Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Capaldi

I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.

Stephen Kenny

It appears to me that Saddam Hussein will be afforded a trial that represents a fairer system of justice than what David Hicks will receive.

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Tony Buzan

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

Sugata Mitra

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Ann Veneman

There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need.

Quentin Blake

I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.

Laura Schlessinger

When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.

Dannel Malloy

What we want to do is guarantee all 4-year-old children in the City of Stamford a prekindergarten experience regardless of their financial circumstances.

Cecil Murray

Here on this bend, the house was burning. Families lived there, ... This child was looking back to his residence, the mother was weeping and the father was shaking his head, asking, 'How could this be? How could this be?'

Peter Jensen

Here in the United States, there is a tendency to over-prescribe in some instances. But it pales in comparison to the under-prescription or under-recognition of these problems in children, ... We know from a variety of epidemiologic and other related studies, that as many as half of the children with conditions such as ADHD are not being treated at all.

Friedrich Schiller

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Annika Sorenstam

I just thought that is pretty neat. She comes from a small town, just like I do, and I thought, 'Wow! If she can do that, maybe I can follow my dreams and one day be able to follow her path.

Jeff Mangum

I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.

Hilary Clinton

In my dreams I meet six New Yorkers I screwed over. Whether I did it legally or not is irrelevant.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Randy Smith

The last four years have been great. It's a lot of coaches' dreams to be at the state tournament, and it was a dream for me. But these are super, super kids. It's hard to let them go.

Joe Girardi

I took this situation because I wanted this situation and I wanted these kids. We all want to help these kids succeed. We all want to help them realize their dreams and become great players.

Corey Hart

This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.

Shane Carruth

In school, when I got into upper-level math, there would be times when I would wake up from a dream and have - not an answer, exactly, but a direction to pursue. My writing has always been like that. I wake up from dreams knowing which direction to go in.

Ozzie Guillen

I talked to him. We talked. He said he didn't mean it like it sounded. It wasn't that I was (angry), but I was sad because I've known Dusty since I was 2.

Tom McCoy

It will be a little dusty this year, but there will be a great end product," ()

George Carlin

In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Coliseum called the Caesarian Section

Greg Gallaspy

What we want to do is ensure there's a balance. That's the key.

David Hartley

Having a new state-of-the-art plant is encouraging, but it does not ensure that Cott will do a better job of managing its entire plant operations.

Charles Grassley

We must ensure that this nightmare NEVER occurs again,

David Emerson

Part of what we're doing right now is to ensure that what we do doesn't make matters worse.

Kip Hawley

In view of our need to establish trust with all of our stakeholders on the security and privacy of our systems and data, my priority is to ensure that we do it right, not just that we do it quickly.

Don Garber

In order to ensure that the team will have the appropriate time to prepare for the 2006 season,

Mbhazima Shilowa

In particular, we need to ensure that by 2009 all roads in the townships are tarred.

Peter King

It has to be a weapon held in reserve to ensure there is a real investigation.

E. O. Wilson

I have no reason not to ensure that the truth is told and I am tired of the way in which the Republicans have smeared my family and myself for no reason other than to perpetuate their lies to the American people.

Viola Spolin

If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Peter Kelley

In the near-term though, converting from gas-powered to electric-powered doesn't do anything for the environment...at this moment, you're still polluting.

James Winchester

If you think this is a tough environment, the fire hose is going to be on full stream in the third quarter.

Chris Young

In order for the game to come back to Leominster the facility is going to have to be deemed a completely safe environment to all involved ... fans, bands, players, coaches, everybody.

Francois Trahan

I just don't think the post-Fed environment is going to be what people think it will be. Things will look a lot more like the 1960s.

Tommy Amaker

I'm hopeful our seniors can lead us in this environment, and so in order to do that, I'm going to rely on them to make sure we're ready, we're hungry and we're going to go after it.

Chris DeWolfe

If people watching videos in a social environment see something they like, they tell their friends, and it spreads virally. Word of mouth is much more valuable than advertising.

Kent Mergler

In this environment people are scared. When there's smoke you just run.

Ciara

I have to be tough in my work environment and tough in the world.

Charlie Anderson

He did not yell anything, he did not say anything, he just ran his truck over the crosses.

Sean Fleming

He is the type of wrestler who can be ranked in the state and do some big things in tournaments.

Randy Woods

The range is 40 yards and in, preferably 30 yards and in. And every manufacturer will tell you the same thing.

Larry Brown

He doesn't know any plays. Not that we ran any the first half.

Don Shuler

Christiansburg's ranked nationally in the top 10. They don't have many weaknesses. They're strong from top to bottom. Fortunately, there's only one of them in each weight class.

Sean Kelly

I just remember thinking, 'I don't know what I'm doing so open,' so I just ran in and scored.

Carlos Arroyo

I never ran into somebody that big. I'll be all right.

Brad Johnson

I'm very comfortable with the offense. I ran a version of it in Tampa.

Austin Dobson

And I wove the thing to a random rhyme, For the Rose is Beauty, the Gardener, Time.

Brian O'Driscoll

In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case.

Laurie Levenson

It is my understanding that they have walled her off from day one and that she has had no decision-making responsibility in the case.

Richelle Mead

You understand your responsibilities better than guardians twice your age. You'll do what you have to do to succeed.

William J. Clinton

I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

William J. Clinton

When I was president, I knew exactly what I wanted to do every day to bring America together and create a greater sense of opportunity and a larger sense of responsibility and a stronger sense of community.

William J. Clinton

Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.

Sarah Palin

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

Richard M. Nixon

The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong."

Vance Havner

It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available.

Valerie Jarrett

A new era of responsibility is here.

Rudi Giuliani

It may look like the worst is over, and in many ways it is, but the roads will be very slippery and very dangerous, particularly during the night,

Don Allen

I saw a lot of two-lane roads become four-lane roads. Back when I first started all the development on (Ga. Highway) 124 had not occurred.

Jan Egeland

We need helicopters because the roads are gone,