Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Ellery Channing

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Tyra Banks

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

Wilfred Owen

And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.

Alexander Johnson

I had to do something to get a smile on Coach's face.

Jon Lovitz

Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.

Lord Acton

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

Jim Valvano

And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too.

David Terrell

You can see the smile on my face, ... That tells a lot.

Og Mandino

Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

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.

Wayne Dyer

In this universe, which was created by a divine organizing intelligence, there are simply no accidents.

Neale Donald Walsch

In this complex world, we all need God's Divine wisdom and guidance more than we ever have before.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.

Man Ray

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

John Adams

Politics are the divine science, after all.

Atharva Veda

The five divine regions, the twelve divine seasons, the teeth of the year, they shall ever be propitious, to us!

Muhammad Iqbal

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

Mirra Alfassa

The true lasting quietness... comes from a complete consecration to the Divine

Sathya Baba

Service is divine - It makes life worthwhile.