Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rodman Philbrick

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

Michael Mullen

As a Naval officer, I've been all over the world, and one of the foundational lessons I learned was that parents everywhere would like to raise their children to a higher standard of living in a peaceful environment. That's a universal goal for families.

Melina Kennedy

As a mother, as a lawyer, I find it unbelievable that we would let children be near convicted sex offenders. We need to do everything we can, including at the city ordinance level, to make sure we keep our kids safe.

Karen Hughes

As a mom, I also have to say I really appreciated his leadership on helping teach our kids to make the right choices, because it really takes all of us. And it's wonderful to know government is going to be a partner with parents in helping our children to make the right choices on critical issues that could threaten their whole lives.

Michael Leunig

A society that's provided for by television is a society that says it doesn't need too many parks or natural situations for children to play in because television will look after them.

Joanna Gonzalez

Ready Kids is a tool for parents and teachers to use to be able to speak to their students and children about how to be prepared for any type of disaster.

Don Wildmon

Rather than trying to describe it to you, I would rather you watch it yourself. After watching the video, please follow the instructions to file your official complaint with the FCC. It will only take a couple of minutes to file the complaint. Do it for your children and grandchildren.

Gail Cunningham

Reading gardens are a beautiful, fresh way for communities to enjoy green spaces with lasting positive impact for children and adults.

Jacqui Rivait

Reaching out to help others is a great way for children to learn to become responsible. Younger children may not understand the concept of social responsibility, but they will understand the importance of collecting mittens for children who have nothing to keep their hands warm in the winter.

Kate Kendall

It was very exciting. I was just delighted. We put a lot of work into collecting those samples, and we wanted to get as much information as we could from them.

Jerry Yang

I started collecting in the late 1990s. My first purchase was from an auction, a scroll by Dong Qichang, from the early 16th century, the late Ming Dynasty.

Robert Jones

We will be calculating and collecting the exact amount.

Dalai Lama

People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself

Mike Doyle

For Robb, it's a lifetime endeavor. He's been collecting ever since we were kids.

Jodi Kantor

One of my favorite stories is from Obama's first campaign: Michelle Obama was out there every day, collecting signatures and supervising the other people who did. If you were supposed to get 300 signatures and you only got 299, you had to face the wrath of Michelle.

Pat Ross

I was supposed to be collecting the mail for a neighbor next door. One day I forgot, and Dennis started holding it so it didn't pile up.

Michael Patrick Hearn

I guess I never grew up. I was still reading kids' books in high school and college. I was always interested in writing or illustrating children's books, and I started collecting out-of-print books when I was about 10 years old.

Lorrin Lee

Most people tend to focus on getting a dream home and car. I prefer to focus on lifelong friendships and collecting memorable experiences.

Tim Sheldon

Offensively, we're working. We have a team concept going. We're working hard. They surprised me a little bit. I thought this was going to be a struggle, especially early on and it's cold. But they surprised me pleasantly.

Keni Thomas

Some (songs) were happy. Some were sad. Some were pretty motivational and some were just rockin'. It was a concept record, because we knew that you wouldn't be able to do this for the rest of your career.

Oscar Goodman

These were not simple concepts and the issues were complex. I think it has been a very worthwhile experience.

David Soul

I see my kids more often than ever, the six of them. The problems that used to be there, between myself and the first wives are gone. And what's happened over these years is that we've become friends. What a concept you know, become friends first, then get married. They all get on with each other too.

Theodor W. Adorno

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

Tao Lin

I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.

Jerry Calhoun

During these negotiations, there has been a lot of discussion about pensions. What hasn't received much discussion is the concept of balance,

Jon Kelly

Even kids as young as nine years are learning about gambling. They may not be gambling with money, but they're learning concepts of gambling. They see it.

Joseph Conrad

Between the conception and the creationbetween the emotion and the responseFalls the shadow

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Austin Mahone

The British fans are very intense, maybe even more so than fans in the U.S.! They're great.

Buck Showalter

The big thing was Curt Schilling, he was obviously on top of his game. We ran into a great pitcher today. It's disappointing.

David Lewis

The big question is: Is it too little, too late? I think in great part, yes.

George Savile

A very great memory often forgotteth how much time is lost by repeating things of no use

O. J. Simpson

Aw, Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

Josh Page

Avon had a lot to do with our shooting stats. They played great defense. They took away our inside game.

Heinz Jungwirth

Austria has great relations with the IOC. We don't want to put anything under the table.

James Coleman

A truly great hug comes when you squeeze just hard enough to share a heartbeat.

Steve Oestreicher

Now it's in the hands of the Legislature. We're going to see what they're going to do with it.

Jim Edmonds

Sometimes you have to throw your hands up.

Stan Schmidt

It was unbelievable. Who would have ever thought that people from the Dakotas would shake hands with the Pope?

Jim Fox

It was very therapeutic for me. It was actually like I got to lay my hands on her. I couldn't wait for Saturday.

Denise Neel

It was very exciting. It was tense. We knew we did well. But we knew it was in the judges hands so all we could do was sit and wait.

Mike Modano

It was tough. That's just what you go through. It's just part of the business, ... After it's done, you shake hands and everything's fine.

Philip Hoffman

It was all that (drugs and alcohol), yeah. It was anything I could get my hands on ... I liked it all.

Brock Farrel

I should have had two hands on the ball, and I didn't.

Rob Andrew

This is an unfortunate setback, and is in the hands of the medics, who will continually monitor the situation.

Dennis Northcutt

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'm going to be here, ... The only way I'm going to lose my job is if I'm messing up and not getting the job done.

Tom Lochner

Probably the most important thing was the educational process those students went through. Our role in the state symbol was to help those students have that experience.

Jim Bottorf

Our concern, of course, is for the people we won't be able to help during whatever time it takes us to get back up to speed.

Josh Young

People don't always realize how much we can help in these cases.

Delma Smith

Offer to help her with her house, if she helps you with yours. Then you're doing it as a team.

John Chaney

The national media hurts the A-10 more than any other league. We're always looked at as a stepchild. Our TV situation doesn't help recruiting. That's a major reason I play the type of schedule that I do, for recruiting.

Hayden Fry

The more down-to-earth things can help a lot.

Nick Exel

Definitely. I know I can help the team out more if I'm a little more aggressive. Basically, throughout this season I've been playing not to make mistakes, playing not to hurt the team.

Romeo Crennel

Dennis Northcutt was able to come in and make some plays that will help his psyche because I know he was a little down.

Andrew Chesley

That's No. 1. It's probably impossible to overstate the importance of getting the Measure K renewal program.

LL Cool

To he who much is given, much is required. That's the importance of this day,

Andrew Luck

Whether I'm on or off the field, I know the importance of getting enough sleep and starting the day with a wholesome breakfast like oatmeal made with milk and fruit.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance

Mike Degory

If we're going to take back the Swamp, it's going to start Saturday. We know that and understand the importance of this game. We're not overlooking it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

Kevin Johnson

Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up.

John Prendergast

'Unlikely Brothers' talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference.

Blair Jones

The president recognizes the importance of celebrating Jewish-American contributions to the nation.

Will Kemp

As an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

Goran Persson

A nice person who I've learned to appreciate.

Rachel Lawson

The thing about our sport is you have to turn around and it's a new game. You can't live in the past, you have to learn from your mistakes and keep moving.

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.

Scott Eyre

I've become a better pitcher because I've learned to economize.

Russ Ortiz

After I sat down and thought about it, I learned a lot about the game, about myself.

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Ozzie Guillen

Now I learned a lesson. I never thought I was going to do that, and it's ugly because I know a lot of people have taken the first shot at me, and I come back real strong.

John Toshack

The six of them did so well with us that I told Brian, 'I will keep the lot of them and send you three of the others from the squad! You can have them instead'.

English 15th Century Proverbs

Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

Bill Cowher

I saw the play and would not condone it. Is it illegal. No? It is necessary? I don't think so. ... Do unto others as you want others to do unto you.

Maxine Russell

If he was murdered we need to know that because there are others teaching in China.

Austin Wilson

I now what the same sense of security and safety that I used to preach to others about.

Martti Ahtisaari

I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.

William Butler Yeats

Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.

Eric Hoffer

We can see through others only when we see through ourselves

Manoj Bhargava

Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

Denise Monteiro

The social worker told her there was hope.

Connie Smith

This is not about me. It's just that social workers are needed. ... It really does a lot of good.

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

John Schneider

You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

Chuck Hagel

Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.

Anita Roddick

a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.

Rob Portman

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

Rob Lowe

As far as my work for causes or social issues, that's something I'm doing as a private citizen.

John Mushtare

As I understand it, we're going to need a lot of help. We need to win out and get some help.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Brad Pitt

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

Cameron Diaz

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

Alain de Botton

For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Damon Lindelof

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

Bodhidharma

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

Larry Brown

I wanted to play some of the younger kids. I didn't think there was a way we were going to get back in that ballgame, the way it was going.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Martin Parr

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

Bianca Lawson

I am so lazy. I really don't have a regimen. When I was younger I used to be into cardio and taebo and step-orobics and hiking. Lately, I haven't done anything at all. I'd like to get into yoga, but I've been really bad.