Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

My university work was not central to my education.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.

William Poole

Maintaining inflation stability is the central responsibility of the central bank. But we don't want to be in the situation of over-reacting and driving the economy down,

Steven Spielberg

Making a movie where the central character is a horse was a challenge. Because I'm scared of riding. I was thrown as a kid. One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.

Gordon Brown

Liberalization on services, energy and utilities are part of, and remain central to, a successful single market.

Haruo Shimada

Leading politicians, including Prime Minister Hashimoto, realize the central government has not been treating Okinawa well for a long time,

Ruth Reichl

Sharing food has always had a central place in civilized societies; it's no accident that so many of our cultural, religious and patriotic rituals are involved with eating.

Hatta Radjasa

Seaports, airports and turnpikes will remain under the management of the central government. The Jakarta administration and legislators should respect the prevailing laws.

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.

Dennys Reyes

I was so scared to see a doctor.

Mary Stewart

I was so scared I don't feel I have any entrails anymore.

Jenny Jones

She didn't want to go outside. She was scared for her life.

Larry Petersen

I'd be scared to think of the number.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

I wasn't scared of childbirth. I educated myself and did my fair share of research, and that made me feel a little more prepared.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Film, theater and television always kind of scared me. I don't ever seriously think of myself as an actor at all, and I don't plan any film career or television career.

Aamir Khan

I do what I feel is right. I am not scared to walk on the new path and take risk.

Chris Graves

We were kind of scared there for a while because we didn't know when it would stop,

Deepika Padukone

I am very scared to invest emotionally in a relationship.

Kate Michelman

Now, the gauntlet has been, I think, thrown down.

Philippe Petit

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

Alan Trammel

If someone is going to get thrown out, it should be the manager.

Carlo Ratti

Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.

Mo Ibrahim

Billions of dollars are thrown at African countries.

Jessica Lloyd

I've been thrown into it more than once.

Gwynne Shotwell

What would air travel look like if airplanes were thrown out after each flight? No one would be flying in airplanes.

Heath Lane

We really didn't have a play at first, and we shouldn't have thrown the ball.