Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Sachar

I actually started an adult book, worked on it for about two years, and then decided it just wasn't coming together for me, and thought I'll go back to children's books, and almost immediately I started 'Holes,' and it just seemed to take off on me.

Louis Sachar

I think what makes good children's books is putting the same care and effort into it as if I was writing for adults. I don't write anything - put anything in my books - that I'd be embarrassed to put in an adult book.

David Stevens

We applaud studies using animals to figure out ethical ways to obtain embryonic stem cells apart from the creation and destruction of human embryos. So far, however, no one appears to have accomplished this feat. Meanwhile, the good news is that adult stem cells are already providing real cures for real patients.

Cynthia Nixon

We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore.

Dan Collins

We believe that these types of cells are actually more primitive and more flexible than the adult stem cells that would be found in bone marrow, ... They're much younger. They're more robust.

Josephine Quintavalle

There are currently 58 diseases that are being treated using adult stem cells so the issue of stems cells has a positive side, providing the cells are obtained ethically,

Greg Olmsted

West Nile virus is not known to be here. Our concern is that after seven to 10 days after the rain stops, we could see a large number of adult mosquitoes.

Dennis McBride

When you've got a really good (teacher or) case manager, the kids learn to trust them, to really love them; they're starving for positive adult relationships.

Martin Seligman

If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but it lasts only for hours or days. There is no evidence it changes adult problems.

Pete Bils

Whether you gain or lose weight, have babies, get injured or just through simple aging, we change dramatically, and most mattresses can't.

Michael Wistock

Watching (Christopher) and watching his reaction, it makes me wanna bawl like a baby to think about how happy it's going to make him.

Snoop Dogg

We're going to take this thing here straight over the stratosphere, baby.

Mark Boyd

With nearly eighty million baby boomers starting to retire this year, and a large number of them wanting to live where it's warm, someone needed to come up with a solution, so I thought of assembling a group of investors to purchase a cruise ship and convert the cabins to condominiums.

Mark Boyd

With nearly 80 million baby boomers starting to retire this year, and a large number of them wanting to live where it's warm, someone needed to come up with a solution, so I thought of assembling a group of investors to purchase a cruise ship and convert the cabins to condominiums.

Lleyton Hewitt

With my baby due in the next two weeks, it is not possible for me to come. I wish the event well and am sure it will be a great success and I hope to qualify for next year's Masters Cup in Shanghai,

Lleyton Hewitt

With my baby due in the next two weeks, it is not possible for me to come.

Isabella Rossellini

If a hamster has too many babies she knows she cannot carry, she not only abandons them, but she eats them. That means she doesn't have to go out and hunt for food for herself.

Elizabeth Stone

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Charles Dickens

There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing.

Charles Dickens

Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.

Charles Dickens

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Charles Dickens

It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.

Charles Caleb Colton

How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.

Charles Caleb Colton

Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

Keith Roberts

We have in custody seven males and one female. They are being processed at Pembroke Pines station and eventually they will be sent to Krome detention center.

Donald Rumsfeld

We've spent the day talking to people and seeing the steps that have been taken to see that those types of abuses to people for whom we have a responsibility and custody will not happen again,

Dan Roberts

Nobody's ruled out. The girl isn't back in custody and until that happens nobody will be ruled out.

Mark Fagan

He cooperated and was taken into custody without incident, as were all the others.

S. Walker

Her husband would just walk right in her house. She told him to get out. I heard them yelling over custody of the kids.

Greg Craig

When he receives assurances that he will have custody of his son.

Roger Waters

He was in custody when our officers got there, ... There's no need for an investigation. We didn't lay a hand on him.

Emily LaGrassa

He is in police custody in England at this time.

Capt. Conklin

He is a good guy to have in our custody at this time.

Drew Brees

I can change a diaper in 30 seconds flat. I set the new one beneath the old one. That way, it's just wipe and pull the flap over

Bill Tyler

My wife had four kids in diapers at one time. I give her a lot of credit. If she wants anything, I give it to her now. She's a good wife.

Chuck Newman

We like to say that the other guys that play with us aren't even out of their diapers yet.

Vladimir Chernenko

It's impossible to say how many diapers we've changed, because back in the Ukraine we didn't have those things. We used other means.

Karen Russell

What passes for news is just morbid speculation or cartoonish screaming, followed by diaper commercials.

Kool Keith

Leave my diapers moist in the back seat of your Rolls Royce

Kris Carr

The only time you can change someone is when they are in diapers.

Kim Kardashian

I recommend that everyone have a Diaper Genie. Who can live without it?

Rufus Wainwright

A diaper is as inspiring as a drink.

Kim Fields

I give and give, and sometimes I can't find me. I'm sure many moms and wives go down that same rabbit hole.

Patricia Richardson

I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic.

Rebecca Rausch

Patti was able to work much more this year than she has in recent years, ... For one, she wasn't pregnant and she didn't have a newborn at home.

Lucretius

The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.

Alan Watts

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Alan Paton

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

Alan Moore

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

Alan Moore

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Bennett

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Bennett

My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.

Alan Ball

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Alda

Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.

Alan Alda

When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

There is no shelter in you anywhere.

Armistead Maupin

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

Joe Thornton

There are a lot of distractions with homecoming. Hopefully, we can shelter them as much as we can from that.

Charles R. Swindoll

God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11)

Alice Morse Earle

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

Alice Munro

A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.

David Spade

Staying in a hotel this time. They put me up in a little bit of a shithole. Yeah. Just this side of rinky dink. The first 7 floors are a homeless shelter, but I'm on 8.

Aloe Blacc

What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.

Frederick Douglass

I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a shelter under…which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Clifford Garnto

We wrestled better than we did in the first. We got after the guys, and they wanted to get to the state final.

Paul Tagliabue

to play in the state in which they're franchised.

Susan Hill

We're realists. We know we're in a state where the Legislature is anti-choice.

Al Mollozzi

When the state inspectors look at us, they will see that the systems are in place. You have to have a system whether you have one person or 100.

Byron Katie

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

Jared Leto

We want to play whatever you want to hear. We're here for you, Toledo.

Anderson Hernandez

Yeah, I think I have a chance. I'll do whatever they want me to. I'll be ready.

Pat White

We're going to play to win, that's all I can tell you. Whatever it takes.

Stephen Graham Jones

With the Romero zombie, you usually did not have a reason for the infection, the plague, the virus, whatever it's called.

Jim Hunter

We'd do whatever we could, and I don't think we'd be boneheaded about it. I'm not intimating that they're boneheaded, because I don't know the circumstances.

Jim Hunter

We'd do whatever we could, and I don't think we'd be boneheaded about it, ... I'm not intimating that they're boneheaded, because I don't know the circumstances.

Alexandra Adornetto

Xavier: They, whoever they are, shouldn't have control over our lives. I'm not about to lose you. I've been through that before, and I'll do whatever it takes to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Mike Singletary

The No. 1 thing is you want to be able to win the game, and we're going to do whatever we have to do to win the game.