Famous Quotes & Sayings

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.

Ray Liotta

Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later.

The first thing that matters: I am a child of the eighties. I grew up in a neon wonderland of talking horses, compassionate bears, hair that didn't move in a stiff wind, and the constant threat of nuclear war.

The only people who had authority within the Church to stop Brendan Smyth from having contact with children were his Abbot in the Monastery in Kilnacrott and his Religious Superiors in the Norbertine Order.

Sean Maher

I have these beautiful children and this extraordinary family, and to think in any way shape or form that that's wrong or that there's shame in that or that there's something to hide actually turns my stomach.

Scott Stossel

My parents were not perfect, but no one's parents are. As childhoods go, mine was pretty comfortable and good in a lot of ways, and yet I still ended up with anxiety.

Ringo Starr

We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat.

Orlando Bloom

My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband, died when I was four years old. So I only had my mum and sister, really.

Peter Singer

We recognize the chicken as another conscious being. It's different from us, but it has a life, and if something is really important for that chicken, if it would work hard to try to get it, and if we can give it without sacrificing something that's really important to us, then we should.

Paul Hawken

I doubt very much that the chief executives of any of the Fortune 500 corporations can name five edible plants, five native grasses, or five migratory birds within walking distance of their homes, or name the soil series upon which their house sits. And I would contend that if you don't know where you are, you are in fact nowhere at all.

Patricia MacLachlan

Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.

Patrick Chan

I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.

Patrick Chan

I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.

Patrick Chan

Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.

Olivia Culpo

If you think that your child is going to be really sensitive to the fact that they might not win - which they probably won't - you shouldn't do it because it's not healthy if they get the feeling that they're not good enough or they're not worthy.

Olivia Newton-John

Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can't help if the parents aren't present, loving, and proactive.

Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.

Porter Goss

We know that Chinese officials chose to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in the 1996 re-election of the Clinton administration. What we don't know is what they expected to gain from that investment,

We know teams are going to try to take away Kristen and Julie on the inside, and we've talked that someone has to step up and knock those shots down. They've done a great job with that. Everybody's been chipping in.

We know some of the children have talked in school saying their parents were picked up.

We know our children are getting fat. It's not their choice -- they're children. Parents, the community and schools have to take responsibility.

We know many people didn't survive and we don't know how many yet. That's going to impact children in shelters.

We know it's crunch time and that each and every game is like a playoff game for us. We want to show Chicago that we want it more than they do. We've got to play with the same urgency and focus that we've had in the last few games and we should be OK.

Well, God gave him to us. That's all the child wanted to hear.

Well, obviously, any such reports are taken very seriously by us. We haven't been able to confirm them. We have contacted the government of China about them.

Two years ago, the New York Racing Association was the poster child for mismanagement and corruption, ... The management at NYRA has completely changed.

David Bailey

Unfortunately West Virginia has one of the highest rates of childhood obesity in the country. We were looking for something that we could do for our kids and wanted to find something they would actually do.

Unfortunately, the kids didn't notice at the time, so we're not sure which house was giving it out, ... We don't really consider it a prank, because there is some health issues here, with throwing this in with food children are potentially going to eat.

We were just people interested in getting at some truth and educating our children teaching them how to think and giving them the facts so that they could make informed decisions.

We were just impressed with the environment and the community of it. We liked that they are teaching children to respect themselves, other people and the environment.

You know, you can never count your chickens before they're hatched with this game. We all know that. All it is, is two days of solid golf. I'm going to have to go out there and produce the same thing on the weekend.

You know, when three innocent children are killed, there's no answer, there's no logic, so there's no way to explain it anyway.