John Smith Quotes (78 Quotes)

The more I think about what I did, the more lucky I feel today. It has been two years now and it is already a distant memory.

It's just finding that balance.

I think the 'Star Wars' analogy is a very good one. It's beyond time and yet it's a sort of historical time. And also there are the levels of how elaborately he's constructed this world, and how consistent he remained with the cosmology he created, over such a long time -- and at the end to have everything be believable within the world of that novel.

Tony is so valuable to us at tight end that we thought it would be better to leave him there instead of trying to work with him as the starting quarterback and find a new tight end.

That's what it's all about is trying to get to the College World Series.

Although the leadership of the Energy Council has visited Nova Scotia repeatedly, this will be our first opportunity to bring the entire council to the province.

Absolutely, the closest you can get to it. Man if you ever have a day that you are perfect - it's going to be your best day. It's hard to do. You don't have a lot of days that you are happy with yourself, but at the same time fulfilling your goals is the most important thing you can do.

I'm all nerves right now.

The father can remain (or become) active and at the same time spend time with his child.

Jamestown with her wild train she as freely frequented, as her fathers habitation and during the time of two or three years, she next under God, was still the instrument to preserve this colony from death, famine and utter confusion which if in those times, had once been dissolved, Virginia might have lain as it was at our first arrival to this day.

There is still a good chance because I see a growing appetite to do something but I also feel like the Legislature is looking for something in the middle.

We're staying in this hotel that I've never been able to stay in. I'm a college student. I don't have any money. This is like a place the president stays in.

You never know from one year to the next, one week to the next, what you're going to get in basketball. You have to make all the parts of the puzzle fit. We don't have 15 pieces this year, but we have enough to make it work. And the good thing is we get all of them back next year.

That was real important, those two wins there. Maybe in the big picture at the end, those two matches might have made the difference.

To have a high-profile celebrity taking the simple step of wearing compression socks to prevent DVT, will help raise awareness of travel-related DVT.

Sliced bread is only as good as the peanut butter and jelly on top of it.

We don't panic. We've been like that all season. When we looked around the locker room at halftime down by 10 points, there was not a negative word said.

The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts.

This transaction creates value for GM shareholders while allowing for an even more competitive Delphi. We wish Delphi and its employees great success as they begin their journey as a fully independent company.

We had solid growth in both sales volume and share, led by record utility sales and increasing momentum of our launch vehicles, such as the Chevrolet Malibu,

Communism works, if everybody stopped carring about money.

They do it 100 percent. They don't jog up and down the floor. A lot of teams jog to get into position. They don't jog, they run and that's a credit to Joe and the things he's done with this team.

The record has been a distraction for our kids, but breaking it finally took them off the hook.

Public consensus is clear that the sewage deal with the City of Sumas is a bad deal for Abbotsford and needs to be terminated as soon as possible,

There is no question that with all that has happened this year and with all the questions about who would win it, that in the end we basically dominated. That is what we hoped for all year, that is what we are capable of doing and we did it.

Did young Pocahontas really intercede to prevent the execution of Captain John Smith This romantic tale is conspicuously absent from Smith's initial accounts of his captivity under Powhatan 'Arriving at Werawocomoco, their Emperour Powhatan proudly lying uppon a Bedstead a foote high upon tenne or twelve Mattes... and with such grave and majesticall countenance, as drave me into admiration to see such a state in a naked salvage, he kindly welcomed me with good wordes, and great Platters of sundrie victuals, assuring me his friendship, and my libertie within foure days... In describing to him the territories of Europe, which was subject to our Great King whose subject I was, the innumerabl e multitude of his ships, I gave him to understand the noyse of Trumpets, and terrible manner of fighting were under captain Newport my father... At his greatnesse hee admired, and not a little feared... And thus having with all the kindnes hee could devise, sought to content me he sent me home...'

We understand that we are going to have to earn it. But this team this weekend earned it.

I think a lot of it is drive. It's the want, it's the hunger, it's the desire all balled up, and not accepting defeat. There have been times when you do come up short and all you can expect out of yourself is to put the right emotions into anything you are doing and you can be willing to accept the results.

Our kids just got better and better. We really peaked at the right time. I hope we see Calhoun County again next year because that would probably mean that we've made it deep into the playoffs.

This is a wonderful cause and we want to be a part of it.

Obviously, he had the limitations, but you would have never known it. There was never a time that he let that be a hindrance. I thought that was just tremendous on his behalf. And he loved every minute of it. He always had a smile on his face.

I've said for years there is no benefit. It's a net loss.

They're already inexperienced. I ride a motorcycle, and I'd like people to pay attention.

In 1617, a new edition of Smith's True Relation went into print, in which the Pocahontas episode was appended as a sequence of footnotes to the narrative of Smith's captivity under Powhatan. Six years later, the story of Smith's salvation, now quite color.

We just have to approach it like another game, like we have all year. We can't get too nervous. We can't get too big of a head.

We were at the cruise ship greeting all of our visitors as they departed, and almost everyone of them had just wonderful things to say about the city, about the volunteers, and I mean it was just...it was incredible.

There ain't going to be trouble today because they got police everywhere. It's going to be all right because no one wants to go to jail.

He's special, he's in his own world. I see a young man that basically rises to the occasion. He jumps with the crowd. He wants the crowd to get involved with him.

We've got to win some matches to do it but if we go on and win that fourth, this is probably one of the more satisfying ones, I would say. I think each one gets much more satisfying. I think we had some up-and-downs and question marks. I think we gave a lot of hope during the season to some teams and then we had to battle up.

We're kind of an Ellis Island type of setup.

I saw it one day when he landed and he almost flipped it over. I think it got caught in the wind or something.

It's very important for the future of our community. Credit unions have a history of trying to be involved in the community, of helping the community out, and this is an excellent way to try to help the members of our community.

The present water situation further emphasizes the need for that additional water supply. We all know it's been a very dry spring, summer, and now it appears like fall is going to follow course.

It is what you would hope to see. If you keep wrestling, good things will happen. We put ourselves in good position to pin and then we put our opponents on their backs.

I can't remember too many moments that exciting.

By the time I got old enough to wrestle, which was 5 or 6, Lee Roy was in it and loved it. For me, it was just natural to follow your older brother.

It was a good time to make his bucket. I'm proud that he wasn't afraid to take that shot.

When we were making that run at the end, you could feel it. You can't really describe it, but you know there's so many people who want your season to keep going. It's an inspiration. You want to play for yourself, but you want to play for them, too.

He really worked hard to get to this point. He came back this year with improved command. He's putting pitches where he wants them.

I think we have been able to break and establish some records over the past couple of years. We have basically established a new bar of excellence.