Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Cords

As a child, a great day is defined by what you get. As an adult a great day is defined by what you give.

Clint Zandt

The bottom line is you have an adult who took advantage of a child. It ought to be a slam dunk.

Tom Minnery

Banned Books Week is nothing more than a promotion of intolerance towards any librarian, teacher, or parent who questions the wisdom of giving adult material to children, Schools and libraries should be family oriented toward parents and safe places for children.

Donna King

Back in the 90s, sociologists studied what they called 'boomerang children,' adult children who returned home or were in and out of their parents' home. What they found that it wasn't because they were freeloaders. It was because the economy was bad.

David Smith

As long as they're doing what they describe they're doing, they're not going to have a problem. But it depends on what they do in reality. If they're engaging in adult uses, then that would be a problem.

David Molina

Really at any point it.. it shouldn't ever have happened. Anytime you have an adult as a teacher with a student, there's no excuse for any type of relationship.

David Owens

Our services are designed for practically any living arrangement where an older adult simply needs human interaction or help with day-to-day activities. Services are available from just a few hours a day up to 24 hours, seven days a week -- including weekends and holidays.

Abby Anderson

People assume it's being tough on crime, but what you're doing is throwing these kids away. Studies show that kids who are put into the adult system re-offend quicker and more seriously.

Claire Lerner

Often there are not enough adult bodies in a classroom, which boosts the stress level for everyone. So all of a sudden if a couple of kids are needy, they risk being expelled.

Chris King

The more deviant you can be, the better. Kids love to see you get kicked out of places. I, personally, am banned from Nassau County in New York.

Eric Lewis

I've never broken a piano. However, I've been banned from particular clubs for breaking piano strings.

Paul Blake

I do think it's a larger censorship problem. Here we have to battle just to be in locations. We've been banned from several of the businesses in town.

Julie Vallese

Retailers who are unaware that the product has been banned for sale should remove it from store shelves, and parents should take them away from children.

James Wagoner

And as more people find out what is being taught and what is being censored in these ineffective programs, more and more of these 'stay pure or we don't care about you' programs will be banned from public schools.

Jim Shea

It's on the banned list -- no question he screwed up.

James Tien

But our view was eventually banned from the report.

Ellen Paris

But once we banned chickens from the house, we chose wood.

Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region.

Sharon Chang

People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.

Mark Perakh

No relevant data which support hypotheses, laws, models and theories could be found in the papers and books by proponents of intelligent design, only unsubstantiated assumptions. Therefore, it can justifiably be viewed as pseudoscience.

Richard Curtis

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.

Chipper Jones

Any win is important nowadays. Obviously, Philly has been playing well and their score was posted on the scoreboard before we started. They lost and we knew we had a golden opportunity to gain a game. We went out and did it. So it's two more off the magic number, whatever it is. It's probably 100. But nonetheless, it's another day in the books and we gained a game.

L. Estrange

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice

Mary Randolph

Sometimes it was September or October before we would get the books.

Vince Dooley

The SEC made the effort to get to 12 teams in order to have a championship game. If the ACC wants to do the same thing, why should we change a rule just for them when it's been on the books for a long, long time?

Richard Nash

These books now stand both as a testament to the resilience of the residents of New Orleans ... and as a map back from disaster, offered by the city's teenagers.

Matt Smith

These books carry messages and have had impact on our daily existences.

Mary Randolph

Sometimes it was September or October before we would get the books.

Al Hubbard

There are very good laws on the books. What's important is that those laws are enforced aggressively.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Alan Milstein

Besides, there are privacy laws on the books, both state and federal, so there's no way they'd win. It makes you wonder what they're really worried about.

Jack Harris

You have to go by the handbook. We have all the guidelines in that book. ... Coming out at a meeting and saying you can do this or that, we can't do that in a meeting.

Edward Thomas

There is not any book/ Or face of dearest look/ That I would not turn from now/ To go into the unknown/ I must enter, and leave, alone,/ I know not how.

William Shakespeare

Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books;But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

Denis Dyack

More people play video games than watch movies, read books, listen to music and watch TV combined. We're doing everything we can to have the industry come of age.

Daniel Levine

My grandparents had a house full of books. They were both fluent in several languages. My grandfather was a scholar in biblical literature, and my grandmother was a poet. They planted a seed that grew when I went to college and took some classics classes.

Joe Arbona

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the woman's family.

Dan Wheldon

Our thoughts and prayers are with the Dana family and all of Rahal Letterman racing. It's a very, very sad day. I think hopefully we put on a good race.

Tim Curley

Our thoughts and prayers are with Kevin's family and friends,

Ron Grantski

Our family is waiting until we are told personally, not told by the press.

Alan Moore

Our family has slaved away out here for 40 years. We want to be able to maximize our profits when we go.

Alan Moore

Our family has slaved away out here for 40 years, ... We want to be able to maximize our profits when we go.

Moshe Katsav

Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.

Lisa Maxwell

Our family has done mission trips and we're reminded about trying to help people.

Sam Sheppard

Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.

John Rice

Thank you for giving us back Lauren and Steve,

Bruce Willis

Thank you for giving 'The Sixth Sense' the ... respect it deserved.

Mike McGlone

Teamwork and never giving up, we just kept moving.

S. Walker

Russell is one of the most mature, thoughtful, giving teenagers I have ever met. In my 6 1/2 years here, nominating and selecting the individuals, he has to be the most outstanding youth of the year we have selected.

Sarah Klaassen

Right now we're worried about practice (today). We have to get better and concentrate on us right now. Giving up 92 points is on us, that's hustle and personal pride.

Brett Gallagher

These are all quality names in their sectors, all giving negative guidance, and I think that's shaking investors.

Brian O'Reilly

The SAT has been administered for 80 years. Nowadays we are giving the test nearly 3 million times a year. This is the first time in 80 years that there has been a problem of this magnitude. I would hope that people will keep this in perspective.

Margarita Chaves

The room service is what saved us,' I remember him really going on about that. We were kind of shocked he was giving us so much information.

Andre Agassi

I've said before, I don't know how I'm going to go out, ... I know one thing, if I'm out there playing well and giving something back to the sport, it's going to be hard not to give it more.

Jan Connelley

In the past, there has been up to 100 yards of material in the basket.

Dan Modzelewski

We're using materials that are very tough and very strong to withstand the weather.

Chuck Amato

I've talked to our trainers and managers. If we can't get (the running backs) in the game, we'll let them run the water out during timeouts. That way I can tell their parents they got on the field.

Andrew Solt

It was the only show I watched with my parents as a kid,

Jody Ault

They all have wonderful personalities and a wonderful work ethic. Their parents are hard-working people.

Margaret Atwood

They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to

Anthony Rapp

Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if they're supportive parents.

Ben Marcus

My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.

Brian Aldiss

When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend your parents' limitations.

Cam Newton

My parents do a lot of things behind the scenes that go unnoticed.

Celine Buckens

My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually.

Chuck Amato

I've talked to our trainers and managers. If we can't get (the running backs) in the game, we'll let them run the water out during timeouts. That way I can tell their parents they got on the field.

Andrew Solt

It was the only show I watched with my parents as a kid,

Jody Ault

They all have wonderful personalities and a wonderful work ethic. Their parents are hard-working people.

Margaret Atwood

They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to

Pete Carroll

We're always worried that the parents are going to be shocked.

Maria Jimenez

We are studying here. We want to be able to work here. My parents are immigrants, too.

Larry Taylor

You have to treat people like you want to be treated. I was taught that by my parents.

Lloyd Thacker

Very seldom do parents pay the advertised price tag of a private school.

Debbie Ritchie

If that's all they're basing it on, then the parents need to take into consideration the rest of the story.

Jorge Torres

This is something that should not be on places of education.

John Duncan

Those two places in South Portland are significant bottlenecks.

Dr. Seuss

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

Adrian Smith

I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour.

Margaret Turnbull

If TPF is not canceled, these are the places where we will search.

Richard Matheson

I think there are other places where we need to spend money.

David Shove

I think he's saying to ING ... that we have other places that we can go -- not that they have seriously responded to other inquiries.

Thad Cochran

You just couldn't be in two places at once,

Brad Shaw

It's probably the most fantastic, unusual promotion I've seen at a casino.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

David Colton

There's really a lot of unanswered questions regarding this plan.

Francis Bacon

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

George Daley

I would say they also raise more questions than answers.

Helen Rowland

There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.

Rod Barnes

I'm not going to take those questions today.

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.

Mark Koenig

It was not something our competitors did. It was different, so we got questions about it.

Derrick Brooks

A lot of questions have to be answered,

Charles Caleb

The old ways are the safest and surest ways

Jane Austen

…each found her greatest safety in silence…

Arthur Schopenhauer

Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

Anne Schwartz

We are trying to make the streets safer from this kind of violence.

Sebastian Bellomo

You don't have to worry about safety. It's very safe.

Donna Reed

If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.

Donald Trump

Our enforcement priorities will include removing criminals, gang members, security threats, visa overstays, public charges. That is those relying on public welfare or straining the safety net along with millions of recent illegal arrivals and overstays who've come here under this current corrupt administration.

Donald Trump

President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton have engaged in gross dereliction of duty by surrendering the safety of the American people to open borders, and you know it better than anybody right here in Arizona.

Aesop

Obscurity often brings safety.

Rick Page

Right now I don't think my 5A schools would go to the Valley. But they could put us with Laredo.

Todd Nace

We're about a week away from reopening, once we get the (insurance) settlement.

Paul Johnson

We'll have to see. Two weeks into the spring, we'll have an idea of the separation.

Sylvester Croom

This week has never been about just football; how could it be?

Albert Brooks

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Taye Diggs

On the set I never know what day of the week it is.

Ray Nagin

One of the best moments Ive ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just watching the city breathe again.

Tony Abbott

If you don't want to work weekends, don't.

Tommy Rettig

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

Baruch Spinoza

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Arthur Koestler

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.

Ayn Rand

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Brad Pitt

There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion.

Carl Sandburg

Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

C. S. Lewis

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

Charles Kettering

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

Jane Wyman

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.