Famous Quotes & Sayings

Studs Terkel

We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world.

Studs Terkel

Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

We want to break that trend and get it back to the way it's supposed to be, the home team winning.

Lisa Guerrero

My approach is a very human one, as a fan.

Kin Hubbard

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

She was a patron saint of the peripheral.

New links must be forged as old ones rust.

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins.

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.

Theodore White

His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.

Theodore White

I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.

Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.

Dan Abrams

I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.

Dan Abrams

I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.

Damon Runyon

The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.

Damon Runyon

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

Damon Runyon

You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.

Will Harvey

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

Will Harvey

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

Alistair Cooke

These humiliations are the essence of the game.

Armstrong Williams

The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

Arianna Huffington

But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.

Arianna Huffington

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

A. J. Liebling

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

Chris Wallace

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.

Walter Cronkite

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

Walter Cronkite

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Dan Rather

What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

David Hartman

Kids are capable of handling a lot more than you think if you are willing to commit some time.

David Hartman

Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.

Bennett Cerf

A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results.