Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Peirce

Many a man has cherished for years as his hobby some vague shadow of an idea, too meaningless to be positively false

Lon Anderson

Will numbers likely be reduced because of Katrina and because of gas? Probably so. On the other hand, Memorial Day and Labor Day trips are a cherished part of America.

Robert Charles Winthrop

Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less; - still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands.

George Eliot

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.

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.

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.

Asia Argento

Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

Barbara Park

There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.

Kerry Wilson

My daughters think I'm getting married. It's very cute.

John House

I'm kind of in shock. Certainly, I didn't expect my daughters to wind up No. 1 and No. 2.

Allison Tolman

Body-shaming is something I feel really strongly about. I think about my niece, I think about my friends who have daughters being on the Internet and reading these things, and it just makes me furious. It makes me so angry.

Sandra Tsing Loh

I cohabited for 20 years with my longtime husband and father of my two now-teen daughters in a stable family household.

Georgia Holt

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was.

Steve Lewis

Thank God there was nobody in the pool.

Meryl Streep

Thank God I couldn't see anything out there.

Cam Newton

I've said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence.

Joyce Harris

That's what she said she wanted to do, ... She said that God told her to do that.

Ted Nugent

That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical.

Bertrand Russell

We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. If He is, nothing contrary to His will can occur; therefore when the sinner disobeys His commands, He must have intended this to happen.

Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Charles R. Swindoll

God does not dispense strength and encouragement like a druggist fills your prescription. The Lord doesn't promise to give us something to take so we can handle our weary moments. He promises us Himself. That is all. And that is enough.

Charles Darwin

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

Douglas Coupland

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

Desmond Tutu

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

Clay Aiken

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

Lorna Luft

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

I watch 'The Voice' and 'American Idol,' and I sit in my Brookstone foot massager. It's so exciting at my house.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.

Jennifer Hudson

'American Idol' has changed the face of television.

Buzz Aldrin

I don't watch 'American Idol,' but I wouldn't call it 'undignified.'

Isaac Mizrahi

What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!

Penny Monahan

Remember, the day of the parade and March 17, everybody's Irish -- or wish they were.

George Bernard Shaw

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Lao Tzu

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Lao Tzu

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Oliver Goldsmith

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Thomas Moore

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

Lao Tzu

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

Arthur Adamov

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Desiderius Erasmus

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

Alexander Pope

In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

Daniel Dennett

A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.

Confucius

Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

Tom Clancy

Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

Victor Hugo

Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

Soren Kierkegaard

Be that self which one truly is.

Paul Tetreault

Jenn shut her down and that was key. She'd been averaging over 15 lately and she got eight.

Cristie Kerr

I'm playing so well lately that I have a lot of confidence,

Dana Schultz

Our team saying this year is, 'We love us,' and that is what we say after every win. We've been on a roll lately and have played better as a unit.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Mike Archer

I've been around a long time, ... and I've never seen anything like this in my life.

W. S. Gilbert

I've seen it in all sorts of industries.

David Daniels

This is the first time I've ever seen this called. I hadn't seen it all year. There hadn't been any warnings issued all year in any of our games.

Tyler Hansbrough

Every team I play is real physical. They have some big bodies, but it's nothing I've never seen before, and it's nothing I can't handle.

Michael Wong

We want this film to be seen all over the U.S. and we need your support to make this happen.

Rachel Remen

What if? What if things were different than the way you have seen them in the past?

Andrew Kreisberg

On 'Flash,' you've never seen the last of anybody, no matter what happens to them.

Kristen Donofry

Now, we want to win and that's the first time I've seen that here.

Kevin Blackwell

Getting back to the Premiership will be a big test but what we have shown here is resilience. Previously we have tended to be seen as soft touches.

Bible Bible

And the sons of Meshelemiah were, Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, / Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

J. Horton

I'm not going to do anything until it's at least two-thirds full.

Jimmy Fletcher

It was pretty much nip and tuck until the end.

Michael Owen Bruce

It started twelve and went on until twelve. I never had to buy a drink all day!

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.

Dean Laidley

Until this day, we didn't have any injuries, but now we've got this one, so that's the disappointing part.

Ridley Scott

I started late. I didn't make my first movie until I was 40.