Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky

Carl Sagan

Time spent with children is time well spent. Their little minds are not constrained by 'reality' or focused upon goals. Anything and everything is possible. Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan

We are the children equally of the Sky and the Earth.

Carl Sagan

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time ... when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstitions and darkness.

Bill Bryson

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

Bill Bryson

Woods are not like other spaces. To begin with, they are cubic. Their trees surround you, loom over you, press in from all sides. Woods choke off views & leave you muddled & without bearings. They make you feel small & confused & vulnerable, like a small child lost in a crowd of strange legs. Stand in a desert or prairie & you know you are in a big space. Stand in the woods and you only sense it. They are vast, featureless nowhere. And they are alive.

Bette Davis

If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.

Bette Davis

I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

Bette Davis

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

Bernadette Devlin

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.

Bernard Arnault

Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.

Berkeley Breathed

'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.

Berkeley Breathed

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.

Berkeley Breathed

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

Benjamin Rush

By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.

Ashton Kutcher

You think you know how much you can love another person, and then you have a child and you realize you didn't know. It's infinitely rewarding.

Arnon Goldfinger

My grandmothers apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.

Arsenio Hall

At one point in my career, while still hosting 'The Arsenio Hall Show,' I was told by my doctor that it might not be physically possible for me to have children.

Art Alexakis

Being a parent is not just about how you treat your child; it's also about how you treat the other parent. If you treat that person with respect, that's fine, that's the way to go. But if you don't, you're not being the parent you could be.

Arsene Wenger

It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous.

Antoine Rivarol

The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.

I was a child when I first saw 'Vertigo,' and it was very disturbing because I didn't really understand what was going on.

... I will fight until my last day in office to make sure that our children are protected and that they have the facilities necessary to be kids,

I will do whatever is necessary to get our children home.

Junichiro Koizumi

I will decide appropriately, ... I don't think all the other issues with China would get resolved.

Danny Wuerffel

I wept this morning thinking about our city. I was thinking about the families and children who drowned in their homes. It's a sad thing but we see an opportunity to do a greater good than has ever been done.

Danny Wuerffel

I wept this morning thinking about our city and thinking about the many families and children that probably drowned in their homes, so it's incredibly sad. And yet somehow at the same time we've experienced a kind of joy and vision and see an opportunity to do a greater good than we've ever done before.

I will never see Jessie go on her first date. I will never be a grandfather to her children.

Roger McGuinn

I went to the south side of Chicago and got what I thought was a Stella, but it had a spruce top. It was a nice sounding guitar.

I was just itching to help. Chip already had five or seven points, so I felt like I had to do something.

I was just watching the news and seeing those children who had lost everything. I couldn't turn it off. I thought, there has to be some way to help these kids.

Louis Gerstner

I think the visit is very important...very important for China and very important for the United States,

It is a system that is broken, ... Men, women and children are getting hurt with that current law, with revolving door marriages.