Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carroll Shelby

I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.

Virginia Postrel

Like the 'test tube babies' born of in vitro fertilization, cloned children need not be identifiable, much less freaks or outcasts.

Virginia Postrel

The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.

Victoria Beckham

My children are my priority and always have been.

I thought the emergency vehicle workshop was especially interesting for the children. This event is a great idea for children who might have issues with going to the doctor's office. I think my son learned a lot. This has been very educational.

I thought that the last time this happened in our community that people would wake up. It's time for this to stop. Parents need to sit down and talk with their children about what's right and what's wrong.

I think we needed a moment to get back to our childhood. Unfortunately, I have to do some work. After that, I'm hoping to have some time to play.

I think we have a really unique and wonderful opportunity to work with the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. I hope our work together comes to fruition.

I think we did very well. We had two major benefactors that really made sure all the women and the children in the shelter got their wish list.

I think we need not wait until a child needs an amputation, passes out at school and has other factors showing that this child is ill before we intervene.

Ann Widdecombe

I think we have lost sight of something of importance, something which has always been at the heart of Conservatism which is the family - functioning as a family unit with legal rights and responsibilities and being able to make its choices and let its children grow strong,

I thought our effort, when the chips were down, was 10 times better this year than last year. In the end, they made a few more plays than we did.

I think we've got to throw stop, drop and roll out the window and actually inform children what a fire is all about.

I think we said everything that we wanted to say. We spoke about responsibility, the fate of children that survived; we spoke about the dead, those who didn't live to grow old; we spoke about irresponsibility and negligence.

Jenji Kohan

I think what strikes a chord is, this is a mother. She has children and she's doing something illegal. We have a history of the father doing what he needs to do to support his family. Mommy is not supposed to take these kinds of risks. She's supposed to be at home nurturing. But I guess you weigh your options and do what you think is gonna work.

John Rosemond

I think what's happening is we are failing to equip children with the skills that they need - the emotional skills as well as the practical skills.

Jamie Clayton

I think what people need to realize is that, with trans people, we're like everybody else. No group of people are all the same. All women are not the same, all men are not the same, all children are not the same. It's the same thing with trans people - we're all so different, we have different goals, different dreams, and different aspirations.

I think that China remains committed to greater flexibility in their currency and opening of their financial markets, ... It's an irreversible course and we think they're now in a position to move even faster.

Marvin Harris

I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interesting and productive series of questions than those that result from saying simply that Chinese don't like milk because they don't like milk.

Henry Ian Cusick

I think any parent, at some time or other, has thoughts of their child dying. That's probably one of the worst things that could ever happen to a parent.

Bonnie Bedelia

I have two children - could I ever choose between them? Never. That's what 'Sophie's Choice' was about. If you have 50 children, you don't love one less.

Bonnie Bedelia

We need children to play the parts in movies. I'm just glad it's not my kids.

Bonnie Bedelia

It's hard to think it's important to try out as cheerleader when you're starring on Broadway. But you do kind of miss the things that I now see my children doing. I'm just happy they are not actors. The Valentine's Day dance is really important. Pitching in Little League is very important. And the medals and the scouts are really important.

Bob Ainsworth

As the Chief of the Defence Staff says, you don't defend on the goal line. Defending the interests of the U.K. means tackling threats early and at source, and that means intervening overseas.

Alice Morse Earle

We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs.

Andy Garcia

I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.

Andrew Vachss

All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn that some forms of gratification must be deferred and others denied.

Ann Hood

I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.

Brooke Shields

I don't like to leave my children for long periods of time. It's made me more picky about roles that are close, especially on television.

Marion Cotillard

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

Bill Nye

It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.

Ben Shapiro

Only reprobates father children and then abandon them.

David Tennant

I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or television and probably television more than any medium is what influenced me as a child and formed my response to literature, story-telling and, therefore, the world around me.