Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phillip Noyce

Well, I grew up in a small country town.

Samuel Johnson

What I learned from being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country

We feel it's time for veterans in Santa Cruz County to be counted and honored for their service to their country.

We've evolved from a county fair to a regional fair. We draw entries from Houston, El Paso, Amarillo, and a lot of times Midland has more entries than Ector County, especially in steers.

We've evolved from a county fair to a regional fair, ... We draw entries from Houston, El Paso, Amarillo, and a lot of times Midland has more entries than Ector County, especially in steers.

We take for granted in this country the voting process. It's really a very elaborate complicated process, but it lies right at the heart of the democratic system.

We suggested they only count kids who started as a freshman at the school and stayed until they were seniors to graduate.

Ismail Haniyeh

We think countries in power can decide for themselves what kinds of positions and policies they can take.

Derrek Lee

Today I felt proud. I felt like the whole country was watching.

Rene Preval

Today, Haiti is a country waiting to be built. The problems are enormous and there is widespread urgency.

To get guys like him, who their first year can step in. He plays like a veteran most of the time. He's a guy you can count on. He's physical. He has a big frame on him that he likes to use and puts to good use. He moves the puck well. We can play him on the power play and the penalty kill. For a first year guy that's huge.

To get as many destination skiers as we do is something we didn't really count on.

To come within three-tenths of a point to the No. 2 team in the country is something to be very proud of. Florida is a great team, and now we know where we stack up.

Alex Jones

These powerbrokers, which bomb innocent countries and slaughter people, and, you know, pump the food chain full of garbage and just everything else they do, it's probably something fun for them. They really get off on being bad little boys.

Alex Jones

Within 2 years Im predicting...that youre going to see a suitcase nuke in this country. Youre probably going to see a release in a few years of something communicable. & I am predicting that you will see a lot of conventional bombings...in the next year or so.

John Cornyn

What worries me more than anything else is this mind-set that once people go to Mexico there's nothing law enforcement in this country can do.

What works for one town may not work for another town. We want to give everybody in Plymouth County the opportunity to recycle.

What will come out of today's summit will be the united resolve of European countries and all the NATO countries that (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic is going to be defeated,

What we you are doing is of great importance for this country and the development of democratic institutions,

What we went through is exactly the same as what you're facing. It's just more widespread there. Ivan hit three counties here and Katrina hit three states there.

What we've seen with the mobility of labor, particularly from Mexico, has enabled that industry to stay in the United States. It's entirely possible that if labor had not been mobile that parts of the industry would have to moved to other countries like Mexico.

Gagan Narang

Cricket is a self-sustaining industry; but corporates need to realise that other sports don't have that luxury. This is the time when they need to invest, and keep the faith. Every sport has the potential to create world champions. Imagine India as a country full of world champions. Why imagine? Let's just make it happen.

Gary Speed

If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour.

Edmund Hillary

I was definitely very much a country boy.

You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy.

I don't think Iraq could be transformed overnight into a democracy. How can you take a country that doesn't have any kind of tradition of democracy, where its people have been brutalized and repressed for decades, and suddenly impose Jeffersonian ideals?

Ezer Weizman

We have a country that is in a very delicate situation.

Eddi Reader

Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.

Emma Bull

They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two.

Edwidge Danticat

In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way.

In terms of the espionage, this is something I have talked to President Obama about. We don't want it to mar the relationship between Mexico and the United States. But it is unacceptable for a country to practice such espionage, especially if there is a good relationship with the other country.

Charles Erwin Wilson

For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.

Johnny Weir

I've always had a loud mouth, and for that I've gotten a lot of attention. I did falter in some big competitions in my career, but being counted out and not being seen as a threat is something I'm used to.