Quotes of: Family-ties Keyword

Their hands are tied not by ropes but by the greed of the intermediaries that the system has generated, who eat up the farmer’s income while it is on its way into his hands.

Faraaz Kazi

I wear white or pale-blue shirts and black knit ties: They don't draw attention to me in any kind of peacockish way.

Charlie Siem

I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.

Harold Prince

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

Iain Glen

I know the rigors of network news. I didn't want to be jumping on an airplane twice a week. I didn't want to be tied to my pager and my cellphone.

Jane Clayson

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Benjamin Franklin

I never brought it up when I coached, but I have close ties at Ohio State. Unfortunately, I even have a graduate degree from there.

Bo Schembechler

A religious person without no job is a dead person. (Iigbagbo ti koni ise oku ni. - Yoruba proverb)

Habeeb Akande

Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood.

Henry Cabot Lodge

It's been so long since I made love I can't even remember who gets tied up.

Joan Rivers

As an actor, you're tied to the writing. You live and die by what's written for you. And you can elevate that to a certain extent, but really, that's your blueprint.

James Wolk

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

Jennifer Weiner

So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.

David Gower

Un golpe de luz me cegó, o fue mi intuición que falló... Tal vez elegí recorrer el camino más largo, el caso es que fui trás de ti... No supe jugar y perdí.

Dulce María

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

Jimi Hendrix

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

John F. Kennedy

Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what they listen?

John Keats

Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.

Nick Lampson

James Bond: [speaking of M] She never tied me to a chair. Raoul Silva: Her loss.

Skyfall

You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.

Chesley Sullenberger

If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest.

Bill Maher