Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Straub

Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.

Martin Henderson

I'm quite proud of growing up in New Zealand where, from quite early on in primary school, you're learning to count in Maori, Maori mythology and dances and colours and history, and I think that gives a child a really good grounding.

Scott Weiland

Having children showed me a whole different kind of love that I had never known. It was something that had always been missing. Complete love. I would die for them.

Rick Pitino

What I've found in my life with our children is that often you can give them advice and tell them to eat the right things, stay in shape and wear sunscreen, and they don't really want to listen. But then they hear it from someone else, and they do listen.

Those who nurture children have a special problem with guns when children are the victims, and that's really why guns are an issue in the last two years.

Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.

Remembering the Mystery is a way of being everything you always already are.

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?

We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children's children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.

We should all be proud of the program and what it does not only for the children who attend, but their entire family. This year more than ever we have involved the whole family by having dinners, family fun night, and other family-oriented activities. We really get to know our families and are friends with them.

Tom Robinson

We're disappointed, because we thought we would do better. We are putting our children in West Valley in a situation where they're not going to be able to be as effective as they can.

Peter Eigen

When countries improve governance and reduce corruption, they reap a 'development dividend' that can include reduction in child mortality rates and increase in per capita income and literacy rates.

David Hall

We think it's very important to make this diagnosis and protect the interests of children to save children's lives and this is why we feel so strongly about this technique.

Elizabeth Dole

Violence in our schools can never be tolerated. When children pass through the schoolhouse door, they should find safety, not violence, ... My thoughts are with the community of Littleton that has united to counsel and protect those who are suffering during this time of sorrow.

Carl Honore

Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.

Jonathan Swift

War is the child of Pride, and Pride the daughter of Riches.

Mathew Staver

Today's ruling defies logic and common sense by saying that children can have two moms. That policy establishes that moms and dads as a unit are irrelevant when it comes to raising children.

I still fear for my daughter because if a child did this to her, you'll never know what she'll do again.

I so desperately miss the children on our block. I so desperately miss the wonderful people on the block. I miss the people I don't like on my block!

Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?

I spent about a year collecting them and it took me about five months to construct the garment. My sister's children drank a lot of the milk.

is engaging and not preachy and allows children choices in making their own decisions.

Islamic children should go to state schools and learn Italian, ... I do not want ghettos. Rather, I want an Italian Islam.

I should have been a child of the '60s.

Diane Kruger

I see myself raising my children in Europe, probably in Paris.

Maria Muldaur

I've been told that 'Midnight at the Oasis' has been responsible for the conception of more children than any other song of the '70s.

Maurice Sendak

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.

I've been fishing all my life and I hate to see that pulled out from under me. They're stabbing me in the back, taking away my childhood dream.

Adam Hughes

I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.

It would help tie the entire structure of child development together.

Miranda July

The worst thing to me is the limited vocabulary of childhood sexuality. Parents, more than anyone, know their kids are sexual.