I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up all the gifts were shredded ribbons off torn open and thrown aside.

When more and more people are thrown out of work unemployment results.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground but a kind word is never thrown away.

I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

American society is a sort of flat fresh-water pond which absorbs silently without reaction anything which is thrown into it.

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window except that the birds might eat them.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

With everything that's thrown at you whether it be problems at home problems at work - whatever - basically if you remain positive you can see your way out of that.