Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Williams

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

Charles Lindbergh

A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?

Charles Lindbergh

The idea of racial inferiority or superiority is foreign to me. I can't feel inferior or superior to another man because of race, or in any way antagonistic to him. I judge by the individual, not by his race, and have always done so. I would rather have one of my children marry into a good family of any race than into a bad family of any other race.

Charles Lindbergh

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve of an airfoil, in each angle between strut and wire, in the gap of a spark plug or the color of the exhaust flame. There was freedom in the unlimited horizon, on the open fields where one landed. A pilot was surrounded by beauty of earth and sky. He brushed treetops with the birds, leapt valleys and rivers, explored the cloud canyons he had gazed at as a child. Adventure lay in each puff of wind.

Charles Krauthammer

[I]t is more than slightly ironic that Democrats, the fiercely pro-choice party, reserve free choice for aborting a fetus, while denying it for such matters as choosing your child's school or joining a union.

Aisha Tyler

I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.

Aisha Tyler

I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.

Aileen Wuornos

May your wife and children get raped, right in the ass. (to the jurors who convicted her)

Aidan Gillen

For me, now, working and children is it. Theres nothing more to life.

Ai Weiwei

Modern Chinese culture is weak and lackluster.

We are getting more and more referrals for children who are extremely psychotic, who are suicidal, (have) a lot of cutting behaviors, and are very challenging.

Michael White

We're going to have to clean the mess up. Somebody's going to have to. We need to get our children out of harm's way. Strategic withdrawal is where it's at.

Dave Navarro

We're going to have the hottest chicks in Hollywood here,

We're keen supporters of permanent normal trade relations for China, ... Trade relations with China is as important to us as it is to the Chinese.

Christopher Cox

United States' transfer of technology to the People's Republic of China has been the target of serious PRC efforts over the last two decades,

Usually major celebrations, in Chinese traditions, (are) a family affair.

Working in the White House is a tremendous privilege. But it is even a greater honor to serve as the president's chief of staff, especially to you, Mr. President.

We express strong dissatisfaction and at the same time resolute opposition to (the United States) finding fault with China for no reason at all.

We're (exposed to the sector) in a chicken way ... I would never pay the price for that division if it were a separate company.

Rodney Harrison

We're not a dynasty, we're just a good football team, and we've been a good football team since I've been here. The Chicago Bulls, they were a dynasty. They were a dynasty for six years, but once you lose, you're not a dynasty any more. I don't know how long dynasties last, but it seems like they don't last very long in professional sports nowadays.

Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.

John Powell

What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about.

John Powell

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

William Shakespeare

As love is full of unbefitting strains, All wanton as a child, skipping and vain, Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye, Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms, Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll To every varied object in his glance

William Shakespeare

And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd

William Shakespeare

Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by

Leroy Hood

If you know the mother's genome and the father's genome, and you see that the children have some genes that neither parent has, then you know that difference is either a mutation or a processing error.

Kazuo Ishiguro

This is the big question that we all have about our children: How much, how soon, do we tell our children the less comfortable facts about the world they're going to inherit?

Kazuo Ishiguro

To some extent, at least, you have to shield children from what you know and drip-feed information to them. Sometimes that is kindly meant, and sometimes not.

William Wordsworth

Three years she grew in sun and shower,/ Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower/ On earth was never sown;/ This child I to myself will take;/ She shall be mine, and I will make/ A Lady of my own.

Javier Solana

Throughout history, new arrivals or new competitors have often been regarded as threats, but the reality is that a stronger and more confident China is good for the world,

Richard Boucher

We're ready to talk to the Chinese whenever they are ready.

With these children getting hit and killed, it makes the dangers very real,