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.

Nelly Furtado

I just think motherhood made me better, I think it rejuvenates you as a person, mind, body and spirit, and I think every woman is different.

John Eldredge

How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. (What’s Wrong with the World)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.

Meg Ryan

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do it even though it takes a lot.

Patricia Hill Collins

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

Lisa Unger

Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.

Misty May-Treanor

My biggest goal for the future is motherhood,

Marianne Williamson

I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.

Martha Wainwright

It can often happen that motherhood can really stop a lot of women in their tracks and I wanted to try and keep working through that as much as I could.

Mark Mershon

It boils the blood and chills the spine to see a sitting judge in the midst of a mob-directed money-laundering conspiracy.

Ken Young

Here was a guy who trained and lived right ... no drinking, no smoking. He was a national champion. But he didn't know he had high blood pressure. A lot of people don't know. That's why it's the silent killer.

Tupac Shakur

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

Satchel Paige

Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.

Vittorio Alfieri

Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.

Rodney Dangerfield

Comedy is in my blood. Too bad it's not in my act.

Robertson Davies

Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.

Robert Penn Warren

To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.

Robert Louis Stevenson

His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.