Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Elizabeth Ward

is engaging and not preachy and allows children choices in making their own decisions.

Giuseppe Pisanu

Islamic children should go to state schools and learn Italian, ... I do not want ghettos. Rather, I want an Italian Islam.

Diane Kruger

I see myself raising my children in Europe, probably in Paris.

Maria Muldaur

I've been told that 'Midnight at the Oasis' has been responsible for the conception of more children than any other song of the '70s.

Maurice Sendak

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

Adam Hughes

I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.

Wayne Hudson

As far as African-American lieutenants, I believe I am the first.

Elaine Turner

As a registered nurse and community health educator, I believe that we need to do more of these types of events for people of all ages. With the technology of today, it's easy to forget the importance that exercise and healthy living play in our lives.

Rob Thomas

The bottom line is these individuals believed him and he was able to portray himself as the type of person who could pull that off.

David Perlmutter

The bottom line is that this author, a practicing neurologist dealing with Alzheimer's disease on a daily basis, believes we need to expand the public awareness that modifiable lifestyle factors have a profound role to play in determining who will or won't get this disease.

Teresa Hostetler

The bottom line is, for each count of sexual battery, and I believe he plead guilty to two, carries a maximum of five years per count. This guy could have spent ten years in jail.

Ronan O'Gara

People think that the England players are better than the Irish but I don't believe that for one minute.

Chris Rider

Our defensive pressure set the tone for the whole day. We believe in the saying that defense wins championships. At this level, it?s not going be a game where both teams are running it up and down the floor. It?s usually grind-it-out basketball.

Lindy Ruff

Our confidence level right now is at a level where they just believe they can make the difference late.

Kristy Orem

Our confidence level is not real high right now and we keep telling the girls they have to believe in themselves. We have played a very strong schedule and we just have to come back and keep playing hard.

Coco Chanel

It is best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.

Daniel Quinn

Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

Thomas Merton

Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it.

Toni Morrison

From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.

Victor Hugo

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

Vicki Baum

To be a Jew is a destiny

Ravi Zacharias

I came to Him because I did not know which way to turn. I remained with Him because there is no other way I wish to turn. I came to Him longing for something I did not have. I remain with Him because I have something I will not trade. I came to Him as a stranger. I remain with Him in the most intimate of friendships. I came to Him unsure about the future. I remain with Him certain about my destiny. I came amid the thunderous cries of a culture that has 330 million deities. I remain with Him knowing that truth cannot be all-inclusive.

Ray Bradbury

We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny for all of us.