Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julius Peppers

Who would have thought that vaunted Chicago defense would have given up 29?

Dave Eggers

I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.

David Letterman

Scientists have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is life after death -- though they say it's virtually impossible to get decent Chinese food.

David Gemmell

Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is exquisite and utterly beguiling. Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast' trilogy is an astonishing piece of multi-faceted storytelling. So quality of writing does not condemn the genre.

David Boaz

The only way to break the cycle of unwed motherhood, fatherless children, poverty, crime, and welfare is to recognize that welfare causes more problems than it cures.

David E. Kelley

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

David Elkind

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

David Elkind

Certainly, young children can begin to practice making letters and numbers and solving problems, but this should be done without workbooks. Young children need to learn initiative, autonomy, industry, and competence before they learn that answers can be right or wrong.

David Ben-Gurion

If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Israel, then I opt for the second alternative.

David Mamet

In Chicago, we love our crooks!

Alison Gopnik

The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so quickly.

Jesus' sinless life was given as a gift to the world - the ultimate gift. Some would receive Him, and others wouldn't. Nonetheless, He continues to be our gift, and His life and death makes it possible for His children to receive eternal life with Him. That's a reason to give God glory.

Angelina Jolie

My children love Maleficent's voice, so they always make me do it at home.

Alan Ladd

Our children were trained to look after each other.

Anthony Hecht

It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

We see it a lot better. Over the past couple of days, that's been the focus. I think we've gotten better at it already. Not that we're the Chicago Bulls, but we've gotten a lot better since the Big East tournament. Everyone is contributing more, whether it's a hard cut or the right screen, it's a collection of everything.

We need to say what sorts of Internet use are good for what kinds of children living in what kinds of contexts.

Anthony Browne

Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children's Laureate post exists.

Billy Graham

Love your children-and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.

Al Sharpton

My message to everyone: the next time you hear about migrant children near the border, just picture them as your own. Then think what you would want our government to do.

Being able to jump off a swing is actually a useful and meaningful thing for a child to do... those are the tests that help us understand the limits of our body. That's a positive learning experience that we deny children on a regular basis.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

LZ Granderson

We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.

I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.

Edward Snowden

Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.

Gabrielle Aplin

I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

Alan Bennett

I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over.

Bianca Lawson

My dad and I used to do movie marathons when I was a kid at the Chinese Theatre, and I just remember thinking, 'One day I want to have a movie here' And then later on, when 'Save The Last Dance' premiered there, that was definitely a full circle moment.

Biz Stone

We focus a lot on culture specifically at Twitter because of this spotlight, and of the fact that we don't want to end up like the child actor who found success early and grew up all weird and freaky.

Claude Vorilhon

Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.

Colin Firth

The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.

Clement Clarke Moore

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads.

Dan Quayle

Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesnt help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes todays intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.