Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

Orson Scott Card

Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees - knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.

Orson Scott Card

I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anything new, but I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't COMMANDERS, they don't rule over forty other kids, it's more than anybody can take and not get crazy.

Orson Scott Card

It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.

Orson Scott Card

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

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.

Orson Scott Card

She likes us,” said Umbo. “I know, I could feel it too,” said Rigg. “She’s really glad to have us here. I think she loves us like her own children.” “Whom she murdered and cut up into the stew.” “They were delicious.

Ram Dass

So many times each day we support each other informally without ever becoming 'helper' or 'helped.' Perhaps we're finding an article of clothing for a partner, cutting bread for one of the children, collecting the mail for the person at the next desk, holding the coat for someone at a restaurant.

We were seeing a number of crashes, and our chief wanted to take a pro-active approach.

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.

We were really surprised because he'd been so abused, but he loves children and people.

Scott Skiles

We waited 2½ quarters before we got any energy going. Once we did, we were able to chip away at it and give ourselves half a chance.

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 are working with Rep. Pence on keeping the focus on preventing child pornography and eliminating any unintended consequences.

We can't send our children into higher learning or the work force without up-to-date technology skills.

We condition our children to like stereotyped children's food but left to their own devices children like things like curries.

We concluded that it's highly unlikely that middle ear disease had any impact on children's later development, ... Children are pretty resilient, and it's not as though there's no hearing. They might be turning up the TV or parents might have to speak louder, but these children aren't deaf. When their hearing gets better, they make up for the temporary loss.

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 seeing the devastation on children and on families at a record pace,

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 been anticipating the opportunity to participate in the growing China market for five years.

We have been able to start a program for elementary school children with TUSD.

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,

We have grandparents, live-in lovers, step-parents, persons that are not even biologically related to children that are raising them. We need to have some understandings as to what standards we are going to use to determine which rights they have.

We have good success with them (Noah's Ark). It's a great facility that serves children well.

We have gained 105 children in that period (last six months). Just since Christmas we've gained 79 children.

We're all God's children ... none of us come from any place but God,