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.

R. Laing

Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

National Center

So that's a very good reminder to all of us that we need to teach our children as soon as they can talk,

Sabrina Parker

Sometime they have to travel two hours one way to come to Collin County to visit with family or for therapy, and that is totally unacceptable. Not only do these children need homes, they need homes in Colin County. We ideally want to place all the siblings in one home.

Michael F. Easley

Teachers are held accountable for educating our children in school. We as parents should be held accountable for our children at home.

Lucy Norvell

Sometimes children are ready to go before their parents are ready to send them.

Susan Castro

Sometimes children are afraid, thinking if this could happen to her, it could happen to me.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Some people talk about children wanting to be born as though somewhere out there in the collective unconscious there's a spirit, or a thought or an idea that wants to be born. And I sometimes feel that way about stories... that they're there and they want to be told.

Chuck D.

Sometimes I think children are the worst people alive. And even if they're not - even if some smiling toddler is as pure as Evian - it's only a matter of time ... As far as I can tell, the nicest thing you can say about children is that they haven't done anything terrible yet.

Jay Garner

This is a tough job, and it's very difficult to take people out of a darkness and lead them into light. Once they have been standing in light long enough, their eyes will adjust.

Arthur Miller

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.

Brian Andreas

When you start to crack open, don’t waste a moment gathering your old self up into something like you knew before. Let your new self splash like sunlight into every dark place and laugh and cry and make sounds you never made & thank all that is holy for the gift....

Brad Paisley

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

Jane Hirshfield

So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.

James Wan

When you make movies, I find that I never have time to go to the movies and enjoy movies like I used to, because I'm so movied out, right, I'm so filmed out that the last thing that I wanna do is with the little spare time that I have is stick in a dark room and watch more stuff on the screen.

Carl Sandburg

Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.

Jane Addams

An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for his workroom as these conditions imply low rental.

James Wright

There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch: A cloister, a silence Closing around a blossom of fire. When I stand upright in the wind, My bones turn to dark emeralds.

Booker T. Washington

The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.

Blaise Pascal

We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

Donna Tartt

…still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life…

Colin Powell

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

e. e. cummings

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Andrea Bocelli

The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.

Andrea Bocelli

Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Things seen are mightier than things heard.

Alexander McCall Smith

It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.