There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.
My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.
I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.
I've learned over the years to appreciate God's timing, and you can't rush things; it's gonna happen exactly when it's supposed to.
From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.
I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.
In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.
I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.
America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.
Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.
Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.
I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.
I've seen bands split up for five years and do nothing. That sounds great to me, but it just hasn't worked out that way.
It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.
My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.
After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.
We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television.
As I've grown older, I've developed an appreciation for wines that are immediately gratifying but that can also provide great satisfaction over several years.
I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
