James Smith Quotes (44 Quotes)

Every kid in the family, besides Marvel, left the house by the age of 16. There was less stress living on our own than trying to survive in the environment we were in. I don't know how Marvel did it. He spent his time playing football, but the cards were stacked against him.

People just don't think poverty exists here. It's a perception that since Howard County is an affluent place . . . low-income people just don't live here. (But) they do.

While we still expect additional Warlock orders, continued delays in the receipt of such orders limit the number that can realistically be scheduled for delivery by year-end. Therefore, we believe it is prudent to adjust our revenue guidance at this time.

The best advice you can give anyone is if you don't have a college degree, go get one, because that demand isn't going to go away. If you have a college degree you're part of the productivity improvement generation. That's what everybody wants to do so we can be globally competitive.

It could help on the crops and fire situation, but it really depends on how long it hangs around and how much water it puts on us. If it doesn't amount to much, this stuff will dry out pretty quick.

I think almost every single house in Lamar County has damage. We just don't know the extent of the damage.

Those Wall Street gurus have bigger expense accounts than I have total income.

If you get on the web, there are all these things telling you 'buy all this' along with a big print Bible so you can pray like crazy that it's not Armageddon.

That's three more times than we need.

The three black graces, Law, Physic, and Divinity.

We were able to give several thousand people water and ice. We're hoping the supply will last seven days. We can extend that.

Midnight, yet not a nose From Tower Hill to Piccadilly snored

It's a combination of homeland security, defense, high tech, top-flight colleges and universities. Virginia pretty much didn't slow down in the 2001 recession, and has had the lowest unemployment rate on the East Coast for six or seven years now.

The benefits of this ruling will ripple across our communities by encouraging greater investment in and a wider roll-out of broadband networks.

We were in a very vulnerable area for this weather to develop on top of us.

It was luck, partly. The other reason is the anticipation that inflation would be contained and that continued rate increases from the Federal Reserve would keep longer-maturity investors enthused about their returns.

It's not just a difference in how people characterize their own health. The biological measures confirm there is a difference.

That was Valor Day, when the New York Police Department hands out medals. She's wearing the medal they awarded Moira, the department's highest honor, the Medal of Honor.

I know of no better place to live in, and till the millennium comes, Stamford cannot be made a better place to live.

We do have the vessel. I can't give any more information until later.

If banks needed to borrow money, no problem, all the normal rules were suspended.

No credible estimate exists that shows immigrants cause unemployment.

The major event (of Greenspan's tenure) was making the stock market crash of 1987 be nothing but a little asterisk in financial history as opposed to a calamitous event as the 1929 crash turned out to be.

The poor will always be among us. In their mind, as long as they get gas and electricity, they're OK. But what about the next month And the next . . . The challenge is helping people to break out of the mentality of poverty.

Back in the day, black people and white people didn't mingle. Now you see people being treated like souls instead of animals. I believe God gave Martin Luther King a sneak preview of what he was going to do in the future.

We've had several calls but after the weather started breaking up, I think they changed their minds.

I'm thinking maybe September. No later than October because this time of year starts to get pretty cold.

In my three years coaching baseball this is collectively the most talent that we have had top to bottom in the lineup. Offensively and defensively this is the most talent we've had. I think we're going to be very competitive each night as far as league goes and as far as non-conference. I think we're going to be in a lot of ball games this year.

Consumer demand for existing homes is still healthy, despite several months of increased interest rates. The housing market will not be derailed because economic factors that drive consumer confidence -- employment, inflation and household wealth -- are at healthy levels.

What (Brady) said made sense. I wasn't rebounding well enough. I just tried to make a better effort. It was an important game against the number one team in the league.

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The play of limbs succeeds the play of wit.

That was vintage Greenspan -- a sense of history, his logic of where to put the finger in the dike and how to repair the system.

My wife saw him being taken in an ambulance. She said they had him covered up, but his body was smoking.

You don't expect the health of middle-aged people in these two countries to be too different, but we found that the Americans are a lot less healthy than the English.

Since 2001, Florida has added more payroll jobs than any other state, including California, which is triple its population.

It is more of a carrot than a stick, because the vast majority of our customers are prompt payers. However, it is still a stick, which we hope will encourage good bill-paying habits.

The mortality rates among people around age 60 is about the same in both countries. But we don't do a better job at preventing people from getting sick in the first place.

We're going to get to a number like 3.8 percent in the next four months. Jobs are plentiful and easy to get. The economy is strong, no two ways about it.

I'm not sure who they (Health Net) are appealing to in this market. If you are healthy and poor, you don't spend money on health care.

I want confidence in my vote. I have no confidence.

This reflects significant concern on the part of suppliers about how bad the damage was from the hurricane. We're all walking on egg shells.

Inflation is down, there's nothing here to make the Federal Open Market Committee doing anything next week.

I expect good things from him, as far as leadership, leading by example, knowing what's expected and knowing what it takes to get the job done and being in the right position.