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.

Diane Cilento

Everybody keeps talking about whether they had a happy childhood or not. I can't remember being unhappy. I think I probably was.

Merle Friedman

Dissociation is usually indicative of early childhood sexual abuse.

Miles D. White

People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, 'It's so big, I can't make a difference.' I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.

Julian Lee

The tendency (is) once prices start to rise, for everybody to open the tap a little bit.

Greg Spires

The most important thing is that we're playing together and everybody is gelling, everybody likes each other, ... Everybody wants to win, and when you're winning, everybody's happy.

Marquis Daniels

Strange things happen in this game. There were a lot of things going on, and we let them hang around for too long. Then everybody started making shots.

Christopher Harame

Something was wrong. Everybody could feel it. The majority of us figured we were going to be at war with the (Japanese) soon. We didn't figure they were going to hit us.

Matt Gray

Somebody was going to pick it up. Actually, everybody stepped up.

Martin Selmayr

Some say 10% to 15% of revenue comes from roaming. Everybody is using speculative figures at the moment.

Justin Williams

Some people thought that it was going to be a learning process because we got young guards, but all he's doing is showing everybody that they're wrong.

Kevin Stacom

Some people thought he was a lock to be a first-rounder. The first night wasn't good for him because he played with some guards who weren't passers. In the second and third night he shot the heck out of the ball. So he proved what everybody knew. And he's got some other stuff to his game.

Kelsey Grabiak

No, she was happy for us. She was really excited.

Robby Davis

We're happy with the jump we had. We've got work to do, but we're moving in the right direction.

Gary Cole

We're happy to see them. We hope they're here for a long time.

Rene Portland

We're happy to be here (at least) one more night.

Hines Ward

We're happy to be going to the Super Bowl, but we want to win. We plan to go there and win the whole thing.

Jud Honaker

We're happy to be able to help, and we wish them the best.

Randy Nelson

We're happy they're willing to sponsor us since we couldn't get sponsorship here.

Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

James Kelleher

There are a lot of reasons why (Wall Street) just isn't happy about this restructuring.

Bill Self

As long as he keeps trying, he's going to get it. In our mind, we are not discouraged at all with Micah. Not at all.

Jeremiah Jeremiah

The one thing that has keeps me from love is doubt.

John Tyndall

Science keeps down the weed of superstition not by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation

Will Rogers

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office

Shahazad

A in a mans life is a state of mind, it keeps changing.

Petter Solberg

What can we do? Loeb just keeps taking every stage from us and no-one can keep up.

Megan Mires

Those meetings are so good. It keeps me proud and keeps my resentment down. It reminds me of why we are over there.

Sam Altman

Loopt isn't a service that keeps you locked in, staring at your screen.

Donald Brashear

Maybe next time. If he keeps playing like that, maybe it will be worse.

Carl Sandburg

God, let me remember all good losers.

Donald Trump

We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that.

Adam Duritz

I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass

Ann Brashares

you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.

Ann Brashares

I killed her once and died for her many times and I still have nothing to show for it. I always search for her ; I always remember her. I carry the hope that someday she will remember me.

Ann Brashares

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

Ann Brashares

When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.

Andrea Dworkin

Remember: Resist do not comply

Allen West

And always remember, Abraham Lincoln only served one term in Congress, too.

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Brian K. Vaughan

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

Calvin Coolidge

Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.

James Woods

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Dana Perino

Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.

Lester Funk

We're 16-4 right now, but we could be 0-20 and the sportsmanship has to be there whether we win or lose.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

F. Schumacher

That has to be our target. Whether it's realistic, we'll find out in Bahrain.

Imtiaz Ali

Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.

Joanna Garcia

You have to be with the right person. It's so much more important to meet the right person, whether you're married or not, than it is to get married and get a divorce.