Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayelet Waldman

During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning.

Ayelet Waldman

So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.

Ayelet Waldman

Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair, sitting with them while they do their homework, holding them while they weep their tragic tears. But I'm not in love with any of them. I am in love with my husband.

Ayelet Waldman

I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none. When asked what I made of blogs like my own, blogs written by parents about their children, I said, 'A blog like this is narcissism in its most obscene flowering.'

Ayelet Waldman

I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from school. The hour my children are seated at the kitchen table, their books spread out before them, the crumbs of their after-school snack littering the table, is without a doubt the worst hour of my day.

Ayelet Waldman

If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence... eventually, things can go really, really wrong,

Ayn Rand

As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is only by the inertia of a void and the momentum of disintegration. A social movement that began with the ponderous, brain-cracking, dialectical constructs of Hegel and Marx, and ends up with a horde of morally unwashed children stamping their foot and shrieking: "I want it now is through."

Ayn Rand

She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a regrettable accident to be borne patiently for a while, that she happened to be imprisoned among people who were dull. She had caught a glimpse of another world and she knew it existed somewhere, the world that had created trains, bridges, telegraph wires and signal lights winking in the night. She had to wait she thought, and grow up to that world. - Dagny Taggart

George Akerlof

When you give chief executives too much compensation in stock options, they concentrate too much on the stock price, and there is a perverse incentive to raise the stock price, particularly when the chief executive wants to exercise his own options.

Jamal Lewis

We really knocked the snot -- for lack of a better word -- out of each other on Friday,'' Chiefs defensive end Eric Hicks said.

We really had a diverse group of kids. They had different kinds of disabilities. These children are too young to participate in Special Olympics, so this offers them an outlet to participate in a game that they may not otherwise get to play. It is a really special time for not just the participants, but for the families and the volunteers too.

We read a quote from the president about the Chicago White Sox. He said to them, 'Hey, you went out on opening day, and you never surrendered the lead for the rest of the season.' It's a nice thing to shoot for.

We ran into several situations where under the present policy the principal had no discretion. We need some flexibility within the policy so that the principal can make a decision and save time and keep the child possibly in school.

We're a spiritual couple and we pray a lot, but we didn't know how to pray for that because it would mean that someone's child would have to pass for our child to survive.

George Carlin

We hope you enjoy your stay in Chicago or wherever your final destination may be.' All destinations are final. That's what it means. Destiny: final. If you haven't gotten where you're going, you aren't there yet.

We hope to provide the tools to parents of children with ADHD so they can have the information they can talk with their doctors about.

Haim Saban

Yes. I won't be giving them to the children, but back to society. Don't get me wrong, the children will get something, but we received from society, and will give it back.

We didn't totally fold it in ? I give them credit ? our guys battled. We were able to come back and make it 5-1. We had some fire and I thought maybe we'd be able to get a run going and chip away at it. It just never happened tonight.

Charles Fillmore

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Charles Bukowski

well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!

Charles Bukowski

as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.

Charles Bukowski

Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

Sydney Smith

He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

When I turned 11, we had to leave East Germany overnight because of the political orientation of my father. Now I was going to school in West Germany, which was American-occupied at that time. There in school, all children were required to learn English and not Russian. To learn Russian had been difficult, but English was impossible for me.

We've started to develop a drug-endangered children's protocol, for when children are found to be living in drug homes.

We've seen dollar/yen slip on that China comment.

We have had a lot of positive feedback from visiting groups and we are getting around 30 visits a year. The children particularly enjoy the trailer ride back for lunch in the purpose-built barn. We have to ensure, however, that we do not have too many tours of the farm, as we could scare off the wildlife we have worked hard to encourage onto the land.

Paul Freeman

We have had 29 schools already, which means 1,700 children are so far going to the show. I am sure there will be more after the Easter holidays.

We have had 15 years of Chinese promises to improve intellectual property protection. They have all proved to be false.

Jeremy Rifkin

The fact is, we know that with traditional foods, 8 percent of children and 2 percent of adults have allergenic reaction to traditional foods.

James Zogby

The fact is, this creates more of a chill than cooperation.

The CPC and Chinese government have always affixed prodigious moment to the inveterate friendly relations with Africa,

Charles Clarke

The faces of the women and children in far-away Spain, widows and orphans of this July third rose before me so vividly that I had to draw comfort from the thought that a decisive victory is... more merciful than a prolonged struggle.