Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Paterson

Some say it is the elements of hope and wonder in children's books that make them special. But there are many dark young adult novels these days. Adults loved Harry Potter, though it was written for the young. In the end, it is probably up to the reader of any age to decide if this book is for him or her.

Jack Shafer

I also think that anyone in late years of college is anxious about their future, asking themselves, 'What do I want to do? Also, I think that we all live vicariously through children and these kind of trend stories are an expression of adult anxiety.

Bobby Vinton

I was able to stay on because in those days I was selling songs like 'Blue Velvet' and 'There I Said It Again'. But they were kind of adult hits.

Yehuda Berg

The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.

Lloyd Kolbe

Part of the problem is if you've got an adult population where 64 percent of the adults are obese, that's the model that the upcoming generation sees every day. So the potential for it to become the norm, that's part of the self-perpetuating cycle.

James Howe

I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read children's books, adult books, current authors, and classics, but I like fiction the most.

Michael McCoy

I tend to have them submit to psychological testing, and what I find is they're not predators, but they're immature and, males especially, flattered girls find them interesting. Treating them as if these people are grooming these young females for some illicit relationship ? my own judgment is most of the time, that never happens. They're ceasing to be the adult in the situation." ()

Jacqui Rivait

I once heard an adult ask another adult if her daughter was in STAND. One adult responded by saying, she was until her daughter was asked to bring in a roll of toilet tissue. The mom said it was too much, too embarrassing. I was so sad to hear this response from an adult. It was such a teachable moment about social responsibility, compassion and empathy.

John Lautner

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.

Lucille Baur

These two situations are anomalies. High school football games have been going on for years, and we have not for many years had any deaths or severe injuries.

Sen. Hanabusa

It's ridiculous, not only the health considerations, the damage. We were very fortunate, I believe, we didn't have any deaths as a result of these.

Tawni O'Dell

Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.

Paul Watson

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recognizes that the deaths of four sealers is a tragedy, but Sea Shepherd also recognizes that the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups is an even greater tragedy.

Paul Cassell

Justice demands that the 168 deaths be reflected in the sentence.

Sue Miller

Our whole home, our lives, got turned inside out. We just felt fortunate ours was still here, fortunate there were no deaths or anything like that.

Diane Forden

To the loved ones of those who have been killed or injured I extend my deepest sympathy, ... Their deaths must not be in vain.

Kelly Shackelford

Kids are being told they can't mention God.

Lionel Anderson

Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, people are doing little things to show support. It's really great.

Linda Jones

Kids today need to know that people think they're special. Each day and each thing that they do is so precious.

R. L. Stine

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

Barbara Ward

Just to know what the kids were talking about in school was more meaningful than anything I could write in a parent newsletter,

Mike Pardon

I actually thought our kids battled well. South just has so many weapons. They?d go on spurts here and spurts there. They?re so tall and so skilled. It was too much for us.

Shelton Quarles

He couldn't be home, that's why he always had his kids around.

City High

He didn't have to run. A lot of kids wouldn't have,

Steve Collins

He just plays the game. You've got to love kids like that.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Chris Patten

The new administration must be broad-based with a mandate to speak for a majority of the people of Afghanistan,

Pope Benedict XVI

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

John Kenneth Galbraith

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

Peter Jackson

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

Kendrick Lamar

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

Larry Niven

The majority is always sane.

Mahatma Gandhi

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority

Henrik Ibsen

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority