Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brown

When we went into foster care this last time we talked to our children about our desire to adopt and they were all excited about the possibility.

Patty Hopson

When I was little, my mother always told me to beware of strangers. Today, I tell my children to beware of Uncle Chester, their Mother's Molester.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

Eliud Nieves

We're so close to Florida Tech that you get the children of professors and students. We benefit from that.

Tony Long

We're going to start planning it two weeks after this one is over. Tom Glennon (director of the Georgia Children's Museum) has already come to me with the idea of a children's division, both films made by children and directed at children as an audience. We may even show them at the museum.

Cindy Sheehan

We're going to do what we do all the time: gather together in peace. We're going to call for George Bush and the neo-cons not to invade Iran. That would be a mistake even worse than Iraq. Our children are sitting ducks in the Middle East; the people of Iran and Iraq would be sitting ducks. And I'm not even sure that this invasion won't lead to World War III. So it's something that we have to stop before it starts.

Anne Sullivan

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Anne Sullivan

Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object.

Kathie Pontus

What a great story to inspire our children of today. Not only can you be a resident of Union City and go on to win a Nobel Prize, but you shouldn't be defeated by the failing of a subject.

Carlos Santana

Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord

Laurie Halse Anderson

You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bones? Sometimes when I'm writing, I can feel my bones vibrating because I'll have a thought or I'll have a character's voice in my head, and that's when I know I'm on the right track.

Kendra Wilkinson

I would get my laugh insured! Because my laugh is very important: it's a million dollar laugh, so if my vocal chords make my laugh any different, then I'm going to have to get insured.

John Cale

We'd hold a chord for three hours if we could.

Gary Marsh

Through great collaboration between our Playhouse Disney team, The Baby Einstein Company, Eric Weiner and Curious Pictures, we've struck a chord with this landmark series.

Dave Davies

I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

G-Eazy

When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

Dick Miller

We want men to enjoy the thrill of making a chord ring. That takes more than talent, it takes a positive attitude and desire.

Jose Gonzalez

We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.

Mark Twain

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.

Tom Tucker

When we engraved the 442 names on the back of the medals - that's when the reality sinks in. Everybody in the whole plant had to be involved to check the names and match the medals with the cases. You see names of fathers and sons and brothers and the reality sinks in that basically whole families were wiped out trying to help people. But that's what we do - what we manufacture generally has a higher degree of meaning to those that receive it. It's not just any award.

Larry Flowers

We found that out officially this morning, and it will cost us more to remove the debris. But there's more to that than just the cost for me. My father built that structure with his own hands (and operated it as a store for many years).

Hayes Harbour

We bought this farm in 1955 as part of a partnership my father and three brothers had. That lasted until 1962 when we split up, and Doris Jean and I got this farm. It was a good partnership. I mean, nobody had any squabble or anything.

Sepp Blatter

What logic, right or economic necessity would qualify a man in his mid-20s to demand to earn in a month a sum that his own father - and the majority of fans - could not hope to earn in a decade?

Montae Reagor

We're just very, very, very pleased. To have your leader back in place is wonderful. He's like our father. We respect him that way. We respect him as a man and as a coach and a father figure. We know that he's all of the above.

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.

Jeanette DeMelo

We removed Father Evans from the ministry upon first hearing of the allegations.

Jim Hayes

Years ago, we stepped away from the radical fringe. I'm not saying that a father who has lost his kids hasn't (made threats). I'm saying we have no knowledge of it.

David Esquer

We've always known that it's gonna happen. We just hoped it would happen while he was here. Because, he's just too skilled.

Dennis Allen

We're mirror images of each other. It's gonna come down to who makes the least mistakes.

Ron Polk

We're going to play the game somewhere. I'll let the athletic directors handle that. I ain't gonna tell you Smith-Wills is a better ballpark than the new one, but it's been good to us over the years. They've done everything we've asked. They put in a new (playing surface), they put in new lights. I think it's been great for the people down there.

Stephan Jenkins

We're going to play really long tonight. They're gonna have to drag us off the stage tonight.

Jim Tracy

What we're seeing right now is, in my mind, identical to what we saw last year, when it took him a few starts to get untracked, and then you see one quality start after another. His teammates recognize that's he gonna leave everything that he has on the field, and it's very easy to step up for a guy like that.

S. Hughes

What we're gonna see now and probably for the next few days is what we saw yesterday, a little technical bounce from oversold conditions,

Ed DeChellis

When we came to town, it wasn't a (guaranteed) win anymore. You're gonna have to work hard and play well to beat us.

Vic Koenning

We are getting there. And I guarantee you there's gonna be a time when we can get our pictures up on the wall right there for having a No. 1 defense. It just isn't going to happen now. I'm not here because they were close to that.

Charles Dutton

What's it about,' I asked, and he said, 'It's about a guy selling watermelons,' ... I said, 'You're gonna put a black man on stage selling watermelons?' And August said, 'He's trying to buy some land.

Andre Holland

When I was in school, and even after, I did a lot of classic plays, and I guess it sort of extended into film.

Kathleen Quinlan

My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I'd rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I'm kind of boring.

Barry Steinhardt

When we begin to say to police officers that they're allowed to guess about who's dangerous, we're inviting the possibility of abuse.

Jennifer Henson

When we get up so far, we just lose focus. I guess we think we got it, but it's been that way the whole season.

Marie Muhvic

When we get the ball to the flank and we can get behind defenses, then it's good. They had some quick players and some very physical ones, but I guess we just finished.

John Pierce

We found him in the river but it's just a guess at this stage how he got there.

Dale Stewart

We guess they didn't know that we had that other side, and we wanted to show that.

Venus Williams

We both like to dictate and control the point, even though we have different styles. I guess it'll be like old times.

Joe Gibbs

We're going to have to wait that out, ... But if I had to guess right now, I think it would make it tough for him to make it back for Monday night. We'll just have to work our way through that situation and see what's the best way of handling that.

Darnell Jenkins

When I was in elementary school at Tillman, Black History Month was important because I went to a majority black school. Since I moved into middle school (Haile) and high school, Black History Month has not been recognized as much.

Roy Conli

When I was a kid, I loved history because history to me was a big story.

Brad Grey

Tom's history with Paramount has made for one of Hollywood's most successful relationships; the opportunity to continue our collaboration with him on 'Mission: Impossible 3' is everything anyone in show business could hope for.

Cameron Crowe

Tom's dad also passed away when he was a young man and he had that history of feeling he never really knew him properly - so he just seemed like the best guy to work with on this one,

Lamar Butler

We're making history right now. Nobody can take that away from us.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

George Schweitzer

We're spending more money on this than any other promotion in UPN history. They've delivered to us a great pilot, and we want to get this out in as many places as we can.

Dan Rooney

We're going to the Super Bowl to win it, not to just be there. This is one of the great moments in the whole history of the league and I've been around a long time.

Dewey Potter

We're going to respond to the council in writing, retrace the history of the project in that response and then the council will decide whether it wants to proceed or not.

Jim Fleming

We've always let our guys like Miguel play toward the end, but not the whole season. They all want to play for their hometown teams down there. So we oblige within reason.

Marc Kudisch

When we were looking for a weekend place, ... Shannon was working at Jacob's Pillow in the Berkshires, and I was tooling around. I called her all excited about getting a home up there. But she said: 'Yeah, but it's a three-hour drive. When do we have the time for a three-hour drive? With our one day off, we'll come up and we'll have to go home right away.'

R. Ingram

When we were 1-6, all we focused on was that we were better than that. We knew it; we just had to prove it. We've come a long way and it's great to be back to .500 and to know we'll get a home game in the tournament.

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.

Natalie Cole

When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.

Lauren Herring

When I was little, I used to feel a lot of pressure. Before matches, I'd want to throw up. But now, I've adapted. I do get homesick sometimes, but I have to remember why I am there and what I have to do to go pro.

Mario J. Molina

When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or eleven years old. I started experiments with chemistry sets at my home in Mexico. I was able to borrow a bathroom and convert it to a laboratory. My parents supported it. They were pleased. My friends just tolerated it.

Mary Roach

When I was a kid, I hated everything. I was really skinny, and I'd have a milkshake with an egg in it. Growing up, I ate, like, five different foods. I was not an adventurous eater. But as soon as I left home, that all changed and from that point on, I've been a pretty enthusiastic eater of new and strange food.

Desarae Garland

When I was a freshman living in the dorms I went home a lot, but now that I live off-campus I really can't stay home for a long period of time.

John Woo

When I was a kid I feel lonely, I have not many friends. If you make a movie, then you can work with different kinds of people and make different kinds of friend. That's very important to me.

Stjepan Hauser

When I was a kid, I collected cactuses. I had hundreds of different kinds in my room. I was a weird child. Everyone was playing football, and I was collecting cactuses. I spent all my money on them. I had so many colors and shapes. I even gave them names.

Mario Batali

When I was a cook and 24 years old... I read the kinds of books that were the inspiration to understanding the value of simplicity in cooking.

Dan Rohrs

You don't lose those kinds of individuals and have your team go unaffected. But you build a program that allows younger runners to develop and take the place of those who graduate when they're called upon to contribute, and we have that here.

Bob Groves

We respectfully disagree with the court's decision. We do not feel we ever intentionally discriminated against this individual. Wheelchair lifts -- even the kinds on low-floor buses -- they are mechanical devices, and they do sometimes fail.

Kenzo Tange

In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society.

David Henderson

What they will do is capture all kinds of other people in their net and reduce our privacy in the process, ... This is government we are talking about and government tends to use whatever it has.

Bob Greenly

What a day Brock had. Brock had all kinds of confidence today. He got better with each match and had a great tournament.

John Humphries

What I actually said was that there are three kinds of politicians: those who do not lie full stop, those who lie if they absolutely have to, and those who do not give a bugger about lying,

Jessica White

I don't want my daughters to grow up the way that I grew up. I want them to actually see Mommy in a fulfilled relationship that's amazing for her.

Mary Schindler

I get up every morning and I say, 'Good morning honey, it's Mommy (and) I hope you have a wonderful day'. I'm glad she's with God and not suffering any more. The only thing is, I'd like her to be with me.

Michael Douglas

Hello, Mr. Douglas, Mommy and Daddy will be right down.

Marla McKenna

My mommy instinct is to go and hug my children.

Jenji Kohan

I think what strikes a chord is, this is a mother. She has children and she's doing something illegal. We have a history of the father doing what he needs to do to support his family. Mommy is not supposed to take these kinds of risks. She's supposed to be at home nurturing. But I guess you weigh your options and do what you think is gonna work.

I think a good product would be Baby Duck Hat. It's a fake baby duck, which you strap on top of your head. Then you go swimming underwater until you find a mommy duck and her babies, and you join them. Then all of the sudden, you stand up out of the water and roar like Godzilla. Man those ducks really take off! Also Baby Duck Hat is good for parties. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Ama Dwimoh

Mommy! Mommy! She died at the hands of two people she called Mommy and Daddy.

Ashley Smith

My husband died four years ago. And I told him that if he hurt me, my little girl wouldn't have a mommy or a daddy.

Emma McLaughlin

The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed adults munching cupcakes like demoralized zombies I attend, I realize this is what my friends who conceived before me meant by, 'You just won't care.'

Susan Dunn

We've asked the congregation a lot of different things during this period, getting opinions, because we want the whole body to be working toward the same goals. And we believe that the church should get outside its walls and reach out into the community and meet needs of people that live around the church and in the same town, as well as other places beyond our boundaries.

David Corbin

We've asked the city to continue its consideration of the project until April. We want time to look at our options with regard to Holiday House specifically and our overall employee housing needs in general. At this point, we want to go back and revisit our full employee housing goals.

John Hoeven

We've asked BNSF to fix these problems, and they haven't, which is why we're proceeding with our rail rate complaint with the Surface Transportation Board, ... BNSF needs to do more for our farmers and shippers.

Paul Johnston

We've apparently struck a reasonable middle ground and will continue to try to meet the needs of all the authorized purposes.

Kris Janowski

We've always said that fear is the main problem. And that needs to be allayed.

Franco Harris

We've always been very close. But right now I feel there needs to be a change in the direction from where our national administration has taken us and where the Republicans in state government want to take us.

Brenda Davis

When I talk to Mark I have to constantly remind myself that he's just 13. And the Clearly family truly needs this blessing.

David Singer

Tom's has a strong heritage and solid reputation in the snack food business, and we believe that this opportunity will make our company stronger. The transaction developed quickly, and we are still developing our plans. In the near term we intend to continue business as usual while we develop a plan to effectively meet the needs of our customers and consumers. We are confident that the combination of increased sales and operating synergies will create value for Lance, Inc. stockholders.

Amar Stoudemire

We're getting the ring this year, ... I'm carrying my load and anybody else's that needs me to.

David Corbin

We've asked the city to continue its consideration of the project until April. We want time to look at our options with regard to Holiday House specifically and our overall employee housing needs in general. At this point, we want to go back and revisit our full employee housing goals.

Chuck Mulloy

We're making changes to our roadmap for processors in 2001 in order to provide some additional memory options for the low-cost platform for Pentium 4-based systems for the mainstream market.

Doug Steenland

We remain open to exploring various options to attain the needed labor costs savings but we need to resolve the issue quickly.

James Lilley

We're going to pull the five powers -- Russia, South Korea, Japan, China, the U.S. -- together, not to corner the North Koreans, but to begin to present them with pretty strong options and requiring them to make a move.

Greg Hamilton

We're going to figure out what we do during the games. We're going to try out some options and see what works best for us.

Jeff Zucker

We believe we have a youthful and energetic cast that should appeal to a new audience that is increasingly comfortable with this downloadable format as a viewing option. The multi-platform efforts are a buzz-generator for certain shows such as 'Conviction,' and we want to pro-actively reach out to these viewers who have many options for entertainment.

Daniel Renouard

We believe this represents a fundamental shift for the company and, at a minimum, indicates management is serious about considering all options for profitable growth.

Olin Browne

What makes it really hard is it's not a reaction sport, ... This is a premeditation sport. You're walking down the fairway, considering what your options are on the next shot that you're going to hit, how you're going to handle it, where you're going to go with it what you're going to do ... you get your head handed to you a lot out here. You know, the people that do well out here are able to absorb that, deal with it, put it in a little compartment, send it somewhere where they don't need to be in and move on to the next step.

Tom Epstein

We're keeping all our options open until we make a final decision. At this point, the sites in both Lodi and Stockton are still under consideration.

Matt Smith

What he does a good job of doing is throwing strikes and getting ground balls. He got a lot of ground balls today.

Donald Rumsfeld

We believe we are now able to carry out strikes around the clock, as we wish.

Carl Hunckler

With two strikes, that was a big homer. Anytime you see a guy do that with two strikes it's a plus.

Mike Moore

We're not about breaking the law, so we're not about wildcat strikes or anything like that. We're professional educators, and we'll act as such, even though we're not treated as such.

Charles Rangel

Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.

Drew Brees

We've already got things lined up, and we'll be rocking and rolling the minute the clock strikes midnight.

Mark Helprin

The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start shooting, which happened to me a couple of times, everything goes on automatic and there's a feeling of tremendous elevation and even elation.

Carlos Zambrano

I enjoy when I strike someone out. I enjoy when I do my job.

Bryan Procter

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.

David Snowden

We've always worked well within DoD guidelines and of course will continue to do so. We support the directive and all regulations that would protect military members from unscrupulous business practices.

Mario J. Molina

When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or eleven years old. I started experiments with chemistry sets at my home in Mexico. I was able to borrow a bathroom and convert it to a laboratory. My parents supported it. They were pleased. My friends just tolerated it.

Jesse Segall

When it comes down to a trial, we're going to try go get people down to support him. He's one of the nicest kids ever. He deserves our support.

Larry Ellison

We're missing an operating system. You could argue that it makes a lot of sense for us to look at distributing and supporting Linux.

Fidel Castro

we remember forever for his deep caring, support and solidarity toward the Cuban people and our revolution.

Jose Rios

We're marching to support the people who come here to work for a better life. This is what we're all fighting for.

Jerry Cantrell

We're making it up as we go along. It's what we always did in the past. We're writing the book as we live it. We feel confident that we will have a good time and that it's something that will live up to the same level. It's an exploratory thing, and we're just having fun with it. We'd like to go out and play for the people that supported us and love the music as much as we have all these years. We want to celebrate what we did and the memory of our friend.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Jim Pennekamp

We remain supportive of the project. There's been a significant amount already spent... (Shaw has) performed admirably in all this. The challenge is moving forward with a financial plan.

Eric Patterson

We've always gotten off to good starts. We've always beaten the teams that we were supposed to beat. Now, we need to get that big-time victory. That's what we're still waiting for.

Adam Gollner

We respect Band Aid's ability to raise so much money for relief efforts, but their lyrics seem so misguided and inappropriate. Africa isn't a land 'where nothing ever grows' and 'no rain nor river flows.' And how are lines such as, 'Well, tonight, thank God it's them instead of you' supposed to be helpful?

Diane Lane

We're so blessed with our pastor and his wife. They live their lives in a way we're supposed to, in their caring for one another and having a focus on God.

Alain Vigneault

We're going to see probably one of the hardest (working), most physical teams in the league coming in. They don't score a lot of goals, but they play hard. A lot of times, they don't even want to play the puck, they just want to play the man. It's Calgary, in-your-face, finish-checks hockey. It's going to be a big challenge for us and the bigger the challenge, the bigger we're supposed to respond.

Nikki Rocco

We're going to go back to the drawing board. Good movies are supposed to buck this trend. You hear how it's all about the product, but we have an excellent movie that people just aren't turning out for. It's something bigger.

Jim McIngvale

We're going to get the French guys back over here, give them some wine and get these courts back in the shape they're supposed to be in.

Kenneth Fisher

Environmentalists should like fracking for its relative cleanliness. But they don't. They have made a bugaboo out of the chemicals in fracking fluids, which supposedly can leach into groundwater sources. I'm convinced they're dead wrong. Ultimately, good technology with a cost advantage will win out over paranoia.

Ellen Galinsky

What this finding reflects is the dissonance of today's reality and yesterday's old ideas. There's the assumption that family for women detracts from work while for men it supposedly enhances their viability and stability.

Mark Wright

When we do what we're supposed to do, we can definitely stop people. I just want a win. A win would solve a lot of problems for us.

Ricky Williams

When I was in school, at the time he was the governor of Texas, ... Sometimes he would work out in our weight room. I had a chance to talk to him a couple of times. I was lifting, he was just riding a bike. I think he's a nice person.

Mike Ryan

We're so dependent on foreign capital that, if you could see any weakness in the dollar it could come on Friday with the trade numbers. If we see a sharply above consensus reading for trade, there could be some concern about the sustainability of that trade gap and that could certainly weigh on the dollar.

Tom Izzo

We're going to get back in the weight room to work on toughness and character. I promise we'll be tougher and I promise we'll get this program back to where we all want it.

Jake Long

When we came back from the bowl game, we didn't reach our potential like we should have last year. Weight could have been a part of it, so all the coaches wanted us to drop weight, get stronger, get quicker. We definitely had the intensity to do that this year during winter.

Mark Mangino

When we didn't play him, he realized, 'They're not kidding. He cut his weight and finished the season strong.

Andy Coulombe

We wrestled pretty well against them. We had to forfeit one weight and won five matches. They are a perennial top five, top eight team in the state and they are very good this year.

Tom Minkel

We wrestled a terrific dual as a team against Purdue, which is what we have been looking for all season. Everyone wrestled hard and we had some guys step up big at a few weight classes. Darren's match was really the marquee one of the dual, that is as good of a college match as I have seen in a while.

Stephen Horn

We found that 70 percent of these activities are still in progress, ... Yet even with the additional weight placed on these criteria, more than half of the 24 departments and agencies earned 'A's' this quarter. Just as you would not grade college seniors on the same set of criteria expected of college juniors, our expectations for this quarter rose.

Cathi Chuck

We found out about 25 percent of our guests are men ordering the Weight Watchers items, which we were very surprised to find out.