Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Was it Gorky who said: "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered in vain, indeed you have lived in vain.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

As the fathers live, so the children play.

Wendi Deng Murdoch

My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.

William Samuel Johnson

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.

Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

Allison Tolman

I did a lot of commercial and theater work when I got out of school and was living in Dallas, and I moved to Chicago to go through the Second City Conservatory Program.

Betty White

I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just - there wasn't a straight man in the house, and I mean that in a very nice way. They were fun, and we would laugh a lot.

Arundhati Roy

The amassing of unfettered wealth of individuals and corporations should stop. The inheritance of rich people's wealth by their children should stop. The expropriators should have their wealth expropriated and redistributed.

The ratio is lower than the world's average, but the number of civil servants in China is too large compared with the country's economic output.

Paul Ryan

The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.

The rate of improvement was faster before the law. There's a question as to whether No Child is slowing down our progress nationwide.

The rate hike news out of China is weighing on the gold market as well as the new margins kicking in and no real new news of uncertainty in Iran.

The rate at which we're growing lets us know we're being recognized. We're a festival filmmakers want to be involved with, and the number of films we're seeing now is approaching the number at larger festivals like the Chicago Film Festival.

David Hewson

There are any number of reasons for visiting Filey. The beach is clean, long, and rarely crowded. The countryside is bold and handsome, with one maritime feature that deserves to be better known: the long, thin rock finger of the Brigg, pointing into the chilly grey waters of the North Sea.

Maria Montessori

There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

Volunteers are really needed. We hate to put a child on a waiting list. It's just another rejection.

Volkswagen's China sales are expected to recover slightly starting from the second half of this year or 2007 with introductions of these new products.

Wanna get to know God?...Get to know His Kids!

Wal-Mart plans to open 20 stores in China this year. We could hire up to 150,000 people there to fill the store growth in the next five years.

Wal-Mart plans to open 20 stores in China this year.

Oscar Arias

Mine is an unarmed people, whose children have never seen a fighter or a tank or a warship.

Karel Capek

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

Karan Johar

I may adopt. I love children and I do feel the need to take the legacy forward. I am open to it, but emotionally you have to be ready for it. Raising a child is really a huge responsibility. And I should have that time and emotional energy to give to child. How and when is a decision my mother and I will take a few years from now.

I don't know anything about propaganda for Chinese reunification. I only know about charity and environmental work. I just want to do good.

Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.

Chinese people like to do things with a low profile; they do not like to expose their wealth.

I want Chinese history to remember me as Carnegie is remembered. I want Chinese people to remember me as they remember Marx and Lenin.

Derek Blasberg

Even on vacation, Rihanna's easy breezy chic is not complete without a red lip.

Denis O'Hare

My first paying gig was a play called 'The Voice of the Prairie' at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago called Wisdom Bridge. I played a fast-talking radio huckster - a salesman of crystal sets in the 1920s - and I actually won an award. Look at that! And then promptly didn't get hired for a year.