Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Cornyn

Throughout his years on the nation's high court, Chief Justice Rehnquist stood as a beacon of judicial restraint and reverence for the Constitution and the institution of the Supreme Court. I believe Judge Roberts will follow the lead of his mentor, and guide our nation's highest court by those same principles and devotion to the rule of law for all,

Charles Schumer

Let what we are doing be a beacon to the people of New Orleans. They should always know there is always hope, hope that is represented today by the rebuilding.

Tom Benson

Football has very direct and strong connections to New Orleans. The game of football has served as a positive beacon in our city. It has given our citizens hope in tough, trying times.

CeeLo Green

I want to burn as a beacon of possibility. I don't want nobody to misconstrue the commercial success I've had as anything other than an example of what black music is capable of. And what it's capable of is being more than just black. I'm not black or white anymore. I'm Cee Lo Green.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

Meanwhile you look at the same field with the Chandra X-Ray observatory and you see a little beacon that says black hole here -- it points out where all of the black holes are in the field. You're testing very different types of physics, very different things -- a lot of synergy.

Eric Brewer

Beacon Woods kind of broke a logjam in terms of traffic methodology. The methodology that went into that project will be used countywide.

Beacon education I wouldn't touch with anybody's money, ... They've done a lot of lending to their customers.

Monica: Is it me? Is it like I have a beacon that only dogs and men with severe emotional problems can hear?

Cherie Blair

Britain is still seen as a beacon for decency, for democracy, for vigorous judges upholding the rule of law and, dare I say it, a free press. I respect the press in theory, but when you see some of the things it writes about you, it's not exactly a happy relationship.

Michael Bennet

Facebook is by far the largest of these social networking sites, and starting with its ill-fated Beacon service, privacy concerns have more than once been raised about how the ubiquitous social networking site handles its user data.

While we have experienced minor flooding in that section of the Beacon station parking lot in the past, this is the first time we encountered a buildup and volume of water as we did on Jan. 18.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have been true to that calling and helped spread freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere.

We're very pumped. Personally, I thought this was going to be our tough game. Pearl River ... Beacon ... we're excited.

will alleviate major congestion at and around the Beacon train station and over the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge and improve the quality of the commute for Orange County residents.

All right, a sled, you're going to have reindeer, you're going to have a sleigh, ... Your going to have packages. You're going to have a beacon in the night. Whatever it is that you want, Carrie.

And Chapel Hill becomes famous as sort of a Southern beacon of liberalism and intellectualism. And the University's star begins to rise.

Steve Wozniak

When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.

A steeple is a beacon for the community,

This is the first time we've won the Beacon tournament. There's always a lot of good competition, a great field (16 schools). In 9 of 15 weight classes we placed in the top four. We have kids who can place, we have a lot of depth, and the entire team racks up points. I'm very pleased, this is the best team we've had since 1998, and possibly the best ever.

Israel is a beacon of freedom and democracy in the Middle East.

What that would do is discourage traffic from cutting through Beacon Woods, which was a major concern of the residents.

David Brown

The best you can say is that the German economy remains in dire straits and under duress and as far as what it means for policy... it's a beacon call to the ECB to cut rates,

The Beacon board, employees and management want to cooperate fully and the door is wide open.

It's reasonable to use history as your beacon for the future,

Thomas Menino

For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us.

I hope that the companies which have contributed in the past will continue to do so, because it is a beacon internationally.

Chairman Greenspan has really been a beacon of stability. I think our sense is we'll see a bias shift rather than a rate cut.

Larry Flynt

But you know, our children are our future, ... Whatever the education problems are in California, we have to fix 'em, because if California can be a beacon for the rest of the country on the rest of the social issues, why can't it be a beacon for education?

I'm happy we tied for the league, but I don't think today was the way we wanted to win it. Beacon gave us a run. Let me tell you, they'll be a force in sectionals. They're playing very good basketball.

It's been a couple of bumpy weeks here, but it was a straightforward, standard board meeting about the functioning of Beacon Mutual from a strict business perspective.

It's like a beacon in town, ... A lot of people leave Terre Haute and then come back, and they come here and we've never changed. It's like coming home.

Already around the world, Philadelphia means something different than it did a month ago. You see it as a beacon of hope for truth and justice.