Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrea Bocelli

When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy. Because it's the same thing that happened to me as a child. When I first heard the tenor voice, I immediately fell in love with this kind of music.

Andrea Bocelli

While they are kids, my children must do as I say.

Andrea Bocelli

Because I practice often with my children at home.

Andrea Bocelli

I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks.

Andrea Bocelli

I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.

Amy Walter

The only problem with the "children of Reagan" line is it reminds you that Marco Rubio is the young candidate.

We are not going to warm up at all during the day Friday, and it will turn windy. We are going to see wind chills tomorrow in the 40s all day long.

We are not getting our fair share of Chinese trade and we want more of it,

Chinese entrepreneurs have to implement their work under the leadership of the Party and the government - it is very clear.

Katherine Center

I'd love to paint our roof white - it's so hot down here in Texas! - and I'd love to have a rainwater collection system to save rain runoff for later. I also love to fantasize about keeping chickens in the backyard.

Kate O'Mara

I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

Kate Christensen

Broccoli, when overboiled, produces a sulfuric stench that causes children to gag the instant they enter the house.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.

Jami Gertz

Hopefully this movie will help people understand that if a child is never given the tools to know how to love others and love and respect themselves, this is what happens.

Lauren Willig

I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book.

Theodore Zeldin

People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's no good saying you're going to have children for 15 years and then you're going to retire and have hobbies, because you've got 40 more years to go after 60 and you're in good health until 90 or something.

Terry Teachout

I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.

Tess Gerritsen

I'm Asian-American, and I was the only Chinese girl growing up in a white school in San Diego. So I understood what it was like to be different, to always want to fit in and never feel like you ever could.

Terry Wogan

I say to my children, the reason that marriage - and having children - is so important is that it stops you thinking about yourself. The way to happiness is to give yourself to others and to think of others before you think of yourself.

Herbert Hoover

If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.

When the witch is done away with at the end, all the gingerbread kids turn back into children, so they really are the finale, the good triumphing over evil.

William Blake

When the voices of children are heard on the green, / And laughing is heard on the hill, / My heart is at rest within my breast, / And everything else is still.

When you're playing for a championship, it's always going to be a close game. The plan for us was to stay relaxed and if the chips are down, know we can come back. That's what we did.

Shashi Tharoor

Whereas China has set about systematically striving for Olympic success since it re-entered global competition after years of isolation, India has remained complacent about its lack of sporting prowess.

Garrison Keillor

Where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above-average.

Nita Ambani

We are living in the 21st century, and children are dying of hunger, so how do we fight it?

As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.

Nancy Gibbs

Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.

Natalie Babbitt

I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.

Lola Kirke

I will never be good at the oboe. No matter what happens, I will never be good at it because I just don't have that much time on my hands. I don't have the gift of going back to being a child and having my brain develop around this instrument.

Megan Gallagher

We're not going to go into a place where there's children and old people and create chaos.