Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Riordan

If the parents are too busy to read, it's a safe bet the children will feel the same way. Set aside time for family reading each night. It doesn't matter so much what the kids read, as long as you provide them space for reading and a sense that it is a valuable part of your daily routine.

Bob Love

We've had instances in the past, but not to this extent. This park is set aside for all citizens in the United States to enjoy, and when people do that, it really detracts from the enjoyment of this public place and this natural wonder.

Larry Walker

Usually with every injury you put it aside and you just go out and do it. The only time you're reminded is if you do something you're not able to do and you feel it, but I won't be thinking about it, it'll be another game.

In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.

We do not believe that homosexual couples should be given special rights nor do we believe that they should be set aside for special discrimination.

We do help by putting money aside as a medically needy fund for children who are not insured.

We have to put (the district championship win) aside for now. We still have business to take care of.

Tom Brands

We have to put everything aside as far as hard feelings as there always is in this process. My biggest priority is to unite the program. I'm excited for the challenge.

We encourage the homes to have backup plans aside from what the regulations say they must have.

We encourage the homes to have back-up plans aside from what the regulations say they must have.

Cedric Benson

We haven't won the games we wanted to win. I thought maybe if I put baseball aside and focus on football, I can get us a step closer to where we want to be.

Mary Roach

Will I switch to E-reading? I won't, mainly because I love the look and feel of books - particularly hardbacks. I love them enough to put up with the minor hassles of lugging them around and maneuvering them in my lap and having to set them aside while I eat my cheeseburger.

Don Shula

The '85 Bears were a great football team and aside from that one game, they played exceptionally well all year, ... Denver at 13-0 was tremendously strong in all areas, too.

Samuel Alito

That was a statement that I made at a prior period of time when I was performing a different role and, as I said yesterday, when someone becomes a judge you really have to put aside the things you did as a lawyer at prior points in your legal career.

That way we'll be able to set aside some money to purchase land when it becomes available.

Robby Ginepri

That was a little strange. But I think we're both professional, and we can put aside the doubles match and the friendship for today.

Jim Edgar

That's what I liked about the idea of two governors who had records, ... Because then you could just put aside all this rhetoric and look at their records.

Tony Hawk

That's awesome. Aside from being a really positive outlet for kids who are going to skate whether there's a park or not, it's a breeding ground. It helps our sport grow.

Lee H. Hamilton

The president has a lot at stake here. This is the first major test of his political clout after the election, ... He's said over and over again, 'I support this bill.' Now, if he fails to get that bill through, he has to be worried about the signal that sends about his own political clout with his own party. I think the Congress has a lot at stake. But aside from politics, what is really important here is the safety of the American people.

Newt Gingrich

We are committed to setting aside the 700 billion dollars in surplus for tax cuts, ... Having taken care of Social Security, we believe the extra money should go to tax cuts. Period.

Jonathan Tisch

We put aside individual concerns and worked together. We called it patriotic tourism.

Dwayne Roloson

Right now you have to put the satisfaction aside and focus on the playoff race. For me personally it's great, but for the team it's great that we were able to get this win. Hopefully this will create a snowball effect and we can keep on winning.

Rendell's not going to just step aside the way Swann's primary opponents did.

Craig David

The last few years has been full of highs, lows, dips and incredible success. It's been time for me to find myself as a person. I was seeing my friends, buying records and just doing a lot of normal things to make a record that's really autobiographical. Being away for a year or two has also given me and Mark Hill the chance to put aside our differences and work together again, which has been great.

All of the money that gets set aside for student allocations must be assigned to some organization. There is not one dollar that gets left unassigned.

All of them do it. They know the potential that we have. If we are not working at that potential, they are going to pull us aside and tell us what to do. It is all very constructive criticism. They are all pretty much even in knowing everyone's individual talents and strengths.

And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; / And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.

Christine Whitman

and if it keeps hanging around and getting close to the vice president, he might step aside - but that's an extreme case.

Charles Spurgeon

A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.

The man defense wasn't working. That's the first time we've played zone all year. Sometimes you have to put your ego aside and do what it takes to win.

Roy Keane

The manager pulled me aside on the Saturday morning and said that he will be the one deciding when I'm going to be retiring.

A person can use his mind when working on matter; then logic is a great instrument. And the same person can put aside the mind when he moves into his meditation chamber and moves into the no-mind. Because mind is not you -- it is just an instrument just like my hand, just like my legs.

So do I think a guy should be reprimanded or fired for saying blacks are faster? No. I think we've definitely come a long away from the attitudes in place a generation or two ago. But do I think that coach needs to have a conversation, have somebody pull him aside and explain that it's still a very sensitive subject? Absolutely.