Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high.

Alastair Campbell

I had a happy childhood.

Angela Merkel

I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.

Angela Carter

[T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants--neither alcohol nor meat--are served, that comforting repast of which to partake is as good as second childhood.

Andre Breton

The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.

E. B. White

Our culture tells us that alcohol and sex go together, yet it is illegal to use alcohol to facilitate sex.

Peter Nicholson

This is not about setting up the licensee, this is about deterring both the customer and the licensee from breaking the law. Young people can get into difficulties very easily after consuming alcohol and are not equipped to deal with the consequences, it is our responsibility to protect them. We do this by tackling both the supply and the demand for alcohol.

Teresa Belew

This is one of the most high-risk times of the year for young people as they approach both prom and graduation. Unfortunately, the perception that it is a rite of passage and even expected for young people to drink and that adults provide alcohol to them is a very dangerous proposition.

Peter Sommer

The way we drink wine is changing fast and consumers of today want smooth, powerful, high alcohol wines, often to be enjoyed without food. Now, the producers are handed the tools to keep up with consumers.

Kate Linder

Alcohol is the drug of choice at IUP,

Claire Forlani

Alcohol is a diuretic, and the pounding headaches and furry tongue are caused by dehydration, so replacing this lost water is essential.

Robert Eckels

Alcohol has a direct toxic effect on heart muscle.

Diane Riibe

What we know from the brain research is that kids and alcohol don't mix. It impacts their frontal lobe so decision making judgment and risk taking increases. So it's a double mix of danger.

Julie Raeder

Drinking too much alcohol may replace the nutritious foods in a diet. It can also interfere with nutrients absorbed from foods.

Jean Schmidt

The fact that a lot of legislators live here makes it comforting to me,

P. J. Harvey

Just for six weeks, one time. A lighthouse keeps sailors from danger, to navigate from danger out there. The light is a comforting thing to see.

Helen Keller

It gives me a deep comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

Kurt Vonnegut

Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.