Nan Gorman was born in Memphis, Tenn., on St. Patrick's Day. She moved to Hazard in 1929 when her father, James Hagan, a recent medical school graduate and aspiring surgeon, went to work there.

The pursuit of excellence is a continuous process through life. Enjoy the pursuit.

We do not support an automatic pathway to citizenship.

We feel a pathway to citizenship would reward illegal activity, ... Amnesty encourages further illegal immigration.

Those who come forward will not be offered an automatic pass to citizenship and should be expected to pay a substantial fine or penalty to participate in the temporary program.

Our intention is to clarify and modernize overtime pay rules.

It will level the playing field, ... It will give American workers choice, confidence and also control.

Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports.

The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known.

We Americans typically are more positive about our individual futures, which we have some control over, than we are the nation's or the world's, which we see largely through the media prism.

Forget the dream. Stay real.

I love 'Dexter.' The dark sense of humor is wonderful.

If my strength is technology, financial structuring is my son's skill.

Beauty is in the eye of the Creator.

To me the ultimate sin was refusing to listen to reason.

Criticism always hurts most when we deserve it.

History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.

I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes.