Famous Quotes & Sayings

Columba Bush

My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children.

Columba Bush

My children are the most important thing in my life.

Columba Bush

I have three wonderful children. My husband is an absolutely wonderful, perfect husband and a father, most of all.

Columba Bush

My children were born into this. They will always be the grandchildren of the President and First Lady of the United States.

Colum McCann

That was the sort of everyday love I had to learn to contend with: if you grow up with it, it's hard to think you'll ever match it. I used to think it was difficult for children of folks who really loved each other, hard to get out from under that skin because sometimes it's just so comfortable you don't want to have to develop your own.

Colum McCann

I told him that I loved him and that I'd always love him and I felt like a child who throws a centavo into a fountain and then she has to tell someone her most extraordinary wish even though she knows that the wish should be kept secret and that, in telling it, she is quite probably losing it. He replied that I was not to worry, that the penny could come out of the fountain again and again and again.

Cliff Stearns

I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers.

Cliff Richard

The nice thing about having relatives' kids around is that they go home.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity. They show up in robes, rags, silver sashes, or with muddy feet. They show up with skin dark as old wood, or in scales made of rose petal, as a frail child, as a lime-yellow old woman, as a man who cannot speak, or as an animal who can. The great powers are testing to see if humans have yet learned to recognize the greatness of soul in all its varying forms.

Conan O'Brien

This week Disney opened its first ever theme park in China. More than ten thousand children showed up on opening day. And that was just to make the T-shirts.

Conan O'Brien

This is official today. China has surpassed the U.S. and now has the No. 1 economy in the world. After hearing this, China's children asked, 'So now can we take a lunch break?'

E. W. Howe

Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

E. W. Howe

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

E. W. Howe

The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk.

Dwight Henry

I wouldn't sacrifice my business for no acting career because my business is something, ultimately, that I know I'm going to pass down to my kids, and that's most important to me than anything else in the world. I can't pass an acting career down to my children.

Dwight Yoakam

I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.

Dwight Howard

I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn't have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren't around. I was lucky to have mine around.

Dwyane Wade

Every time I look at my children, they remind me to work harder and become a better man.

Dwyane Wade

Always be involved in your children's lives. Life gets hectic but we have to find a way to always stay connected and let our kids know that they are loved.

Dwyane Wade

I would have to name two people - my parents. I've seen them come through adversity and work hard to create the best life for me and my siblings. Although I don't remember them together as a couple, I remember the love they had for their children.

Dwyane Wade

All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.

Tanith Lee

We used to go to the cinema once or twice a week, and they used to preview X-certificate films-those which children couldn't see-and I was terrified, and used to have nightmares just from the previews.

We use a PlayStation with them, and the children get on it and exercise. In order to play the game, they have to peddle and steer. It's lots of fun and good exercise.

We should not have our children going to school to learn how to become obese.

Gurinder Chadha

I know it sounds really weedy, but we are all children who seek approval from our parents.

Gurinder Chadha

DVDs have their place, but the cinema is a tangible, emotional experience that I would hate my children not to have.

Amanda Harlech

I don't think I am a proud person, but I think my children are incredible... I think I am part of that.

Andrew Bird

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.

Adam Hamilton

We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in schools.' God never left the schools. God is still at work through the hundreds of thousands of gifted teachers and administrators, committed parents, and passionate volunteers who seek to help give our children 'a future with hope.'

Daniel Keys Moran

There is virtually nothing I wouldn't be willing to do, to try and make sure that children have a fair shake in life.

Anthony Horowitz

If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I'd send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents.

This will help all Americans -- it will help parents choose the right medication for their children and themselves.

This will ensure that we lay a solid platform to have responsible road users, as children will be taught life skills related to road safety.