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.

Bram Stoker

It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.

Janine Benyus

Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.

Alan Greenspan

Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset: the increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.

Mark Cuban

I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail ... a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation.

Elizabeth Edwards

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

Douglas Adams

But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we're driving

Daphne Oz

Developing a diet that is healthful, balanced, and appropriate for your particular caloric needs is easy enough and is absolutely critical to establishing a healthful lifestyle that incorporates proper nutrition, adequate fitness, and mental resilience.

Andrew Weil

Health is wholeness and balance, an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed.

David Andrews

a byword for fortitude, resilience and a spirit of community.

C. S. Lewis

It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray.

Agnetha Faltskog

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.

Agnes Varda

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

Agnes Repplier

Economics and ethics have little in common.

Charles W. Chesnutt

We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things

Charles de Gaulle

I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little.

Charles de Gaulle

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

Charles Dickens

Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.

Charles Caleb Colton

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.