Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Aristophanes

The old are in a second childhood.

Thomas Perls

Those are things that we just wouldn't experience these days. That was a time when people lost a quarter of their kids to childhood illnesses.

David Bailey

Unfortunately West Virginia has one of the highest rates of childhood obesity in the country. We were looking for something that we could do for our kids and wanted to find something they would actually do.

Swami Vivekananda

We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become to us mere words without meaning, words which we repeat like parrots, and it has become quite natural for us to do so. We cannot help it.

Tina Yothers

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

Tim Gunn

I'm making the assumption that after Mrs. Obama leaves the White House that she will continue all of her work toward improving education in this nation and childhood health.

Max Lerner

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

Jack Nicklaus

...said Nicklaus, 'was a brotherhood, I suppose'.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

We have come here with a message of love and brotherhood.

Dan Hawkins

I should make a donation to their favorite charity, because I didn't give 'em their money's worth, that's for sure,

Jane Addams

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

Bobby Sherman

But there are many, and I'm a supporter of a great deal of charities.

Eduardo Galeano

Charity, vertical, humiliates. Solidarity, horizontal, helps.

Tim Hides

Everyone's having a good time ? it's for charity. But the firemen are probably a little upset right now.

Tim Chiodo

We all liked working for this charity and we liked basketball. So we put the two together and started a tournament.

Mike Thomas

We've got a lot of people who don't mind getting on stage making a fool of themselves for charity.

Larry Noble

You get this image that they are taking money out of one pocket and giving it to a charity while they are taking money from lobbyist-sponsored fundraisers with the other hand.

Dorothy Day

Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.