Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.

Dave Foley

There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.

Dave Barry

If you answered, ''Spin the Bottle,'' then I frankly do not want to know any more about your childhood.

Catherine Helen Spence

I look back to a happy childhood.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.

Jane Wagner

Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young to understand that you are too young to understand.

Jane Yolen

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

Jane Smiley

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

Jane Smiley

Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The best preparation for worship is not a rehearsal, but surrender.

Gina Barreca

Most cooks would not, for example, prepare an important, elaborate, and difficult dish on the back-burner. Neither should we relegate the cultivation and preparation of happiness for a position where it is both hard to reach and difficult to infuse with new ingredients.

Mark Cuban

Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business.

Bear Bryant

Expect the unexpected.

Brian Tracy

Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation

Brian Tracy

The foundation of confidence in virtually every field is preparation.

Charles Simic

There’s no preparation for poetry.

Charles Spurgeon

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

Diane Wakoski

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

Ashley Montagu

All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.

Carl Jung

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Bella Abzug

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

Boethius

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Arthur Schopenhauer

No one can transcend their own individuality.

Brittany Murphy

I am honored to be a part of that film. It has a really important message, embracing one's individuality. It was the most universal film I've ever read.

Dian Fossey

It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.