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.

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

Peter Eigen

When countries improve governance and reduce corruption, they reap a 'development dividend' that can include reduction in child mortality rates and increase in per capita income and literacy rates.

Jonathan Swift

War is the child of Pride, and Pride the daughter of Riches.

S. Walker

We want all students to be reading at grade level and meet the AYP (adequate yearly progress) requirements of the No Child Left Behind,

Malorie Blackman

What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.

Michael R. Bloomberg

What I was waiting for, as were many Americans, was a clear affirmation that the life-altering decision as to whether or not to have a child must be a woman's decision,

Tony Gannon

We give them so much info, but we don't lead them by their hand through all of the dark alleys. Teaching a child to become a problem solver is a great lesson for life.

David Rakoff

I do not go outdoors... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

Gary LaGrange

From a commercial and psychological standpoint, this is five stars. This shows the people of New Orleans their city is back in business.

Gretchen Mol

She finds herself in New York City and she is making a living posing for photographs. A lot of it was her not really crossing the line and looking at what people were doing with the photographs.

Fritz Strobl

Since Salt Lake City we did a lot of work on my material - some good, some not so good. This year, I'm back and at the top of the downhill. I'm trying to stay healthy and keep my power.

Sarah Carmichael

Since Panama City is a pretty developed city, the outskirts get kind of ignored.

James Anderson

I look forward to working with the community in a heightened effort. I respect all the members of the police department. I know I'll work well with them and the other members of the city who I've been working with for 25 years.

Petra Kulhankova

I love being here in Albany. This is a great city and I'm not sure yet if I will go home or stay here. I still have a few months to decide, but either way I know I made the right decision to come here. Everything has been better than I expected.

Ray Nagin

I had laid out like an eight-week to ten-week timeline where we could get the city back in semblance of order. It's probably been pushed back another four weeks as a result of this,

Paul Tergat

I have been at the New York City marathon several times to watch but this time I'm delighted and excited to be competing myself. The field is very strong.

Stephen King

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

Burn Gorman

I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'

Ellen DeGeneres

I have the picture of Barack [Obama] and me dancing right outside of my dressing room door, I see it every single day, and it makes me very happy.

Lara Pulver

I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.

Lee Trevino

My family was so poor the lady next door gave birth to me.

George MacDonald

Light-leaved acacias, by the door, Stood up in balmy air, Clusters of blossomed moonlight bore, And breathed a perfume rare.

Julie Burchill

And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they're hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.

John Donne

I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

Emeli Sande

I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.

Will Rogers

We can get mighty rich, but if we haven't got any friends, we will find we are poorer than anybody.

Demi Lovato

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Alexander Herzen

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

Will Smith

You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

Jane Gillette

I know orchids don't grow in the wild.

Jamey Bowen

I hope it wasn't a last hurrah. I'd love to see this team grow and stand by my words that we'll win a championship before (Portland).

Terry Boe

I haven't put (too much pressure) on her. My expectations are for her to grow and get better and do it at her pace and her style.

George Eads

I'm just trying to let everything lie and grow right now, I'm not going to pressure myself to do anything that it's right for the time.

Joe Horrigan

I'm sure he (Bell) had no idea it was going to grow into what it is today.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Bobby Howard

We were leading 7-2 in the game. We just didn't get it done.

Scott Walker

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

Burt Flickinger

Retail planning has a very long lead time and it's tightly controlled,

Char Miller

In the past, with a different mayor, Nelson Wolff was the lead player. Look at Toyota.

Lars Tatom

In one month I had my first lead and in three months I was director. It was serendipitous.

DeJuan Blair

I'm willing to lead this team by my play. I know I've got to step it up.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I'm not the kind that could lead the millionaire lifestyle. I've got a truck, and I've got my bike. I've got a lovely Labrador and two kitty-cats. I live very modestly.

Frank Clark

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Pearl Norris

We thought it was a warehouse but when we opened it, the pews were still in it.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Richard Hatch

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Ambrose Bierce

A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.

Ambrose Bierce

LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.

Ambrose Bierce

PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.

Ambrose Bierce

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.

Alicia Keys

Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.

Anne Lamott

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

Andy Pettitte

When you build relationships, you get to share your beliefs. It gives you the opportunity to share your faith with other people.