Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Ham

Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations.

Brett Hall

Jack's doing a fine job, and he should be left alone by all the political hacks that want to take shots at him.

Fernando Remirez

Juan Miguel said very clearly that he's ready to come alone to any city to pick up his child as soon as possible.

Keith Terry

It brought up a lot of mixed feelings, ... At a certain point I realized I just had to let go and let it wash over me. And it was such a remarkable collection of people playing amazing music. Just the vibe in the room, I'd never felt so appreciated. I'm an only child and it's easy for me to feel alone in the world, and it counteracted a lot of the thoughts that I have running in my head. It was such a clear outpouring of love and generosity from people. That's a remarkable feeling, one that I don't normally let myself enjoy.

Source Unknown

Have you ever watched a stonecutter at work? He will hammer away at a rock for perhaps a 100 times without a crack showing in it. Then, on the 101st blow, it will split in two. It is not that blow alone which accomplished the result, but the 100 others that went before as well.

Darren Benitez

He left the car alone and when he came back to the car it was gone.

Thomas Kuhn

Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen.

Tony Buzan

Children need stimulation and stability. That can come from grandparents, cousins, teachers, nannies, childcare centres - as long as they engage with the children and are really fond of them. There are also times when children need to be left alone to learn to be independent and to encourage their imaginary friends.

Teju Cole

To read Transtromer - the best times are at night, in silence, and alone - is to surrender to the far-fetched. It is to climb out of bed and listen to what the house is saying, and to how the wind outside responds. Each of his readers reads him as a personal secret.

Matt Foreman

The idea of providing $5,000 to evacuees for job training, education and for childcare expenses during their job search is exactly the type of program that would be successful in employing the 7.5 million people unemployed every day in this country.

Jessica Valenti

I've seen straight, partnered women explain their decision to stay at home by noting that childcare would have taken too much out of their paycheck - as if this cost was just theirs to bear!

Jessica Gonzales

I was very reluctant to put her back into any childcare facility, ... When something like this happens, you just feel so guiltylike how could you be so selfish to go right back to work and put your child back into childcare?

Zadie Smith

People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.

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.

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.

Reese Witherspoon

I talked to several of her children and they were so encouraging and supportive. I just hope I've done her memory justice.

Laura Bush

I also think it's a time if parents want to do this, especially if your children are a little older, to have a little, you know, memorial service of your own. Maybe light a candle,

Michael Foley

He wants an update on how the children are.

Darren Shan

I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination.

Jean Price

Jack gave him that right encouragement. You never know when that special pat on the back is going to be the one that influences them.

Ramel Bradley

He just told us he needed us to encourage him. He said we needed to help him get out of his slump.

Quentin Blake

With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Nick Saban

What would he do (if he returned)? If there was something significant he could do, we'd encourage him to do that.

Cam McLeay

Having listened to family, friends, and everyone else, without exception everyone encouraged us to continue.

David Woodruff

His signs are great, probably as good as can be expected at this stage. We're all so encouraged.

Eric Warner

I think it's a really fun idea. It encourages a youthful spirit. I haven't had any entries yet, but it may be a day-of thing. . . . I really hope that you enter.

Ernie Conwell

Here was a guy who had nothing and wanted to do the right thing, ... He wanted to go on with his life. He said he had some engagement rings in Louisiana but had lost them all.

Neil Young

What you'll see in these new titles are things that evoke feelings, ... They won't engage you only interactively, but they'll strive to move you emotionally.

Elinor Howard

It goes with my engagement ring very nicely and I love it.

James Schamus

We looked for the places that sophisticated moviegoers seek out to find things that interest them. These are the people who are engaged with the world, who are informed about the big conspiracies going on out there.

Rick Peterson

He was getting to the point where he was going to engage the rubber like he does during the season. That was the step we wanted to take today. He took that step and he felt great.

Russell Johnson

I was at a speaking engagement for MIT... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!'

Martin Freeman

Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.

Matt Silverman

Our minds are open to many possibilities. We'll go through an exhaustive study of it and also engage our fans in the process before we make any final decisions.

Ty Votaw

In Sweden, the guy wears an engagement ring, too.

Mary C. Jones

He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit.

Bruce Rinker

I have great respect and fondness for the friends, and I think that's reciprocal. I want everyone to know we're trying to respect that formal agreement.

Dennis Hutchinson

He doesn't seem to be very fond of them.

Marcus Trescothick

I have fond memories of doing the job before and I am happy to take on the responsibility again,

Martina Hingis

I have fond memories of Doha and I hope the public here will support me like they did in 2001.

Deborah Moore

I have such fond memories of going to my polling place, ... and not only seeing my pollsters, but my neighbors.

Janet Fitch

I'm particularly fond of the Mulholland Fountain, at Riverside Drive and Los Feliz Boulevard, when it turns colors at night.

Michael Baroni

I have nothing but fond memories of Jennifer as a friend and only wish her well.

Scott Skiles

I'm very fond of Eddy. I always found him to be very honest and open. He was never a problem.

Joseph Brodsky

All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend.

Lee Ryan

I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head.

Mark Johnson

It was so important that this not be an imaginary land.

Anne Miller

AN IMAGINARY AXIS OF EVIL: IRAN FROM THE INSIDE,

Rickie Lee Jones

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

Nicholas Eberstadt

To talk of 'a peaceful North Korean nuclear industry' is to talk of an imaginary animal, like a unicorn,

Jane Lindskold

To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.

Christopher Koch

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.

Anthony Curtis

I think it makes sense. The only thing left that's new might just be old. If you've already got an old place, you wouldn't want to tear it down and start from scratch if you didn't have to.

D. H. Lawrence

He liked to watch his fellow-clerks at work. The man was the work and the work was the man, one thing, for the time being. It was different with the girls. The real woman never seemed to be there at the task, but as if left out, waiting.

Mike Dunne

He left voluntarily. He said it was time to move on.

David Broder

He left his editor, our editor, blindsided for two years and he went out and talked disparagingly about the significance of the investigation without disclosing his role in it.

Mark Lamoreaux

There is more left in the car. That's the encouraging part. I've had a perfect car. This one isn't there yet, but it's pretty good.

Ani Difranco

we thought we left possession behindbut truth is i was yours and you were mine

Larry Summers

I think what went on in Gainesville he left in Gainesville. I haven't seen any of that stuff. He's started off new.

Larry Summers

I think what went on in Gainesville he left in Gainesville, ... I haven't seen any of that stuff. He's started off new.

Alisha Marigoni

I think when he left I was a size 18 or a 16.