Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Hicks

Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour--appearing in small Southern towns--in front of handfuls of hillbillies.

Audra McDonald

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

Carroll Quigley

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

Samantha Bingham

Many, many of them are from southern Louisiana.

Chita Rivera

Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

Conrad Aiken

I'm not in the least Southern; I'm entirely New England.

E. O. Wilson

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

Doris Lessing

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

Cardinal Richelieu

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire...

Edward Said

We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)

Edward Said

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.

Daniel Pinkwater

If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire.

Edward Gibbon

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

Dean Acheson

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

Dana Gioia

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

Donald Rumsfeld

We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic.

George Will

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, the United Nations is a disunited collection of regimes, many of which do not represent the nations they govern.

B. B. King

I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.

Ashley Tisdale

I never really looked up to celebrities when I was young.

Anthony Swofford

It occured to me that we will never be young again.

Charles Kennedy

My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have ideals is akin to being blinkered and oldfashioned.

Channing Tatum

I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.

Burt Ward

Maybe it was all those wild times that kept me young.

Al Capp

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

Al Capone

Now I know why tigers eat their young.

Elizabeth Edwards

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.