Don Burns quote: "Everyone's safe. She had just taken my grandson to a ski trip. He's going up to Jack Frost Mountain, so he knows nothing about it right now. My granddaughter was with her. They're all safe. The dog is out, he's safe too."

I know it's backed up because some of the help came in late.
DON BURNS

Basically all they have right now is the clothes on their back. All their Christmas stuff was in the...
DON BURNS

I got an emergency phone call from my daughter around 10 a.m. She called and was pretty hysterical t...
DON BURNS

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE BURNS

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNS

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE BURNS

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
GEORGE BURNS

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
GEORGE BURNS

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could ...
GEORGE BURNS

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
GEORGE BURNS

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
GEORGE BURNS

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and ...
GEORGE BURNS

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin...
GEORGE BURNS

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
GEORGE BURNS

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on ...
GEORGE BURNS

My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self...
URSULA BURNS

I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, wri...
URSULA BURNS

Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt our...
URSULA BURNS

Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a proc...
URSULA BURNS

Xerox manages the infrastructure of E-ZPass for a large number of states. So when you say E-ZPass, a...
URSULA BURNS

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern bus...
URSULA BURNS

CEOs resign when the internal dynamics of the company and the external dynamics of the company actua...
URSULA BURNS

Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay becau...
URSULA BURNS

If you go to Norway, Finland, Russia or Australia, you'll see Xerox or Fuji-Xerox people, not ju...
URSULA BURNS

Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.
URSULA BURNS

I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother...
URSULA BURNS

Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that ...
URSULA BURNS

My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I kno...
URSULA BURNS

I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.
URSULA BURNS

My mother was amazing. I guess, in our community, if you wanted to get by you had to work hard. So s...
URSULA BURNS

I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputa...
URSULA BURNS

I want to stop transforming and just start being.
URSULA BURNS

I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.
URSULA BURNS

Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The ...
URSULA BURNS

The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For exampl...
URSULA BURNS

The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's eas...
URSULA BURNS

Impatience is a virtue.
URSULA BURNS

As I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate - and really value - the other attr...
URSULA BURNS

I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said...
URSULA BURNS

Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found somet...
URSULA BURNS

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirte...
GEORGE BURNS

It's not a matter of vanity; it's a matter of sanity. I'll never look forever young, but...
PETE BURNS

If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll f...
PAT BURNS

Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the i...
PAT BURNS

I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
PAT BURNS

They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my famil...
PAT BURNS

The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.
PAT BURNS

Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minde...
PAT BURNS

Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I wa...
PAT BURNS

As for my career, I always said to my kids, 'you don't cry because it's over, you're...
PAT BURNS

I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.
PAT BURNS

Coaching the Bruins is like going bear hunting with a butter knife.
PAT BURNS

I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my...
PAT BURNS

I got hit with an octopus in Detroit one time. It was the most gross thing I've ever had happen....
PAT BURNS

It was a lovely feeling, dying. I can remember being in the hospital, all wired up to tubes and thin...
PETE BURNS

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a l...
KEN BURNS

I don't believe that a hydrogen economy depends on a carbon economy at all.
LARRY BURNS

Fuel cells create a better automobile that's 50 percent more energy-efficient overall and sustai...
LARRY BURNS

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible
GEORGE BURNS

My natural color is dark blond, but right now I like being a brunette. I did a movie last summer and...
BROOKE BURNS

We started on April 1, 2003. So long ago, you couldn't watch video in a web browser; you had to ...
BURNIE BURNS

I never had posters on my walls, and I didn't have any icons, either. I come from a small villag...
PETE BURNS

Nae man can tether time or tide.
ROBERT BURNS

An Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended!
ROBERT BURNS

I have a big personality, and I think big personality plus blond hair makes me come across as glib. ...
BROOKE BURNS

Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin'...
IRVING BURNS

Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.
ROBERT BURNS

I have regular peels and Botox. It's something I'll always do. People redecorate their homes...
PETE BURNS

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
ROBERT BURNS

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
ROBERT BURNS

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting h...
GEORGE BURNS

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be for...
ROBERT BURNS

The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.
ROBERT BURNS

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a b...
ROBERT BURNS

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
GEORGE BURNS

The problem with drinking and driving is that trees defend themselves very well.
GEORGE BURNS

Be quick to learn and wise to know.
GEORGE BURNS

Life's but a day at most.
GEORGE BURNS

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
GEORGE BURNS

Let us do or die.
ROBERT BURNS

I look better, feel better, make love better and I'll tell you something else....I never lied better...
GEORGE BURNS

Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.
ROBERT BURNS

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.
GEORGE BURNS

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
GEORGE BURNS

How can I die? I'm booked.
GEORGE BURNS

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
GEORGE BURNS

You know you're getting old when you stop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while yo...
GEORGE BURNS

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
ROBERT BURNS

Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.
GEORGE BURNS

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting ha...
GEORGE BURNS

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
ROBERT BURNS

When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.
ROBERT BURNS

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we ha...
ROBERT BURNS

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
GEORGE BURNS

Suspense is worst than disappointment.
ROBERT BURNS

A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who w...
H.S.M. BURNS

The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men
Gang aft agley.
ROBERT BURNS

Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
ROBERT BURNS

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
ROBERT BURNS

If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.
GEORGE BURNS

The Thames is liquid history.
JOHN BURNS

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discr...
ROBERT BURNS

How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
ROBERT BURNS

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.
ROBERT BURNS

I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid ...
ROBERT BURNS

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
ROBERT BURNS

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised th...
ROBERT BURNS

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!
A farewell, and then forever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll ...
ROBERT BURNS

The great Creator to revere
Must sure become the creature;
But still the preaching cant forbea...
ROBERT BURNS

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
ROBERT BURNS

Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
ROBERT BURNS

The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.
ROBERT BURNS

Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's plou...
ROBERT BURNS

Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS

It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cru...
ROBERT BURNS

Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.
ROBERT BURNS

And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.
ROBERT BURNS

Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair.
ROBERT BURNS

I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care fo...
ROBERT BURNS

To liken them to your auld-warld squad, I must needs say comparisons are odd.
ROBERT BURNS

Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing.
FRANK BURNS

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
GEORGE BURNS

Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!
GEORGE BURNS

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining ...
KEN BURNS

All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.
ROBERT BURNS

And there begins a lang digression About the lords o' the creation.
ROBERT BURNS

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I.
ROBERT BURNS

The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend.
ROBERT BURNS

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
ROBERT BURNS

In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
ROBERT BURNS

Then horn for horn they stretch and strive; Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.
ROBERT BURNS

I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing: But, och! it hardens a' within, ...
ROBERT BURNS

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, am...
ROBERT BURNS

Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. from the poem The Cotter’s Saturday Ni...
ROBERT BURNS

Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blu...
ROBERT BURNS

What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature...
ROBERT BURNS

G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I...
ROBERT BURNS

Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The burstin...
ROBERT BURNS

Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;- If there's a hole ...
ROBERT BURNS

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent; Long may thy h...
ROBERT BURNS

But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. Or like the sn...
ROBERT BURNS

Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS

The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee; But I'll remember thee, G...
ROBERT BURNS

O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blund...
ROBERT BURNS

My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons o...
ROBERT BURNS

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of wo.
ROBERT BURNS

Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
ROBERT BURNS

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
ROBERT BURNS

Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae; The hawthorn's budding in the gle...
ROBERT BURNS

Mourn, little harebells, o'er the lea; Ye stately foxgloves fair to see! Ye woodbines, hanging...
ROBERT BURNS

The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.
ROBERT BURNS

A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his ...
ROBERT BURNS

A man's a man for a' that!
ROBERT BURNS

Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a' kennin'...
ROBERT BURNS

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
ROBERT BURNS

Suspense is worse than disappointment.
ROBERT BURNS

Hear how he clears the points o' Faith Wi' rattling an' thumpin'! Now meekly calm, now wild in...
ROBERT BURNS

There's some are fou o' love divine, There's some are fou' o' brandy.
ROBERT BURNS

The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip To laud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your hono...
ROBERT BURNS

Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.
ROBERT BURNS

Comin' through the rye, poor body, Comin' through the rye, She draigl't a' her petticoatie, ...
ROBERT BURNS

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
ROBERT BURNS

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.
ROBERT BURNS

We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine.
ROBERT BURNS

His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony, Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither-- They had been fou for ...
ROBERT BURNS

The fear o’ hell’s a hangman’s whip to haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honor ...
ROBERT BURNS

But deep this truth impress'd my mind:
Thro' all His works abroad,
The heart benevolent a...
ROBERT BURNS

Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of wo...
GEORGE BURNS

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS

I don't like to drive. I don't like the aggressiveness that goes along with driving.
HEATHER BURNS

YouTube's algorithm doesn't know what's going on in the world.
BURNIE BURNS

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
ROBERT BURNS

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify t...
KEN BURNS

There is an animated version of 'Lazer Team,' with all the action sequences, that exists. It...
BURNIE BURNS

It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep t...
ROBERT BURNS

I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which i...
MAX BURNS

O thou great, unknown Power! Thou Almighty God, who hast lighted up reason in my breast and blessed ...
ROBERT BURNS

Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nat...
CONRAD BURNS

The joy of my heart is to 'study men, their manners, and their ways,' and for this darling o...
ROBERT BURNS

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as cl...
GEORGE BURNS

At my age flowers scare me.
GEORGE BURNS

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
GEORGE BURNS

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
GEORGE BURNS

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
GEORGE BURNS

I've been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfo...
BROOKE BURNS

You can't make anything idiot proof because idiots are so ingenious.
RON BURNS

Sincerity - if you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE BURNS

There's usually not a game when somebody is not there.
BECKY BURNS

The cost of the shelter operation is supported by the city, but it's not nearly enough to cover all ...
BECKY BURNS

Cleaning my room is definitely my last priority. I usually put if off until it gets so bad that I ca...
BECKY BURNS

The cost of the shelter operation is supported by the city, but it's not nearly enough to cover all ...
BECKY BURNS

Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the serv...
CONRAD BURNS

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.
GEORGE BURNS

They came to us for a solution to the problem of wave damage along the canals.
BILL BURNS

Everyone's safe. She had just taken my grandson to a ski trip. He's going up to Jack Frost Mountain, so he knows nothing about it right now. My granddaughter was with her. They're all safe. The dog is out, he's safe too.

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Everyone's safe. She had just taken my grandson to a ski trip. He's going up to Jack Frost Mountain, so he knows nothing about it right now. My granddaughter was with her. They're all safe. The dog is out, he's safe too.

Don Burns

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