Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Williams

Originally a one-day event, local schools would identify needy children who would otherwise fall through the cracks.

Suomi Sakai

Organizers of any demonstration or public gathering have a responsibility to ensure that children are out of harm's way, particularly children without family, such as street children who have no-one to look after them and are even more vulnerable.

Christine Jackson

Parents who smoke feel guilty about being role models for smoking; they feel hypocritical about trying to prevent their children from smoking. For these reasons, it's difficult to persuade parents who smoke to become anti-smoking advocates in the home.

Jim Duggan

Parents who send their children to school are entitled to expect that in that environment, at least, they will be protected from predatory sexual behaviour,

Walter Dellinger

Patently offensive material is widely disseminated on the Internet, and computer-literate children ... can easily find and retrieve it.

Quincy Jones

Peace is possible around the world, and children are the answer.

Rocky Watson

Our main concerns right now are the two children,

Barbara Schneider

Our lives are busy, but we have to find time to enjoy our family's company and share experiences. When parents and children do things together, it can relieve stress.

Jonathan Kozol

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.

Michael Molligan

Our normal watering restrictions were put in place during the severe water shortage of the early 1990s. But over time we have discovered that to water more than twice a week is wasteful and does no more good for the vegetation. So what once were water-shortage restrictions are now regular and in-place year round.

Brian Baker

Some of our test families didn't think they had a problem and just used the reporting feature, but they discovered they had a real problem.

Steve Squyres

Our speed of travel is driven as much by survival as by discovery.

Jeff Bezos

Our role is to help people discover music,

Steve Forbert

Rodgers was incredibly heroic, ... I wanted people to discover his music and also to know more about him.

Sathya Baba

Man today is trying to master every kind of knowledge but is unable to discover his own true nature.

Kurt Adams

I'm impressed with the innovation of the students. They seem to always impress me with their understanding of scientific principles. There is a general love of science and discovery here.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

Carl Sagan

In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.

Henry David Thoreau

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.

Steve James

Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel first championed my film, 'Hoop Dreams,' which was essential to its success. Roger remained a great supporter of my work throughout my career, and I'll never forget him tweeting about 'The Interrupters' right before its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011.

Karen Anderson

Krista has big dreams. She's very driven. She wants to be all that she can be.

Constance Zimmer

I think any time someone's dreams are crushed, there's the people who can fight to still try and fulfill those dreams and then there's the people who just give up.

Andrew Wilson

It felt good. This was a must-win for us in order to keep our tournament dreams alive.

Maher Arar

I still have the nightmares. I see the same person who tortured me in my dreams.

Kaley Cuoco

I don't have kids, but I know that you want them to follow their dreams, while at the same time, you don't want them to be sitting around, hoping that dream is just going to come. I'm sure that's hard to tell your kids.

Katori Hall

Follow your intuition, listening to your dreams, your inner voice to guide you.

Rachel Platten

I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.

Virgil

Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it.

Nick Vitucci

Our fate rests in our own hands. And that's a good position to be in.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

Big Pun

Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate.

Carl Maria von Weber

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

Bethenny Frankel

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Bernard Berenson

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

Arnold Schoenberg

The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.

Bertrand Russell

A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself to be petty, self-seeking, troubled by trivial misfortunes, dreading what fate may have in store for him. The man capable of greatness of soul will open wide the windows of his mind, letting the winds blow freely upon it from every portion of the universe.

William Shakespeare

Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,No touch of bashfulness?

Lord Byron

Maid of Athens, ere we part, / Give, oh give me back my heart!

Lupe Ontiveros

I've given every maid I've portrayed soul and heart.

William Shakespeare

You maid of hindering knot grass. You bead! You acorn!

William Shakespeare

To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, All in the morning betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your Valentine.

Gina Rodriguez

What I will not do is continue to perpetuate stereotypes. I'm the daughter of a maid; why do I have to also play a maid? My mom was a maid so I didn't have to be a maid.

W. S. Gilbert

Three little maids who, all unwary, / Come from a ladies' seminary.

William Shakespeare

Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypres let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid.

Alexander Pope

Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.

Gary Warman

Our passing was to red shirts all night long. We'll regroup, like young teams do.

Michael K. Williams

People misconstrue when I say I was a dancer. I was not classically trained. I was a street dancer, and I got to do what I did in the nightclubs of New York City.

Jack McCoy

Sushi was gone, ... Somehow, she just got out the night before we were supposed to leave. She was just gone." ()

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the starts.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Night, when words fade and things come alive.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I should probably confess that ice cream is my favorite food, and I eat it every night. When I go grocery shopping, I try to buy a new flavor, rather than reverting back to a favorite flavor. I'm on a mission to taste every flavor of ice cream out there!

Barry McGuire

And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.

B. B. King

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

C. S. Lewis

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

Mamie Coker

There are so many needs, and I understand that. But we just think schools would be safer if they had a nurse on staff.

Deborah Burger

Nurses are required to be patient advocates and do no harm.

Kristie Baker

She never contacted the office or the nurse to find out if someone was actually picking him up.

Paul Kirchhof

millionaire and a nurse would be taxed the same. It is unfair.

Archie Panjabi

I knew what I wanted to do for my entire life, from nursery to university. I've always been geared towards wanting to act. I've stuck with it, dedicated time to it.

Kim Alexander

She was a wonderful nurse that I would say every nurse should emulate.

Debra Jones

She was just getting it together-you know, going to be a nurse practitioner, going to school studying to be a nurse.

Sarah Waters

My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.

Jim Boeheim

I think there should be an expansion. Whatever seems to fit.

Mark Tacchi

That was the first time, other than the medley (relay) that we've put Libby (O'Brien) on anchor. Starting her just wasn't working. When Krissy (Brown) starts, that seems to spark her. We get more out of it all the way around with Krissy starting and Libby on anchor.

Fergal Murray

That?s the one everyone seems to go straight for.

Jimmy Baron

I was very concerned, but he seems to be fine.

Jim Smith

I tell them it's the future. It seems to be where truck tires are heading.

R. Robinson

I think just watching (tape of) the team we're going to play there seems to be more urgency, there's more awareness, more attitude.

Robin Wright

I think just by watching him, like, 'Let's get on with it. Let's just shoot the scene, and we're done,' which seems logical.

Randy Ready

(Johnston) has been hot. Anything he touches right now seems to work out for him.

Jay Haas

I'd like it to go back to no carts. It just seems right. It seems like if spectators can go out and walk, we can, too. It's part of the competition.

Adrienne Rich

The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs ...

David Bowie

Sexuality and where it is going is an extraordinary question, for I don't see it going anywhere. It is with me, and that's it.

Jake Gyllenhaal

My character's the one that kind of initiates these sexual encounters, which to me was, like, totally foreign.

Pat Buckley

The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.

Anita Bryant

[On homosexuality:] I'm more inclined [now] to say live and let live.

Ann Landers

Are you better off with him or without him?

Jasmine Guy

There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.

Barbet Schroeder

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

Monica Lewinsky

Intercourse, ... I never had intercourse. I did not have a sexual relationship.

John Morgridge

Stay hungry. Stay foolish. I've always wished that for myself.

B. F. Skinner

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.

Big Sean

I never want to look back on life and say I wish I did something, and I don't want anybody else to do that.

Cecelia Ahern

The first day of the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don’t feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn’t bothered.

Carl Sagan

Whatever the reason you're on Mars, I'm glad you're there, and I wish I was with you.

Carl Sagan

Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.

Bette Davis

It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.

Bill Burr

I do enjoy them. I get to meet the next generation of comics and help them out. Big comics doing small shows was something that used to happen a lot more back in the day. I wish there was more of that.

Bertrand Russell

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.