Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Brooks

We've always tried to enforce the law that no one from a foreign country can cross except at an official crossing. We've had to be a lot more strict since 9/11.

Roxane Gay

When I was a child, my parents took my brothers and me to Port-au-Prince during the summer so we could get to know the country of our ancestors. Because Haiti is an island, the beach is everywhere. Haitians are particular, even snobby, about beaches.

Geno Zamora

Tom said people in our country should not live like this. We filed law suits in Dona Ana County and it worked for two reasons. The developers knew they would be held accountable and there was some serious reform of the New Mexico Subdivision Act.

Rob Portman

To move Doha to a successful and ambitious conclusion, we must all make contributions that includes services, manufacturing, agriculture and other areas of the round. We need contributions from developed countries like the United States, but also developing countries. Every country must do its part.

Rick Anderson

We're making changes because the bookstore has struggled to make a profit or break even over the past few years. We have begun affiliating our bookstore with Columbia as they are the eighth largest in the country and know how to run a retail company.

Sandra Taylor

We're spending billions of dollars on a country that doesn't want us there.

Suzanne Yoculan

We're solid on every event. We just need to put all four events together in the same night and I think we can push the 198 score. The floor is the event that we love and something we want to be No. 1 in country on. The girls take pride in that.

Jack Stone

We're so ideally situated in the middle of the country.

Glenn Miller

We're going to take back our country by whatever means necessary.

Arthur Levitt

While fund performance is unpredictable, the impact of fees is not, .. A 1- percent annual fee will reduce an ending account balance by 17 percent after 20 years.

Arthur Holly Compton

Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.

David Whitehouse

Reporting the consensus about climate change ... is not synonymous with good science reporting. The BBC is at an important point. It has been narrow minded about climate change for many years and they have become at the very least a cliché and at worst lampooned as being predictable and biased by a public that doesn't believe them anymore.

John Powell

I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.

William Shakespeare

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

Alan Jay Lerner

There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

Alan Jackson

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.

Alan Jackson

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

Ellis Verdi

We've always felt that no other agency could match our creative strengths in retail advertising, and this year's continued success at RAMA is a testament to our ability in marketing leading retailers.

Sharon Hess

When we went to talk to those families, we found out that one of the families was originally from Herrin, so we were able to quickly place them in one of our vacant homes in Herrin. Our agency covers 24 counties, and if we don't have a house available, we can still help a family by making referrals.

Dan Glickman

We're spending today, depending upon which agency of government, significantly more money on fire preparedness and treatment than we were spending in 1993, ... I think the real issue is that we have a situation that has been unparalleled in the last 50 years right now, and that has to do with what I call 'the perfect storm' phenomenon of weather and fuel loads.

Romeo Crennel

What we're not able to get done in free agency we'll get done in the draft.

Karl Rove

We're going to have to use every diplomatic tool with the United Nations, the International Atomic Energy Agency and our partners in Europe to bring pressure to bear to stop this.

Dick Cheney

We're going to have a meeting tomorrow, ... The president's summoned the relevant Cabinet and agency heads to a session in the White House where we'll begin to focus on this.

J. Horton

Work is definitely her passion. She stayed excited about it by always finding new ways for the agency to grow and help people. Lots of times after 30 years on a job, you might be burned out, but she remained very excited.

Steve Kaplan

With the kick-start provided by this first big client, GSD&M becomes the third-largest advertising agency in the United States by signing other clients, such as Sam Walton's revolutionary Wal-Mart, as well as DreamWorks.

Ruth Ginsburg

We fail to see why Congress, having expressly endorsed an expensive surveillance role for EPA, ... would then implicitly preclude the agency from verifying substantive compliance.