Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Washington

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements and exercising them for the destruction of mankind

E. O. Wilson

Nelson Mandela is a hero to all people who value freedom and dignity and justice. President Mandela's principled opposition to tyranny and injustice inspires us today and will inspire our sons and daughters for generations to come.

Donald Rumsfeld

One always tries to help those that are grieving understand the importance of what their sons and daughters have been doing.

R. Robinson

One of my teenage daughters has set a goal to read the great classics. I wish I'd done that at her age.

Joe Powers

My daughters used to hear the story around the fire at camp.

Kerry Wilson

My daughters think I'm getting married. It's very cute.

Troy Glaus

Obviously, nobody probably would have said one word otherwise, if he had stayed with his wife and daughters one more day. But he wanted to come back and play, and he did, and obviously contributed in a very very big way.

Henry Bates

One of the daughters was married to a handsome young mulatto, who was present, and sang us some pretty songs, accompanying himself on the guitar.

Ben Steele

She volunteers all the time. Even sports her daughters are not involved in, she's the first to help.

Torrie Wheat

Man, he's just magical sometimes. That first goal was unbelievable, a highlight-reel goal. Then he went to the net hard and potted two more. He's a goal scorer. He's going to do that for the rest of his career.

Heidi Martin

Making the state tournament has always been our top goal and we're just one win away from that now.

Lou Cacchio

League championship and getting back to states-that's the goal for the year.

Brent Walston

Many of her goals were with her left foot. And she's not left-footed.

Scott Goodale

Scott loves playing to the crowd. He'll be under a lot of pressure next year for sure. But he thrives on it. The goal now is three titles. He could end up the greatest wrestler in Jackson history.

Inaki Saez

Scoring the first goal is a weapon we have to use,

Lalit Panda

Setting high goals for your staff, and guiding them to think with an out-of-the-box mentality is important.

Brad Shaw

Miro Jr. probably needs a goal today, doesn't he?

David Beckham

Mine was a great goal but the important thing was the team winning,

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Alexandra Adornetto

To anyone else, Xavier's use of the word angel would have sounded like nothing more than a lovesick teenager professing his admiration. Only the two of us knew differently and now we both shared a secret- that brought us closer than ever. It was as if we had just sealed the bond between us, closed the gap, and made it final.

John Robinson

Many of these workers are teenagers and are in entry-level jobs.

Dennis Quaid

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.

Dennis Prager

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

Dito Montiel

I was too crazy in my teenage years and I wasn't doing anything that made any sense.

David Nicholls

...it's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama...

Alexander Skarsgard

I've been a member of Greenpeace since I was a teenager.

Aaron Sanchez

When I was a teenager, I worked in New Orleans for a chef named Paul Prudhomme. That was a very important time in my life as a chef. I developed my palate and learned a lot. And here I am now. I specialize in modern Mexican and contemporary Latin cuisines.

Unknown

May the most you wish for be the least you get.

Goran Ivanisevic

Of course, I really wish I was out there playing,

Mick Cronin

Obviously, I wish we could have had him. Things happen. What are you going to do?

Edsger Dijkstra

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent.'

Eddie Vedder

You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.

Eddie Vedder

I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down....

Deepak Chopra

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

Deepak Chopra

Love takes many forms - it is up to you to choose which you wish to express.

Dave Mustaine

One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.