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Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.


Robert Fulghum

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BETTY MONTGOMERY When we first came down here, we had wetlands in front of us. Now you can just walk up and across th...
RICHARD OWEN We feel it is our time to shine, and now we can make the most of this as we try to qualify for the O...
TANITH BELBIN Pray for us now and at the hour of our birth.
T.S. ELIOT The lifestyle up here is different. But Matt is having a good time. He's been able to be around a di...
CARL LAGRONE I like how you remember things,’ I say.
She looks at me. ‘Well, we have to. We have to rem...
ISAAC MARION Right now, the way we practice is really showing up on the floor. We're just excited how we're playi...
STANLEY BURRELL We got the first one behind us. We'll just get better from here.
BOB SWEENEY We should be sitting here at 11-3 right now, to tell you the truth. We've got Dorrell and Earl comin...
BRACEY WRIGHT You've got to remember, that's just the nature of the business. You have guys whose names come up al...
MIKE ANDERSON So every storm that we have on the coast at some point or another impacts us in Robert. This time wa...
LEMAR MARSHALL We have a special site, a special location. We have a neighborhood that at first was concerned but n...
DONALD TRUMP At the start of the year you would never have thought there'd be so many of us (rookies) here. There...
JAY MCCLEMENT We want you to remember that the letters in Troy stand for something, ... T is for tradition that yo...
JACK HAWKINS Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tun...
BILL BRYSON When I was growing up, our whole family used to get together at Christmas, but we hadn't done that f...
JOSH BETTS I'm just shy, ... I wanted to meet Robert because I liked his acting. But he was looking at me funny...
VAL KILMER The baseball gods are showing me a little bit of everything this year. We just seem to make a mistak...
WILLIE RANDOLPH I remembered this one time that I never told anybody about. The time we were walking. Just the three...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Remember then that there is only one important time, and that time is now. The most important one is...
JON J. MUTH It took a long time last year (for Polytech to get its first win). We've got that one win out of the...
HARRISON WHITE It was like he got in some sort of zone and everything seemed to flow for him. I remember hitting so...
BERNIE WILLIAMS We never got our head clear from the first storm. Right now, we're just three weeks into the apartme...
PERCY WILLIAMS We've got a smart team, our pit stops have been rockin', we've got all the things that we need to do...
BRENDAN GAUGHAN We have more depth this, we're healthier and I feel like we're not drained physically and emotionall...
DEMARCUS NELSON We couldn't get them down. We had a few looks, but we just haven't shot it very well here lately. Th...
DARIN LEE I remember the first time I walked on that stage. Maxine and I were just a duet at the time, and we ...
JIM ED BROWN My personal feeling is we’re not going to see the price of oil and the price at the pump go down f...
CAROLYN ALLEN We don't expect a decision by the committee for some weeks. When we have any indication of any news,...
MARC SCHWARTZ It's said that timing is everything. This was the right time for us to make a change. We're not goin...
JACK KING We won for the first time in Harare, but you have to remember the previous Zimbabwe here consisted o...
SOURAV GANGULY We are putting it all together at the most important time of the year. All of us knew we could hang ...
JOE KINNEY This album really has to make a statement. We've toured for 18 months. Now we have a brand name. Now...
DUFF MCKAGAN The first game, I think we got the jitters out. Now it's time to play basketball. We're not here to ...
ASHANTI COOK I wanted to come up with something special for Indy, and we came up with it at the right time. But i...
GREG ANDERSON My personal feeling is we’re not going to see the price of oil and the price at the pump go down fo...
CAROLYN ALLEN I don't know if I'd say I would have been surprised to see us here right now. I knew we had it in us...
ANDREA NICHOLS Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of p...
ANDY ROONEY It's not just the fact that he's the guy that's showing us the most promise right now. We really bel...
BOBBY WADE Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. TERRY BROOKS We get to go for a ride. Now how long a ride it is we'll see. We competed (with Lake Howell) the fir...
MIKE AUSTIN The transition was rough at first. In college, we do not just have the one or two good players on th...
LAUREN PAOLINI That Virden keeps showing up. He has done a very nice job. He might be the most improved secondary g...
CHRIS AULT I've got the best of both worlds, being able to be there for the birth, which is probably the most i...
MIKE HUSSEY Here you have a unique situation where children are literally showing up at the doors of sex offende...
ANDREW SPANO Here you have a unique situation where children are literally showing up at the doors of sex offende...
ANDREW J. SPANO Now, we had something we could be proud of showing the recruits.
FRANK MALONEY Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind be...
LEONARD ORR We are here to remember just how special they were to us,
CHRISTIAN CHURCH The most important thing to realize is we're not blank slates at birth. We don't start off w...
JONATHAN HAIDT We just had to have guys believe they could do it. Robert had a big hit there for us to keep us in t...
LARRY KNIGHT We want to bid it now, in order to open up by Thanksgiving or Christmas time, because golf courses h...
BILL WILSHER There's no magic solution for us, we just don't have the resources at the moment. The guys we've got...
EDDIE JONES We've just got to come in and play hard. We're all pretty much seniors and most of us have been here...
JEFF CUMBERLAND I don't want to talk about it. From the time he got here until now, he's probably the most improved ...
JEFF STOUTLAND We don't have nothing to hold our heads down for. Tonight [the slow start] just caught up to us.
DARIUS HARGROVE We got here at 8.30. Now we're going to have to drive all the way home.
BRIAN JONES Nobody wants to hear it, but I am here now for the third time saying we have played well, we have cr...
MICK MCCARTHY He'd been having a good year down in A-ball, and he's showing why he's up here. He's got a nice shor...
DARRYL KENNEDY At first we were nervous. It was an unknown for us, but we realized there was nothing to fear. OSHA ...
JEFF WALTERS Aside from what they did musically, the Beatles were great ambassadors. They made everything English...
PETER NOONE Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own min...
LEONARD ORR Remember how the Waltons used to say good night at the end of the show? There were so many of us tha...
WILLIAM DALTON We've got people dying out here -- two babies have died, a woman died, a man died. We haven't had no...
HELEN CHEEK This was a huge win for us. We've got a little confidence now. And what I really like is the attitud...
GREG SPARLING They have been leaving out of here in groups at a time. Now, things are going to speed up.
GEORGE HEATH The images of the devastation of 1900 are always with us. It's engraved in our collective consciousn...
MARSH DAVIS This is our team's first trip up here to the Yard. We wanted to give a good showing for our communit...
ANDREW DUNCAN It's completely different from when I first got here, but we've got a different type of team now. Pe...
ABBIE LETZ I just loved playing all that because it was the first time that Robert actually had genuine feeling...
KARL DAVIES We were flat. We were cold, didn't hit a shot in the first half -- it just wasn't us out there. They...
BOB HAMILTON This was my first time back coaching in Rankin County and I know so many people down here, so I was ...
GREG CARTER These are two good wins for us the last two nights. Mike got his wheels going at the end. He's a lit...
JARRETT HOFFPAUIR Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because so...
THURGOOD MARSHALL We don't encourage or discourage. We're just here to give them the facts. We don't pre-qualify them.
BETTY PARKER Any time you play at home you have an advantage, but this year especially with our fans showing up a...
JAMES VILADE That's when we're at our best. Teams have to say, 'who are we going to stop?' We know we've got kids...
AMY GOVERT We knew we had to maintain our composure, which is something we haven't always done in the past, and...
BRIAN METCALF For us to qualify three teams for our country is huge. I'm extremely proud of ourselves and of them ...
CRAIG BUNTIN Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something & give it to thos...
RYAN LILLY Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those ...
RYAN LILLY A few years ago, I actually did come up with a mocking sort of epitaph for myself. It's this: &#...
ROBERT SILVERBERG This is really the most we can do from where we are. All of us that came here today felt like we sho...
AMANDA BROWN The regular season is here now so you don't have time to worry about none of that anyway, ... You've...
PLAXICO BURRESS I made the first free throw then I saw there was just 0.2 seconds left. We got down but we kept our ...
EBONIE HALLIBURTON At this time we do not believe that Haiti fulfills the narrow criteria established by Congress to qu...
DAN KANE The emotions are high right now. Everybody's ready for that first game. We've just got to be patient...
JAMES BELL Katie could also be ready to do one or two events for us at Sectionals if we qualify.
JULIE CHAPMAN We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray wh...
OSWALD CHAMBERS We had our first earthquake over here recently. That was a bizarre feeling. I just became disoriente...
ASHLEY SCOTT For a long time, I just wanted us to focus on getting better and I thought it would come together by...
JANICE RICHARD Sycophancy is the course we all must compulsorily study,to qualify us to be in the good books of mos...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) At that time, it was painfully obvious that the American economy was showing tremendous resilience w...
JULIAN CALLOW This was a legitimate concern for us. This wasn't just picking up bread and milk. We had hardcore da...
MAYOR DEAN MAZZARELLA We left it all on the floor, and that's what we are looking for. We proved we can play and get after...
CHERYL COLE We really just wanted to speak up for Herndon and have a rally to unite the community. It was really...
JENNIFER BOYSKO Now, we want to win and that's the first time I've seen that here.
KRISTEN DONOFRY I remember the first time I saw Robert De Niro at a party. I didn't want to run over and shake h...
JASON STATHAM We now have an opportunity for our generation to make our mark on human history. Our parents and gra...
GEORGE WHITESIDES

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ROBERT KENNEDY From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way o...
ROBERT KENNEDY Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a ste...
ROBERT KENNEDY In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can di...
ROBERT KENNEDY We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic p...
ROBERT KENNEDY But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as a...
ROBERT KENNEDY The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving th...
ROBERT KENNEDY The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental...
ROBERT KENNEDY People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I sha...
ROBERT KENNEDY The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever lan...
ROBERT KENNEDY No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the ...
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system ...
ROBERT KENNEDY One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec...
ROBERT KENNEDY Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
ROBERT HALF Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th...
ROBERT KENNEDY Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
ROBERT KENNEDY Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
ROBERT KENNEDY When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest busi...
ROBERT KENNEDY The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the worl...
ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno...
ROBERT KENNEDY I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ...
ROBERT KENNEDY If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDY Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
ROBERT KENNEDY Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's...
ROBERT KENNEDY Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividi...
ROBERT KENNEDY Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of i...
ROBERT KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community ge...
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear...
ROBERT KENNEDY All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our t...
ROBERT KENNEDY We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustrati...
ROBERT KENNEDY One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
ROBERT KENNEDY When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes...
ROBERT KRAFT Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.
ROBERT KRAFT We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
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