Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm very thankful. When you walk through the Wal-Marts and you see the missing children, do you really stop and take a look at what the children really look like? To keep a look out for them, I know I was guilty of not doing that ... from now on I always will look and look out for those children because you never know.

Andie MacDowell

I never 'shunned' L.A., like people say. And I do think you can raise children well there, but it's definitely harder.

Elle Macpherson

I'm very fortunate because we're committed to co-parenting our children together,

Erma Bombeck

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced on television.

John Schneider

In 'Hardflip,' you have a relationship where the father and son haven't seen each other in 18 years, but they find they're very alike: pigheaded, stubborn, passionate. It's a wonderful story of how you can't get away from how similar you and your children are.

Steven Pinker

Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn't have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate with each other.

Jonathan Kozol

In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.

In any classroom, all children are not on the same level, ... When I was a high school teacher, I stood in front of the class and taught algebra. But I learned before I left that I had to walk down the aisles and look at each person's paper and see what each person is doing. That's my philosophy. You teach individuals, you don't teach algebra.

P. J. O'Rourke

I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

Chris Riddell

I'm interested in illustration in all its forms. Not only in books for children but in posters, prints and performance as a way of drawing people into books and stories.

Laura Bush

I mean, my children are grown, and I still felt like I had to reassure them, ... And then, to be perfectly frank, I called my mother because I wanted her to reassure me.

I know the truth, because I know Sharon more than his children know him, because I knew him before they were conceived, ... I am at peace with myself, because I know better.

Jane Green

I know plenty of people with kids in elite, private schools and had heard many stories. I have drifted into the homes of some of those very wealthy families in New York and am fascinated with the dynamic and how much freedom the children are given.

Meg Tilly

I know that in order to be considered successful, you're supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.

James Rebhorn

I have two children who are daughters, so female issues have always registered high on my scale of awareness.

I have two children who are currently very rooted in their community.

I have two children of my own. Crying is not evidence of pain or any real suffering. It's really just the way children communicate.

Kate Winslet

I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.

Roger Clemens

I'm excited because I want people coming to Memorial City Mall to have a new option for great, family-friendly dining. Roger Clemens' Rocket Sports Grill will be as much for women and children as for the guys. Whether they come for lunch or dinner, I want everyone to relax, have fun and feel comfortable.

Jools Holland

I learned to play by ear before I learned music theory. For me, that makes sense. After all, children learn to speak before they read and write. The more you understand of music - how harmony and time signatures work, and what chords and inversions are - the more you'll enjoy it.

I imagine a Georgia that gives children the educational opportunity to climb as far and high as their God-given talents allow.

Rory Stewart

I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to be able to watch them grow.

Richard K. Morgan

I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.

Johann Lamont

I made a different decision to send my children to the local state school.

I love England. I live and work here. My children have grown up here. I see no conflict between this and praying that my countrymen in Scotland never have to live another day under Conservative rule from London.

The message of the study is water for the future. What we are suggesting is water protection for our children and grandchildren.

The mindset is to provide a safe environment for the non-offending parent and the victim. There isn't the stigma of being at the emergency room or Children Services or the police station.

The military has targeted a vulnerable group of young people. We send our children to school to get an education, not to become military targets.

Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

William Butler Yeats

Their hearts are wild,As be the hearts of birds, till children come.

Bob Harris

The countless heroes that sacrifice for volunteering have shown our children a great nation.

Dinah Sheridan

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.

Keeley Hawes

I'm not saying that every night of the week, my husband, ex-husband, our children and I all sit around together like one big happy family. But we do see each other frequently, and everyone loves each other, and we are all friends.