Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate Christensen

Broccoli, when overboiled, produces a sulfuric stench that causes children to gag the instant they enter the house.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.

Jami Gertz

Hopefully this movie will help people understand that if a child is never given the tools to know how to love others and love and respect themselves, this is what happens.

Theodore Zeldin

People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's no good saying you're going to have children for 15 years and then you're going to retire and have hobbies, because you've got 40 more years to go after 60 and you're in good health until 90 or something.

Terry Teachout

I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.

Terry Wogan

I say to my children, the reason that marriage - and having children - is so important is that it stops you thinking about yourself. The way to happiness is to give yourself to others and to think of others before you think of yourself.

Herbert Hoover

If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.

When the witch is done away with at the end, all the gingerbread kids turn back into children, so they really are the finale, the good triumphing over evil.

William Blake

When the voices of children are heard on the green, / And laughing is heard on the hill, / My heart is at rest within my breast, / And everything else is still.

Nicky Oppenheimer

I am an African. I live there and my children live there, and as far as I understand, they intend to go on living there.

Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the content of the coursework.

J. K. Rowling

There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I don't think they would give my life meaning. I do think of the books as my children, though. Whatever is inside of me, I put into my books.

Jennifer Aniston

We are having children after Friends is finished. We had a window there when Rachel was pregnant on the show. It would've been great but we were doing other things.

Walter Benjamin

When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.

...Now since you are celebrating the holy Pascha, you should know, brethren, what the Pascha is. Pascha means the crossing-over, and so the Festival is called by this name. For it was on this day that the Children of Israel crossed over out of Egypt, and the Son of God crossed over from this world to His Father. What gain is it to celebrate unless you imitate Him Whom you worship; that is, unless you cross over from Egypt, that is, from the darkness of evildoing to the light of virtue, from the love of this world to the love of your heavenly home?

The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish in the genital chamber their children.

Barack Obama

The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature jails, really. It’s only when black children start breaking out of their pens and bothering white people that society even pays any attention to the issue of whether these children are being educated.

Barack Obama

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

Brad Pitt

Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold.

Aristophanes

Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!

William Bennett

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

Jean de la Bruyere

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Candace Bushnell

The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

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.

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.