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.

Alexandra Fuller

People who disagree with His Excellency, the President for Life and 'Chief of Chiefs,' are frequently found to be the victims of car crashes (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or dead in their beds of heart attacks (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or the recipients of some not-quite-fresh seafood (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets).

Robert Wilson

If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message?

Albert Schweitzer

Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.

Albert Schweitzer

When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts.

Albert Schweitzer

Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.

Albert Schweitzer

If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released.

Justin Dentmon

Man, I got scared real quick when I heard the news. I've never been in a situation like this before.

Steve Young

Luckily, you feel that way. If you really knew how long you were going to hear about how you played in the Super Bowl, how it went, no one could sleep.

Sathya Baba

Make your life a rose that speaks silently in the language of the heart.

Phil Garner

make your pitches, (it) doesn't matter if we walk him.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.

Willie Revillame

Mr. Lim has always been there for me. No matter where I go, he's always there to support me.

Mark Zandi

One of the things voters will have to sort out is which statistic matters more.

Lindsay Meggs

One of the things we talked about is it didn't matter about how we won, we just needed to win.

Meryl Thomas

One of the things I've always tried to do as president of the (Penn Hills) PTA is to get everyone moving in the same direction, no matter what the project was.

Jorge Posada

None of this matters if we don't go out there and play the way we're supposed to,

Sushma Swaraj

Now we can only pray in God's temple for him to get better. It is a matter of prayers and medicines. The medicines are being administered internally and the prayers are being sent from outside.

Andrew Barrett

Next week is going to be more normal, when we get back to the real matter at hand, which is earnings.

Thongchai Jaidee

Let's see how things take shape but I will try to do my best.

Marilyn Monroe

The only person I know who is in worse shape than I am (on Montgomery Clift).

Susan Griffin

Masculinity is a terrible problem, as we construe it and shape it.

Whitey Ford

The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan.

William Shakespeare

so full of shapes is fancy

Sylvia Hatchell

We know that we can't let down in any way, shape or form. You've got that big zero on you.

A. J. Jacobs

Behavior shapes beliefs.

A. J. Jacobs

Behavior shapes emotions.

Charles Dickens

The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

Henry Blodget

If any mega-merger of this size can work, this one can.

Tracy Adams

I could still use some more size on this team but we'll work with what we have.

Chris Cooper

It's not the size of the hard drive that counts, it's how you download it.

Dick Cavett

I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.

Chan Gailey

Size is definitely relative. If you're bigger, they can see you easier.

Bill Johnson

Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.

Edwin Moses

I overcame size with mechanics.

Jane Addams

We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens.

Delta Burke

Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I.