Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

Robert Morgan

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

Orson Scott Card

For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.

Evo Morales

We were right when we denounced the episode and when we tried to impeach the Commander in Chief (President Eduardo Rodriguez). The facts prove now that we were right.

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.

Though domestic demand waned and imports slackened in the first half, due largely to macro-economic controls, it is totally wrong to consider the Chinese Government influenced foreign trade with administrative instruments.

We don't need to be encouraging children to have kids and find a loophole in order to get married.

We don't want to force them to move their children if they don't want to.

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 been in discussions for a second park in China for some time. But we have priorities and a focus. We have a first park in China already, and we want to make it successful.

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,

Karin Slaughter

When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.

Romesh Gunesekera

When I was growing up, I don't think I knew any other child who had been out of Sri Lanka.

When parents read to their children, their children are better readers. If parents don't have literacy skills or have never been read to, or they have never found joy in a book, it's really difficult for them to make that transition.

We will encourage more Chinese TV stations to get involved in the Olympic signal production to cover more sports.

We would look at things like what to do if a child is choking and things like meningitis.

Vandana Shiva

I saw some women had written that the cloning of Dolly was wonderful since it showed that women could have children without men. They didn’t even understand that this was the ultimate ownership of women—of embryos, of eggs, of bodies—by a few men with capital and control techniques, that it wasn’t freedom from men but total control by men.

Vandana Shiva

The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think it’s time we recognized that in free trade the poor farmer, the small farmer, is ending up having to pay royalties to the Monsantos of the world.

This will be a grand occasion because it will create a two-way street with Peking University so that students can study there and learn not only Chinese language, but also China's politics, culture and history, so that when they come back to the United States, they will be able to represent China's point of view much better.

Katherine Anne Porter

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.

Katherine Anne Porter

A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.

Katherine Anne Porter

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

Karan Johar

As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.

Karen Abbott

If Lady Gaga and Dorothy Parker had a secret love child, it would've been Gypsy Rose Lee. Gypsy arrived for opening nights at the Met wearing a full-length cape made entirely of orchids, while Lady Gaga shows up wearing a full-length cloak made of meat.

Karen Allen

I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.

Karen Armstrong

If your child dies, or you witness a terrible natural disaster, yes, you certainly want a scientific explanation as to what's happened. But science can't help you to find meaning, help you deal with that turbulence of your grief, rage, and dismay.