Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ana Castillo

Hispanic gives us all one ultimate paternal cultural progenitor: Spain. The diverse cultures already on the American shores when the Europeans arrived, as well as those introduced because of the African slave trade, are completely obliterated by the term. Hispanic is nothing more than a concession made by the U. S. legislature when they saw they couldn't get rid of us. If we won't go away, why not at least Europeanize us, make us presentable guests at the dinner table, take away our feathers and rattles and civilize us once and for all.

Amy Winehouse

I'm a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain people and certain things you can't.

Amy Winehouse

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take...

Amanda Crew

If my body needs something, I need to give it that.

Amanda Burton

Whatever I'm doing, I try to give it everything.

Amanda Beard

Sometimes success is simply being willing to give it your all.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.

Afrika Bambaataa

November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.

Aesop

Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

Aesop

No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward

Aesop

Familiarity gives rise to contempt.

Aeschylus

For the mighty, even to give away is grace.

We realized there was an urgent need for such a product, and that it was a very large market, giving us all the reason in the world to work on it.

Jeanine Pirro

Today is about thanking them for what they're doing in advance, giving them the support they need to go through the school year.

To everyone at Sierra-at-Tahoe, thank you for helping me live my dream. Thank you, Lake Tahoe, for your support. And, most of all, thank you, God, for giving me the talent and opportunity to represent Lake Tahoe and the U.S.A.

What you're doing is giving the government an interest-free loan.

This was a shock. You are giving Iraq to the Iranians.

Warrick Dunn

We'd have a list of charities, and say, 'These are the ones that effective. Which ones do you want to do?' This lets guys vote on where they want to put money, and we can put money in different areas, ... Guys want to see where the money's going to be used, not just that you're giving it to somebody and one half's going to overhead and one's half going someplace else. They want to know that it's being used and used right.

Jane Birkin

I understand the joy of having a female actress like Charlotte [Gainsbourg] and watching her give everything, and be able to capture it.

Jandy Nelson

For the first time in our lives, I’m somewhere she can’t find, and I don’t have the map to give her that leads to me.

Jane Austen

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

Jane Austen

Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again

Jane Austen

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

Jane Austen

What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it...

Jane Austen

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

Jane Austen

She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

Jane Austen

But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.

Jane Austen

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

Jane Austen

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

Jane Austen

He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

Jamie Zawinski

If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty.

Jamie Zawinski

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.

Jamie Moyer

I don't expect anyone to give me anything.