First Blood Colonel Trautman Quotes & Sayings

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles. — Maureen O'Hara

I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman, and I don't know that? — Tyra Banks

I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school. — Amy Chua

It's just Gods way of getting babies to heaven faster! — Zach Braff

Let us be kinder to one another. — Aldous Huxley

If you and I desire the blessings of life, of health, of vigor of body and mind; if we desire the destroying angel to pass us by, as he did in the days of the children of Israel, we must obey the Word of Wisdom; then God is bound, and the blessing shall come to us. — Heber J. Grant

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could. — Lord Mountbatten

Of course we all would like to foretell the future and make contact with the gods. — Carl Sagan

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first. — Jack Prelutsky

To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up. — Mahatma Gandhi

There is something about nature out of control that touches a primal terror. We are used to believing that we're the masters of our domain, and that God has given us this earth to rule over. We need this illusion like a good night-light. The truth is more fearsome: we are as frail as young trees in tornadoes, and our beloved homes are one flood away from driftwood. We plant our roots in trembling earth, we live where mountains rose and fell and prehistoric seas burned away in mist. We and the towns we have built are not permanent; the earth itself is a passing train. When you stand in muddy water that is rising toward your waist and you hear people shouting against the darkness and see their figures struggling to hold back the currents that will not be denied, you realize the truth of it: we will not win, but we cannot give up. — Robert McCammon

Well, if you did, you'd be wrong. It is much, much smaller. Try this: Imagine you're still holding that tiny grain of sand. Now not just the beach you are on, but all the beaches all over the planet, all of them, all down the coast of California and the East Coast from Maine down to Florida and on the Indian Ocean and off the coasts of Africa. Imagine all that sand, all those beaches everywhere in the world and now look at that grain of sand you're holding and still, still, our entire solar system - forget our planet - is smaller than that compared to the rest of the universe. Can you even comprehend how insignifi- cant we are? — Harlan Coben