Famous Quotes & Sayings

We use a PlayStation with them, and the children get on it and exercise. In order to play the game, they have to peddle and steer. It's lots of fun and good exercise.

John Cornyn

We should recess to pay respects to the chief justice and his family, ... But we should continue on with the confirmation hearings to make sure that there aren't eight justices on the court when the new session begins.

We should push the Chinese culture to the world and make it a positive factor in deepening understanding, friendship and cooperation with the rest of the world.

We should not have our children going to school to learn how to become obese.

We should look at our commercial, cultural, educational and value system exchanges with China on one hand, and on the other hand we should develop our diplomatic and international value system with recognized people like the Dalai Lama.

The growth model China has relied on for the last 30 years - one predicated on low-cost exports to the rest of the world and investment in resource intensive heavy manufacturing - is unlikely to serve it well in the next 30 years.

The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud.

We welcome Chinese investment in the United States with open arms.

If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.

Gurinder Chadha

I know it sounds really weedy, but we are all children who seek approval from our parents.

Gurinder Chadha

DVDs have their place, but the cinema is a tangible, emotional experience that I would hate my children not to have.

Wall Street is sliding and Mexico is taking it on the chin as usual.

Joel Salatin

The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation.

Joan Rivers

Your child is never not your child. You can be 90 and your mother 120, but your mother is still worried about you.

Alan J. Pakula

I've hardly had an avant-garde career... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

Azzedine Alaia

I've been wearing Chinese clothes since I was 14. I can't wear a suit. I'm small, and when I put on a suit, it's not possible.

Allison Tolman

I moved to Chicago when I was 28, and I wasn't completely idealistic about going to Second City and making a living from comedy, but I knew it would be great for the resume.

Amanda Harlech

I don't think I am a proud person, but I think my children are incredible... I think I am part of that.

Allan Houston

First of all, as a man the most important thing you have in your life now is your child that you're carrying. That's it. Everything else comes second; personally, for me, other than your relationship with God and your wife.

Allan Houston

There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be.

You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.

Steve Alford

My children see me being coach enough. I gotta make sure they see me being dad.

Steve Burns

I mean, that's another big surprise of the show, is that I see sixteen year old people who recognize me and they're honest, for-real fans of the show. And it goes down to nine months. I mean, I've heard of nine month to year-old children who are watching the show.

Henry B. Eyring

It takes a childlike heart to feel the promptings of the Spirit, to surrender to those commands, and to obey. That is what it takes to be nourished by the good word of God.

Helena Bonham Carter

I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.

George R. R. Martin

I think in television and film, it's not usually the child's point of view. It's the story of an adult. If there's a child in a drama or an action-adventure movie, they're someone who needs to be saved, someone who needs to be protected, or if they're killed, someone who needs to be avenged. Their character doesn't matter much.

Every day, new laws are created that further hamper the ways children can engage with the world.

Being able to jump off a swing is actually a useful and meaningful thing for a child to do... those are the tests that help us understand the limits of our body. That's a positive learning experience that we deny children on a regular basis.

The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid.

Gene Kelly

I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Educated mothers are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling.

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