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.

Elly Nedivi

Knowing that neurons are able to grow in the adult brain gives us a chance to enhance the process and explore under what conditions -- genetic, sensory or other -- we can make that happen.

Fred Peters

Kids are the same at any school. There's a light that goes on when they start making adult decisions. For some kids, it takes awhile for the light to go on.

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.

Joe Vitt

He was a great player in our league, and he's really been married to this organization his whole adult life. He's a great supporter of our players, of the organization.

Thalia Murphy

He crossed over the line that divides and adult from a child by violating the innocence of five young girls.

Jim Nicholson

has for most of her adult life lived in public housing and is flying around now on United States Air Force airplanes campaigning for the United States Senate.

George Herman

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!

Ken Trump

The only thing that scares me more than a kid with a gun is an adult who believes that it can't happen here.

Kazuo Ishiguro

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Graham Elliot

Kids see cooking as a creative outlet now, like soccer and ballet. It gives me hope that things like fast food, childhood obesity and the horrible state of school lunches can be addressed by kids and their parents.

Ted Williams

Kids get separated from their parents all the time. Had his parents paid attention, this little child would not have wandered off.

Kerry Nelson

Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.

Anthony Robbins

Kids are the alltimechampions of questioning. What could you gain by imitatingthe innocence and curiosity of children who are completely determined to get ananswer?

Britt Ekland

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

John Romano

Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.

Thomas Kinkade

Keep yourself surrounded by a family that loves you. My children have never told me they dislike one of my paintings.

Lamar Butler

He crossed his legs. He folded his arms. He was just talking like it was a normal conversation.

Gwen Stefani

L.A.M.B. is a fashion line that -- fingers crossed -- will just get more and more sophisticated, ... What's different than what's out there is the way I put things together. And, if you look inside the pants, you'll find secret details in there.

John Shea

We're positive because we saw what he did for Ireland as a player. He has played in three World Cups, so he has experience of those situations, and fingers crossed he can pass them on to us.

Whoopi Goldberg

I think actually there's another young lady who would like to do it and so I've got my fingers crossed for her. I think it's Ellen. I think she would be good.

Rod Metzler

I think some people crossed Oakmont off the places-to-play list because residents got all the good tee times. But our membership knows we need outside play.

Graham Arnold

I don't know the full story but we'll be in touch with him as soon as possible. We'll keep our fingers crossed it's not too serious. Knowing Harry he'll do everything he can to get fit.

Adrian Aucoin

If there is any doubt, normally you go upstairs. He's not giving us any leeway. That's accountability on his part. You gotta be a man about it. Clearly, everybody thought it crossed the line.

Jason McGriff

I think about him every day. It's crossed my mind a lot since we're playing Florida. We grew up together; we were real close. I looked up to him as my older brother.

Atharva Veda

By His Grace, servant Nanak has crossed over this terrifying world-ocean; I am united with my Beloved.

Marcus Samuelsson

There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.

Daniel Pipes

My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.

Octavio Paz

Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things.

Dan Reynolds

I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.

Mark Richt

I would say you're running it up if you've got your first-team players in the game with five minutes to go and you're up by 40. If you're still throwing bombs, maybe that's running it up. I think it's the defense's job to slow people down anyway.

S. Walker

Just under ten seconds...call it nine point five in round figures.

Don Waddell

Just think we're going to have this player for the next five years.

Ken Valiska

Jose has got phenomenal skills. He's got great moves with the ball, a really quick shot, he'll probably be one of our top five starters. I've been very impressed by him. He's a great player with a great attitude.

Peter Donovan

He was a full-time mortgage-broker and poker was a pursuit. He was doing about four or five hours a week, just like we would play tennis or watch TV.

Jack McKeon

He could throw a no-hitter any day with his stuff but you can't keep walking the leadoff guy, ... You shouldn't be throwing 100 pitches in five or six innings.

Bobby Frankel

He couldn't have rode a better race, ... She had never been a mile-and-a-quarter before. I wasn't really comfortable until five jumps from the wire.

Del Schoenfish

He can only play one way and that's all out. He goes 100 percent all the time. I told him four or five times to back off a bit, but that's not his way of playing.

Werner Erhard

Begin building the future through "conversation for possibility."

Ward Churchill

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

William Cowper

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Robertson Davies

One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence.

Saint Augustine

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

William Butler Yeats

How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?

Saddam Hussein

I am not guilty, I am innocent.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.

Moliere

Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]

Frank Martinez

We've been told to say that. (And say) whatever it takes to get that phone line in the receiver.

Mike Boyajian

We've got to keep on scoring. Right now, all three of our lines are starting to score. A team can't concentrate on one of our lines. We're pretty deep.

Mario Lemieux

I thought the other lines were pretty good, as well. We'll see what happens.

Nariman Behravesh

I think that whole line of reasoning is overdone.

Antoni Gaudi

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

Dale Mitchell

He was lined up straight with the ship canal,

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

I have been shooting well from the line this year. I was able to step up tonight and make them. Sometimes they don't go in. What can I say? Tonight they did.

Bill Davidson

I don't know what it looked like from the press box, but from where I was standing, it looked like we were man-handling the line of scrimmage.

Joy Harjo

I come from a long line of revolutionaries.