Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Walker

What makes America amazing is that there have always been men and women of courage who were willing to think more about the future of their children and grandchildren than they did about their own political careers.

Walter Parkes

What's more, he's had to reckon with some ultimate questions, which he's done with courage and wit and irony.

Caroline Kennedy

U.S. Rep. John Murtha and Alberto Mora exemplify the kind of courage my father admired most. When others were unwilling to do so, each man recognized a moral obligation to speak out against policies he believed were misguided and contrary to our national interest.

James O'Byrne

We're journalists and we just pack it away. You don't get a special badge of courage for losing your home.

John Powell

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

William Shakespeare

What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.

William Shakespeare

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!

William Shakespeare

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Al Sharpton

I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.

Dona Stephens

We bought this house in '73 and all their childhood memories are tied up with this house. They really wanted me to restore it and that's what I'm going to do. I'm hoping it doesn't happen again. If it does, I'll rebuild again, because this is my home.

Houssaye Houssaye

Always have old memories, and young hopes.

William Shakespeare

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain

William Shakespeare

What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

William Shakespeare

I'll note you in my book of memory.

William Shakespeare

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

Alan Cooper

Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true. Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me. My computer's memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.

Alan Cooper

Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again, To scenes by memory's silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung From one united heart.

Alan Bennett

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.