Famous Quotes & Sayings

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

Molly Parker

I really understand where Alice is coming from - I've been in exactly the same place coming from a small town and knowing that I need to do other things, that I have to leave.

Peter Mayhew

They asked if I was interested in a role as a large alien in a movie.

Aaron Rowand

We know the dates. But nobody here was alive in 1959. And most of our parents weren't even born in 1917. That's for the media and the fans to talk about. We have to focus on what we need to do, and you can tell by the way we're playing that we're doing that.

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

Mavis Staples

I've got to sing for Pops; I've got to keep my father's legacy alive because he started all of this. So I started calling people, and nobody would give me a chance, but I didn't let that stop me. I took money out the bank and I started making me a record, and I did it in this guy's basement.

Patrick Ness

I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.

James Morgan

Unfortunately, the continuing downturn requires us to make some tough decisions to align our operations with current levels of demand for semiconductor equipment,

Phillip Noyce

You know, you go to Hollywood and work internationally, and just the little jokes no longer make you laugh. I was alienated from my own culture.

When you sponsor a bowl game, you get your name in lights. College football fans are the most passionate fans in the world. Bowl games are 90 years old. There is such tradition. You align yourself with that.

We are searching for them, either to find them alive or their bodies.

We are really striving to have children go through there, at least the Survive Alive house, sometime this year.

Andy Warhol

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of ''work,'' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Tony George

I suppose if all of the stars, moons and planets align it could be possible, but what are the chances of that? There's reason to be hopeful, but I would caution everyone from getting their hopes set too high.

I saw his eye look at me and then he just disappeared. And so I thought, 'Well, I'll just start paddling and he'll think that I'm moving and I'm alive and I'm not food and he'll probably leave me alone.

is confirmation that the Constitution is alive and well and kicking.

Marcelo Balboa

I say, 'Thank you, God, for keeping me and my wife alive to be able to see my son being honored at the Hall of Fame,'

Tony Meola

I said it the other day, he's the Muhammad Ali of our sport. He's a name that you can mention anywhere in the world and everyone knows who he is.

Desmond Tutu

I said yes, and Tutu said, 'He's not very articulate,' which he isn't. He said, 'Is he the most loved man in the world?' I said yes. 'Who is the most loved woman?' Mother Teresa was still alive at the time, so I said her. He replied, 'Yes, and what are these people? These people are good. And why do we love them? Because they warm us. They warm us.'

Clark Blaise

Peggy Atwood, Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Michael Ondaatje - these are all old friends from my early 20s.

Our hearts are filled with joy this morning. Our gladness is bittersweet that Tom is not alive to join his colleagues in this celebration.

Overall we enable the alignment between business processes, systems, data and infrastructure which in the long term helps ensure a continuous level of security throughout the network.

Parents restrict their children accessing weird sites on the internet. Same reason, the ruler of this world restricts public accessing the sites of alien civilization everywhere.

Over the years, our investments in the Caribbean and Latin America have been a source of solid financial performance, but they represent a small part of our revenue base that is less aligned with our core business focus and future growth.

My son was not a pedophile. He'd be alive today.

William Cowper

My sin and judgment are alike peculiar. I am a castaway, deserted and condemned.

Joe Torre

My only concern was that he'd alienate himself from the rest of the club but I didn't see that happen.

Christine Pelosi

My parents had five children in six years and one week, meaning that my mom was pregnant for most of the '60s and driving carpools for most of the '70s. When we were young, she dressed us alike so she could pick us out in crowds: identical skirts for the four girls with the color-coordinated pants for my brother.

Peter Chapman

Nancy Kissel didn't want Robert Kissel alive anymore. She wanted the children, but Michael Del Priore was the man in her life.

My wife worked at Children's Hospital, ... They took her and my two daughters in, but they told me I was on my own. I don't know where they are and I don't know when I'll find them. I don't even know whether they're alive or dead.

My mother passed away in 1986 and Lotte died last year. Greta is still alive and living in a nursing home in Argentina.

John Scott

Matt is a versatile player who can either play down as a conventional tight end or align in the slot. He has good speed and is developing strength this winter. He will compete in the spring for one of our two tight-end positions.

Alice Eve

Usually, if you're buried alive, that's gonna be the last time that happens, isn't it?