My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

I was doing a late-night round as a milkman in 1978 when I heard a radio DJ announce that he was leaving. I marched straight to the radio station and told them I could do...

Certainly Yahoo! wouldn’t exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it.

When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

From ‘Embracing the Wide Sky’, I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several languages.

You know, I think that people give you back what you gave them. I try to be… as I am.

Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.

Absolutely, ‘Rabbit Hole’ gave me a nice first introduction into film acting.

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.

In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang ’em, I gave myself goosebumps.

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

I always want to give more than I gave yesterday.

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It’s not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that...

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something that gave me so much pleasure.

I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.

They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun.

I didn’t get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

I did live in New York. Yeah, I moved to L.A. for ‘Community.’ And I gave up my apartment in New York.

You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable.

For years, the West supported Mubarak and gave aid for what it hoped was stability – but was actually stagnation – in the Middle East.

The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition.

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I’m Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

Time gave us memory.

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.

Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.

When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.

Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I’d be a preacher.

They, astounded at the flash of the armor, and the swiftness of the charge, and attacked by showers of arrows and missiles, half naked as they were, never stopped to resist but gave way.

Sandler’s always good. Tom Hanks gave me some good advice.

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches people, and I’m just so blessed.

If you could see the instructions that I gave Jerry to begin with, I’d be embarrassed.

I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.

My first publication was a haiku in a children’s magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it...

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

I have this red cardigan that my friend Coco gave me that has holes for thumbs. It’s my cozy sweater. I wear it a lot.

My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.

I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for ‘National Geographic,’ and they gave us a lot of film.

I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn’t even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents’ names that I gave.

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as a kind of private letter having no binding policy impact.

Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and spectral resolutions of the imagery available to us are so broadly useful for...