Quotes About Former

No former player has owned a team in baseball.

When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I awake most days, read the paper, and then observe that, 'It's yet another great day to be the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.'

And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri.

I cannot imagine why we should be at expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

What bitter slavishness, that of my face, that of one of my former faces. This odious fate reserved for my features must perforce make me odious too, but I no longer care.

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

A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.

I'm looking forward to the time they describe me as the former president. And, of course, there are pressures from my own party and other Sudanese parties also, and I succumb to those pressures, but I hope as soon as possible I can find an exit out of this.

It was generally known, there was an epidemic of suicide among former soldiers.

Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide says Haiti is a country with many victims of prejudice. I think he is telling the truth.

Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.

I had a very warm and cordial relationship with the then former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee when I was the chief minister for the first time.

Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.

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

seventy to eighty former members of their secret police that the British left behind undetected in Philadelphia.

The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region.

Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

The Southern whites are not yet living quite in the present age; many of their general ideas hark back to a former century, some of them to the Dark Ages. In the light of other days they are sometimes magnificent. Today they are often cruel and ludicrous.

Steuart, who was also impressed by the great power of the "little objects of ambition" to motivate ordinary persons,[73] presented this same contrast in less positive terms: In former times "men were . . . forced to labour because they were slaves to others; men are now forced to labour because they are slaves to their own wants.

And all my former life is seen—a crazy drowsy beautiful and utterly appalling dream.

As a proud former Secret Service agent, it's tough to stand by and watch the agency struggle.

I'm a shadow of my former self, she announces. Vinny was a shadow to begin with, now she's a shadow of a shadow.