Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Leifer

I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it.

Carol Moseley Braun

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

Carol Vorderman

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?

Carol Vorderman

I'm very pleased how my children have turned out.

Carlos Mencia

If God made Adam and Eve, they had children... wait a minute... that means someone banged their sister!

Carlos Fuentes

Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency

Carlos Fuentes

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

Carlos Castaneda

The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.

Carl Andre

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

Jim Struhsaker

Whenever you have a big chunk of people coming in at once, it takes a while to get everyone on track.

Bob Schneider

(But) we're talking ice a millimeter thick just adhering to the outer surface of the wing. A big chunk of clear ice. I've never heard of anything like that.

Bob Gainey

I don't think it's reasonable for him to be skating and feeling the way he would need to for next Tuesday. But five or six days after that, which is a pretty big chunk of time, is the window that the doctors are talking about.

Wendy Liebmann

If I put $60 a week into gas, that a huge chunk of my disposable income even for a moderate income household.

Don Campbell

We have been aggressively reinvesting our net income to deliver new energy supplies in the U.S. and to the world market. A big chunk of our refining in the U.S. is to meet U.S. energy demands and supplies.

Jim Rogers

We're not poor, but that's a chunk of dough,

Marcus Vick

We watched their defensive line, and we noticed that they weren't that athletic. I just wanted to pick up chunks of yardage. There were a couple of designed runs, but for the most part, I just tried to pull it down and get what I could get.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Some days, just occasionally, when I've had just one too many chickpeas, drizzles of olive oil or chunks of feta, I crave a return to the sushi-filled joints of Tokyo.

Winona LaDuke

The United States - you know, native people are large landowners, but the military has a huge chunk of our territories. And in those, there are a number of places that are our sacred sites.

Charles Dickens

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.

Jacky Teplitzky

There is a standstill situation. We all thought September was going to be a strong month, but that did not happen. The phones did not ring. Turnout at the open houses was low, lower than we had expected.

Ricky Gervais

My favourite shows of the year are House of Cards, the Scandinavian versions of The Killing and The Bridge, and my guilty pleasure is everything MMA. Ultimate Fighter is amazing.

Tom Holland

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.

Brent Musburger

Folks, I've had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road.

Bret Harte

Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.

Bram Stoker

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

Bram Stoker

Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.

Darren Shan

but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

Carol Vorderman

Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

Carol Vorderman

My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time.

Carlos Mencia

I grew up in the projects and I know how important it is for kids to have hope.

Carlos Ghosn

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

Carl Barks

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

C. S. Lewis

Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

Tommy Amaker

We have no one to blame. That's what I wanted the kids to know.

Jim Allen

When your kids get on a bus, you want...

Miguel Nicolelis

We want kids to think that they can think about science. They don't need to just play soccer.

Caitlyn Jenner

I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.

Lorraine Bracco

I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.

Michael Franti

I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the time. But we can live in a world where we kill each other a lot less.

The Talmud

There is no pity for a man who moans about living in one town and does not move to another.

Sathya Baba

There is no living being without the spark of love; even a mad man loves something or somebody.

Peter Russell

The principal artists' rooms are so big that in New York 12 people would be living in them,

Axl Rose

In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

Carol Lewis

Throughout history, when our national security has been threatened, we have responded by reducing liberties, ... we ask: We not only want to survive, but survive living under what conditions?

David Duchovny

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

Ellen McLaughlin

The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.

Adam Roberts

Two regular people have worked to make something miraculous happen.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.

Ehud Barak

We are not talking about a miraculous solution.

Steve Kernkraut

I think they're only in the first or second inning of a turnaround. They've done a miraculous job, but I think there's much more to come.

David Parton

I think it's a miraculous recovery. I think she's doing wonderful.

Kofi Annan

You have to have some hope, otherwise I wouldn't be getting into this exercise, ... It may take some time. I don't think we are going to have a miraculous breakthrough, but at least it's a beginning.

Charlotte Bronte

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Diane Setterfield

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.

Byron Katie

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.

Cesare Pavese

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Brian Tracy

Every single moment shapes our future. Be intentional. Live on purpose!

Charlie Munger

What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts.

Delta Burke

I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.

April Masini

There is a lot of relief for daters who are serious about wanting to be in a relationship. This comes in the form of what appears to be dramatic changes like speed dating and Internet dating.

Ai Weiwei

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

Mark Noll

When I'm thinking like a historian, I tend to be a little depressed. But when I'm thinking like a Christian, I tend to be optimistic.

John Updike

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

John Updike

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

Laila Robins

A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.

James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

Nina Hoss

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Timothy Noah

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

Andy Serkis

When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.