Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Chapman

She had so much love. She was such a gracious lady.

Alan Arkin

I don't sense that I am someone's hero, though I'm happy when people like my work. I've learned how to be gracious about it, but I try to let it go by. I've seen how, if people start taking on those accolades, it can ruin them completely.

Shane Harper

We all need to kind of preach to ourselves. I grew up in church, and I don't think I necessarily understood what it meant to be called into the culture and the community in the city that you're in or the town that you're in and live effectively and be informed and be gracious with people.

Jane Smith

Those of us who worked with her thought that she was very gracious with her physical self, very gracious with the public. That included in airports, on sidewalks and in restaurants.

Brennan Manning

All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God

Terry Ryan

Kenny Williams has always been very gracious in talking about us, which is flattering. And he says he's doing things that we have done and so forth, and that's awfully gracious of him. But he's done a wonderful job over there.

Tim Roemer

He was cooperative, he was frank, he was gracious with his time,

Randy Roberts

She loves those volunteers. She's always gracious and kind and appreciative. It's obvious in the way she speaks to them and the way she treats them.

E. Helm

He seems to recognize people. His manners are always intact. He is very gracious when people come to see him. He is his same self in a lot of ways. He just doesn't always remember.

Italo Calvino

Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.

Mallory Ortberg

I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

Lord Byron

My hair is grey, but not with years, / Nor grew it white / In a single night, / As men's have grown from sudden fears.

William T. Vollmann

My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.

Ellen DeGeneres

New Orleans holds a special place in my heart, because it is where I grew up,

Michael Gillman

Obviously, this is not what we wanted. But the result is not what's most important. We learned a lot this year and grew as a team.

George Romero

When I grew up, there was no such thing as videotape, TV was B&W.

Tyra Banks

I grew up wearing a uniform to school, and now I have my stylist come to my apartment and create outfits for me to wear. Otherwise, I'd never get dressed.

Daryl Sabara

I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

No president is informed if some plane lands,

Benon Sevan

Similarly, I informed the U.S. government, effectively the policeman for sanctions violations in the Gulf, of maritime smuggling on a massive scale that was occurring, to no avail.

Marty Hurney

We don't know anything about it because we really have not been informed throughout the legal process.

Pamela Moore

We feel that we need to listen to our constituents and make an informed decision.

Aaron Sorkin

The play was written before a lot of things that have informed how we feel about the military, but I think it is going to resonate.

Bret Bielema

He informed me he might be interested in pursuing another option with LSU. I said that's all I needed to know because I want people that need to be here.

James Perry

James would have needed about two months to prepare. It is a specialist item. He was informed too late.

William Ryan

I represent the legislature. When I go to the vote, I try to represent the majority view, but I can't make an informed vote until the issue is discussed.

Jacci Jahnke

When we table a subject, we're not using it as a tool to make it go away. It's a tool we use to make more informed decisions.

Melina Kanakaredes

My grandfather always told me, 'You know you're American first, but you're a Greek-American, which makes you a better American.' It sounds sort of old-world and very sweet, but what he meant was that you should embrace those things that are most special and different about you.

Russell Smith

Frosh-week songs are meant to be offensive because offensive is rebellious.

Sara Hunter

On paper, I'm sure everyone thinks this year has been terrible. But our seniors meant so much to this team. It's so sad to see them go. We just need to keep building.

Steve Almond

I was saddled with this strange name, which meant that I was constantly, constantly, being serenaded with the Sometimes you feel like a nut Almond Joy/Mounds jingle.

Gregg Hostetler

I have it framed on a wall in my den. On the inscription she tells me what I meant to her. It's the most precious thing I have from that season. Even now, when I think about it, I get emotional.

Jennifer Rizzotti

She willed us not just to win, but to play like this. Erika has meant everything to this team all weekend and all season long.

Dee Romine

She has meant so much to our program. She is the ultimate team player and didn't shy away from taking the big shots.

Scott Monarch

I didn't really realize what they meant when they said predominantly black.

Tim Henman

I don't know what this mystery thing is that I'm meant to be passing on - what is it? A torch, a flag, a baton?

Rick Schmidt

More than preaching those things, he did those things.

Christopher Morley

Only the sinner has a right to preach

Leo Ellerbee

We did the little things. We always preach doing the little things every day.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

Barry White

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

Dan Aykroyd

I'd make a bad preacher.

John Ortberg

There are usually multiple messages that could be preached from the same text.

Michael Strahan

One thing about Foxy, I know they are going to be physical. That is the one thing he preached here defensively.

Adam Hamilton

My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.

Dustin Lynch

My favorite thing about touring is the new towns and new faces every day.

J. Taylor

No one in town has a seven-member band,

John Anderson

I would have thought most towns had some kind of evacuation plan.

Estelle Parsons

I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.

Alan Rickman

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

Beau Bridges

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

Charles Kuralt

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

Amanda Walker

With no students, the town is pretty quiet.

Hannah Baldwin

We're just a little town that did things that were unheard of at the time.

Stephen Covey

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Nigel Hamilton

I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh.

Mary Wilson

We have always understood that visibility is viability.

Byron Katie

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

Carl Jung

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

Charles Darwin

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

Elie Wiesel

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

Arthur Helps

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.

Jessica Sanchez

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.