Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hannah More

I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother ...

Cher

My mother once said "If you don't pay attention to age, then it won't pay attention to you." And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don't buy it.

Dick Cheney

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.

Adam Clayton

I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother, the disciplined resentment of my father and mother, and the power of the mass action of the church.

Dear Abbey

Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick

Dear Abbey

Women who miscalculate are called mothers.

Banksy

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

Homer

Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.

Annette Bening

I act, but I am a mother first and wife second.

will.i.am

It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.

Bikram Choudhury

Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?

V. S. Naipaul

At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,--the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,--just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.

Eric Betzig

Chemistry was always my weakest subject in high school and college.

Nick Park

I used to get in trouble at school for day-dreaming.

Ansel Elgort

I never really did that well in school because I was so absorbed with doing acting.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

Frederic William Farrar

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

Ken Cooper

The police officer starts to look more and more like a monster.

Henry Bunsow

The Patent Office has said these patents are invalid. The patents at this point, if there was the new lawsuit, would not be enforceable.

Carl Rusnok

We don't have an office there. That's part of the problem, but we're not saying that we wouldn't respond.

David A. Adler

In my office I have a sign that says, 'Don't think. Just write!' and that's how I work. I try not to worry about each word, or even each sentence or paragraph. For me, stories evolve. Writing is a process. I rewrite each sentence, each manuscript, many times.

Patricia Schroeder

The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

Scott Bauer

We'll operate in Raleigh through the loan-production office for now.

Laura Bush

You know, they probably are altered, and they probably are forgeries, and I think that's terrible, really. That's actually one of the risks you take when you run for public office or when you're in the public eye.

Ludwig von Mises

Lenin's ideal was to build a nation's production effort according to the model of the post office.

William Donaldson

Those offices have not been sitting on their hands.