Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Jenny Nimmo

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

Jack Horn

This is a serious problem nationally and statewide as well as in the county, ... Solano County has been particularly proactive, signing people up on various programs, particularly children with the SKIP program, but it's still a serious problem, no question about it.

Jonathan Jackson

You're probably saving money if you factor in the grief . . . of dealing with children in the supermarket. I think it will take off in the suburbs, particularly.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Aretha Franklin

Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.

Ben Marcus

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

Barbara Jordan

We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker's child to miss school in order to earn...just so the family can eat. That is the moral bankruptcy that trickle-down economics is all about.

Sarah Taylor

During the Christmas season online retailers ship two or three times what they would normally do.

Britt Beemer

The success of GM's employee discount sale is a great example that consumers still are in a mood to buy. However, I think Christmas spending could be a little narrower than last year.

Calvin Coolidge

To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world." ~ Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), American president. Presidential message (December 25, 1927).

Bonnie Hammer

We kind of own - and started - the trend of doing a special event in December. It's great escapism, and people are home and getting tired of the Christmas movies. It's perfect.

Matt Painter

There is no question we would like more than one day to prepare for Memphis. But we were stuck with the start of the Big Ten and with the Christmas holidays.

Michael Miles

We will be open late on Christmas Eve as well. And... the post office will be delivering on Christmas Day.

Donald E. Westlake

As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.

Dylan Thomas

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

Dwight L. Moody

Jesus came from heaven down to earth. He left all grandeur behind Him, He passed by palaces and thrones-to be born in a manger! He was born lowly, that He might raise men up to God. The poor have a friend in Jesus. If no one else loves them, He loves them. He came to give them liberty, to proclaim to them the gospel of God's grace.

Jacob Lew

The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.

William Penn

A wise man makes what he learns his own, the other shows he is but a copy or a collection at most . . .

Kate Kendall

It was very exciting. I was just delighted. We put a lot of work into collecting those samples, and we wanted to get as much information as we could from them.

Jerry Yang

I started collecting in the late 1990s. My first purchase was from an auction, a scroll by Dong Qichang, from the early 16th century, the late Ming Dynasty.

Ira Glasser

The worry here is ... will the information that is collected here for one purpose be used for other purposes? ... The government history on this subject is not an encouraging one.

Dan Owens

This is as good a collection of players as I can remember.

Eric Greene

That's how my collection started. I think I have the largest collection of this stuff there is.

Ayn Rand

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.

Fred Lohmann

The fact that plaintiffs are using a court order to go into people's homes and collect data for them is unheard of. This is a company that has not been found guilty of doing anything wrong.

Jen Friedberg

It provides a way to distribute a variety of media without having to download different programs. It's the only program that can do it all.

Walter Martin

You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have reached a circulation of 15 million. those are not my figures but the figures of the people who distribute them.

Brian Kernighan

90% of the functionality delivered now is better than 100% delivered never.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.

Bruce Hyde

We need to make it a more functional area.

Marc Grunert

Long before they ever get to the point they need to be taken out from the standpoint of a structural deficiency, they end up being replaced because of a functional deficiency.

J. L. Austin

Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things?

Myles Munroe

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

John Sicher

These products are sold on function more than taste.

Rob Smith

It's a function of the number of students that come in, and we need to plan for the housing of those students.

Lauren Gelman

It's a functional test: Is what you are doing journalism?

Justin Chon

I'm all about making my girl feel like she's the only woman in the world. Whether it's telling her how special she is or showing her with gifts and romantic dates, I want to make her happy.

Donald DeMayo

He's been giving gifts to students for 40 years.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Our gifts and talents should also be turned over to Him. They should be recognized for what they are, God's loan to us, and should never be considered in any sense our own

Kelsey Grabiak

No, she was happy for us. She was really excited.

Robby Davis

We're happy with the jump we had. We've got work to do, but we're moving in the right direction.

Gary Cole

We're happy to see them. We hope they're here for a long time.

Rene Portland

We're happy to be here (at least) one more night.

Hines Ward

We're happy to be going to the Super Bowl, but we want to win. We plan to go there and win the whole thing.

Jud Honaker

We're happy to be able to help, and we wish them the best.

Randy Nelson

We're happy they're willing to sponsor us since we couldn't get sponsorship here.

Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

James Kelleher

There are a lot of reasons why (Wall Street) just isn't happy about this restructuring.