Famous Quotes & Sayings

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Ogden Nash

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Charles Dyer

We feel very strongly about all children having an equal opportunity for education,

Lesleigh Drye

We got our favorite cookie and our favorite chocolate and our favorite nut mix. And then we got suckers to make our children happy.

Mona Simpson

We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of raising children than our grandparents gave them, when women by and large stayed at home.

Mark Finkelstein

We're very excited about this. This is a great thing for the children.

Nina Holland

Very young children can just not protect themselves as effectively as adults can.

Orson Scott Card

It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.

Christine Mazier

You do your children a disservice if you don't find time for yourself. If you're always making sacrifices for them, they won't learn to respect your time as they grow.

Nina Bawden

There are many times when I think I would have rather died with my husband. It would have been pleasanter, simpler. But it would have been worse for the children and the family in general.

Samantha Bond

My best friend is my husband.

Khaled Hosseini

and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.

Khaled Hosseini

When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.

Jonathan Sacks

Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us a husbands and wives, parents, friends and citizens, and by the knowledge of what we do and what we are makes a difference to those around us. (...) Renewing society's resources of moral energy is the program, urgent but achievable.

Louise Erdrich

Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.

Gennifer Flowers

I'm a married woman. I love my husband; I have a good life.

James Anthony Froude

What is right or duty without power ? To tell a man it is his duty to submit his judgment to the judgment of the church, is like telling a wife it is her duty to love her husband a thing easy to say, but meaning simply nothing. Affection must be won, not commanded.

Helen Garner

But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.

Valerie Azlynn

I like a man with some extra padding.

Francis Jeffrey

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Herodotus

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Francis Herbert Hedge

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Marianne Williamson

Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind?

Lindy Ruff

We only had two odd-man rushes the whole night.

Peter Falk

I didn't become an actor until I was an old man of 28 or 29. I declared to the world that I was an actor. Nobody heard me, but I did declare it.