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.

Aristophanes

The old are in a second childhood.

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.

Michael Grant

I had a hard childhood. Hard for my parents. Not that bad for me.

Michael Chabon

Childhood is a branch of cartography.

Patti Davis

I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left.

Brandon Routh

I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.

Jane Gardam

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

Aristotle

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

Andy Goldsworthy

If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

Anthony Michael Hall

First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.

Thomas Jefferson

Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

Robert Boyle

In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part.

Stephen Chbosky

He realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs.

Stephen Colbert

No matter how you were born, no matter how you identify, I want to be clear that I would be proud to grind you up and eat you.

Chris Hill

The thing about the committee, and you get tired of telling people, is everything's independent. Every year's different. Every team's different. We go in with a clean slate every year.

Bruce Krall

I spent a lot of money and a lot of effort cleaning it up.

Reggie Evans

I've been clean since I've been in the league, I've been clean since I've been in college, I've been clean since I've been in high school, middle school, elementary school. I'm just cleaner than clean. I'm cleaner than Pine-Sol.

Clint Wheeler

The worst thing is we end up cleaning it up and it rains the next day. We're getting good at that.

Paul Arnold

This is a project that's going to require grunt work. It's going to be clean up, it'll be dirty heavy work, but people need to have the materials hauled away that have been destroyed,

David Clark

We're happy we're going to Glens Falls. But overall, we were terrible. Newburgh played hard, but we can't be happy with how we performed. We better clean some things up or we're losing the first game in Glens Falls.

Barbara Bush

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

Sharon Stone

I don't think Julia Roberts is as innocent as her image suggests. You have to be a really smart cookie to create an image as clean and pure and on-the-money as hers.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

DISSEMBLE, v.i. To put a clean shirt upon the character.Let us dissemble. --Adam