Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Morpurgo

When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them.

When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak.

Chris Wood

Whenever I got out of college I wanted to be a head coach in the Springdale School District. For me, I'm fulfilling dreams and goals. This is one of my goals. To be able to do that in this district and build a program from the very beginning is exciting for me.

We said from the beginning that we would revisit the layoffs in three to six months.

We said from the beginning that this was a frivolous lawsuit. Today's ruling confirms that fact.

We said from the beginning of the season that there were several guys that would step up and give us good minutes and good production, but that it was going to be a process. I think they've come on and accomplished much of what we had in mind.

Garry Beers

We said at the beginning we didn't want a Michael Hutchence look-alike or sound-alike.

Alex Smith

We said at the beginning of the season we wanted to be NFC South champions, and I don't know how many people outside the locker room really believed that. But once we stepped on that field the first day in training camp, nobody here doubted what we could do.

We're no longer content simply to manage the crisis, we're beginning to end the disgrace.

Corey Brewer

We're national champions. Everyone said at the beginning of the season that we were going to the NIT. Well, I don't think this is the NIT.

Nicolle Wallace

We're returning to the structure we had at the beginning of the first term. All that changes is that the management of the day-to-day policy process will be put under Joel. Karl will keep the high-yield strategic role that he's always had.

We saw companies push up output strongly without increasing labor costs at all. As orders come in, they will have to increase their total employment. Unless economic growth slows very rapidly, the unemployment rate should begin to move down in the next few months.

We saw an opportunity to streamline and consolidate our portfolio. We made a decision to transition from the hard-drive products to flash players at the beginning of this year.

We said to DPS, 'It sounds like you have a need, and we can fill it,' ... It turned out to be a win-win proposition and sounds like this could be the beginning of a really good opportunity.

We said to DPS, 'It sounds like you have a need, and we can fill it,' ... It turned out to be a win-win proposition and sounds like this could be the beginning of a really good opportunity.

Owen Daniels

We just have confidence in ourselves. We put up a bunch of points at the beginning of the year, so we're looking to do it every week.

We thought the Horn (of Africa) was beginning to heal... but the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea has imported into the region sophisticated military hardware,

We thought North Aurora should at least begin the process of exploring tapping into that resource. Take a look at what you can do, and think big.

We think this is the beginning of a new wave where applications companies play a very different role in the future of being platforms, not just about technology, but platforms that provide fundamental, highly reusable functionality that a lot of ISVs will use to create more innovation for the customer.

We think these results indicate the critical role Web shopping is beginning to play in the U.S. economy. Last year was the beta testing year online for holiday shopping?now we believe the gauntlet for traditional bricks and mortar stores has been thrown down.

We think there's a fundamental shift beginning in Japan. People are moving from being savers to investors, and there's a need for higher returns to give people the quality of life they want in retirement.

Dan Rosensweig

We think the game is just beginning and we are confident about the future.

Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

Why place that burden on me to get back what's rightfully mine to begin with?

We've come a long way since the beginning of the season. We are starting five freshmen and five sophomores. We're going to make some young mistakes, but we've been cleaning up those mistakes and using some high-level moves.

We've climbed a long way here, gone a long way toward discounting the beginnings of this economic pickup. I don't really want to do any investing here. I'm raising cash on the hope that I get a better opportunity and better prices on a pullback.

To believe with certainty, we must begin by doubting

To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.

Sam Zell

You have developers who weren't rich to begin with, who went public, and then figured out they couldn't get rich.

You have to believe the productivity trend is very real, but at one point will it begin to taper off? That's a question financial markets and the Federal Reserve have been looking at very closely.

Too many students begin college with faux technology skills, where they have used technology for entertainment and purchasing purposes but haven't used it to the full potential. This is not just a test of technical skills, its students thinking skills within a technological environment.

This year we're going to begin a shuttle system that will run all over campus for our students. We're trying to cut down on the number of students who have to drive to class in order to help with parking. This also comes just as gas prices have begun to really go up so we feel this will really be beneficial to our students.

Craig Smith

This year, we had our slump in the beginning, and it's better to have in the beginning than at the end. I think we've been going uphill since, and we've been showing people that we can be a force come tournament time.