just like I would myself. If you treat me right, I'll treat you right.

Diana Wynne Jones

One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.

Scott Andreassi

She was treated no differently than any other individual.

Austin Butler

How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.

Sofia Boutella

Working with Madonna, she always told me the meaning behind the steps and why I was doing these steps - she treated us like actors. So I feel like I've always been an actor, truly.