Famous Quotes & Sayings

George H. W. Bush

Recovery is going to take years. We need to help these Gulf Coast communities and, of course, the great city of New Orleans get back on their feet. The job is too big, too overwhelming for any one group.

John Grant

Reasonable people in the city of Oceanside would say, 'Great, get rid of that old trailer park,' ... don't like it, (but) they're going to have to move.

Paul Eisenstein

Our readers really stepped up with some insane street names. We learned a lot about the byways of this country, not to mention the collective sense of humor of city planners everywhere.

Felicia Londre

Patricia's move to Kansas City sent shockwaves through the scholarly world. People wondered why she was 'throwing away' her career. They didn't understand it.

Victor Batarseh

Our message is that tourists are still welcome. This is a peaceful city and there is no reason they should not come.

DeJuan Blair

People have been overlooking the City League like crazy for years. It's good that we got here. Hopefully we can win it.

Sunny Mindel

People know him as the man who was the leader of an urban renaissance of the city that was deemed to be ungovernable. His legacy is sustained by the accomplishments as leader of New York City for eight years.

Glenn Thomas

People need to authorize that the city is not out any money. The money we refund is in lieu of money spent on infrastructure.

Kelly McCann

People in this city are starting to realize that HIV is everyone's disease.

Kofi Annan

reflecting our mutual commitment to a stable, prosperous and equitable world.

Jason Brown

Organic to Go was founded on the principle of providing delicious, convenient breakfasts and lunches that happen to be organic and natural delivered to corporate America, Eating organic is not only good for you personally, but good for the environment. Receiving certification proves our commitment to both. We're here for the long term health of the consumer -- and the planet.

Chris Carney

States like New Jersey have already made a commitment to reduce mercury pollution by 90 percent. The technology is out there. We just need to move in that direction.

Ed Clair

Some of the Sago miners requested that the United Mine Workers be their representatives for the purposes of this investigation, and they have a right to be there. Together, the state and MSHA made a commitment to the families that we would conduct a fair, open investigation, and we decided we needed to take this extraordinary step to keep that commitment.

Scott Kriens

Our performance during the third quarter reflects the return on our commitment and focus on continued execution.

Sidney Taurel

Our strong bottom-line results in the first quarter reflect the execution on our commitment to grow sales at a faster rate than our expenses.

Wade Henderson

Our strength is the diversity of our membership and our unity of purpose, ... Unity of purpose doesn't mean we are in lock step on every issue. Janet Murguia is a strong leader who reflects deep commitment to our values.

Jude Walsh

Our commitment is to try to keep people's out-of-pocket costs no more than what it was under DEL.

Matt Silverman

Our commitment is to keep these players here for many years to come.

Paul Adams

Recreation was important because we didn't have any. Here we were a water district and growing by leaps and bounds. It was too large to be governed by a county commission.

Mark Fabiani

Our position is that we want to keep the team in San Diego and we're going to do everything possible to make that happen. We will explore all of our options within the county of San Diego the minute we're (contractually) able to do so.

John Bowen

Our position is that as a matter of law it's approved. The county would have to notify us if they disagree with that.

John Benedetto

Pasco County football has gotten a lot better and you better be prepared to play well week to week or you're going to get knocked off.

Sue Tucker

Our only option is to refer people to one of the shelters in Dane County -- or to send them up to a shelter in Stevens Point. We have no place, else, to put people.

John Walsh

Sussex County is suffering maybe more than most. Kent County is having its problems. ... High gasoline prices, highway congestion, people in manufactured homes are dealing with unconscionable rental increases. Most of this can be laid at the Legislature's doorstep.

Rick Howard

Survive and move on. that's what they tell when you get to the playoffs. That's what we did (Friday). Hart County played hard and fought the entire game.

Gary Gray

Our peach crop in Chilton County in a good year is probably worth in the neighborhood of $10 million, and local growers have reported a 30-percent increase in yields as the result of information they got from the meeting. This is a very important meeting for us.

Doug Warren

Our scores have to come down (from the county meet).

Nicki Harrington

People need to understand that even though we struggle to maintain facilities with limited funds, we have always been able to maintain an excellent education for our students.

Ramon Alexander

Our students are simply being priced out of an education. We do feel that with the surpluses in the state higher education should be a No. 1 priority, a top-notch priority.

Michael Levine

Our teacher education system is not geared up for producing these teachers. We need to figure out some incentives.

David Circle

Our goal is to make sure all students have a quality music education.

Larry Jansen

Our goal has always been to raise money for the state and public education. It's the reason the lottery exists.

Kevin McCarthy

Outside of the family, education is the greatest determinant of social mobility.

Jordan Goodman

Plan to finance your own retirement, help your parents and fund your children's education.

Barry Lopez

You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these are only illusions of permanence. They know even less than you do.

B. B. King

No one can take it away from you.

Atsutoshi Nishida

Regrettably, two different types of products seem set to hit the market. But this is the kind of technology that will be around for five or 10 years. Efforts should be made continuously to make unification happen.

Li Zhaoxing

Some people are disappointed with the outcome of meetings, which was not as substantial as they have expected, ... However, we should highly value efforts made by all sides in this process.

Aldrich Ames

Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

Stuart Anderson

On the state level, these efforts will continue.

Kirk Hinrich

Our close-outs have been bad. We haven't been making the second and third efforts that we normally make.

John Kilduff

Remember, the power outages are what bedeviled recovery efforts after Katrina,

Mikhail Gorbachev

It is a worthy reward for his efforts over many years. He is a man who does his job solidly and responsibly.

Mark Rylance

I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove.

Brian Jenkins

I think that is the lesson of the Israeli efforts over the years.

Roberto Suro

Regardless of what happens to immigration flows, there is a huge second generation of Latinos.

Jerry Mathers

Our generation is the first to have grown up with TV. I'm one of the first kids that they watched grow up on television.

Tom Fletcher

Playing My Generation and having Roger Daltrey singing with us was unbelievable.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.

George Whitesides

We now have an opportunity for our generation to make our mark on human history. Our parents and grandparents took us to the Moon the first time. Now it's time for us to go back to the Moon to stay, and then head straight for Mars.

Carrie Underwood

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

Bette Davis

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.

Slick Rick

I think the world has gotten nostalgic, ... Hip-hop is pushing 40, but the older generation is not being catered to at all. We're hoping that we can open up a market that can push for this older, mature hip-hop tip.

Patsy Crisel

(Relay) is important because the money raised stays here.

Tom Lewis

Our political system has become more about money than it has about people,

Phil Hardberger

or at least give us the money to do it.

Jay Johnson

People laugh, but we have to move money around occasionally.

Deborah Voso

People often underestimate how much money it takes to live in retirement.

Nancy Bain

Surveyors could make some money on this one.

Peter Schiff

Some of the smaller stocks have been moving, but the big stocks are going to take real money to move.

Francis Maude

Some of that money may well have been from overseas sources.

John Nicholson

Our staff needs raises; we need roads, parks, all the things that this money can provide,

John Palmer

Part B is going to have to go up significantly next year.

Travis Reinsch

Patrick is already talking about getting ready for next season.

Linda Connolly

Pawling is the next Bedford. That's what all the realtors are saying.

Charles Hamowy

People in their 40s and 50s have to plan for the next 50 years.

Pete Carroll

Surgery may be down the road. It's not at all the time to do that. If after about two weeks he hasn't responded, then (team doctors) have to think more seriously about what the next step is.

Richard Myers

surely the next 9/11 would be right around the corner.

Chad Belville

Somehow we're going to go from being a young team this year to even younger next year. I don't know how it was possible, but it's just a fact.

Sam Paul

Some have put in a lot of time and really want to make it to the next level.

Richard Boucher

Our view is that it should be referred to the U.N. Security Council. That's where we think the next steps are.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Christopher Hill

Our view is that stopping their programs is simply something they have to do.

Rod Williams

We were able to put together a packet of programs and get her into a house.

David Heil

We don't know if any of it's going to be funded at all, and if so, we don't know what programs it will be spent on,

Kevin Eastler

We stay in touch pretty regularly, via e-mail or the phone. He'll send me programs and I'll tell him how I'm feeling. He'll give me paces and whenever we have the opportunity, we'll get together.

Tim Vonville

We don't want to be adversarial but we see these programs that are adversarial to the students.

Eric Cantor

We as Republicans understand that we have got to protect these... entitlement programs - these entitlement programs for our seniors today. And we have to sit down and have a discussion. We need more ideas on the table.

Robert H. Connelly

The programs were more about 'reallocating sales' than stimulating demand.

Jack Toney

The programs are coupled together by their funding.

W. Clement Stone

Stand up. Raise your arms. Repeat after me: I feel healthy! I feel happy! I feel terrific!

Mike Bianco

Right now, sugar is not so sweet. Everybody's raised their prices.

Ron Gardenhire

That was (coach Paul) Molitor yelling at the umpire, not me. I just raised and said, 'What?' and he told me to get out of here.

David Gregory

I will yell. If you want to use that podium to try to take shots at me personally, which I don't appreciate, then I will raise my voice, because that's wrong.

Jim McFarland

I think if we raise (tuition) $2, we need to use it for specific reasons.

George Montgomery

I think this type development raises the status of the county.

Jessica Stroup

I'm such a tomboy - I was raised in the South - and I also really wanted to work in New York, being so different from California, though it was a freezing-cold winter.

Robert Rennie

I'd be surprised if the BOJ raises rates at all this year and that is something that will tend to see the yen underperforming.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He used to raise a storm in a teapot.

Bernard Berenson

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

Mike Thibault

From that standpoint, it kind of makes for a very competitive training camp.

Charles R. Swindoll

We gain the ability to rejoice under pressure through a carefully monitored training program directed by the Lord Himself.

Burton Cummings

It's like a runner or a swimmer training all the time. I sing every day.

Eleanor Tomlinson

I haven't done any training. I come from a family of actors, but I haven't done any training.

Abdus Salam

Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.

Steve Butler

She is very focussed and has been training very hard. She will come back and come back strong.

Brett Hoebel

Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover.

Ashley Scott

I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.