Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ella Henderson

I'm not a fussy eater, but when I'm travelling, I try to stick to the same regime and just have my chicken and my mash and broccoli. Otherwise, you start eating all these funny delicacies, and it makes your tummy turn upside down.

Elizabeth McCracken

It's hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home where there were a lot of rules. I didn't have 'yes' parents.

Emilia Clarke

Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon.

Flea

Being a dad and being in the Red Hot Chili Peppers and all the stuff I have to do... The trumpet requires a lot of diligence, and I haven't had the time.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

Edward Snowden

Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.

Jane D. Hull

I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.

Gabrielle Giffords

Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.

Grace Lin

When I was younger, I was very princessy. I always wanted to be blond-haired and blue-eyed. This was before Mulan, so I was very upset about all the Cinderellas. I always tried to imagine that maybe Snow White was Chinese since she had black hair.

Gabrielle Aplin

I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

Graham Moore

My mother, she worked in the mayor's office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time.

Gene Luen Yang

Figuring out a way to balance the Boxer story with the Chinese Christians was difficult.

Thalia

I was thrilled to play a role on 'Dora the Explorer,' a show that has touched the lives of many children around the world, including my own child. Dora is such an iconic and important Latina heroine, and I'm proud to now be a part of the show's ever-growing legacy.

We're trying to reduce family poverty. We don't want our children living in poverty.

Alan Bennett

I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over.

Erin Gruwell

The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five times; another how his parents had died of AIDS. Another said that he'd probably been to more funerals than parties in his young life. For me - someone who had had an idyllic, happy childhood - this was staggering.

Jenny McCarthy

Why do other first world countries give children so many fewer vaccines than we do? Vaccines save lives, but might be harming some children. Is moderation such a terrible idea?

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.

Fetty Wap

The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat - 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.

Marianne Williamson

Children are not children. They are just younger people.

Jane Birkin

I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them off to Brittany. It's divine. I'm quite exceptionally lucky. I've never had a week without having all three of my daughters on the telephone.

Gloria Steinem

Children are short people. Some you like, some you don't.

Bianca Lawson

My dad and I used to do movie marathons when I was a kid at the Chinese Theatre, and I just remember thinking, 'One day I want to have a movie here' And then later on, when 'Save The Last Dance' premiered there, that was definitely a full circle moment.

Bryce Harper

Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you.

Bryce Dallas Howard

Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents' goal was to make all their children self-sufficient.

Brian O'Driscoll

Timmy Horan was a childhood hero. He was a great distributor, elusive, good stepper, very physical, defensively very sound. What a rounded player.

Biz Stone

We focus a lot on culture specifically at Twitter because of this spotlight, and of the fact that we don't want to end up like the child actor who found success early and grew up all weird and freaky.

The real question isn't whether you love your kids or not, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.

Jonathan Zittrain

The realization that every digital movement is recorded and monitored itself will chill private behavior.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.

Hunter Tylo

There are many other pediatric eye diseases as well that, if they are detected early, are preventable. Not one child should lose their eyesight.

Judith Resnik

There are many innovations that have been proposed. There is a proposition that life tenure means that you have the position of judge for life, but not the position of chief justice for life.