Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Turgeon

He was the only kid that could make a shot. I was begging the guys, 'Give Sean shots.' It was hard to get him shots. When Sean banked the shot in, I really thought we were going to win. But they were just too good.

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.

Ann Veneman

Children are forced into prostitution, begging and soliciting, labor on plantations and in mines, markets, factories and domestic work.

Lisa Sampson

I had 18 meetings at the school when he was in 10th grade. Eighteen. I could see his skills were getting worse, and I was begging them to please help my son.

Douglas Muzzio

The difficulty now is going out and raising money. Spending 80% of your time begging for money - it's so debilitating on a candidate.

Prakash Shah

The lifestyle I saw at the time, when I used to go to Iraq for work, was completely different from the one that I see now. People were clearly much more prosperous, their lifestyle was much better, their health was clearly much more healthy. You didn't see beggars, for example, on the streets, or either women or children begging on the streets or near the mosque as you do now.

Alireza Jafarzadeh

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the Defense Ministry control all the levers of the nuclear program, and there's no point begging Iran to come back to the negotiating table.

Michael Pittman

There's thousands and thousands that are coming through, and they're begging and begging for preachers and lay people to come down there and to minister to them. These people have no hope. They need hope, and the only hope they can get is through Jesus Christ. They need people to go down there and share Jesus Christ with them.

Frank Sadowski

It's really a shame. Everyone in the retail community has been begging them to come together on a format. We're not serving the customer by a format war.

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Kerry Nelson

Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.

Britt Ekland

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

John Romano

Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.

Tony Buzan

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

Sugata Mitra

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

Sugata Mitra

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Sugata Mitra

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

Ann Veneman

There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need.

Maria Sharapova

I also want to play in the Olympics and would love to represent Russia there as well.

Sami Hyypia

He is very aggressive, loves a tackle and can play as well.

Daniel Logan

I love being an ambassador for 'Star Wars.'

Quiara Alegria Hudes

I love writing. It makes me so happy.

Katrina Kaif

Love should be all about giving and trusting.

Kate Bush

I love being with my friends, relaxing and talking.

Audrey Johnson

When he saw her, he meant to have her. That was what he always said. He just loved my mother.

Anna Popplewell

What I love is acting, and the technical stuff does tend to slow things down.

Elizabeth Banks

What I love about Twitter specifically is that reciprocity is not guaranteed, nor expected. In other words, I can go one way. I can put things out. I don't have to respond to everybody.

Mike Gatting

He's got 600 but he won't be stopping there,

Joseph Druce

I was just, like, 'That's it. That's it. I've got to stop this. I couldn't get it out of my head.

William Devane

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

Shaul Goldstein

Our battle, ... is to try to stop it all.

Randy Kortokrax

If you want to win at the Coliseum, you've got to stop penetration, penetrate yourself and play half-court defense.

Frank Williams

I'm trying to be lenient here, ... but I've told you before to stop testifying.

Samuel Fuller

I'm trying to be a voice of reason. I'm not trying to stop them from developing.

Saina Nehwal

I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.