Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

C. S. Lewis

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

Jane Yolen

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

Jane Smiley

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

Aristophanes

The old are in a second childhood.

Bruce Chatwin

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.

Leigh Steinberg

Duce was a Steelers fan growing up, so this represents the fulfillment of a childhood dream, ... At the end we did go back to Philly as he promised he would, but his re-involvement in their backfield rotation was a disincentive to re-signing there.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I speak to my childhood friends almost every day over the Internet.

Alexander Herzen

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.

Dan Brown

There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

Susanna Kaysen

Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

Mercedes McCambridge

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

H. P. Lovecraft

Our brains deliberately make us forget things, to prevent insanity

Errol Morris

The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.

Henry David Thoreau

Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.

Graham Greene

Innocence is a kind of insanity

Horace

Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.

Isaac Asimov

All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.

Tim Pape

Rather than just have the annexed people represented by people they never voted for, some people on borders of districts will get new councilmen. And they've always got the at-large members.

Michael Armstrong

Borders all over the world are coming down, and as they come down opportunities spring up, ... Companies reach further to compete with their products and services, and when they want to open shop, wherever they want to open shop, they want those communications services to support their people and their products, and we've got to be there.

Bryan Harris

At some point you know they are going to go on a run and she's going to be in the middle of it. She plays with extreme confidence that borders on arrogance, but doesn't quite cross over that line. The whole team does. They know what they can do.

Michael Chertoff

We cannot hermetically seal 7,000 miles of land borders and keep out 100 percent of illegal crossers, ... But we can create such a high likelihood of interdiction that it will have a strong and unequivocal deterrent effect on those who wish to cross illegally.

Mike Johanns

There is no justifiable reason for borders to be closed to U.S. beef,

Donald Trump

We pay a subsidy. Money coming over the border, they're - there are so many ways that Mexico makes money with us, Bob. There are so many different ways, five in particular, that we will take it out of there.

Amelia Earhart

No borders, just horizons - only freedom.

Tom Tancredo

We can control our borders, we just choose not too.

Marco Rubio

I am the son and grandson of immigrants. And I know that securing our borders is not anti-immigrant and we will do it.