Famous Quotes & Sayings

The real risk we see from a port security standpoint is that somebody's going to put something in a container. We are talking about, literally, the first baby steps in a huge process that has to happen. We're trying to create a smart box.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I look young. I heard this said so often that it became irritating. I once worked as a babysitter for a woman who, the first time we met, said she didn't want somebody in high school. I was 22. Later, I realised that in certain places being female and looking 'young' meant it was more difficult to be taken seriously, so I turned to make-up.

Claire McCaskill

Being a new mother was a joyful and sometimes overwhelming experience - and as the first Missouri female state legislator to have a baby while in office, having heath care for myself and my son gave me some needed peace of mind.

Bryan Burrough

All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.

Amy Bloom

I spent a lot of time listening to people. But it's also true that I liked details and listening to people when I was a bartender and when I was a waitress and probably when I was a babysitter as well. I suspect that's part of what drew me to psychotherapy rather than the other way around.

Darius Rucker

We can't thank Dave enough. He could call me if my wife was about to have a baby and tell me he needed tonight for his show and I'd find some way to get her to let me head to New York.

This will definitely be a problem for baby boomers. You've been at a company under the plan and worked for years with that expectation, and then it's taken away.

The only time a woman can really succeed in changing a man is when he is a baby

We've been moving some guys around so we don't get beat off the dribble. We're getting better and just trying to take baby steps.

We need to get the back closed. The concern here is meningitis. If the baby gets an infection on the back, that infection can spread to the coverings all over the brain and the baby may die, so time is of the essence.

We were finding a lot of kids coming in like eight, nine, ten, and eleven years old. We were a baby sitter essentially for these kids,

Undoubtedly, the retirement of the baby boom generation will strain the economy and its financial markets. The strain, though clearly present, will fall far short of the urgency and degree voiced by some of today's more pessimistic forecasts.

Amy Heckerling

In Hollywood, whenever you do anything, it seems like there's going to be 30 of them. When I did 'Look Who's Talking,' people went: 'Oh but there's going to be this baby movie and that baby movie.' I can't worry about that. I can only do what I want to do.

We love Maren, the mother. We love baby Lila. I mean, we have a lot in common. We're a great family match.

We were the baby that got thrown out with the bath water.

Helen Hunt Jackson

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.

With the baby boomers exiting the workforce, there is an expectation for younger kids to come in and fill these positions. We want to make sure our kids see and understand how to prepare themselves.

With the Baby Boomer generation getting up in age, there's going to be a real lack of skilled workers here in the future and everybody is recognizing that. A lot of these youngsters want to go into technology and computer fields and that's all well and good, but it leaves a gap of skilled laborers and there are good jobs to be had out there.

We oppose any kind of blocking technology. What about the young parents whose baby sitter is trying to call them, or the brain surgeon who needs notification of emergency surgery? These calls need to get through.

Rita Rudner

While I do occasionally order items on the Internet, it's hard to teach an old shopper new tricks. I'm convinced that the catalogue will eventually disappear, but not until the last baby boomers have kicked off their smelly Nikes and been buried in mulch.

Shawn Amos

In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids' yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength materialism, and parental outsourcing into our own unique version of child-rearing.

Paul Simon

Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.

Franz Ferdinand

Well here we are on the endless highway/Oh baby can't you see things my way.

There is nothing better for your baby than making your own fresh baby food, and it is cheaper than buying the commercial variety,

We didn't go out of our way to baby Racine scripts. Every piece chosen can stand on its own merit, without regard to where the playwright lives.

Jack McKeon

We baby them too much, ... That's why we don't have the Jim Kaats and Don Suttons and Nolan Ryans anymore.

When Mrs. Skinner saw this, she just cried and cried, ... Her baby is over there under that apartment.

Randall Terry

We will expose him to the community so he'll no longer be known as a mom-and-pop doctor. He is going be known as a baby killer.

Kurt Vonnegut

You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "'My God, my God — ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.

Kurt Vonnegut

For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.

Kurt Vonnegut

Even as I speak, the very last polar bear may be dying of hunger on account of climate change, on account of us. And I sure miss the polar bears. Their babies are so warm and cuddly and trusting, just like ours.

Kurt Vonnegut

And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government.

Kurt Vonnegut

Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The creatures can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti. And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millepedes - "with babies' legs at one end and old people's legs at the other," says Billy Pilgrim.