Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?
A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.
Do not borrow tomorrow's troubles today
I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.
I once was poor myself. I worked to get where I am today and I've worked hard to spend $100,000 a year on my clothes and I've worked hard to earn $3 million a year. I deserve what I get because I worked for it.
Whatever, I copied all through school, and look how well I’m doing today.
You can't kick me down, I'm already on the ground. No, you can't, but you couldn't catch me anyhow. Blue skies, but the sun isn't comming out, no. Today, it is like I'm under a heavy cloud. " Avril Lavigne (Runaway)
I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
Because I'm not the same today as I was in '58, or '59 or even '71.
When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.
If I want a television, I would love the buy American-made televisions like they used to have where they had GE and Sylvania and all of the different. Today, it's Samsung, it's LG, it's Sony. We don't make televisions anymore.
Like the Governor-General, when asked what you enjoy most about the job my tendency is to say "today", because of the insights you get into our nation and because of the privileged contact you have with so many people.
I have to stay positive and live for today and tomorrow.
Girl Scouts offered a wonderful group of girls where common concerns and interests could come together. We could learn, be challenged, and support one another. It was a very positive aspect of my life and played an important role in shaping who I am today.
Today's belief is tomorrow's behavior. If you want to be happier person tomorrow, sow seeds of happiness today.
Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.
In the US in the 1900's 60 % of people were employed on the farms. Today it's less than 1%. If you told people back then that this would happen they wouldn't have believed it. If you told them we would have therapy, massages and spas that played important parts in our lives they would've have believed us.
I know it's different today than when I was growing up, and that's fine. But I have never been somebody, even when I was earning $19,000 a year, I never ran around whining and moaning about what things cost. What they cost was what they cost. And if I couldn't afford it, then I had to find a way to afford it or forget about it for now. It's just the way it was.
A circus here, a circus there; here today, gone tomorrow. Big Brother watching you. Fear eats the soul.
