Famous Quotes & Sayings

By far the largest number of people in poverty are homeowners, many of them young first-time buyers.

John Abraham

Hopefully, I can stay healthy for 16 games this year. I think that was the only problem I've ever had in the NFL so far is just staying healthy ... When I'm on the field, I've been a force.

Hopefully it will be flexible enough to be viable far into the future for lots of different people doing lots of different things.

Frank Beamer

He's very much in control. He's the calmest guy on our sideline as far as I can tell, and that's the mark of a good quarterback and a good leader for your offense. He's always got it under control.

He told me he rolled down the driver's window but he couldn't get it down far enough.

Pat Gillick

He threw OK. He's going through Spring Training really; that's what it is. So far his health is good.

Jorge Luis Borges

To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.

Jorge Luis Borges

i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive

The Italian government is far more sophisticated and has a far better security infrastructure than the Greeks.

Harriet Tubman

Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how.

The level of unemployment we have right now is one we thought of as being normal only a few years ago. It shows how far we've come that we're worrying about a lack of recovery with 5.9 percent unemployment.

The Internet, we think, is far from mature.

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

The main purpose of this is to do solid work for the farmers and not to increase their financial burden.

The location of Paradise has far more to do with the person than the place.

The list is ludicrous. I think the intelligent voter would look at this and say this is so far off, it's incredible.

The job I want to get after school requires good grades and lots of work. Time management is by far the most important thing at this school.

Rodney Harrison

The league is really set up for the owners to make money and I really don't like the structure of the players' contract. But that's another situation. I think technically, as far as stepping down, he did a great job.

Ruben Studdard

All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especially Randy and Paula because, you know, they've been artists.

Ernesto Zedillo

All the (emergency) helicopters were flying, but so far they have not found anything especially worrying,

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead.

Henrik Ibsen

I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!

Khalil Gibran

We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his fingers over our throats, one weeping and the other laughing hideously. As I took Selma's hand and put it to my lips, she came close to me and placed a kiss on my forehead, then dropped on the wooden bench. She shut her eyes and whispered softly, "Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings!

Mason Cooley

Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.

Theodore Sturgeon

There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.

Chris Lane

The hygiene was the most important thing there as far as keeping everyone healthy.

Kazuo Ishiguro

The idea of a successful novel was something that was reviewed in the Observer and then sank without trace. Literature wasn't a happening thing in those days. Music and fringe theatre and television playwriting were far more exciting.

The E.U. hasn't gone far enough. That's the general consensus,

The guys we've got replacing them (Simpson and Joseph), I think they're ready for the challenge. I think this far through the spring they've showed that they can play. I felt they've done a great job. Losing those guys was a lot, but I think we've got some great replacements.

The first time he got me, I thought I needed to put (the basketball) out farther (in front of me) but he was too quick.

David Walker

The (coastal) farmers were the first people to use the water, so they have the oldest rights. That's the way water rights work in Texas. First come, first served.

The first half, it seemed like everything we threw up, he blocked. So that didn't work. So we started shooting from a little farther out in the second half and once we got the momentum, we just went from there.

The company's responsibility only extends as far as the meter.