Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Pelzer

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

Dave Ramsey

Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully.

Dave Ramsey

This is not a game, ... Debt has become a part of who we are. It's become that spoiled child in the grocery store with their lip stuck out: 'I want it. I want it. I deserve it because I breathe air.' And, well, that's an uphill climb in our culture right now, to go against that and say, 'Hey, let's be grownups here. Let's be mature, learn to delay pleasure, save up and pay for things.'

Dave Ramsey

My children were taught at an early age how money works and that it comes from hard work. They've been on a commission - not an allowance - since they were little. They learned that if they worked around the house, they got paid. If they didn't work, they didn't get paid.

Dave Ramsey

You have to teach children about money intentionally - create teachable moments.

Dave Ramsey

Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good.

David Neeleman

And you've got to remember that I'm also the father of nine children.

David Nicholls

I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.

David Nicholls

For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.

David J. Anderson

Elementary school children are very impressionable

Edward Zwick

I am a fan of movies and there is something about watching film that is burned into celluloid for all time that is now a piece of history. You go watch, being a fan of classic films and my children and their children are going to be watching these movies.

Edward Zwick

To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.

What I conclude from this is that we need another export outlet for our crude oil. I suggest China and Japan would be excellent outlets for some of this crude.

Ai-jen Poo

One thing I've learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and love the children they care for.

Ai-jen Poo

I've always believed it's important to make the invisible visible. And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that I've always instinctually known is the key to the kind of society I want to live in and raise my children in.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

Do not despair! Work steadily. Sincerity and love will conquer hate. How many seemingly impossible events are coming to pass in these days! Set your faces steadily towards the Light of the World. Show love to all.... Take courage! God never forsakes His children who strive and work and pray! Let your hearts be filled with the strenuous desire that tranquillity and harmony may encircle all this warring world. So will success crown your efforts, and with the universal brotherhood will come the Kingdom of God in peace and goodwill.

Abdul Kalam

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Abdul Kalam

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

Aaron Huey

More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

Love your parents and your children will have loving grandparents.

Lots of people wanted to jump out of the windows, children were crying.

Sathya Baba

Love must flow not from the tongue or from the head only, but chiefly from the heart.

Ozzie Guillen

Last year, we took a lot of heat in Chicago because they always say,

Let Serbia turn out en masse on September 24 and vote for itself, its children and its freedom.

Laura Bush

Let children talk. It's important for children to be able to express their feelings.

Alice Meynell

Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

Leslie played with a little chip on her shoulder, but it was a good chip. It wasn't nasty or mean, but if she got mad, she got intense and there wasn't much you could do to stop her.

Many of them also have other issues including a lack of transportation. Parents may have to miss time from work to take their child to the doctor and that can be an issue for a low-income family as well.

Many of the children didn't know their score, and if they did know the numbers they didn't know what scoring a level one, two or three meant in their school career.

Many schools really want children reading in kindergarten when that wasn't done in our day.