Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Oz

Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.

Beck Bennett

Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.

Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have.

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

Ishmael Beah

As a child soldier, your rights are constantly violated.

Doug Larson

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

Meryl Streep

Life is all about making choices and I'm very happy with mine. I have had a wonderful time raising four children and I've also been lucky to have the support of a wonderful husband.

Meryl Streep

When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now, I haven't had one for a number of years and I do it myself. But when they were all little it was hard to pay attention to everyone's homework at the end of the day and make dinner.

Meryl Streep

The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman, these wives, that he lures up to the castle. I just think about fairy tales as stories women told their children to warn them? To keep them safe, to make sure they married up, all the things that would have safeguarded them in the olden days.

Fred Upton

With passage of this important child protection legislation, America's children will be safer in their homes, backyards, schools and neighborhoods,

With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

With Apple, the big question is can they get enough G5 chips to cover demand for the quarter and going forward? The market and resellers are waiting for the new iMacs,

Donna Air

I think a lot of mothers are doing as I am: starting up their own ventures as their children grow older, and having a kind of second blooming.

Donald Wuerl

Children need to have a home. I don't mean a physical four walls and a room. There needs to be an emotional and spiritual and loving place in life. That's what a family is.

'Free markets' is not a liberal or conservative issue. The rule of law is not a Right or Left issue. Those are American principles since our founding, and to the extent that other countries follow our lead... they will prosper. That's what I want, because every one of those people is a child of God.

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.

Al Sharpton

Countries around the world have their own immigration laws and methods of dealing with a recurring theme: desperate people searching for peace from volatile parts of the world. And nations everywhere thrive and prosper from the contributions of immigrants and the children of immigrants - including right here in the U.S.

Allan Houston

First of all, as a man the most important thing you have in your life now is your child that you're carrying. That's it. Everything else comes second; personally, for me, other than your relationship with God and your wife.

You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.

George R. R. Martin

I think in television and film, it's not usually the child's point of view. It's the story of an adult. If there's a child in a drama or an action-adventure movie, they're someone who needs to be saved, someone who needs to be protected, or if they're killed, someone who needs to be avenged. Their character doesn't matter much.

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.

The aim of tai chi is not to strike first to gain dominance over an opponent, but to wait and hit at the right moment.

George W. S. Trow

Children are the beneficiaries - and also the victims - of the theater of various moments.

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

I would've loved to have children and I'm really good with kids, but I just didn't want to commit to anything when I had cancer. I didn't want to plan for the future.

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.

Being in a Chinese coal mine for 30 years is like an epic novel. It's tragic.

Elif Safak

I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home where there were a lot of rules. I didn't have 'yes' parents.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

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.

Grace Lin

When I was younger, I was very princessy. I always wanted to be blond-haired and blue-eyed. This was before Mulan, so I was very upset about all the Cinderellas. I always tried to imagine that maybe Snow White was Chinese since she had black hair.