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.

Jodi Picoult

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

Mariska Hargitay

Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.

Laura Davies

Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared'...Most of us have it mixed up. You don't start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.

Eric Idle

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Gloria Steinem

If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.

Lois Capps

Pregnant women are more likely to die from homicide by domestic violence than any other cause of death.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. I also did not know that the second step is to isolate the victim. The next step in the domestic violence pattern is to introduce the threat of violence and see how she reacts. We victims know something you [non-victims] usually don't. It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is to 'kill her'. Over 70% of domestic violence murders happens after the victim has ended the relationship.

Lewis Carroll

...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!

Julie Johnston

The time when domestic violence is the most lethal is when the person is trying to leave the situation.

Bo Bice

My lifes a wreck, and I love it.

David Bowie

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

Edward Everett

You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . .

Adrienne Rich

I came to explore the wreck.

Donald Trump

[Ted] Cruz is going down. He looks like a nervous wreck.

Clarence Darrow

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

Corey Haim

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.

Kevin Costner

If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.

Larry the Cable Guy

Sometimes you've gotta wreck the truck to get the insurance money to make the payment on the truck.