Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Carpenter

And the help they will need in their advanced years will fall mostly on the shoulders of their adult children.

Lee Johnson

Teens sometimes feel that inflicting pain on yourself will transfer the pain somewhere else. Teens doing this should find a trusted adult like a teacher or counselor to talk to.

John Green

Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books.

William Raspberry

Teenage male elephants in a South African game park stopped their delinquent behavior after several adult bulls were introduced into the herd.

Tony Perkins

Science has proven that embryonic stem cell research has not delivered one successful cure and deliberately kills human life in the process. Adult stem cell science, however, has thousands of cures and is completely ethical.

Jennifer Granholm

Protecting our children must be everyone's top priority, ... This is a common-sense law that provides parents with the tools they need to protect their children from the effects of violence and graphic adult content.

Henry Link

Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be a the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature.

Brenda Brathwaite

The same lessons she teaches mainstream developers will apply to adult content developers, too. Who doesn't want a bigger audience?

Candace Millington

I've seen changes in our teachers and in their motivation, through more relevant lesson plans, assessments that are more authentic, projects that are more real-world based ... more than at any other time. Students are performing at a higher level than ever before. It's new, it's working. It's goal-driven and career-based. Today's schools are becoming more like an adult learning environment.

Jesse Moore

Back in 1957, African American teachers were a dime a dozen.

Jesse Jackson

The tallest tree in the history of African American journalism has fallen, but has fallen gracefully. The tree that stood tall for over 60 years and a tree that planted a forest, a tree with widespread limbs and full of fruit. He connected to Africa and African Americans. He shared the pain of Emmett Till, the development of Martin Luther King Jr., and was a source of information and inspiration. He was the number one black publisher for 60 years. His impact had been felt through the whole world of journalism.

Kari Stefansson

African Americans with the variant come very close to facing certainty of having a heart attack.

Dambisa Moyo

Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.

Carol Helble

Right now we are basically learning African and Afro-Cuban rhythms. We are not really playing songs yet. We are playing rhythm, patterns and complements. Right now, we are just getting our hands on the drums to get used to the idea.

Richard Dicker

President Obasanjo must promptly comply with the request for Taylor's surrender. Consultation with other African leaders should not buy Taylor any more time to escape facing justice for his alleged crimes.

Steve Jones

This is a process, not an event. It's not going to happen over night. It's clear that we as African American men are unique and only we can articulate what it's like to attend a private college. But all of us would also agree that it was worth it, that we are successful today because of it.

Milton Bradley

This is a special moment for baseball, a special moment for African Americans. Just like it is every time April 15 comes up. I think last year was really special because I was wearing the uniform that Jackie wore.

Joyce Banda

It's heavy, but I am able to carry it. Why? Because I'm an African woman. An African woman carries heavy loads anyway. That's how we are trained; we are brought up that nothing is unbearable. I use that now, positively. I use that now to have the thick skin that I have, and not fear, and move forward, and push; and push forward.

Alex Haley

Racism is taught in our society... it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Jerome Kassirer

Teaching hospitals are big places, ... So it's much more difficult to inject that kind of behavior.

Jacques Chirac

Tempers need to cool, ... We can't have a law-free zone in the Republic. A lack of dialogue and an escalation of disrespectful behavior will lead to a dangerous situation.

David Temple

This is pretty bizarre behavior, but what you'll hear in testimony is that these are two pretty odd people.

S. Walker

You see the transformation over time in terms of people who had no problem in being thieves and liars and drug users and suddenly their behavior and the effect it has on others starts to register with them in terms of wow.

Michael Levy

You see a short-term change in behavior. There's media coverage, and then things settle down and people go right back to what they have always been doing.

Jerry Murphy

You're going to be exposed to issues of ethical and unethical behavior. I call this (program) a hot house, a forced learning experience and they have a lot to learn about how to move in that environment.

Charles Figley

You need to carefully evaluate your own behavior, ... It's like eating. At some point, you've simply got to push yourself away from the table.

Eric Tyson

Your behavior shows kids what you think is important in handling money.

Marc Pado

The bulls have some work to do today.

Elin Hilderbrand

If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you. But this, of course, was bullshit. If you loved something and let it go...it would (hello!) find something else to love.

Paul Sankey

Today's results has surprised even bulls such as ourselves.

Chris Connelly

We have to duck airplanes up here, ... But I'm still a Bulls fan. I still enjoy coming out, even if they don't win.

Brian Noble

I am still in charge of the Bradford Bulls at present and will be tomorrow.

George Carlin

Bullshit is truly the American soundtrack.

George Carlin

It's all bullshit, folks and it's bad for ya.

George Carlin

Religion has what is EASILY the greatest bullshit story of all time.

Isabel Allende

After fifty most of the bullshit is gone.

Susan Basford

Our elephants are healthier now than they have been for many years.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.

Aziz Ansari

I'm like an elephant, ok? If I walk into a room, it's like, OK, he's in there.

Dinesh D'Souza

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

William Shakespeare

The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.

Richard Leakey

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.

Spike Milligan

Education isn't everything, for a start it isn't an elephant

Max Lucado

God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.

George F. Kennan

The United States should not jump around like an elephant frightened by a mouse.

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

Jeremy Jackson

After the first Torrington touchdown, we just had to pick our heads up and get back in the game and just win.

Tara Tattersall

After the first, it was a 2-1 game. For our second game of the season, I'm pretty happy with where we are.

Pat Riley

A game that could have been very, very ugly for us turned out to be a win, and that's all that counts.

Rabih Alameddine

A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.

Freddy Sanchez

A game like this has to give a young team like ours confidence,

Daren Brown

A game like this can really help a young team. It's tough for young kids if they struggle at first. These guys have gotten off to a running start.

Mike Mayben

After Sanders threw as many innings as she did, she needed the rest. So Taylor stepped in really well in the first game and we were able to start her in the second.

Freddy Sanchez

The name of the game is scoring runs and right now we are not doing it.

Edward Abbey

Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.

Douglas Adams

Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.

Plautus

Badly gotten, badly spent. [Lat., Male partum, male disperit.]

Marnie Stern

I really don't separate male from female ever with music, I really don't.

Jerry Reed

She's wearing a ring that I bought on sale, and that makes her the property of this U.S. Male.

Gloria Steinem

When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.

Walt Whitman

And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.

Warren Farrell

In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.

Trisha Yearwood

I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model.

Dean Koontz

I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.

Tim Collins

completely full. There were no more parking spaces.

Greg Smith

Victory Park has been a sore spot for a long time, and we have made that one of our priorities,

Andy Stanley

The sermon begins in the parking lot.

Tom Waits

using parking meters as walking sticks.

Peter Rohde

But it was really only a walk in the park for him.

Eric Myers

Now, we take RVs and park right on the ranch.

Jeff Ross

South Park called...they want their everything back.

Joseph Lowery

I was here when Rosa Parks started and I just wanted to be here when she departed,

Paul Sadorf

We should do well in several of them.

Dan Smith

They're always tough. Several years ago everyone used us as a measuring stick. Now everyone uses them as the measuring stick.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Larry Coker

There's always been talent in South Florida, it just didn't stay here.

Brad Paisley

I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.

Carroll Quigley

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

Mark Shields

John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.

Cal Brown

Ah, to be young and in love, in Southern California.

Joe Tex

Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.

Mike Colter

You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.

Luke Grimes

I'm so southern Ohio. And Cleveland is a different world, you know?

Kyle Chandler

I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

Pam Baker

Things like that will get the teenagers out.

Ayelet Waldman

The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.

Brian Aldiss

Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

Brendan Fehr

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

Brad Falchuk

Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen.

Alanis Morissette

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

Bobby Vinton

I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults.

Bob Cox

About 4000 men, women and teenagers regularly venture out to play a game in -20 weather and stinging prairie winds. Bundled in sweaters and snow suits, balaclavas on their heads and suction cupped shoes on their feet. They slip and slide across the outdoor hockey rinks chasing a soft rubber puck in the Sponge Hockey Capital of the World.

Alison Sweeney

I battled with my weight as a teenager, partly because there wasn't the information or conversation about how to live a healthy lifestyle.