Former Quotes

I'm a former mayor. I know that being a cop is not an easy job. But when police officers misbehave, they've got to be held accountable.

I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.

If you believe our president, a former oil businessman, is going to end our addiction to oil, shame on all of us.

Shawn's (Shawn Weatherly - former beauty queen) acting ability is such that she could not convey the concept of falling if your pushed her off a cliff.

Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.

The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?

TV can be an acronym for television or transvestite. I prefer using it to describe the the latter. The former is strange and undignified.

The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.

Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

Robert Whitmore died of apoplexy when a stranger from Georgia mistook him for a former Macon waiter.

I grew up in such a macho family. I had a former Green Beret for a dad, a mom who's really rough-and-tumble, and three very macho brothers.

I owe a lot to this club and the supporters who were always there for me. They supported me even when I was suspended. (on his former club CSKA Sofia)

Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them.

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment; the former is never forgiven, but the later is sometimes forgotten.

Now as a former welfare recipient, I don't have a problem with expecting people to work to earn money. But where I come from we call that a job, not volunteerism.

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

I was, after all, the daughter of a man who believed that to be involved with books was to live at the heart of light, and the former wife of a man who shared his faith.

We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress.

When I was in school, my former roommate went through hazing. I heard the stories, but I don't think I've seen a movie that captures the stuff that goes on.

There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.” ~Deidre O’Neill, known as Edde (p. 213)

The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.

The only similarity between the car and the human body is that if something is seriously wrong with the design of the former you can send it back to its maker.

When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia (former Grateful Dead guitarist) destroyed his life on drugs. And yet hes being honored, like some godlike figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks.

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

If great teams don't have an "enemy," they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, "you can't have a war without one."

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.

Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's definitely bled into my writing.

Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.

I like to think of myself less like 'an adult' and more like a 'former fetus.'

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

Last night we had Bill Clinton, the former president. Security was as tight as Governor Christie's yoga pants.

I am a man. And I am former baby and a future skeleton, and I am a distant future pile of dust.

As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.

Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter.

I was Ashallayn'darkmyr Tallyn, son of Mab, former prince of the Unseelie Court, and I was not afraid of a witch on a broom.

Remember, everything you are building today will be killed or iterated. The former is more likely than the latter. Great products are created by many incremental improvements.

I call myself a FFP: former fat person, and when you're an FFP, you will always see in yourself what people used to bully you for.

We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.

In recent weeks, I have heard former Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier on Fox News twice asserting, quite offhandedly, that President George W. Bush 'lied us into war in Iraq.'

Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.

Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.

My husband is a former Air Force pilot and my son is an active duty Army surgeon, recently returned from Iraq, so my pride in our military is passionate... and personal.

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.