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.

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.

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.

James Boyle

Having watched their children grow up with a keyboard at their fingertips, parents know that their kids will inevitably turn to their computers for entertainment. And parents also know that downloading music is easy, prevalent and often illegal. These days, colleges and universities can offer alternatives that are just as easy and available, but more importantly to parents, legal.

Janusz Bednarski

Greg Howard was one of the heroes on the men's side.

Rick Riordan

I looked at the campers, all of them grim and determined. I tried not to feel like this was the last time I'd ever see them all together. 'You're the greatest heroes of this millennium,' I told them. 'It doesn't matter how many monsters come at you. Fight bravely, and we will win.' I raised Riptide and shouted, 'FOR OLYMPUS!' They shouted in response, and our forty voices echoed off the buildings of Midtown.

Regina Spektor

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

Sanaa Lathan

You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.

Samuel Fuller

Heroes? Don't believe in them.

Salvador Dali

Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.

Ryan Phillippe

In my career, I've often played the protagonist or the hero of the movie, and there are so many rules inherent to that role. The audience needs to stay with you, identify with you and like you. When you play the bad guy, those rules go out the window. There's so much freedom there.

Walton Goggins

My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.

W. P. Kinsella

Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.

Alex Coletti

Knowing this channel was coming, for the past year or year and a half, we've been shooting all our shows in high def, converting them for air but saving a high-def master with 5.1 audio. Now I've got a shelf full of stuff I can't wait to get out there.

Greg Olsen

Just to float in the air is such a great experience. I'm still literally on cloud nine about it.

David Somerville

Josh and Ryan used to hang out all the time together, ... Ryan went into the Air Force, and Josh went into the Marines.

Maria Sharapova

It can be tough to stay motivated to run and train. So when I have a comfortable shoe where I can feel cushion and I can feel like I'm walking on air, then there's so much more enjoyment in my training. The Air Max 360 does that for me.

Bill Rego

He walks with this air of confidence. He always knew this day would come. I couldn't be happier for him. It couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Frank Catalanotto

He just got a fastball in and I tried to get the bat on it and I was lucky enough to get it up in the air and wrap it around the pole.

Ken Jr.

Guys weren't up there swinging for home runs. We tried to make solid contact. We got a couple of balls in the air and they went out.

Tony Davis

Having started with only two Airbus A320 aircraft in September last year, Tiger Airways has grown and will continue to grow as one of the world's leading low-fare airlines.

JJ Abrams

He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash and would I please help him do it, ... I thought, 'How is that a show?' And then I thought if I were to do this it would be far too weird and borderline sci-fi and he'd never want to do it. But his response was no, I love that idea.