Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Smiley

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

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.

Jesse Metcalfe

I had a relatively tumultuous childhood.

Jean Cocteau

At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.

Frank Gehry

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.

George Eliot

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

Christina Aguilera

I felt caged by my childhood.

Gretchen Rubin

One of the most important lessons of childhood is discovering what you like to do.

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Grover Norquist

I've been in the White House more in the last two weeks than I was in the last two years.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine yourself as a living house.

Coco Chanel

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

Andrew Kennedy

We lived in a really small house there, ... We were not rich by any means. We were not the Kennedys that everyone knows. We don't have their money, and we look a little different.

Ray Brown

Even if your house does go up $20,000 in one year, a lot of that will have to pay for your commission. If you have a $300,000 house and 5 percent commission, say bye-bye to $15,000.

Chris Smith

We've had a tone-deaf White House that does not want to be reasonable. President Obama won't meet with the Republicans. It's all his way.

David Hestad

Everyone talks about the Tallman House and how Lincoln slept here.

Chris Isaak

I put music on and I drive around town.

Steve Zahn

I lived in Minnesota in a small town.

Ewan McGregor

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.