Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Snyder

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

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.

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.

Will Rogers

My ancestors didn't come over in the Mayflower -- they met the boat.

Richard Flanagan

My ancestors came from Co Roscommon, transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing food.

Proverb Proverb

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

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.

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.

Hanya Yanagihara

I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.

Nobu Matsuhisa

I love big shrimp, like Japanese botan shrimp and the meaty ones from Santa Barbara, Calif. In classic Japanese cooking, shrimp like these would be dropped into a broth or boiled as served with sushi. But I think boiling dilutes their great flavor, and they are better when stir-fried.

Dave Cooper

I feel I need a lot of contrast, so I have all these things happening, but they're all necessary to make me feel satisfied. It's got to be this big pot happening, with everything boiling at once.

Christien Meindertsma

In soap, fatty acids made from boiling pork bone fat are used as a hardening agent, but also for giving it a pearl-like effect.

George Sharp

We hear this a lot from customers, and I don't think it's a North-South thing. We're in New York now, and it's still boiling hot. ... Even though the fall clothes look beautiful, psychologically, you can't be bothered trying them on.

Jim Lay

We are examining a number of possible explanations for the pressure increase. Loss of control of the reaction leading to excessive heating and boiling of the flammable solvents is a likely cause.

Lynn Fontanne

Warm the pot first, please, then put two heaping teaspoonfuls in the pot-no bags-in boiling water, and when it's in, stir it. And when it comes here, I will stir it again.

Mike Kopp

I've been coaching a long period of time (26 years) and I've never had someone hold a team to one field goal in a half. But Boiling Springs isn't that bad. It was one of those days where they couldn't get anything to go early.

Jeff Lemire

When I write Superboy and other DC characters, it's about boiling them down to core concepts.

Denis Diderot

Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.

A. R. Ammons

Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.

Bill Maher

Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I'll be damned if Rick Perry didn't take me up on that.

Arthur Golden

Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together...

Ann Coulter

One recent menu for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo consisted of orange glazed chicken, fresh fruit crepe, steamed peas and mushrooms, and rice pilaf. Sounds like the sort of thing you'd get at Windows on the World - if it still existed.

Paul Stamets

While reishi mushrooms have historically been prepared as teas or infusions, other modern preparations include capsules, tinctures, and fractionated extracts of mushrooms, mycelium, and spores.

Daniel Dennett

...but I also can't prove that mushrooms could not be intergalactic spaceships spying on us.

Jason Smith

We'd take mushrooms or whatever so we could be in time when she opened up the bread.

Grace Slick

I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.

Robert Grosseteste

And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need.

Phil Klay

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

Kim Cattrall

If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there was always the theatre. I'm not a nihilist, I'm an optimist. And that has served me well in this profession.

Andy Roddick

Had I rolled through that one 6-3, served it out, who knows?

Jed Connelly

I think it's well served to be cautious.

Gore Vidal

For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.

Gwynne Shotwell

Consolidating to the point of monopoly has never served the consumer - ever.

Lindsay Davenport

It was a tough match. I served well and didn't get a break, that was the important thing.

Thomas Morgan

I don't think we are well served by hammering away at the same issues. We try to look at a variety of issues.

Bill Hall

Several students have called and said, 'I have a video, do you want it?'

Bruce Raynor

On several occasions, we intervened with the mayor. We had several conversations with Roger.

David Hastings

I have had several say, 'I don't want to go,' and I said, 'I'm sorry, you're going.'

Reinhard Selten

I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.

Jim Sweeney

We didn't do anything spectacular on offense. But Tony Porto bailed us out several times.

Patrice Leconte

I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

Toks Olagundoye

I've several times had jobs that I thought were going to be my big break, and it didn't pan out.

James Gill

We were able to talk to several witnesses at the playground.

Greg Strobel

We don't know when he's going to be back. He'll be out for several weeks. That's a big deal.

Michelle Kwan

I actually prefer soothing music - and maybe that's the skater in me.