Famous Quotes & Sayings

Summer Sanders

It really was my brother who got me involved in swimming. I wanted to be just like him and do everything he was doing.

Summer Sanders

I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swim team, and I wanted to do what he did. They said I had to be six, but if I could swim a lap, then I could participate. So I swam a lap, and the rest is history.

Summer Sanders

I worked at this place called Water World; it was a waterslide park. My brother and my dad framed my first paycheck from this place - which was for $0.00 dollars - because I didn't even make enough to cover the cost of my uniform!

Sun Myung Moon

I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.

Sue Monk Kidd

When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?

Strom Thurmond

This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would interpose the Government as a biased protagonist, armed with the awesome authority of the Federal Government, in addition to rulemaking and umpire powers. The broad grants of power to the Attorney General to initiate and intervene in civil actions would go far toward transforming him into George Orwell's 'Big Brother' of '1984,' in the year 1964.

Steven Van Zandt

I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.

Stevie Nicks

My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers.

Robert Burns

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Robert Burns

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted

Robert Browning

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

Robbie Lawler

My parents were divorced and my dad was in the Marines. I lived in California until I was 10 then we moved to Bettendorf, Iowa when I was in the fourth grade. I had an older brother so it made it a little easier to adjust to things.

Ricky Skaggs

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

Richard Hammond

My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.' I painted a Union Jack on the roof. I was absolutely in love with it until I destroyed it, which broke my heart!

Sammy Davis, Jr.

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

Sammy Hagar

Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.

Tariq Ramadan

Saying that I am talking out of both sides of my mouth just proves my very point. Politicians would bypass real social issues by referring to my grandfather, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood, or to my brother, currently chairman of the Islamic Centre in Geneva.

Tariq Ramadan

Islam can only be modernized from within. If I state that I condemn the practice of stoning, that this punishment is despicable, it changes nothing. My fellow Muslims will say: Brother Tariq, you became a European, a Swiss citizen, so you are no longer one of us.

T. S. Eliot

For you know only a heap of broken images

Suzi Quatro

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

Suze Orman

When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken.

Taye Diggs

Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.

Kim Kardashian

I couldn't care less if they [the media] say I'm pregnant with twins by my brother.

Kevin Keegan

In some ways, cramp is worse than having a broken leg.

Kevin Hart

My brother tried to explain sex to me when I was 7 - and he did it with a cup.

Kendrick Lamar

Brother Kendrick Lamar: he's not a rapper, he's a writer, he's an author. And if you read between the lines, we'll learn how to love one another. But you can't do that, I said you can't do that, without loving yourself first.

Kendrick Lamar

What happened to [Michael Brown] should've never happened. Never. But when we don't have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within. Don't start with just a rally, don't start from looting - it starts from within.

Kelly Miller

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

Keith Emerson

I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.

Keith Miller

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

Ralph Stanley

I still go to that church now, and they don't believe in instruments in the church. But, my brothers and sisters in the church will listen to me. They will come out to a place to see me play. They will buy all of my records and everything, but they don't believe in bringing that instrument in the church. But, they'll come and watch me somewhere else. Why that is, I don't know.

Ralph Stanley

I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!