35 Quotes by Michael Smith

Some lobbyists might consider this a lobbying opportunity. But we see it as a very worthy charitable event.

My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne's-on-Sea.

My mother attended the local church, Saint Nicolas, and consequently, I attended that church and its Sunday School. My only prizes from the Sunday School were 'for attendance,' so I presume my atheism, which developed when I left home to attend university, although latent, was discernible.

I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours program at the University of Manchester in 1950, where the professors were E.R.H. Jones and M.G. Evans, and graduated in 1953, with the financial support of a Blackpool Education Committee Scholarship.

You always have people going past me going 60 to 70 miles per hour.

The governor is very pleased that the (state) Senate acted promptly in confirming him and is sure he'll serve the people of the county well.

We all know Sunday morning is the most segregated hour of the week. I honestly believe this movie has real potential to change our country on race relations. People will walk out of this movie talking.

Bowl games provide a great opportunity to reinforce a national awareness of a city ... especially this time of year.

Ain't too many 14-year-olds that come and tell you they want to play big-time college football. I never have to tell him how hard he's got to work.