Famous Quotes & Sayings

Guillaume Soro

Our people ask for nothing more than the recognition of citizenship, nothing more than the right to live on the land where their ancestors were born. Nothing more than their identity cards.

Jim Murphy

I think my ancestors had to be enormously strong emotionally and very courageous.

Wanda Peterson

I don't feel like it's right because I feel like all our ancestors came over here and they had to become legal citizens. Why shouldn't every one else? I don't care who you are.

William Phelps

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

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble offices about the face and especially serviceable at funerals to conceal the lack of tears. The handkerchief is of recent invention; our ancestors knew nothing of it and intrusted its duties to the sleeve. Shakespeare's introducing it into the play of "Othello" is an anachronism: Desdemona dried her nose with her skirt, as Dr. Mary Walker and other reformers have done with their coattails in our own day --an evidence that revolutions sometimes go backward.

Proverb Proverb

From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.

Robert Winston

It is possible that strong levels of belief in God, gods, spirits or the supernatural might have given our ancestors considerable comforts and advantages.

Dean Gilmour

There is a feeling of Elizabethan, and there's a feeling of timelessness. My desire is to make the past present, that it speaks to us today. A feeling of ancient ancestors who court and woo each other, so that it's kind of transparent and the audience can enter into this.

Jeff Jackson

My generation, our generation, isn't so much concerned with where you're from. We don't have as much of a connection, a feel for the politics of our ancestors ... we are losing the idea of separate identities between the North and South.

Art Hogan

Outlook statements for the first quarter are the best that we've seen in some time, but the question is, how much of that is already baked into the market?,

Junior Combs

Pinetop only wanted what he always called a little bit of 'bean money,' a little money to go buy some baked beans or something.

Brian Wansink

It isn't just the food, either. People might say that chocolate chip cookies are good, but they have to be freshly baked cookies.

John Reilly

Like most baked goods, soda bread doesn't keep for long. If properly cooled, wrapped well in plastic, and stored at room temperature, it will maintain its quality for about two days.

Patrick Rose

He used to drive a boat around the lake and pull us behind on inner tubes. He also read campers' mail, from mom and dad and from grandparents. And if someone's mom baked cookies, he would make the camper get up on a chair and jump up and down for them, without telling him why. All of this happened at lunch, in front of everybody.

John Battelle

I find web browsing, checking multiple email accounts, and Google mapping rather tiresome on an iPhone - the iPhone's native interface, for all its supposed perfection, has all kinds of wrong baked in - and the screen is just far too small.

Keith Belling

I knew I shouldn't be eating fried chips, but I'm just not a fan of baked chips, as much as I tried them.

Keith Belling

When I went to visit this rice cake plant, I hadn't realized how the rice cakes were made. As soon as I saw the molds of rice and how the heat pops it like popcorn, the light bulb went off. This is popped. This isn't baked or fried.

Deborah Miller

If it's a baked good, and it's made of chocolate, it was probably there.

Rebecca Davis

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

Charles Canady

Partially born children are being eviscerated, you can see it right here.

Harry Holzer

Paths to legalization for those who are here and for those who remain here makes sense. Legalizing these immigrants will reduce some of the competition they provide to native born workers.

Tony Blair

Particularly with the shock of knowing that those that have perpetrated this were actually born and brought up in this country, I think it is particularly important we recognize the worldwide dimension of this,

Gregory Benford

Our moon was born too small to harbor life. It came from the collision of a Mars-sized world into the primordial Earth. From that colossal crunch spun a disk of rocks that condensed into a satellite.

Jack Kornfield

Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

George Vecsey

Some of the most inspiring moments in sports have come from players with physical defects. Tom Dempsey, born without toes on his right foot, kicked a 63-yard field goal in 1970, using a straighter, wider shoe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble.

Paris Hilton

Some girls were just born with glitter in their veins.

Mark Loughridge

reflect the breadth and flexibility of our business model and put us back on track for the rest of the year.

Wayne Worner

Part of the price of maintaining community schools is that you don't have the richness or breadth of curriculum that other places may have.

Chris Jackson

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Chuck D.

Our post guys have been our bread and butter all year long. When they get going for us, it opens things up for our guards.

Casey Hampton

Our run defense is our bread and butter, ... That's what we do: Stop the run. I think we're getting right where we need to be, at the right time.

Kathleen Ligocki

Renee brings tremendous breadth of experience to Tower. Her energy, insight, and international depth will be crucial as Tower Automotive emerges from reorganization and continues to grow as a successful global automotive supplier.

Forest Key

Maybe in the past when we said 'everywhere' we didn't really mean everywhere. Now we really mean it. We want to support the widest breadth of scenarios from the browser to the desktop.

Troy Young

The 1-3-1 zone has been their bread and butter all year, so we prepared for it heavily.

Paul Davies

That's been our bread and butter so, honestly, we're not that worried about it. They've got to guard us too, and we've got a lot of firepower.

Tom Kelleher

Our fingers are crossed for good winter weather.

Jamie Carragher

I think there is a line and Neville crossed it. I've heard people say it's justified because he gets a lot of stick from the Liverpool fans, but the truth is he gets the stick because he's been doing that for years. That's why it all started.

Derrick Mason

I think the refs just let their feelings get into it a lot. They crossed the line.

Whoopi Goldberg

I think actually there's another young lady who would like to do it and so I've got my fingers crossed for her. I think it's Ellen. I think she would be good.

Rod Metzler

I think some people crossed Oakmont off the places-to-play list because residents got all the good tee times. But our membership knows we need outside play.

John McDonnell

I was thrilled. It hadn't crossed my mind that it would happen. ... It's a great honor.

Graham Arnold

I don't know the full story but we'll be in touch with him as soon as possible. We'll keep our fingers crossed it's not too serious. Knowing Harry he'll do everything he can to get fit.

Lamar Butler

He crossed his legs. He folded his arms. He was just talking like it was a normal conversation.

Robert Hale

From what I've been able to determine, he crossed the line and Rafael was just simply protecting himself.

Kweisi Mfume

Our minds are open, ... I reached out to George Bush. I wanted him here.

Denis Freeman

Manning doesn't miss many good shots. And the other kids around him understand their roles. George does a great job with them.

Cindy Sheehan

I was told my son was killed in the war on terror. He was killed by George Bush's war of terror on the world.

Nick Zito

I think right now, George is very happy.

Fay Vincent

I think he should hire somebody like John Dowd or set up a committee. He needs to do that, maybe headed by Mario Cuomo or George Mitchell, somebody of that ilk.

Pat Howard

I think George is a very good player, and it would have been interesting if he had had a shot at the Tests.

Lisa Rinna

I think George Hamilton is going to be a good competitor.

George Foulkes

I'm still regretting that we were bounced into sacking George Burley. I think that was a very big mistake,

Ben Jonson

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Swag is something that I've had for a long time.

E. O. Wilson

Springtime is the time for gazing at galaxies.

Adam Carolla

spontaneous, clever, specific, oblique and at the same time very human.

S. Walker

That could be a possibility. I'm thinking, hopefully, we can get something worked out. As of right now, we'll just take it one day at a time and see what happens.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Boy George

Most psychiatrists or analysts are a waste of time

Bob Rose

We need solidarity. This is a union town, and it's time to show that.

Katherine Jenkins

No-one had anticipated troops being there as long as this.

B. F. Skinner

We've never done anything like this before. It's going to be difficult, but we'll be there as long as the troops need us.

Diane Ravitch

You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.

David Bonderman

Prices are always lower when the troops are in the street.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops.

Larry Coker

We're going to need all our able-bodied troops in Tallahassee.

Kenneth Williams

I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.

Kathleen Blanco

These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will.

Erwin Rommel

There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.

Mike Easley

We're considering everything right now, ... The most important thing is to see is what Washington does.

Susan Brooks

Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.

Armstrong Williams

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Michael Bennet

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

David Remnick

Washington as a Surveyor. We should have been clearer.

Seth Greenberg

Deron Washington is a wonderful kid. What he did was wrong and I can't condone it.

Robert Jordan

I tore all the ligaments around my collarbone. I don't know if I will be able to play (against Washington State).

Stephen Greene

For sure, Washington is going to be rowdier.