Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

Jane Yolen

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

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.

Jennifer Anderson

I don't want him growing up with me working two jobs. I don't want him to have a childhood like I did. I had a nasty childhood.

Patricia Crawford

She was a legend in her time. The issue of childhood obesity seems so current now, but imagine what it was like in the 1960s when she sought funding for such studies. She had foresight into a growing problem.

Simon Hoggart

She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.

Jeff Freeman

I lost my childhood. That's where I kept all my personal scrapbooks and pictures. They can't be replaced.

Elizabeth David

Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

Steve Nash

You have to rely on your preparation. You got to really be passionate and try to prepare more than anyone else, and put yourself in a position to succeed, and when the moment comes you got to enjoy, relax, breathe and rely on your preparation so that you can perform and not be anxious or filled with doubt.

Max Mayfield

Preparation through education is less costly than learning through tragedy.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Most salespeople are half prepared. They know everything about their company and their product. They know nothing about their prospect.

Gene Weingarten

One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.

Ferran Adria

We didnt create dishes. We create preparations to create many dishes.

Jeffrey Archer

Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.

H. L. Hunt

There are only three requirements for success. First, decide exactly what it is you want in life. Second, determine the price that you are going to have to pay to get the things you want. And third, and this is most important, resolve to pay that price.

Jaimie Alexander

I'm probably one of the worst actors as far as preparation goes, because I actually don't prepare. I find it easier to read the script and whatever hits me in my stomach, like deep down, I just go with it. And the director kind of molds me whether to go right or left with it.

Stephen Atkinson

The worst is yet to come, ... You're going to see more shutdowns.

Demi Lovato

Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.

David Platt

We owe Christ to the world--to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations.

Usain Bolt

Since they came in with the selfie, it's the worst thing. You hardly ever get asked for autographs any more. It's always selfies.

Sophocles

True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills

Soren Kierkegaard

What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.

Stanislaw Lem

Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for obviously what could one do, if there was nothing one could not?

Mignon McLaughlin

If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did.

Peter Laviolette

Obviously, it could have been worse. You don't even want to think of what the worst could have been.