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.

Adolf Hitler

The women has her own battlefield with every child she brings into the world she fights a battle for the nation

Adam Braun

We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.

Abraham Lincoln

Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.

Ani Difranco

The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do... birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal...

Amy Klobuchar

Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.

Amy Poehler

Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.

Allan Bloom

Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be.

Terence McElroy

I don't think passing on the suppression costs would be done just as a deterrent. The fact of the matter is many people have lost their property and homes and someone has to pay for that. Under the law, someone is liable for it.

If you go to a costume party at your boss's house, wouldn't you think a good costume would be to dress up like the boss's wife? Trust me, it's not.

Bruce Summerhays

The day started out kind of bland, then I made a couple of good par putts early and got things going, ... You always feel good when you play like this. I'm going to have to put up some similar numbers the next two days.

Joe Glenn

He tried hard and ran hard. There were a couple of plays where I thought he should have trusted the point of attack.

Terry Floyd

I don't know if it's emotional but I will realize if we play great or poorly that there is only a couple of weeks left.

Tim Richards

We need all six players to play solid, ... Hopefully we'll get everyone here doing that in the next couple of weeks.

George Pipas

I think the next couple months will be pretty choppy. It will probably be November before we can think about trend sales rates again.

Yann Martel

We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews. We know very well-known fixed places like Auschwitz, Birkenau, Treblinka, and Beltzec. Instead, war can live in a couple having a spat, when we say, "That was a real war." We very rarely have the Holocaust live in the terms of today. And I think that's a problem, because it becomes ancient history.

Wynton Marsalis

Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you "sell" only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience. The power of couple dancing and courtship, it's elegant, and you wouldn't realize America was once a nation of dancers and singers today. People of all races could dance and sing.

Willie Nelson

My sister played the piano. She's two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got the guitar for me, and showed me a couple of chords to start off. And then I got me a book. Next thing you know, I was playing along with sister.

Willie Nelson

Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Eminem

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

Eminem

I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds.

Joe DiMaggio

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

Joyce Carol Oates

In families there are frequently matters of which no one speaks, nor even alludes. There are no words for these matters. As the binding skeleton beneath the flesh is never acknowledged by us and, when at last it defines itself, is after all an obscenity.

Jill Soloway

As much as possible, I put my family first.

Ed Fox

This family is going through not just a single incident but a nightmare that's never ending. A fine like that is nothing.

Jayme Braasch

This family has been devastated. Their life just got completely rearranged. It's relieving to know they are in Wisconsin now. It is unbelievable.

Alice McDermott

For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.

John Walsh

Houstonians want to help, ... Obviously, if you have vacant units and you want to rent them, there's a financial incentive.

Taye Diggs

It has been refreshing that the last four roles that I've done have not been so blatantly sexual with me being put on some imaginary pedestal.

Alan Ayers

I really normally have four kids that can score. Today, the kids' shots just weren't falling. I thought they did a great job defensively.

Mark Calcavecchia

I pretty much go into a semi-funk for four months. Once September gets here I kind of get re-energized.

Adam Carolla

I'm really just trying to hash out the next two weeks of my life, ... So, something that is potentially four months down the road is not just a mile down the road for me, it's a million miles down the road.

Kelly Moore

I'm just so ecstatic. I went to Coastal for four years, and I cheered, and I've never seen anything like this.

Mark Javens

I'm pleased with the way we played the past three or four games. We seem to be peaking at the right time.

Shawna Smith

I'm pleased four girls qualified (for state). We also had several girls seconds or hundredths of seconds from qualifying.

Nick Davis

I'm pretty upset. This is four years of my life that I've put into this program.

Jonathon Power

I'm pretty exited about it, it's been a long four years. It's been a big goal of mine to get back to the top and I wanted to prove it to myself I could do it one more time.

Nick Zito

Sometimes running a rabbit works, sometimes it backfires. People have been using rabbits for hundreds of years. The rabbit has to be a good horse because they might not necessarily be able to do the job.

Tom Mihalovich

Sometimes we try too hard. We were trying to make too good of plays.

Kent Mueller

Sometimes we get, I don't want to say unrealistic, but our expectations are awfully high. That's not to take anything away from Madison. We had some lapses defensively, which is not typical. But at the same time, the offense was so good so early, which really isn't typical.

Gerard Houllier

Sometimes we do not know what happens inside ourselves, but the good thing is that it seems a minor thing and he will be back training the team,

Brad Richards

Sometimes those things happen. You put the puck on net and good things happen. Sometimes you are on the right side of the puck.

Ted Epley

Sometimes they just don't go in. We had good looks from inside and out.

Bill Brown

Sometimes there are too many people who tell you how good they are. And Jordan is the opposite. He'll just go out and show you.

Andi Ferris

Sometimes it's harder to hang onto a small lead than it is to come back from one. It's frustrating at times, but it's part of coaching. The ladies did a good job of protecting the ball, and the lead today; we did a good job all-around.

Paul Stewart

Sometimes, it's good to spend more and get quality service that's going to save you money in the long run.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Amy Sedaris

There is nothing wrong with not wanting to be a hospitable person and have groups of people in your home touching your personables.

Amory Lovins

We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.

Anthea Turner

Maybe, instead of paying so much in tax, the very rich could be incentivised to help their local community and young people who do not have a home.

Anthony Braxton

So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.

Andy Stanley

Let me take some pressure off. Your problem is not discipline. Your problem is not organization. Your problem is not that you have yet to stumble upon the perfect schedule. And your problem is not that the folks at home demand too much of your time. The problem is this: there’s not enough time to get everything done that you’re convinced—or others have convinced you—needs to get done.

Anatole France

Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.

Anais Nin

Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.

Amanda Marshall

I get by on wishful thinking that when you come home you'll want to stay.