Famous Quotes & Sayings

Danielle Steel

I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth.

Corrie Ten Boom

You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.

Cornelia Funke

Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?

Cornelia Funke

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Cornelia Funke

Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world - any world. The very best of all.

Cormac McCarthy

To have a child when you're older, it wrenches you up out of your nap and makes you look at things, you know, afresh. It forces the world on you. And I think it's a good thing.

E. W. Howe

The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk.

We should push the Chinese culture to the world and make it a positive factor in deepening understanding, friendship and cooperation with the rest of the world.

We should not have our children going to school to learn how to become obese.

We should look at our commercial, cultural, educational and value system exchanges with China on one hand, and on the other hand we should develop our diplomatic and international value system with recognized people like the Dalai Lama.

We welcome Chinese investment in the United States with open arms.

Joel Salatin

The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation.

Azzedine Alaia

I've been wearing Chinese clothes since I was 14. I can't wear a suit. I'm small, and when I put on a suit, it's not possible.

Allison Tolman

I moved to Chicago when I was 28, and I wasn't completely idealistic about going to Second City and making a living from comedy, but I knew it would be great for the resume.

Andrea Hirata

It's hard to be a minority. People look at you a different way, like you don't belong, and I don't think many people realize just how difficult it is to live as a minority. Where I come from, we learn to tolerate one another. Whether one is of Chinese descent or Malay descent, what matters is we're part of the same country, the same world.

Anthony Horowitz

If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I'd send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents.

This will have a big impact on Chinese banks.

There is rapid development going on, ... we would like the Chinese to move even faster.

Brandy Norwood

When you don't have a child to think about, life is a lot easier, but when you do, the thought process is a little different.

We've got three starters back on offense and two on defense. We're very green, ... We lost our offensive line, quarterback and main wide receiver. We're running around like chickens with our heads cut off. It's kinda early. These endowments, we look at them as a glorified scrimmages.

There has been much legitimate talk about the competitive threat posed to the developed world by the soaring growth of industries in China and India. Of course they are a challenge, but they also represent a huge opportunity.

There is actually some common ground, ... All three of us are facing real threats from Chinese trading policies.

Ernest Dimnet

When children sound silly, you will always find that it is in imitation of their elders

We're thrilled to welcome Diego back to the Chicago Fire family. In getting Diego back, we're getting a known quantity. He's a competitor and a versatile player that will provide us with a number of positional options this year.

We knew that child predators posed a problem to young people on the Web, but we were stunned to learn the vast numbers of teens engaging in incredibly risky behaviors online.

Why get a consultant when they have me? Fees like that are not feasible at any Chicago public school.

Why did Chief Guerra and Ojeda take over six months to fill a vacant position? This is poor management, and a waste of taxpayer resources and should be unacceptable.

This year we will make sure all Chinese PC makers install licensed software prior to sale.

Robert Morgan

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

Though domestic demand waned and imports somehow slackened accordingly, due largely to macro economic control, in the first half of the year, it is totally wrong to consider the Chinese Government stepped in foreign trade with administrative instruments.

We don't want this to happen again. Something needs to be done about the way the police handle and mishandle children while they're in their custody.

We have been monitoring several markets where there could be significant stress due to the market correction. Chicago is not on that list.

We have great concern that there will be at least a temporary chilling effect on the flow of voluntary information to the investment community until companies see how this rule is enforced,