Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is a growing realization that the Chinese move last week was not as huge as some interpreted it to be. Now people have worked out that it is not that significant a move.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.

There is more to medicine than curing; there is also healing. And this can provide important information to other family members who may wonder if they might have a child with the same condition.

There is no greater joy than letting a child climb on your lap for a story.

There is no greater inspiration than empowering children to help other children.

The people who aren't going to vote aren't going to vote if you give them two months. But if you have any kind of political organization, this is a political gold mine. If you are a well-organized township or Chicago ward, you can get a good chunk of your vote way before the election.

The people taking it on the chin are the people at the bottom.

The PeopleSoft news could make it more likely that the Oracle deal will go through. And after all the recent downgrades, people are probably relieved to see a brokerage lifting its view on the chip sector.

The people, rulers, leaders and chiefs - none of them shall be able to remain in the world. Death is inevitable; it strikes the heads of the false.

Billy Graham

The people of the United States want peace. The people of China want peace. The people of the Soviet Union want peace. Why can't we have peace?

We talked about the needs of children. After several meetings it was clear the group had a shared dream and common vision, ... In this neighborhood, test scores are low, crime rate is high. We need to develop children who grow into healthy and thoughtful adults.

We try to include school children, especially seventh graders who are taking Texas History, in our activities. We know how important it is for them to learn the history of the town in which they live.

We're promoting fall tourism. It's one of the slower times of the year. We're focusing on different groups, and one of the key groups we're looking at are couples without children, because children go back to school in the fall.

Jason Smith

We took them for granted last time. We had a chip on our shoulder and didn't really think they were going to do anything to us.

We took it on the chin a lot last year. From what I'm seeing, we're showing a lot more poise.

Jim DeMint

We're opening up their market. I worked hard to put China into the WTO rule-based system.

Angie Harmon

We're on the fence about it. I don't know that you ever plan that. If we planned we'd be having children at 73.

When he was in my office, ECISD officers didn't see the urgency for an arrest. By the 28th, Chief Pipes was saying the same thing. To me, that's their decision.

Al Gore

I've kind of fallen out of love with politics. ... Whatever experience and talents I've gained over the years I think it may well be that the highest and best use of that is to try to bring enough awareness of the solutions to the climate crisis and enough of a sense of urgency that we come together across party lines on behalf of our children.

Al Gore

Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth...

Al Gore

I was born a poor black child.

Al Gore

Any child born into the hugely consumptionist way of life so common in the industrial world will have an impact that is, on average, many times more destructive than that of a child born in the developing world.

Al Gore

The symbolism - and the substantive significance - of planting a tree has universal power in every culture and every society on Earth, and it is a way for individual men, women and children to participate in creating solutions for the environmental crisis.

Al Gore

What we take for granted might not be here for our children.

Al Gore

A day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they'll ask one of two questions. Either they will ask: "what in God's name were they doing?" or they may look back and say: "how did they find the uncommon moral courage to rise above politics and redeem the promise of American democracy?"

Al Gore

The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children

Al Gore

We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.

Al Gore

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.

Aimee Mullins

If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

Aimee Mullins

Sure, I'd love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.

Aimee Mullins

If left to their own devices a child will achieve.

Charles R. Swindoll

Authentic men aren't afraid to show affection, release their feelings, hug their children, cry when they're sad, admit it when they're wrong, and ask for help when they need it.

Charles Kingsley

Never trample on any soul though it may be lying in the veriest mire; for that last spark of self-respect is its only hope, its only chance; the last seed of a new and better life: the voice of God that whispers to it: "You are not what you ought to be, and you are not what you can be. You are still God's child, still an immortal soul. You may rise yet. and fight a good fight yet, and be a man once more, after the likeness of God who made you, and Christ who died for you!