Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

Franz Liszt

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Christine Lagarde

Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late

Christine Lagarde

Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.

Christie Brinkley

I always say, the bigger the hair, the smaller the hips!

Fantasia Barrino

I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my music to be encouraging, to help people.

F. H. Bradley

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

Ezra Taft Benson

To a significant degree, we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth, and lacking the energy that could be ours because we overindulge in junk foods.

Francis Bacon

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

Jhumpa Lahiri

You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.

Harper Lee

As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.

Igor Stravinsky

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Frederick William Faber

The music of the Gospel leads us home.

Franz Kafka

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Walter Lippmann

The senator might remember that the Evangelists had a more inspiring subject.

Ann Druyan

What Carl used to say is, 'When you're in love, you want to tell the world,' ... He wanted to communicate that the nature of the universe is so thrilling and inspiring and spiritually uplifting.

It's inspiring to see him on the sidelines encouraging us.

John Long

It was an inspiring speech. It seems he's the people's president. He's in touch with the people around here.

Candace Bushnell

The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.

James Herriot

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

James Dyson

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

James Earl Jones

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

Janelle Monae

One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.

Janet Fitch

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

Jane Pauley

Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.

Jane Pauley

I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.

Ernest Thompson Seton

The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks.

Erna Solberg

A critical issue for women is the possibility to be a mother and the ability to participate fully in the workforce.

Erik Satie

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

Cassandra Clare

It is a far greater thing that I do now, than I've ever done before.

Jenna Elfman

And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.

Glenn Beck

I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America.

Giles Andreae

We all can dance when we find music that we love.