Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbie Hancock

Although my parents were playing jazz for me when I was a kid, I didn't pay much attention until I saw someone my age improvising, playing jazz..

Michael Behe

Although I find it congenial to think that it's God, others might prefer to think it's an alien or who knows? An angel, or some satanic force, some new age power.

Stephen Jackson

A lot of the guys who are wearing chains are my age and are black, ... I wore all my jewelry today to let it be known that I'm upset with it. It's one thing to have a dress code and it's another thing if you're attacking cultures.

John Smith

A lot of players his age are obsessed with making it to the pros. He's not that way, because he's very confident as a person that he can do other things.

Almost all fruit trees have a mature age where they start having problems.

'America 24/7' will be a landmark series in documentary photography and the watershed event of the new digital photography age.

Dan Johnson

A meaningful trip for all. I had not visited the home since age 12. I'm a new teacher at Stones River and can only hope the experience will last as long for our students as my childhood trip did for me. If our children don't know where we've been as a society, how can we know where we're going? I was amazed at how attentive our kids were. Thank you for a wonderful experience.

Terry Teachout

Americans of all ages embraced TV unhesitatingly. They felt no loyalty to network radio, the medium that had entertained and informed them for a quarter-century. When something came along that they deemed superior, they switched off their radios without a second thought.

American citizens are fed up. Border agents have been left out to dry by an administration that isn't doing a thing to solve the very dangerous situation brewing at the border.

Georg Hegel

America is, therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's history shall reveal itself. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of Old Europe.

A lot of things we do are like that. We have a very close team. It's one of the closest teams I've been on. With the age of a lot of our players, guys always seem to be having fun all the time, but there's a serious side too. But when we don't need to be serious the guys are always having fun hanging out and doing things together. I think it's great. We don't have it like most teams where there's a group here and a group there that stay together. We almost always go out together as a team when we're on the road. It's not a segregated team in any way.

A lot of these trends are to be expected. This is the age when young people experiment with different lifestyles and behaviors, and when they move out of the house they have even more freedom to do that. We expect that when they settle into more permanent jobs and unions, these trends will abate.

The young feel sorrows much more sharply that the old; the latter are nearer the safety net

This is sad for any age, but especially for junior high students because it's supposed to be a time when they are changing, doing new things and making new friends,

This is something we've wanted for a long time. But, for a long time, they said one government agency can't pay for another one.

This is one of those deals where everybody can be really proud. In a day and age when it's only about the team using a player for the amount of time they'll think he'll be totally at his best, or a day in age when players want to get paid all they can right now, this was every party understanding the other's needs.

This is one of the toughest decisions I have ever had to make, and it was never taken lightly. I love this United Way and the team we have built. Working with the agencies has been a pleasure and I am in awe every day of their work.

This is one of the few choices left for us. It's rare for a government agency to go out of business but it's the best option left for us.

This isn't the first instance I've run into where intelligence agencies and the Pentagon and other government agencies have used classification to cover up faux pas. It just galled me.

This is the FBI's most important investigation, maybe ever, and they hold themselves out as being the premier law enforcement agency in the world. If they're incapable of handling their most important investigation in a matter that instills confidence, we all need to be concerned.

This is the end of the age of warriors.

This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius.

This is powerful work and we live in an age that many tools and technologies can be turned into weaponry,

The utilities and the federal agencies are perfecting the art of miscalculation,

The U.S. Supreme Court has never spoken to an exception to an upper age limit or a physical illness. As a result, there is no case law from the United States Supreme Court compelling the courts to grant a reprieve.

The Western Zone Championships is an age-group elite type of event,

The wealth of information in this Hubble survey, including seeing stars of all sizes in one dense place, provides an extraordinary opportunity to study star formation. Our goal is to calculate the masses and ages for these young stars so that we can map their history and get a general census of the star formation in that region. We can then sort the stars by mass and age and look for trends.

The whole discussion for two and half years was that federal agencies couldn't connect the dots, ... None of these databases talked to each other.

The whole challenge ... is that we consistently still have these stovepipe problems in terms of the agencies themselves not being able to be well-integrated,

The whole agent thing hasn't changed since I started in call centers 15 years ago. The pattern stays the same. It's not a long-term career. It's not a well-paid job.

Ban Ki-moon

The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.

The United States should pursue a more robust agenda for U.S. competitiveness and innovation focused on a lower-carbon economy, including investments in education, basic research and development, infrastructure, retraining, retirement security, and universal health care.

S. Jay Olshansky

The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.