Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernie Wise

We were travelling from Birmingham to Coventry during the blitz. Eric's mother suggested that we should try to become a double act.

Bryan Robson

The possibility of playing Birmingham in the next round is an exciting proposition for fans in the midlands - but I've not looked too far ahead, because we've got to get past Reading first. I am confident we can do a job in the replay, and I hope the team will see things through.

Susan Terpay

There are two corridors we?re using to go around the line. Between Birmingham and Atlanta, we usually run 25 trains a day, so it?s causing some delays.

H. Hunt

On paper the Birmingham event was our worst showing of the season. But it showed the true character of the team that we stayed with it and had a good race car for Robert in Round 10. Electrical problems are the most frustrating to deal with because they're so hard to find. It's not like a suspension problem, that's relatively easy to diagnose.

Clare Short

But we had the Birmingham pub bombings in which 20 something people died and I know obviously this is worse but 20 is a big number.

Rafa Benitez

Maybe Birmingham will be more concerned about their league position and this might not be as important to them as staying in the division.

Sarah Miller

I found out that two of my students have lost everything, one of them will not be returning to St. Peter's because her parents had to place her with family members out of the area. I found out that another one of my students has moved to Birmingham with his mother as well so he will not be returning.

Jim Gibbons

If America's movie stars want to be human shields, let them shield the gang-ridden streets of Los Angeles, or New York City, let them shield the lives of the children of North Birmingham whose mothers lay them down to sleep on the floor each night to shelter them from stray bullets.

JoLaine Jones

My friend from Birmingham invited me to lunch with a bunch of folks from Florida. That's when I met Dave.

Jason Giambi

We have to go play what seems like the World Champions in Tampa. We have to win every day, and we're going to play the team that's actually given us the most problems. We have to play good baseball.

Joaquin Bautista

We have to get at least two state champions and two others have to place in the top four. If that happens we'll be in a good place for winning (the team title).

Alleggrie Guinn

We have played pretty good on the road, and Coach always tells us that champions have to win on the road.

Anthony Pettis

There are a lot of champions out there, a lot of great guys, but I think that the way I compete and my fighting style makes me perfect for Reebok.

Shaun Alexander

We did let a good opportunity to be world champions slip away.

Armando Gonzalez

We did great and I'm really proud of the way the guys wrestled. Five of our wrestlers made it to the finals, three took away titles and eight placed. We're three time defending champions but never have we won by this sizable a margin. It's difficult for us up there because we're not part of the North coast section.

Rafael Benitez

The positive things from Wednesday are that we have one more Champions League point, and we were better than Chelsea,

George Dagnino

We have high expectations. Our goal is to become (Imperial Valley League) champions and hopefully get back to that CIF championship game.

Billy Beane

You know, I'd actually say Lionel Messi. He's so remarkable, watching him play he's probably still undervalued. When you're scoring five goals in one Champions League match, there's no value that's too high.

Noreena Hertz

Philanthropists today want input into how their monies are being deployed. The big question is, can governments use this insight to sell the rich the idea of paying more tax rather than spend more on charitable giving?

Nigel Wright

She was probably the most charitable person you could ever meet.

Michael Atherton

My suspicion, in England at least, is that the more charitable view will prevail.

Dana Williams

Ninety-five percent of the charitable groups out there are doing very, very good work.

August Strindberg

Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Jeff Nobers

The PGA Tour is very dedicated to charitable giving. That is the hallmark of the tour. The players' wives, when they are at a tournament, try to get into the community effort somewhere.

Terry Lundgren

While the store's name will change, much of what customers love will stay the same, including Marshall Field's traditions and its outstanding record of community and charitable giving.

Robert Taft

we were respected as the most disinterested and charitable nation in the world.

Pat Niksich

We are doing what we are able to do. The St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry and Conference exist solely on donations and we will continue, through the giving spirit of this community, to be able to offer charitable help to those in need.

Carlos Ghosn

Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.

Rob Fields

We want people to know we take this very seriously. This isn't for us to go out there and play. It's a lifestyle, a commitment you've got to make.

Charlie Daniels

Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to do with your life - to make music. It takes a commitment - a tremendous, thick-skinned commitment of being the first one to get there and the last one to leave, doing what you want to do even if you have to work twice as hard as anybody else ever did.

Charles Taylor

To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from case to case what is good, or valuable, or what ought to be done, or what I endorse or oppose. In other words, it is the horizon within which I am capable of taking a stand.

Charles Dickens

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

Charles Stanley

Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God.

Daryl Gross

We have a young team and I think they've shown me they have a level of commitment and desire to compete. It's really exciting.

Delores Killette

The people of New Orleans have our commitment to restore service to pre- hurricane levels as quickly as we can.

Richard G. Scott

The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have.

Kevin Decker

We want to redeem ourselves after losing to Greenwich. We're ready to start the season and continue the streak. We want to make it 29 in a row.

Susan Hill

We have no intention of leaving and we intend to continue to provide the services that we're providing. It won't be easy, but we're staying.

Phil Zepeda

We have never seen an outpouring of support like this in our existence. It's just tremendous, and the outpouring of support just continues to come.

Greg Scott

We want more students to join. We hope those numbers continue to increase.

David Schmidly

We want him to get well, get back on his feet and we will look forward to the time when he will return and continue his contribution to our university.

Ryan Anderson

We wanted to win Metro to continue our legacy. It's keeping the tradition going that was passed on from (former players) Jamal (Crawford), Rod (Stewart), D. Hudson and David King. It's all about passing the torch and keeping it going.

John Hargreaves

We have produced record results...these have been delivered by providing our members with outstanding value for money and through continued store expansion,

Jim Tressel

We've seen him mature and grow into the role, and he is just going to continue to get better and better. He can be a very efficient running back here at Ohio State.

Mark McClellan

We've seen enrollment continue at a steady pace, faster than what we saw before the late December surge.

Carlos Ghosn

I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

Jonathan Davis

When Family Values first started it felt like music was fresh and exciting. We want to recreate that same feeling for our fans, and offer them a full day of fun and some great music.

Joyce Kesse

We want her back. Our family is aching.

Agnes Smedley

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

Agnes Smedley

But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.

Charles Dudley Warner

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Charles Dickens

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Charles Caleb Colton

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Charles Dickens

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Don Thompson

We want students to know what they are getting into, ... The recruiters mention travel, but they don't mention the Middle East.

John Updike

I should mention something that nobody ever thinks about, but proofreading takes a lot of time. After you write something, there are these proofs that keep coming, and there's this panicky feeling that 'This is me and I must make it better.'

Tom Connelly

What he had in mind was something in the government, but he never mentioned FEMA.

Kathleen Kenyon

It has been mentioned that in Trench I there is evidence of three successive stages of these defences.

John Panciocco

I was shocked. I didn't know anything about the cyst. He never mentioned it and I never really noticed it.

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If others have sinned you need not mention it

Joe Gibbs

I couldn't see them overturning that, ... They called it, they reviewed it, and they reversed it. The way their team reacted, I thought it was a done deal. They didn't mention anything to me. They just reversed it.

Roland Hedgpeth

Every time I talk to people they mention the 2004-05 season.

Chuck D.

You can mention the name, and people recognize it.

Jiro Yamaguchi

What we're seeing is a result of Koizumi's diminishing popularity -- the 'Koizumi effect' is wearing off.

Bill Pullman

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

Masha Lipman

(Motherland's policies) are very, very popular with the Russian people.

Baltasar Gracian

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

Todd Young

We're getting in their face. And I'm sure it's not very popular with management.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

Baruch Spinoza

Popular religion may be summed up as a respect for Ecclesiastes

Janie Allen

Murals were very popular then and the idea was pretty well received.

Sylvester Croom

We are talking about one of the premier teams in the country,

The Eagles

Until we prove otherwise, they're simply the premiere 3-A team around here that I know of,

Ben Bradlee

She was the premier American publisher, ... She got tested more than most of them, and she stood up with such bravery.

Jonathan Demme

We pretended it was a world premiere concert.

Merle Bishop

If we get together, this could be the premier place to live in the county.

Alan Smith

You can take a sidewards step in the Premier League, go to a team in the Championship or come to a team in League One.

Lara Giddings

Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.

Jean Charest

It will be the first time that a premier from Quebec will go there,

Jayne Houdyshell

It's extremely exciting to be part of a world premiere here at Arena.

Wen Jiabao

There is still educational disparity between different regions and between rural and urban areas,

Klaus Steinbach

Those two regions have the strongest infrastructure for winter sport.

Richard Engel

Not surprisingly, in most Sunni regions there has little appetite for free U.S.-sponsored elections.

Vaclav Havel

But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.

Vladimir Nabokov

Nymphets do not occur in polar regions.

Ben Wallace

We've got to get back to making stops when we need them.

Robert South

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

Scott Parker

It all started from making some stops on defense. Then we started to make some stops and get some turnovers.

Craig Craft

We just couldn't get any stops in the end.

Quentin Richardson

We put it on the board. The (stuff) stops here.

Mykelti Williamson

Tim Olyphant is a machine. He never stops thinking and being creative.

Saina Nehwal

I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.

Darren Sanderlin

It was beautiful. We just made stops when it counted.

Carlos Mesa

I want Bolivians to support their president.

Carlos Fuentes

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.

Agnes Repplier

The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.

David Suzuki

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

Bryan Burrough

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

Bryan Stevenson

Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

Vandana Shiva

My travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology. They are not really different, except that there is an added dimension of seeing ecological destruction and seeing the very life-support system that makes us survive on this planet being destroyed. That makes me do more than just inquire; it compels me to act and to intervene.

Thomas Collins

We are here to support ECOMIL and we want them to succeed.

Jason Chaffetz

A premium support program is different than a voucher program. They're just fundamentally different.

Cary Fukunaga

I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films.

Blaise Pascal

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.

Chris Whitaker

Until you've won a title you'll never be completely happy.

David Icke

I am a channel for the Christ spirit. The title was given to me very recently by the Godhead.

Bong Joon-ho

I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.

Robbie Earl

Yes, I have that kind of title on my back. But I'll put up my numbers. It's just going to be a little harder.

Larry Clark

I'd like to win one more title to make it an even dozen,

Tom Harkin

No one ever wore the title of 'senator' better and used it less.

Emily Besler

We don't need the title to make things happen.

Tom Herrion

We've still got a lot of work to do. The bye is nice, but we've got to go play come tournament time.

Chris Blackwell

I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.

Louis C. K.

You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

Peter Wright

Lennart is getting better. This tournament is part of his recovery.

Bobby Jones

I never learned a thing from a tournament I won.

Bruce Dickinson

I'm not going to do any more solo touring.

Corey Brewer

We're in the tournament to win it all.

Mike Conners

Were in the tournament now, and in the tournament anything can happen.

Gary Bettman

If accommodations have to be made, they'll have to be made in how the tournament is scheduled.

Tom Herrion

We've still got a lot of work to do. The bye is nice, but we've got to go play come tournament time.

Peter Wright

Lennart is getting better. This tournament is part of his recovery.

Bobby Jones

I never learned a thing from a tournament I won.

Corey Brewer

We're in the tournament to win it all.

Mike Conners

Were in the tournament now, and in the tournament anything can happen.

Gary Bettman

If accommodations have to be made, they'll have to be made in how the tournament is scheduled.

Cassie Johnson

We will be here until the end of the tournament to watch the USA men's team. Hopefully, they'll get to the finals.

Stan Javier

This tournament doesn't tell the truth about major-leaguers.

Kim Clijsters

Yeah, it was (the quickest tournament I've won),

Diablo Cody

I have a lot of screenwriter friends and many of them have had an experience where they aren't even welcome on set during production.

John Zorn

Man, Dick Dale shreds. He's welcomed to anybody's bar mitzvah.

William Jenkins

Welcome to UNO; this is their new home, ... They're going to be OK.

Gerard Way

Welcome to the new church! Can I get an 'Amen'?

Alice Cooper

Welcome to my nightmare. I think you're going to like it. There'll be some more when you come down.

Samuel P. Huntington

First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

Charlie Ward

He said, 'You're welcome to come on full-time now,'

Ann Coulter

I'm a problem-solver, and you're welcome.

Dallas Willard

The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.