Famous Quotes & Sayings

S. E. Hinton

'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.

Chloe Grace Moretz

Well, I used to have a sister, but I never got to meet her because she died after two days, I think. So if I got a tattoo, it would probably have to be something to do with my sister. I actually want to get a tattoo when I'm older of something about her.

F. Sionil Jose

From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by Pali, but even Pali died, too. Linguists say the only ancient language which was resuscitated from the grave was Hebrew of Israel.

Cate Blanchett

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.

Nancy Pelosi

My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.

Sharon Creech

When my father died, I was living in England. It was very traumatic that he died when I was away.

Lemon Andersen

I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.

Amy Nuttall

When I was younger I used to want to own a sweet shop so I could eat sweets all day, but that dream died a long time ago.

Chen Guangbiao

When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.

Bobb'e J. Thompson

I'm in the eighth grade and am not the height of the rest of my class. But I don't worry about that. I'm just me!

Barack Obama

Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

Woody Harrelson

You know, I was on 'Cheers' for eight years, and I couldn't get another job, and I thought, 'I'm going to be Woody Boyd forever.' Which is not bad, but I really thought I was capable of more.

Rodney Selph

We play eight or nine players, so I'll think we'll be OK. We'll lose some scoring, but these things happen. Other guys will just have to step up. We'll play hard and see what happens.

Craig Manning

We played a grueling tournament, facing the number five, six and eight seed teams. We fought hard and we played really well.

T. Boone Pickens

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

T. Boone Pickens

I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.

Tom Felton

I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door.

Tamer Hassan

There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of the day is spent at school. As parents, we try to teach our kids to be respectful to others and teach them old values, but a lot of it is down to the schools.