Famous Quotes & Sayings

There are seven other states that have adopted the contingent tax credit plan and, to date, there's no record of those states having to cash in those tax credits.

Claire Tomalin

One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier.

Doug Jones

My wife and I have never been able to have kids of our own. Physically, it's impossible. The doctor checked. So we tend to unofficially adopt lots of twenty-somethings. I have a real soft spot in my heart for youth.

Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.

Robert H. Schuller

I realized that every sermon I preached should be designed not to 'teach' or 'convert' people, but rather to encourage them, to give them a lift. I decided to adopt the spirit, style, strategy and substance of a 'therapist' in the pulpit.

Al Sharpton

The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

Armin van Buuren

Holland was one of the first countries to adopt dance music into their culture, and we were the first ones to have really big raves. I grew up in that atmosphere in the early 1990s, and I was very interested in how dance music was made.

John F. Kennedy

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest ambition of any girl is to make herself worthy of the love and adoration of some magnificent man.

Sandra Pupatello

We have to bring in a bill that is balanced, ... Most people aren't adopted so most people have no concept of the impact it has on people growing up and living their lives not knowing where they come from. It's nothing that we can ever imagine.

We have seven children, two that are biological, they are 18 and 15, we have three adopted, one almost adopted and a foster child and they are all under the age of three.

The partner could not adopt this child. You need to be a heterosexual couple legally to adopt a child.

The only thing the high-carb/low-fat diet of the '80s accomplished was renaming adolescent diabetes,

To celebrate the first anniversary of the adopting in 2003, I decided to knit 100 pieces to send to the orphanage.

Patricia Heaton

We're thinking now about adopting or having foster children, and if we did, I would look for a girl without a mother because I could relate to that.

We've been adopted by this family, ... We like them better than ours.

Abraham Lincoln

The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of the consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saves immense sums of interest. The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

Wu Bangguo

The governance principle of 'improving governance and benefiting the people' adopted by Donald Tsang and the SAR government conforms to the fundamental interests and common aspirations of the Hong Kong people.

Bunker Roy

The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the story behind the college.

While we did not make this decision lightly, we believe it is necessary and in the best long-term interests of our shareowners to adopt a dividend policy comparable to the policies of our competitors,

While we certainly have more work to do in the area of foster care and adoption, we already see a significant improvement in reducing the amount of time it takes to adopt a child in foster care.

While this decision making process is underway, as is fitting for the commission, we are assuming our responsibilities and we are adopting a policy of maximum prudence.

Tess Gerritsen

While the TV show 'Rizzoli & Isles' may have been inspired by my books, show runner Janet Tamaro has total control over where the TV characters go from there. As Janet once put it, I'm the birth mother, but she's the mother who adopted them, and now that Jane and Maura are living in her house, they have to do what she tells them to do.

While there are other initiatives that target increasing the adoption of the Linux desktop, the LSB subcommittee can bring to the table an industry effort with real meat that can further the technical capabilities of the Linux desktop. The more vendors that participate in this initiative the more successful this initiative will be.

The position adopted by the Scottish FA ... was disappointing, especially given the assurances that have been made to home country football associations regarding ongoing international representation by ... FIFA,

First, dot-coms turned into dot-bombs, and second, regulators didn't make it easy, ... In theory, there was no reason Utility.com could not have been wildly successful, but states adopted rules that protect the incumbent utilities which means new companies have no room in which to operate.

Muhammad Yunus

The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the entire world in one voice, one that specified time and size.

Charles Spurgeon

O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.

Charles Spurgeon

In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?

The governor believes in the adoption subsidies program, but it was growing unchecked. With a generous means test, the program will be able to continue in the future.

The government is a very large constructor. They have schools, colleges, hospitals and courts, offices. We are trying to influence the public works department to adopt green buildings.

Tony Perez

There are a number of families that are adopting technology just to run their lives.

There are a lot of things the state adopted that make sense, but some are stupid.