Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Byron

Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse, / And brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse.

John Thorne

Second place wouldn't be that important, except in this case second place is held by Babe Ruth, who is the central figure in baseball history. He is more like Paul Bunyan. He's a mythical figure. Passing Babe Ruth is a big deal, but not because he's in second place.

Sarah Frazier

My favorite thing about Babe is that she is just headstrong. In a lot of ways, she's just me.

Jack Quinn

Now that we know that, you can see why these teams are so good. I don't know that you're ever going to see a New England team win one of these titles again. I don't know that Babe Ruth in Massachusetts is going to change, especially with the weather.

Al Lopez

I don't think he thought there were any players today that were better than Babe Ruth, the old-timers he played with,

Barry Bonds

The only number I care about is Babe Ruth's. Because as a left-handed hitter, I wiped him out. That's it. And in the baseball world, Babe Ruth's everything, right? I got his slugging percentage and I'll take his home runs and that's it. Don't talk about him no more.

John Goodman

I wish I could do it again. I didn't have enough time to get it right. (on playing Babe Ruth)

Waite Hoyt

Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.

Waite Hoyt

The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

Alexandra Adornetto

The lake of fire awaits my lady

Garth Brooks

Life is not tried, it is merely survived if your standing outside the fire

Rick Christman

Mainly, we can't get into a fire because of the blow-down (of trees and branches).

William Williams

Love you? It'sa fire in the blood, willy-nilly!

Brandon Matich

Searle played his heart out, not having a varsity start before, he was tremendous. We threw the kid into the fire He made many good plays.

Tom Donahoe

Most young quarterbacks get thrown into the fire,

Alfred Reft

Mau was so fired up tonight -- he was a spark plug in the middle. He did a good job, hustling, getting digs. He'll have to take the (libero) jersey.

William Congreve

Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock we're broke, And all our boasted Fire is lost in Smoke

Tom Bennett

Maybe a fire hall, ... Ours is as old as dirt.

Richard P. Feynman

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

James Rubin

Mr. Karadzic has no place to run and no place to hide, ... The noose is gradually tightening around his neck.

David Briggs

Maybe today is a sign that we can gradually move modestly higher without getting crazy.

Phil Dow

If we have a series of big moves up, that would be a shock to the system, ... but, considering where are from a historical perspective, they could go up more gradually and not be a terrible headwind for the market.

Al Madrigal

I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.

Larry Wilcox

It's like with a girl: it's more fun to meet and slowly, gradually learn things about each other. A little mystery is always nice and it's interesting to still learn new things about someone you are involved with.

Steve Dunn

We are gradually showing people the value of our technology, but it is a tough market.

Alice Sebold

I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.

John Entwistle

We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals.

Samuel Coleridge

Life is but thought; so think I will, That youth and I are house mates still

Kathy Griffin

Look, you guys, I know I'm not Courteney Cox. But I'm telling you, the house is better than me. They were like, 'I don't think so.'

John Ford

So many houses - you feel like there's a lot of unusable space. We don't have that.

Eddie Murphy

My life is nothing like the "Daddy Day Care" life. Me around the house is nothing like the "Daddy Day Care" dad.

Waris Ahluwalia

My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.

Derek Ambrose

My dad's house got washed away in the flood. He has nothing to go back to.

Jamie Wyeth

My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes.

Judy McDermott

More than 350 million households all over the world watch this tournament.

John Tesh

My house was really like 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I sang in the choir and was very involved in the church.

Busch Series

Man, I had no idea what to expect.

Rashad Bobino

Man, I can see why they're No. 1 in the nation.

Mario Bailey

Man, he's a senior. He's worked hard, and this is for him.

M.I.A.

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

Rae Rosen

Manhattan is unique; the rest of the region is more like the nation.

Toba Beta

Man has to postulate weirdness, before reaching the new science.

William Burroughs

Man has sold his soul for time, language, tools, weapons, and dominance.

Pat Connors

Man has a very poor track record when it comes to nature.

Barry Alvarez

Man did he play. I was really proud of him. . . . I really thought he played exceptional for a young kid.

Shari Brill

Moderate successes are good, because if they do better than the shows they replaced, it's still a success for the networks.

Marc Johnson

Moderate strategies in the past had moderate results.

Mike Ross

Redistricting and a broken, polarized Congress have made it tough to be a moderate in Congress.

Gijs de Vries

Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims.

Barton Gellman

As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.

Steven Wood

Any slowing in sales will reveal moderate overbuilding.

Lucy Jones

Northridge was a moderate earthquake, and it wasn't an urban hit; it was a suburban hit.

Carl Tobias

Specter is the key, and then it comes down to moderate Republicans and where we were in May.

John Sebastian

You're seeing it go down to more moderate homes.

Alexandra Fuller

I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.

Alexandra Fuller

One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.

Alexandra Adornetto

I believe it stands for 'mother I'd like to...befriend,

Amy Milliron

Mothers risk prosecution every time they go out in public and nurse their children.

David Lucas

Mother nature really stuck with us on this,

Joe Wooden

Mother nature is not cooperating. Things will get worse as the day progresses.

John Humphreys

Mother Nature didn't make slate for the purpose of putting it on a roof. We did. We've taken out all of the vulnerabilities and disadvantages of the natural material.

Anna Lee

Mother, ... if you could stop time, when would you stop it?

Jennifer Johnson

McCauley called his mother and said he had killed someone.

Jerry Jones

I don't feel an urgency to get a young wide receiver.

Kate Fleetwood

I'd quite like to direct. I don't think it will happen, but my urge is that way inclined.

Kent Conrad

Those are the very things I've urged the administration to do for some time.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

All of my life I have always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.

Stephane Dujarric

There is a sense of urgency because it is so perilously late.

Mark Butler

There is a real urgency here and there is an irreversibility. Look at the waters here, there's no groundfishery left.

Carl Sandburg

The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.

Rick Thomas

It is a different world in that the sense of urgency and sense of need is so much heightened.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The one who pulls is the one they urge on.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.