Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Rogers

The Athenians had an oath for someone who was about to become a citizen. They had to swear that 'I shall leave the city not less but more beautiful than I found it.'

Victor Hanson

A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian Wars.

Rick Perlstein

When I was a teenager in Milwaukee in the 1980s, life was pretty boring, and I found myself riveted by the sheer melodrama of everyday life of the 1960s.

Robert Mankoff

I was the founder of the 'Cartoon Bank' in the '90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes.

Frederick Daily

Lightning really does strike twice for some people, especially if you were found to owe large adjustments in the past.

Manny Legace

(Los Angeles) played a very solid hockey game tonight. We just found a way and gutted out the win.

Sathya Baba

Love towards all beings. The founders always had in view the Unity of all life and the progressive march of man towards Divinity.

Robert Fulghum

Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.

Jonathan Gaw

Search has become that thing that we lost and now we've found again. It's a Prodigal Son.

Ron Krumer

Mr Sharon underwent an abdomen scan and we found liquid which we removed, without operating.

Atharva Veda

Meeting the Lord, Nanak has found peace and bliss; his life is redeemed, and prosperity dawns for him.

Isabella Rossellini

Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as interesting.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.

Madeline Albright

make the ledger slightly less out of balance.

Joseph Seamon

Let stern lessons of yesterdays be your food, your drink, your rest.

Robert Lang

Las Vegas now is less Rat Pack and more brats in the car. It's just a big Western city.

Debbie Horne

Less than two weeks after her surgery, I took her to Target. She had her little yellow mask on.

James Hardway

Less than 3 percent of workers make straight minimum wage.

Jacob Frenkel

Less rope is needed for two necks as the Government's noose tightens.

William Shakespeare

'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.

Carl Sagan

I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation

Bible Bible

Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask.

Mohammad Khatami

I renew the pact and oath I have with the people, and nothing will stop me from implementing the program I promised them,

Mayor Iwuc

I still feel that my oath of office is to uphold the charter.

Mitt Romney

When I place my hand on the Bible and take the oath of office, that oath becomes my highest promise to God. If I am fortunate to become your president, I will serve no one religion, no one group, no one cause, and no one interest. A President must serve only the common cause of the people of the United States.

Jackie Robinson

When he (Richard Nixon) took the oath of office, he pledged to be the president for 100% of the people, and I challenge the president to prove that he is being the president for 100% of the people.

George W. Bush

I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States

Rahm Emanuel

The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.

Kate Winslet

I have always been, and shall continue to be, honest when it comes to bodyweight issues.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, without the True Name, all this paraphernalia shall disappear.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, through the Guru's Teachings, you shall be saved, contemplating the True Name.

William Shakespeare

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

William Kidd

If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again.

Yani Tseng

I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

Abraham Lincoln

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

Ellen G. White

The more we talk of Jesus, the more of His matchless charms we shall behold.

L.A. Reid

I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.

Moises Alou

When things are like this, I swear to you, you play better as a team.

Leo Burnett

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

Harry Potter

I solemnly swear I am up to no good.

Dane Cook

When you swear to God, its true ... right now God is watching and saying, this is true.

Patrick Swayze

Surfing's the source. Can change your life. Swear to god

Terry Pratchett

Occasionally he would very nearly swear.

Peter Jacobson

Bradley Cooper was an asshole, but he was - like Sidney Lumet, like George Clooney - the nicest guy in the world. I sound like the biggest ass-kisser ever. But I'm telling the truth, I swear to God!

Steven Wright

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

Jennifer Lopez

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.