Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Charles Dickens

When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.

Charles Dickens

Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.

Charles Dickens

"We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them."

Charles Stuart Calverley

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

Charles Studd

Send us people with initiative, who can carry themselves and others too; such as need to be carried hamper the work and weaken those who should be spending their strength on the heathen. Weaklings should be nursed at home! If any have jealousy, prides, or talebearing traits lurking about them, do not send them, nor any who are prone to criticize. Send only Pauls and Timothys; men who are full of zeal, holiness and power. All others are hindrances. If you send us ten such men the work will be done.

Charles Studd

The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.

Charles Stanley

We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million homes in America plus radio on satellites. We just acquired the NAMB FamilyNet television network, and with that expanding possibilities of the gospel.

Charles Spurgeon

What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding , I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven.

Charles Dickens

The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

Alan Rickman

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

Akhil Sharma

My parents are deeply pious Hindus.

Chris Christie

I never wrote a check to Planned Parenthood.

David Schwimmer

My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. Theyre both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going.

Byron Katie

Your parents are your projection-nothing more.

Bryan White

Both of my parents were musicians.

Bruno Tonioli

My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.

John Whiting

We are aggressively trying to get the word out to parents about how they can tap into this resource.

David Sedaris

If I'm stuck, I get up from my chair and I wash windows. Or... clean the bathroom. Or vacuum the attic. There's always something to be done.

Dennis Ritchie

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

Baruch Spinoza

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

David J. C. MacKay

It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us.

Clare Boothe Luce

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

David Bohm

Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it.

Liz Carpenter

I am Woman, here me roar...of is that my vacuum cleaner?

Heinz Pagels

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

Joan Didion

If you aren't aware of the reader, you're working in a vacuum.