Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michelle Obama

We as parents are our children's first and best role models, and this is particularly true when it comes to their health. ...We can't lie around on the couch eating French fries and candy bars and expect our kids to eat carrots and run around the block.

Michelle Obama

Wounded Warriors tell me they're not just going to walk again, they're going to run, and they're going to run marathons!

Michelle Obama

Not everybody is going to run a marathon or do a triathlon. It's not necessary to do that to be in good health.

Michael Weatherly

My legs have become accustomed to the treadmill. And in L.A., running on the street is asking for a distracted texting driver to knock you over.

Michael Weatherly

My big running discovery was around Stanley Park in Vancouver. Miss it. That's a six-mile loop. Now I smile when I get four miles done. Age is a beast.

Michael Patrick King

'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham - but they have fancy shoes instead of capes.

Michael Pena

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

Michael Pitt

I'm doing a record that has a story that runs through all of the songs, and then there is also a film that goes along with it.

Michael Pollan

The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing is that there be multiple food chains, so that when any one of them fails-when the oil runs out, when mad cow or other food-borne diseases become epidemic, when the pesticides no longer work, when drought strikes and plagues come and soils blow away-we'll still have a way to feed ourselves.

Michael Learned

I used to pride myself on the fact that I kept a house running and never burdened anybody.

Michael Koryta

In terms of characters I wish I had created - just because I haven't dealt with anything like them - I'm really impressed by characters who can endure over time, whether that be a long series run like a Harry Bosch, or a character who endures over generations and continues to please readers: Sherlock Holmes.

Sigmar Gabriel

The shadow of an exit of Greece from the euro zone takes on ever clearer shape, repeated apparently final attempts to reach a deal are starting to make the whole process look ridiculous. There is an ever greater number of people who feel as if the Greek government is giving them the run-around.

Sidney Lanier

Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and leap the fall, Split at the rock, and together again Accept my bed, or narrow or wide, And flee from folly on every side With a lover's pain to attain the plain, Far from the hills of Habersham, Far from the valleys of Hall.

Sidney Sheldon

You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.

Sidney Poitier

I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.

Shooter Jennings

L.A.'s cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.

Shirley Williams

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

Shirley Williams

We really shouldnt be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

Sholom Aleichem

When the heart is full it runs out of the eyes.

Sherman Hemsley

I was in a play in elementary school and had to jump up and run away. I was nervous and tripped and fell down and everyone laughed. Their laughter made me relax, so I pretended it was part of the show.

Sheri S. Tepper

I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!

Sherri Shepherd

When I was little I went to a Baptist Church with my grandmother. My earliest memories were of her falling out in the middle of the floor and they had to cover her with a white sheet. Every time we went to church it was scary. The music would start playing, and then everybody would start running and shouting and hollering and screaming.

Sherri Shepherd

Run towards that very thing that you fear, because there's amazing blessings on the other side.

Sherman Alexie

If you really want a woman to love you, then you have to dance. And if you don’t want to dance, then you’re going to have to work extra hard to make a woman love you forever, and you will always run the risk that she will leave you at any second for a man who knows how to tango.

Sherman Alexie

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.

John Henrik Clarke

African people need to stop shouting 'nationtime' until they are clear about the responsibilities of running a nation.

John H. Johnson

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

John Gallagher, Jr.

If you find yourself running away from something and then suddenly you're isolated in a vacuum, then you have to deal with all the inherent truths and learning things about yourself and the people that are around you.

John Fund

The RNC was run so badly you could walk through their deepest competence and not get your ankles wet.

John Frusciante

A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so strong

John Frusciante

I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite

John Elway

You always want to have good balance. Thats the key to winning a Super Bowl. You look at the teams who have won championships, you got to have balance. So, to be able to run the ball effectively and throw the ball effectively is what gives you the chance to win a world championship.

John Elway

I normally run the 40-yard dash in 4.9, but when a 280-pound guy is chasing me, I run it in 4.6.