Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dirk Benedict

As children get older, they are supposed to gradually stand more and more on their own and eventually completely leave the nest. My boys are definitely starting to do that. Soon I might actually go on a date.

Jennifer Aniston

The boys are like our brothers. We love our boys. (About Matt, Matthew and David)

Mario Garcia

The boys are improving little by little. We just need to tighten our pack.

Don Cross

The boys are fired up to hit somebody not from Cabrillo,

Eric Balinbin

The boys are extremely excited. The last couple of days a few of them have called me and said, 'Man, I couldn't sleep.' They can't wait to play.

Mark Stephens

The boys are exceptional. Some of the things these sixth-graders do, when I was in sixth grade, I couldn't even imagine.

Paul Pautsch

The boys are definitely the cream of the crop in the conference.

Graeme Smith

The boys are confident but the feet are still firmly on the ground.

Bonita Favre

The boys and (David) did an excellent job,

Jim Lee

This is something I'm intimately involved in and will be for the next several years. Comics and games were a big part of my childhood and this really is a realization of my dreams.

Jim Hill

This could be the critical step in preventing childhood obesity.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.

Barbara Kingsolver

Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

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.

Jane Smiley

Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.

Dean Koontz

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Dakota Blue Richards

As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.

Daniel Sharman

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

Rick Riordan

As a teacher, I've never seen anything like 'Harry Potter.' That's why I smart when people talk about the 'next' 'Harry Potter.' There is no 'next' 'Harry Potter.'

Rocco Calo

As a stockholder myself, I want to see the stock do well but I also want to see them treat people well.

Shawn Amos

As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages.

John Eales

As a captain, it's important to have the right people around you,

Peter Ueberroth

As a lot of people said, 'The U.S. is back,' in a way. We were well received.

Ray Santiago

As a kid, I wanted to be the person running from the monster. I also wanted to be the person saving people from the monster. I wanted to be a superhero.

W. H. Murray

The big thing is getting more infrastructure in place so that people can just pull up and get the fuel.

Brenda Lee

Whatever happened to the tomboy I used to be, the slightly rebellious rocker?

Katey Sagal

I was very rebellious.

David Hill

Of course, we really don't know what we're doing, since this is so new, ... But we think we've put something together that's pretty cool.

Gavin Grant

Definitely. I've been on a mini-tear since then.

Sarah Parcak

Archaeologists have used aerial photographs to map archaeological sites since the 1920s, while the use of infrared photography started in the 1960s, and satellite imagery was first used in the 1970s.

Martin Freeman

I've always liked clothes, since I was a kid.

Drew Tate

I wanted to go make the tackle since I had thrown (the interception). That's pretty much it.

Robert Long

I wanted to do this (cosmetology) since I was a very little girl,

Bill Walker

I wanted to be in pageants since I was a little girl,

Shawn Horcoff

Terrible. The worst I've ever been part of since I've been a professional.

Ali Hewson

Sadly, I haven't had a brain cell since I had children.

Juvenal

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

Coco Chanel

There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.

Charles R. Swindoll

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

E. B. White

We wanted to be up to par. That's one of the things Scotty taught us over the years. We've got to play together to have success.

Cory Monteith

Fox taught me how to sing and dance

E. B. White

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

Douglas Coupland

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

Ani Difranco

They taught me different was wrong.

Chuck Palahniuk

Find value in what we've been taught is worthless.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Colin Mochrie

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

Donald Rumsfeld

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.

Katherine Center

Beauty comes from tenderness.

Edith Hamilton

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

Bob Mayer

First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.

Idina Menzel

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

Pat Riley

I've been wanting him for a long time. Now that I've got him, I can't take him off the court.

William Shakespeare

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all

Lindy Ruff

He thought he could finish. But when I watched the first one with him not wanting to go down, I could tell he was favoring it.

Marilyn Monroe

When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.