Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's the best thing we have right now. Research shows us that children in national board certified teachers' classrooms actually have higher achievement scores.

Troy Aikman

It's the greatest individual athletic achievement that's ever happened in my life. To be considered one of those players that made an impact or somehow, someway helped define the game itself is a very humbling experience.

Troy Aikman

It's the greatest individual athletic achievement that has happened in my life. To be considered one of those players who made an impact to define the game itself, it's a humbling honor.

It's the first time we've won 20 since I've been here. It's a good accomplishment, but there's still a lot of work to be done.

It's more like we just go out there and play our best. If that's what happens at the end of the year, then it's a great accomplishment to have. But we're not too worried about it.

It looks like we're one of the only states that has hard evidence. You really can get changes in achievement if you do systematically, sustained work on it.

Mika Brzezinski

If we can't quantify and communicate our value with confidence, the achievements of the tremendous women before us will have all been for nothing.

Haile Selassie

Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.

Gunter Grass

Students who don't want to get anywhere are sure to get somewhere.

H. P. Lovecraft

The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.

Buzz Aldrin

There is very little doubt, in my mind, that what the next monumental achievement of humanity will be the first landing by an Earthling, a human being, on the planet Mars.

Katrina Kaif

I can read and speak Hindi quite well now and that's quite an achievement considering I didn't know the language at all when I came down here.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Herb Brooks is quite simply one of the greatest hockey coaches who ever lived. He is the architect of the most famous achievement in American hockey history, and we are extremely pleased to learn that he will be inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame.

He ran exceptionally well, we're elated and it's a big achievement for athletics.

Stephen Lewis

Gordon Brown's proudest boast is that, during his stewardship, the U.K. economy has consistently grown from one quarter to the next. The Bank Governor seems to be saying that this achievement was primarily a 'nice' decade phenomenon, and not the hard-won and well-merited result of outstandingly successful policies.

Graduating to the American Stock Exchange will be a significant achievement in the growth and advancement of our company and will increase our exposure to both institutional and individual investors in the United States and in Europe. Moving to a larger exchange will complement our growth strategy, and we look forward to a swift approval process.

Orrin Hatch

For the most part, passage of the DMCA has proven to be an achievement settling many complex liability issues up front and allowing the online businesses to grow. It was our hope that it would give creators incentives to make their products available on the Internet ... Sadly, this has not occurred to any great extent,

Mark Foster

For them, that's an achievement. To the extent that they still can generate some traffic and higher price points, they are generating better sales figures. They seem to be doing better in terms of their merchandising efforts and the basics of just running the business.

Harry S Truman

Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable

J. K. Rowling

Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement.

H. L. Mencken

The great achievement of liberal Protestantism was to make God boring.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I've learned that every great achievement was once considered impossible

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Those who never have time do least

Gene Kranz

There is no achievement without risk.

I can't tell you the number of kids who have been very scared of while up there and came down and have a look of accomplishment on their faces.

I can't think that far ahead. Just having two of our teams at the Final Four is quite an accomplishment in itself.

I am not afraid of challenges. I am filled with adrenaline and willpower to face this challenge and the level of expectations -- to guide Israel to its first major achievement in 36 years.

I am not hearing a clamoring for an income tax reduction. Instead, I am hearing about the need to increase school funding, to close the achievement gap, to reduce classroom size. It is not the time to be considering a large cut to the education fund.

However, putting three teams in the top six of a national championships is not an inconsiderable achievement.

Hun Sen

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.

Irving Babbitt

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.