Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kingsley Amis

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

Kingsley Amis

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

Kim Yuna

Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.

How wonderful it is to see the goodness of a gracious God to the children of men, - it is so plain, that every one that runs can read and understand.

Hurricane Katrina gave the world a glimpse of the disparities in the South. Our research documents just how profoundly these disparities impact the health of children in the region.

He wasn't going to look at the Ivy League. I told him he didn't want me to tell his children that he passed up just the option. There had to be one Ivy League school visit. I wasn't going to tell my grandkids that their father didn't even consider it.

Elizabeth McCracken

I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to literature - terrifies me. But you could do worse than Mary Norton's 'The Borrowers.' I loved it as a kid, and my kids love it, too.

Russell Crowe

I didn't want to be a dad under those circumstances. I never wanted to have to have children who would hear the kind of conversations I had to hear my parents having, wondering where the money was going to come from for the next rent.

I didn't want my children to work in the rice fields, I wanted them to go to school and get good jobs, ... Lula helped.

McLean Stevenson

I'd just like to take a moment here to say that I'm totally opposed to violence in the school system. I think that teachers are subjected to a lot of stuff that kids are... Children out there, if you feel so compelled to maim your teacher, I think that's okay, but to really get rough and snuff 'em out, that's tough.

I don't expect (their numbers) to go to zero, because of support from the local community, and the numbers of children living in remote locations.

I'd love to see a park for small children in each neighborhood. I don't think that's going to happen in the next four years.

I'd like to see a safer Conroe for all to live in and raise children in.

Stephanie Bennett

I'd like to think that I'm paving the road for all of the women out there who have not had children yet. I'm setting the tone for how it's going to be when you're at this place in your life.

I don't know what happened to (the diamonds). His wife and children are living in very poor conditions.

James Inhofe

I do not think our priorities are misplaced when we are looking at creating a whole new class of children from these gay marriages who could end up completely dependent on the State, on the taxpayers - the American people.

I can look at our management group and see they are mostly young enough to be our children.

I always wanted to do it (paint), but I never had the chance. Back in the '50s, you took Home Ec, not art. I tried in the '60s, but I had little children then and it didn't work out.

He will pay, he will pay for hurting those children out there and my daughter. He will pay. He deserves everything he gets coming to him, ... and felt something was wrong.

William Shatner

He'd written me a letter and I didn't recognize the name until my children clapped and said, 'You've got to do this,'

Hermann Hesse

He does not educate children but rejoices in their happiness

Having children will just infinitely multiply the number of appointments and tasks that I have to keep track of during the day,

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

We can learn from them. They can create an environment in the classroom where the children who are from the mainstream can get another view of world reality.

Bill Clinton

We can honor Dr. King's sacrifice. We can help his children fulfill their legacy. ... Every one of us are in a way the children of Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King.

This was not the officer's funeral, ... We did it out of respect. We're not going to take away from the children by showing up in mass force in uniform.

Today, I will smile and tell a kid that God loves all children regardless of their skin colors ... ?(-???-?)?

Robert E. Lee

You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.

Robert Cormier

You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.

Robbie Coltraine

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

Robbie Coltraine

It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do.

Rob Reiner

I was certainly a child of the '60s, and I came out of that era, and as a young actor, I got cast as a lot of counterculture hippie types.

Rob Reiner

We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children