Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Kerry Nelson

Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.

Britt Ekland

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

John Romano

Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.

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

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

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.

Sugata Mitra

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

Ann Veneman

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

Bronson Arroyo

Just one of those days that every hit they had, they were all mistakes and they smashed him,

Steve Dunn

I taught somewhere between 600 to 700 students while I was here. I can tell you those were great days in this old school building.

Tony Russa

He just had no feel. Everything he tried to do, he was missing his target. It was one of those days that he just didn't have a feel for the game of pitching.

Larry Rothschild

He knows that he does sides in between and the days he does them. I'll talk to him in the next day or two but the scheduling, as far as pitching, is not in our hands.

Dani Shapiro

I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.

Robert Wisner

Here in Iowa, there were a lot of nervous days during the summer due to hotter weather than in earlier years.

Christian Vieri

He's a good kid. We've been together for 20 days and have had a good time together,

Arlen Specter

Here you have a reporter in jail for 85 days and millions of Americans wonder why? I'm one of those.

Arnie Berman

Here we are seven days into the new quarter, and the pre-announcement season has been extremely mild,

Hiroyuki Nakai

The market is under pressure from three E's -- energy, euro and earnings, ... With third-quarter results about to come out in the U.S., investors are not so eager to take positions now.

Otto Friedrich

Americans have always been eager for travel, that being how they got to the New World in the first place.

Jennifer Diebling

They're so eager to watch the acts. They've been extremely respectful.

David Williams

ready and eager to vote in this referendum.

Patrick Walsh

After all that's happened, the team is eager to get on the field and move forward. It's going to be interesting to see how we play and where we go from here.

Kevin Kwan

The most important thing to keep in mind is the incredible diversity of talent that's out there - there are so many great actors from all over Asia, from Singapore and Hong Kong to the Philippines and Mainland China, not to mention many great Asian-American actors who are eager for fun and challenging roles.

Danielle Santos

Actually, watching film, to me, is how I learn. I was eager to watch the film.

Steve Evans

Every day more people join the ranks of the informed public, eager to report suspicious activity,

Joseph Tacopina

We are very eager for this trial to get it underway. Melanie wants it. I want it.

Ron Hutchins

John is a very pleasing young man to have. He's very focused on what he does. You'll see him moving up.

S. Walker

It all seems to be focused on him (Rodriguez).

Larry Hoff

Her scoring numbers are actually a little down from last year. Part of it is because we have other players who can score, but the main reason is that Jessi has focused on getting her teammates more involved.

Mike Beall

I think you can see by the reaction of my girls. They know we're going to have to play them again. It's just another region game, just like the last one was. Just another region game. Our focus right now is Flagstaff next Tuesday on the road.

Jim Finlen

We told the guys they'll wake up Sunday morning and it's a new day. I just hope we can get our focus back.

Frank Martin

We are focusing on maximizing our revenue streams through product innovation,

Vince Borg

We are focused on the integration of Placer Dome's assets, people and projects.

Vince Carter

I think we've established ourselves at home. But we've still got to keep that focus every night.

Ray Hunkins

I think what we have to focus on with the wolf issue is reducing the number of wolves in Wyoming, and the methodology can be different.

Duncan Hunter

I think it shows they were trying to save American lives when they did that. Unfortunately, those pictures were released.

Adriano Moraes

Rob is a legend. He's been saving lives for 30 years and never missed a season.

Bob Denver

Our lives will never be the same without him,

Tracie Beasley

Our lives are so full. For people to get outdoors and recreate is so important.

Courtney Anderson

I like to know what's going on in everyone's lives and how I can relate to them.

Jeff Ward

This is aimed at those small and medium-sized livestock producers, ... This could be a valuable tool for them.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it

Collin C. Peterson

It's time for us to keep better track of our livestock as they cross borders.

Lauren Myracle

Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives perhaps matter most of all.

W. H. Auden

By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

Joan Didion

Mourning has its place but also its limits.

Steve Friedman

It's The Mourning Show. Is it true that the theme song is going to be "Taps"?

Catherynne M. Valente

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

Anton Chekhov

I'm in mourning for my life.

Edmund Spenser

Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate

Alice Miller

That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning.

Roger Williams

The ministry or service of prophets and witnesses, mourning and prophesying in sackcloth, God has directly commissioned and upheld all during the reign of the beast and antichrist of Rome. This witness is probably near finished, and the bloody storm of slaughter is yet to be expected and prepared for.

Roland Barthes

Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.

Donald Rumsfeld

I slept on it, and I'm not going to recommend that it be vetoed.

Elias Hicks

To this light, then, would I recommend all, with mine own soul, - to this sure way of salvation.

Rick Page

Right now I don't think my 5A schools would go to the Valley. But they could put us with Laredo.

Anthony Hamilton

It was very important for me to touch on things that haven't changed, like schools. I'm in Cleveland, Ohio. My lady's from Ohio, and the schools are being torn down, and they turned them into high-rise condos.

Bob Curran

He did shoot around with us. He seems to be fine.

Tony Oller

Let's be honest, Netflix has stepped up its game up. It seems to have a lot more of an assortment of stuff.

Hans Blix

I think it seems ... they are making an effort.

Kristan Higgins

I think it's always interesting to learn what the seemingly spontaneous one-nighter actually reveals about a character.

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

Dominick Romero

I don't know what that was. Zone or man, it didn't seem to matter.

Craig Bellamy

He doesn't seem too worried about anything or overawed,

Joe Torre

He doesn't seem to be overwhelmed by it.

Yogi Berra

It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I wrote once every two or three weeks for about a year, ... and then about a year ago, I got an e-mail.

Mark Grindstaff

Joel is real dominant. He didn't have any trouble. He has one loss. All three are undefeated in league.

Spencer Stewart

Going 30-0 is amazing, but we want three more wins.

Robert Meyer

It is phenomenal. When we first started, it was just me and three employees. We all wore many hats.

Jim Hickey

I was worried that he wouldn't even make it through three innings.

David Marshall

Hell, by then it'd been out there three days.

Whitey Herzog

We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.

Richard Francis Burton

All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.

Vanessa Hudgens

I have three closets in my bedroom.