Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Smiley

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

Max Muller

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

Michael Gruber

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

Jean Cocteau

At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.

Frank Gehry

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.

Francis Quarles

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

Hugh Hefner

I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.

Gloria Steinem

We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.

Gloria Steinem

What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming "more than," or at least not becoming "less than," instead of becoming "part of."

Brendan Behan

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

Stanley Tucci

What's great is when you're working with somebody with whom you have a connection, it's exciting because there's a shorthand and you trust each other and you have a good time together on the set and so you can go a little farther than you might normally because you're with somebody that you trust.

Starhawk

We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups.

Stephenie Meyer

Don't be afraid," i murmured. "We belong together.

Tana French

When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to.

Rumi

It is Love that holds everything together, and it is the everything also.

Tom Lehrer

Oh we will all fry together when we fry. We'll be french fried potatoes by and by. There will be no more misery When the world is our rotisserie, Yes, we will all fry together when we fry.

Stephen Covey

Trust is the glue that holds everything together.

Alia Shawkat

I'm not a huge TV person, but when I do watch, it's always after the fact because I like to binge watch.

Marc Gerecht

The facts on the ground. We still don't have that many people in Iraq we can go to and get information that makes sense.

Scott Brown

The facts are the facts, ... The truth never changes.

Claudio Hummes

In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.

Thomas Hobbes

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Thomas Hobbes

Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

Michael Dowd

Facts are God’s native tongue.

Jerry Spinelli

Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.

Jim Bishop

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.