Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rodman Philbrick

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

Michael Mullen

As a Naval officer, I've been all over the world, and one of the foundational lessons I learned was that parents everywhere would like to raise their children to a higher standard of living in a peaceful environment. That's a universal goal for families.

Melina Kennedy

As a mother, as a lawyer, I find it unbelievable that we would let children be near convicted sex offenders. We need to do everything we can, including at the city ordinance level, to make sure we keep our kids safe.

Karen Hughes

As a mom, I also have to say I really appreciated his leadership on helping teach our kids to make the right choices, because it really takes all of us. And it's wonderful to know government is going to be a partner with parents in helping our children to make the right choices on critical issues that could threaten their whole lives.

Michael Leunig

A society that's provided for by television is a society that says it doesn't need too many parks or natural situations for children to play in because television will look after them.

Joanna Gonzalez

Ready Kids is a tool for parents and teachers to use to be able to speak to their students and children about how to be prepared for any type of disaster.

Don Wildmon

Rather than trying to describe it to you, I would rather you watch it yourself. After watching the video, please follow the instructions to file your official complaint with the FCC. It will only take a couple of minutes to file the complaint. Do it for your children and grandchildren.

Gail Cunningham

Reading gardens are a beautiful, fresh way for communities to enjoy green spaces with lasting positive impact for children and adults.

Jacqui Rivait

Reaching out to help others is a great way for children to learn to become responsible. Younger children may not understand the concept of social responsibility, but they will understand the importance of collecting mittens for children who have nothing to keep their hands warm in the winter.

Dean Koontz

I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.

Jeff Ross

South Park called...they want their everything back.

Joseph Lowery

I was here when Rosa Parks started and I just wanted to be here when she departed,

Nelson Mandela

which made us realize that this is an international phenomenon that we celebrate. Rosa Parks is worldwide.

Jean Nouvel

I like English parks.

Russell Brand

Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.

Larry the Cable Guy

I'm happier than a tornado in a trailer park.

Bernard Baruch

Bears don't live on Park Avenue.

Steve Monks

He's quicker to the ball. He provided a big spark off the bench.

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

David Livingstone

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.

Al Jourgensen

I'm an all-or-nothing guy. When I'm working, I work, work, work, work, work, and when I'm not, I'm the laziest sloth this planet has ever provided us.

Ted Strickland

What that says to me is they know the other two and they don't like what they know.

Jerry Reinsdorf

We win the World Series and Ozzie retires, who says I'm not going to retire?

Carrie Fisher

No one says that to you any more really,

Ryan Garko

If someone says something, you know who said it.

Derek Walker

She says things like 'Mama, my stuff is all wet,'

Donna Berger

I was very amazed. The sign says the crew, they all ate, slept on the deck.

Adam Timmerman

I think it says a lot about him being unselfish and seeing the talent in Steven himself.

Mark Grudzielanek

We try to get him to go out and he says 'No, I've got a show Tivoed at home. I don't know about this guy.

Dmitri Young

He has a presence. You knew, right from the get-go, he was the manager, and what he says goes.

John McNally

It hasn't been unsafe, but there are situations where it could be.

Dionny Reynolds

In situations like this, it got to be three people.

Bobby Bowden

This is one of those situations where we don't have a lot of experience. But they sure are talented.

Billy Graham

We can be certain that God will give us the strength and resources we need to live through any situation in life that he ordains. The will of God will never take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Albert Einstein

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

Thomas Jefferson

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Robert Burns

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Richard Mitchell

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Kin Hubbard

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows

Michel de Montaigne

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

George Bernard Shaw

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

Roger Smith

By the turn of this century, we will live in a paperless society.