Famous Quotes & Sayings

LZ Granderson

Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.

In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.

China is so central to our economic lives that journalists have had no choice but to engage China with greater technical analysis and precision.

Fergie

For me, it's not about price. It's about necessity, quality, and usefulness. Like, I have my Wet N Wild 666 lip liner. It's 99 cents and always has been. I started using it when I was in high school, and it's great.

Fabiola Gianotti

CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a cradle for technology and innovation, and a shining concrete example of scientific cooperation and peace.

Gautam Adani

The upward revision of import duty, from 1 per cent to over 4 per cent on steam coal imports, will adversely impact the industry, as it will lead to increase in cost of power generation.

We knew we didn't wrestle well the first time we saw them. The kids had wanted High Point to win (against Central Regional in the semifinals). They got them and they wrestled like they wanted it.

Welcome back to the 19th Century in Erie County,

Mitch Miller

We're stopping 97 per cent of the fires.

John Baker

We're trying to get them centered and focused,

Blake Shelton

Standing center stage in the six foot circle of wood cut from the stage of the Ryman is something I never take for granted. The history and legacy of that circle is awe-inspiring.

Ellen Burstyn

I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.

The only serious issue for an economy as developed as the Irish economy is how to stay ahead. The dynamics of that debate have to centre on the 'race to the top'.

The real question is who is the independent prosecutor who is liberated to pursue these cases. There is no central prosecution office run by commanders. So you don't have a D.A. thinking, I'm going to follow this wherever it leads.

There are significant environmental impacts in Central Oahu, from traffic to ground water to those farmlands that are very valuable to the state.

Francis Maude

Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent.

Howie Mandel

I have an insatiable desire to be the center of attention.

Bruce Wilkinson

Everyone has a dream deep in their heart, which is a center of what they want to do. If they had all the money, and they had the time and they were guaranteed that they'd be successful, that dream is what they would love to do.

Ai Weiwei

To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist's activity... In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this.

Barbara Mikulski

The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.

Action Bronson

I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.

This will certainly heat up the debate at the central bank,

This will be totally unique to any other center in South Florida, ... It'll be the hub of programming countywide. There will be a great emphasis on the space and the way it looks, but also all the programming we intend to do, including technology for children, teens and adults. In my view, it'll really pull it all together. It will be a great steppingstone for the future.

This was a huge confidence booster for us. We ended the three-game losing streak which included two heart-breaking one-point losses. We were desperate for a win. But we also knew Central Connecticut State would be tough mentally. They were. I just think we made some key rebounds and made some foul shots when we needed to.

Ron Clarke

The parking lots of the hotels around Jackson were jammed with various vehicles - power companies, county ambulances, relief trucks like ours, FEMA vehicles, fire and rescue trucks. FEMA was controlling all of the hotel rooms. It was kind of exciting, being at the center of the relief effort.

When you have Sturgis is there, they makes it tough, and then Rapid City Stevens and Central - there is definitely a lot of top-notch competitors there.

There are long faces here in the control center and around the site. Everybody was so looking forward to flying today.

When you look at any shopping center these days, the risk issue is significant. Except maybe at Fashion Valley.

This whole issue is still front and center for us.

The recession was largely centered in the manufacturing sector, and that is where we continue to see the strongest signs of recovery.

There has to be concern about sustainability of growth overseas; Japan is central to that issue, ... If people are looking at fundamentals, that's the only news they have to look at this morning.

Lawrence Summers

There has not been a time in the last century where there has been so much misunderstanding of the US and so much misunderstanding by the US of the world,

There is a certain attitude, I think, in China that ... we the Chinese were misused by the West, by the outside world, for well over a century and sort of the outside world owes it to us.