Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're coming out of a lockout year, attendance is up and you're looking at a lot of hockey coverage in the Olympics, so it couldn't have come at a worse time. Hopefully a lot of great hockey will help people forget about it.

Mark McFarland

We're encouraging citizens of these and surrounding counties to attend these meetings. We need their input toward devising a comprehensive water quality management plan and putting that plan into effect.

W. G. Sebald

Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to - a notion so universal, it's enscribed in all religions. If you didn't, they might exact revenge upon the living.

The rankings of attendance and voting participation tell citizens how often their legislator was there to represent them. The effectiveness rankings tell citizens how effective their legislator was when he or she was there. The surveys hold a mirror up to the Legislature and the rankings are the reflection.

Trent Reznor

I've attended many concerts where I felt let down and I was wishing it would be something else. Not that it's their duty to please me, but at the same time, I think a lot about what it's like through the eyes of the consumer, the fan. I want not to pander to the audience, but to be aware of them.

Ban Ki-moon

I was profoundly moved to be the first United Nations Secretary-General to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. I also visited Nagasaki. Sadly, we know the terrible humanitarian consequences from the use of even one weapon. As long as such weapons exist, so, too, will the risks of use and proliferation.

Luanne Rice

I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent, I was drawn mainly to Criminal law and Evidence classes. A just-beginning writer, I would find an empty chair and listen, mesmerized, to the lectures.

Though the country has long included all disabled and orphaned children in its welfare system, practically only those nursed in charity organizations have been attended to.

Amy Anderson

We rely on the community to come in and support our organization. And when they see the banners not only will they tie it into an event, they'll also tie it into our facility. It will encourage attendance for other things as well.

After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well.

Tyra Banks

It's so important to understand your good attendance ups your chances of graduating.

Yoshihiko Noda

I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.

Yolanda Adams

Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.

Dad's funeral was standing room only; most in attendance were strangers to me. At the back, a lone Marine stood silently, then left. People told me he'd saved their life or helped them in their darkest hour.

Colin Angle

I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my senior year of high school, I instead decided to attend M.I.T. I like to say I've had only two jobs in my life: whitewater canoeing instructor and wilderness guide in college, and C.E.O. of iRobot.

Colin Morgan

For me, it's all I've wanted to do. I did local plays and productions, local theater groups and anything that involved it. And then, I went and studied it, attended drama school and got my first lucky break in the theater in London, and just went from there.

We'd like to thank everyone who attended for their continued support and for making the effort to share the day with us.

We'd like to have record attendance this year.

We didn't sit together, go to church together or attend school together.

Mike Rutherford

We are making sure our counselors are connecting with our students about college, ... Sometimes students think they don't have enough money to attend college, and we have spent time meeting with them, letting them know they can.

Steven Rattner

From the Left comes the proposition that, given the slow economy, we should defer attending to the problem of mounting obligations - and the truly delusional idea that growing federal debt doesn't matter because we owe most of it to ourselves.

Toby Jones

Four hours of prosthetics every morning, the jowls and the nose, and it was very hot so they're having to attend to it all day, and you're still petrified of so many things, such as, can I speak properly? Hitchcock never quite lost those East End vowels, even though he had the softened California consonants.

Marianne Williamson

People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don't.

Marcia Gay Harden

My schools were quite diverse - those who serve their country come from every race and religion - and so the military schools I attended were a wonderful melting pot.

My school attendance record is a little periodic. Going to school here is no problem once you get into the swing of things.

one thing different is a real effort to educate the folks who attend about our services.

New teachers will more than meet the required 30 points by attending the early release sessions,

Kevin Smith

On the other hand, if students are attending classes and the school closes, they would be forgiven the loans and the grants.

David Scott

My largest disappointment was that I could attend only three out of nine workshops. I would like to see the program extended to two full days to provide more opportunities to engage in workshops.

One of the things we're trying to do is expand our attendance numbers.

Obviously, we don't plan to attend the rally.

Sylvia Hatchell

None of us get the attendance that we deserve. None of us do.

Ellen Barkin

no one attended the wedding because of that.