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.

John Thain

We have to focus on the revenue side, we have to focus on the expense side and make sure we can earn to justify the current market value.

David Olson

We want MCHA to remain the insurance of last resort. It shouldn't be less expensive to go to MCHA than to stay with my current plan through COBRA.

Ian McDonald

We have resources that can help India develop its steel industry and in the current scenario resource security is the most important aspect.

Roy Lind

The facility is just too old, and it doesn't meet all the current standards.

Andrew Fisher

We shall look for more detail on the group's cost-cutting programme and on recent acquisitions. Overall, we expect the outlook statement and current trading to be the main share price drivers.

Scott Howell

I strongly support extending current student loan interest rates and increasing the college tuition tax credit for students and their families.

Thomas Bangalter

There's a confusion sometimes with the laptop being the current tools and where electronic music initially comes from.

Thomas Woods

Discussions of the economy, especially during times of crisis, are often framed in terms of lessons we supposedly learned during the Depression of the 1930s. If we are not to endure terrible times like those again, we are told, we must support whatever form of state intervention is currently being peddled.

Akhil Gupta

We are hopeful that with economies of scale, we will be able to hold margins at current levels.

Gary Busey

When you get lost in your imaginatory vagueness your foresight will become a nimble vagrant.

David Madden

There has been a lot of foresight and planning to help with the smooth move into the building.

Will Johnson

Our gradual and steady growth toward that has made it much sweeter. It's a lot of work to stay afloat, and a lot of foresight and planning.

Will Johnson

Our gradual and steady growth toward that has made it much sweeter. It's a lot of work to stay afloat, and a lot of foresight and planning.

Joseph Phillippi

GM is having the foresight to plan for the worst and hope for the best.

Juliana Hatfield

I still have a lot of those depressive thoughts, but now I have the foresight to tell myself, 'Don't think like that,' and things seem better.

Parris Glendening

foresight in establishing a White House millennium commission.

John Hogan

A friend of mine suggested it to me, ... Maybe he had the intuition or foresight to realize what was about to happen. I also noticed immediately that there were a lot of things out of place with the investigation, but I never thought it would lead to a book. It wasn't until later, when I was in teleconferences with guys like Johnnie Cochran and (Barry) Scheck, that I realized how big it had become.

Ben Younger

There was no foresight on my part. But if you had walked in on that day, you would have known immediately something was going on.

Daniel Akaka

We have never intended to 'cut into the pie' of funding for Indian programs and services,

Rod Nelson

We know we have it (PRP) for 2006, but funding has been taken away for 2007. However, it could be back in 2008.

Ray Durham

We're just not getting the funding for the legislature to get updated and new equipment.

Tim Butler

We're looking at several different sources. We haven't secured a particular funding stream yet.

John McIlwain

Right now, many people are in limbo and don't know whether to rebuild or what to do next. There needs to be a plan, and there needs to be funding for that plan, but right now there is neither.

Jan Davis

The only place we have left to turn now is the cities. If we don't get funding from them, I'm not sure what we're going to do at this point.

Ian McDonald

Funding can never replace the value lost from trade and the euro190 million does not really offset that, offset what we would lose.

Dave Coleman

I hate to see the funding cut, but it will probably be.

Mike Parks

I have been told that we should know about the ITEP funding within the next three weeks.

Carol Leifer

Growing up, it was always, 'If you buy kosher meat, they're killed humanely.' But I've seen so many horrible videos. What we thought was humane 100 years ago is not humane anymore. The ways animals suffer, I just couldn't be a part of it anymore.

Aaron Sorkin

I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.

Alan Titchmarsh

I wish we could grow up about it, I'm sure we are contributing to global warming, and we must do all we can to reduce that, but our climate has always changed. The Romans had vineyards in Yorkshire. We're all on this bandwagon of 'Ban the 4x4 in Fulham'. Why didn't we have global warming during the Industrial Revolution? In those days you couldn't have seen across the street for all the carbon emissions and the crap coming out of the chimneys.

Charles Dickens

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

Sherri Shepherd

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

Ricky Gervais

I had great memories of growing up in a working class estate. I remember it being sunny all the time. So we're putting that on screen. It's not people wallowing in degradation.

Ricky Gervais

Americans are brought up to believe they can grow up to be the president of the United States. Brits are told, It won't happen to you.

Susan B. Anthony

... God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe tares frequently get the start of the wheat and kill it out. The only difference between the wheat and human beings is that the latter have intellect and ought to combine and pull out the tares, root and branch.

Alan Abramowitz

The population is growing and there could still be impacts from the hurricanes last year,

Charlie Daniels

I just can't imagine not having something to do.

David Almond

We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

Gabriela Sabatini

When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.

Jerry Johnson

We are privately owned and we do not routinely give out information about our customers. I imagine if we do either, we sell (grain).

Christopher McQuarrie

When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.

Bea Arthur

I can't imagine working without and audience.

Brian Tracy

Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do

Brendan Fehr

I've never been overseas. I can only imagine what that's like.

Brendan Behan

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

Carlos Mesa

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

Mark Regev

We have never said more than we have said in the case. This issue has been solved in a satisfactory way with the New Zealand government.

Karen Dinkins

We have much different issues than the teachers. Just because the teachers go thus and so, it doesn't mean that's right for our members.

Ann Brackbill

We want interoperable systems and that's going to happen. The issue is how we will work together. Without the right coordination, privacy will be at risk in our view.

Alan Lowenthal

Im passionate about the issues that I care about, and Im a really good listener.

Charlie Crist

You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

Charles W. Pickering

Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

Charles Dickens

And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

David Nabarro

The real issue will be how the money is going to be managed and how we are going to coordinate.

David Strathairn

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

Bob Kane

Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.

Coco Chanel

The right ingredients can create a legend.

Bobby Darin

I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25

Uday Kiran

I am proud to say that I was launched in Tamil through 'Poi' by Balachander sir, who was the one who launched the legends like Rajni sir, Kamal sir & Prakash Raj sir.

Graham Murray

When legends retire someone comes in and takes their spot, don't they?

Bob Kinniebrew

He's a legend and will always be a legend, and I for one have him to thank.

Nate Burleson

He was a living legend in my household.

Gary Neville

He'll always be one of the legends of Manchester United,

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Obesity affects every aspect of a peoples lives, from health to relationships.

Lisa Rickard

Obesity is a very serious problem. It's not going to be solved in the courtroom.

Kimberly Williams-Paisley

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

Gelett Burgess

Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.

Mary Austin

These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity is being seen globally.

Morgan Spurlock

I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.

Ogden Nash

How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!

Tom Vilsack

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

Lewis Mumford

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

Maury Yeston

The extraordinary thing about Irving Berlin is that he's like the American Mozart! It seems as if his songs were always there. How do you put together songs like 'Always' or 'Cheek To Cheek'? Songs of his are, frankly, perfect.

Carolina Herrera

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Ben Stein

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

Laurie Lee

With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,

Dan Ariely

There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Nicole Piggott

We're going to do what we've been doing all year. It seems to be working fine.

Sam Sheppard

Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.