Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Cullum

My grandmother on my father's side, a nightclub singer, was a Jewish refugee from Prussia who ended up in Jerusalem, where she met my grandfather - a British army officer. I remember as a child having bowls of chicken soup made by her. There were lots of interesting components, like feet and necks.

Jim Parrack

My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

Nigel Hamilton

My father had risen in the British Army under the revolutionary aegis of General Montgomery, who was mad about training for battle, not muddling into disaster.

My father will always be my hero. He pioneered two successful companies that paved the way for the technology services industry and has devoted much of his life to helping people in need and those who serve our nation in the armed forces.

Jamie Wyeth

My father, whose work I adore... was down working on little things of grass and dead birds. Well, that didn't interest me. As an 8-year-old kid, I wanted knights in armor and so forth.

No part of the Yugoslav army was spared.

Now the trumpet summons us again- not as a call bear arms, though arms we need-not as a call to battle, though embattled we are- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "" rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulat

Bill Murray

Numbers matter, ... The Chinese obviously believe that numbers matter because they're turning out submarines like sausages. The Chinese are definitely on the winning end of an arms race.

Kenny Guinn

Nevadans can be proud of their efforts to help people impacted by the hurricane, ... With the assistance of nonprofit groups such as Catholic Charities, United Way, Red Cross, Salvation Army and many others that have worked hard to assist the evacuees, Nevada has demonstrated our support for the victims of Katrina.

Neither team could spend any arms today. But Church did a great job for them.

Neighbors were calling in that a female, a white female, had been shot and that the subject was armed with a gun. Upon arrival, the police officers discovered that the subject was inside the house.

Nato today faces greater threats to its long-term future than it ever did at the height of the Cold War. Now is the time to replace immobile armies with more flexible, rapid response forces.

John Cornyn

Obviously, we are happy to open our arms and our homes and our shelters to people in need. But there are going to be mid-term and long-term costs associated with this. I promise you Texas will not be forgotten. We will not be silent.

Obviously, it's needed to do things like steer and propel and make (the kayak) go, but it's real critical should he flip over, upside-down. He needs two arms to be able to get back upright so he doesn't drown. That was one of the neat things that he was able to master, and really has less to do about the arm and more to do about him.

Obviously, her bat is what got me interested. She hit the ball extremely well, but her arm strength from behind the plate was also a key reason why we brought her on.

Barton Gellman

First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.

Robin Williams

The only people flying to Europe will be terrorists, so it will be, Will you be sitting in armed or unarmed?

Robin Williams

The only people flying to Europe will be terrorists, so it will be, "Will you be sitting in armed or unarmed?

The price was high, but to be able to get a proven bullpen arm who has pitched at a championship level, it was too good to pass up.

Tom Baker

To protect the home of the brave and the land of the free, brave men and women of our armed forces daily defend this nation's principles of Freedom and Liberty".

To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them

David Niven

This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.

We were born from the womb of resistance, we will protect resistance and the arm of resistance will not be touched.

Ahmed Ben Bella

Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

Ahmed Ben Bella

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France

Henry Rollins

When was the last time you wanted to say it all to the right person? To have it all come out right, to surprise yourself at how together you could be. When was the last time you ever met someone who made you want to give it all to them? I mean give yourself to them. Where you couldn't express yourself enough - like you wanted to cut off one of your arms to be understood. That's it - you would cut your head off to have someone understand you. You know how pointless that one is. You know how many times you've smashed yourself to bits on the rocks.

When this happened, he said there was no pain, it happened so quick he could not believe his arm was gone.

Abraham Lincoln

All the armies of Europe combined could not by force make a track upon the Blue Ridge, or take a drink from the Ohio. If we are to be destroyed, we must do it ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln

It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army. These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land....Our defence is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.

Abraham Lincoln

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

We've never been out this early. We're still doing the same stuff we would indoors, the arms are just not ready. I'm trying to rein in the horse, they are so excited about being out.

We want to make sure when we send him out, that he's in condition to pitch again. With the resiliency of his arm, his athleticism and his youth, it doesn't take long for a young guy to get in shape. Essentially, he's not really behind arm-wise because he pitched roughly 2 1/2 to three weeks ago in the Caribbean finals. He got game innings. I suspect his arm is fine.

K. Eric Drexler

My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.