Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Cooper

Lou Holtz beat me all seven times we met when he was at Arkansas and I was at Tulsa. Believe me, today makes up for it.

Clint Reed

Moving our primary to an earlier primary date, I see it as a good thing. It puts Arkansas into a much more relevant position in helping to elect both the Republican and Democratic nominees.

Rick Lazio

Nobody from Arkansas or Hollywood or Washington, D.C., is going to tell us who's going to represent us in the U.S. Senate.

Bob Braman

Obviously, this is real exciting for our program. To be considered in the same category as perennial champion Arkansas is quite flattering. We're well aware that they have 41 championship banners hanging in their locker room and there's good reason for that.

Larry Daniel

Obviously northwest Arkansas in exploding. You need to have a branch up here.

Hillary Clinton

When I chose to leave a career as a young lawyer in Washington to move to Arkansas to marry Bill and start a family, my friends asked, 'Are you out of your mind?'

Tamara Jenkins

If Arkansas has enough damage, it will become a federal disaster area, and the homeowners can get more money when it comes to temporary housing assistance. The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management may offer only three months, while FEMA could possibly give six months. It will be more money for the families to get them get back on their feet.

Arthur Hamlin

One of the scouts from Arkansas A&M came to the game and gave Clay $10. He didn't give me any money, so I got mad. So I ended up going to Southern.

Lauren Ervin

I was relieved to get this behind me. I enjoyed the whole recruiting process, but from day one Arkansas was the place for me. They have wonderful coaches and everything to offer that I need.

Alexandra Paul

The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.

Alexandra Adornetto

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

Rod Blagojevich

Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?

Kristy McNichol

My mother always wanted to be an actress. She was an extra in movies and stuff. I have a feeling this is the classic story: The mother wants to be an actress, and the child ends up doing it. But it was never a jealousy thing between us. It was like - well, I was making my mom happy.

Malorie Blackman

I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.

Malorie Blackman

Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

Malorie Blackman

Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.

Luke Selking

We're not doing anything to help those children excel.

Aaron Baker

like a lot of research tends to overlook children in some areas.

David Gardner

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

Danita Rickard

For so many years we've prepared our students to go into higher education and they rarely returned to the community. Hopefully, our students will now be educated here and go to work here.

Jane Goodall

If we haven't educated people like this young man,

Sandra Tsing Loh

Typically, middle-class educated parents' search for their children's schools takes on the feel, if not of teen girls trying on different outfits, of adolescents trying on various selves.

Orison Marden

Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Evan Spiegel

I am a young, white, educated male. I got really, really lucky. And life isn't fair.

Philip Dick

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

S. Walker

We've got a very educated and skilled work force that is not stupid. They understand the implications of (the proposed contract) and they voted accordingly.

Maria Brown

We had no idea so many people would actually go out on a reef. People need to be educated that they're stepping on living creatures.

Jane Austen

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

Elizabeth Kenny

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

Clara Barton

You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.

Clara Barton

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

Clara Barton

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves.

Desmond Tutu

True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even vicariously for those who cannot speak for themselves any longer. We have to accept that we do what we do for generations past, present and yet to come. That is what makes a community a community or a people a people-for better or for worse.

Desmond Tutu

Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath.

Desmond Tutu

When people see what is happening in Gaza, that can't make you too fond of the perpetrators - the Israelis. If you are a Muslim and you look at what is happening there, it fills you with a lot of resentment. Especially if you are weak, then you are nursing these grudges and you are increasing in bitterness and look for a chance to get your own back.

James Rubin

making excuses. Why don't they let the inspectors do their job? Stop making excuses, stop trying to politicize the operation, stop trying to pick the inspectors.

Mark Reiland

Obviously, we won the right one. We wanted to win both, but if we had to pick one, this would be the one we'd pick.

Astro Teller

Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.

Nick Fazekas

More than likely, if I'm not a first-round pick then you'll probably see me back here.

Natalie Cole

My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

J. A. Konrath

No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.

Kelly Rowan

Now we kind of have to pick up the pieces.

Martin Jol

I can't remember him picking up a ball.

Chipper Jones

I can't pick him up. He's the one guy. My nemesis.

Caspar David Friedrich

The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.

Arnold Palmer

I played with [Dwight Eisenhower] on the day after I won the Masters at his request. We became everlasting friends. I was with him the day before he died at Walter Reed.

Rob Mileski

He reminded me today of the Willis Reed thing.

Steve Pleau

Reed will report to Peoria on Thursday. He won't play in the opener; he won't play this weekend. We're going to get him in here, let him adjust, see where he's at mentally.

Frank Herbert

The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.

Jonathan Swift

When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.

John Kenneth Galbraith

At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.

Robert A. Heinlein

Logic is a feeble reed, friend.

William Watson

Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.

David Mobley

Seniors always find a way to win. There?s wisdom in experience. It showed tonight.

Chris Crutcher

Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.

Chris Evert

... after being at the top, I don't think I could play senior tournaments, because you know how good you were. I don't know if I would enjoy that, being half of what I was.

Dennis Hastert

At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications.

Dennis Hastert

When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America s disabled in 1965, about half of a seniors health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals.

Dennis Hastert

Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications.

Edwina Currie

The suggestion that the prime minister had been flirting with one of the senior women cabinet ministers made me laugh every time I saw it, and I thought, "if you only knew!" Perhaps they should have pushed it a bit harder.

Ed Pastor

I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.

Ahmed Rashid

I met a lot of the senior Taliban, and I asked them precisely [about Mullah Omar]. The most common answer was he is humble. And that was very true. We never had reports of Mullah Omar living luxuriously or making money in large quantities or anything like that.

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.

Kristin Cast

No one wants to be the kid who allies with the weird kid.

Al Groh

(Monroe) wants to be coached. He wants to be very good.

Peter Enrich

No one wants to be the one, as they put it, to unilaterally disarm.

Carolyn See

'Gillespie and I' is a deliciously morbid, almost smutty story, a compendium of inappropriate wants and smarmy desires.

Alexis Jennings

She wants to make something of herself, but she always wants a lot for her teammates.

Mike Baker

She wants the nest, she wants the husband, and she wants the young.

J. Taylor

She wants them back ... that's her life.

Jack Hughes

She wants the ball. She wants no one else there but her.

Mike Toussaint

She wants it bad, she wants to succeed.