Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amanda Lindhout

I made a vow to myself while I was a hostage that if I were lucky enough to live and to get out of Somalia, I would do something meaningful with my life - and specifically something that would be meaningful in the country where I'd lost my freedom.

Amanda Lindhout

It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.

Apolo Ohno

I don't have great running technique, but I like to run. I've heard from countless people that the last six miles of the marathon is all mental. But what better city to have this in than New York City where there are millions of people there supporting you?

Michael Eisner

The reaction to (the film) has been extraordinary (in previews), ... Don't count on Lion King but we think it will be a successful movie. I am very encouraged.

Abdul Kalam

The rapidly growing Indian economy provides new and significant opportunities for partnerships between our two countries in a variety of sectors, including energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, environment and food processing.

There is a view out there that somehow B.C. doesn't get to do these things, ... We are trying to be true to the promise made by Prime Minister (Paul) Martin that we want to make sure that no part of the country feels left behind.

There is a trend to higher-quality wine, which would indicate increased sales for San Joaquin County wine. We don't participate in the jug-wine market.

Grover Norquist

There is a test of Republicans on this. The country will let you get away with this in the wake of 9/11, but that doesn't make it right.

Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.

I have a responsibility to devote my energy to my country and my people.

Diana Quick

'The Discovery of France' by Graham Robb is teaching me lots about a country I've long loved but realise I didn't really know.

Curt Schilling

The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.

Creighton Abrams

While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.

Stephane Hessel

I feel that I am completely in solidarity with Jews in the world, because I know what it is to be a Jew. I've seen what it is; I am myself of Jewish origin, and therefore I can only be fully in support of the idea that the Jews, after all they've suffered, need a country where they are at home.

Dan Pallotta

I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge.

Lionel Richie

I want to let everybody know that I'm from there, and country is Tuskegee. Or should I say rather, my country is Tuskegee. I was born and raised there, it's not just someplace I passed through one day.

Joseph Stiglitz

The question is whether it'll be a stable country, will it be a country in which a diversity of views, open transparency, women's rights are recognized. The likelihood of that remains very low.

The proposition we have lived by in this country is that you can give information as long as it's truthful to consumers.

Robert Nelson

The only country where you see any positive movement within domestic consumption is Brazil, where you really do have a variety of coffees to make blends with.

To turn a negative into a positive we need to have a symbiotic relationship with the county commission.

Traditionally, they're strong. They're going to trap and counter us to death.

Douglas Alexander

Traditionally, diplomacy was done in an environment of information scarcity. Ambassadors would send back telegrams to foreign ministries, comfortable in the knowledge that their views of a country would be the only source of information the minister would see.

Michael Brown

This story's not about me. This story's about the worst disaster of the history of our country that stretched every government to its limit, and now we have to help these victims. That's all I've wanted to do.

This storm, if it stays on its current track, timing and pace, it should hit Onslow County at high tide and during an astronomically high-tide cycle,

Mo Ibrahim

Africa has 53 countries. And you find that three or four countries in these 53 are dominating the news.

A huge segment of the country has always felt overtaxed. In 1938, when taxes were roughly 17% of income, a 'Fortune' survey found that nearly half of all Americans thought they paid too much relative to what they got in return.

Nas

I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

Michael Ignatieff

I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian, speaking French is part of it.

Michael Ignatieff

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

Crystal Bowersox

I hope that country music embraces me because I grew up on it and have a love for the music.

I've always been a fan of country music. It's America's music - I love the songs, love the lyrics.

Egypt is not a country we live in but a country that lives within us.

Casey James

I love country music, always have and always will.