Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Aerin Lauder

It's my personality to be more quiet and reserved. I'm not going out every night to multiple things. I prefer to stay in and be with my children and do Spanish homework to make sure they get a good grade the next day.

Laura Bush

We're laying the foundation of peace for our children and grandchildren,

Jerome K. Jerome

Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.

Richard Carmona

We still have several thousand children a day who start smoking every single day in this country and half of them will go on to be chronic smokers.

We still have 100,000 children who are eligible for the program.

Peter Hook

Yeah, but the excitement of driving around town is palpable. My experience with downloading is not... I'm not computer friendly. My children are!

With the very young ones, parents want the kids to learn to focus and pay attention. If you can't focus, you can't learn. Parents want these children to discover that learning is fun.

William Shakespeare

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

William Shakespeare

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, Remembers me of his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form

R. L. Stine

I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

Roberto Benigni

I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

Surely there are common-sense reforms that we should, and must, take in order to keep our children and our communities safe. I take these recommendations very seriously, and will listen to the voices of my constituents to ensure I do everything I can to help prevent gun violence.

Olga Kurylenko

I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.

There was no drive because I wanted to become a great designer... I had two small children and a mother, and we all had to eat. That's the drive I had.

Paula Broadwell

I grew up in a strong faith-based family. I think I have selected to return to those roots for strength, for my family, for myself and to protect our children and to forgive others and move on and face forward.

Until you go through with it yourself, you simply can't imagine it. But it is the transition of going back to work and the guilt of how much time you spend with your child that's hard. I worry about not getting back in time for bath-time. I am not a neurotic person at all, but every time the mobile rings, my stomach leaps.

Dave Roberts

We have had several reports of children being shot by them.

Jay Rockefeller

We have a moral obligation to tackle television violence and provide parents with the tools to make their children safer,

Tina Knowles

We have always wanted to give Destiny's Child the opportunity to cultivate their own voices,

We could feel that the whole thing was collapsing. We were the bastard children of Iraq. Nobody wanted to hold us,

We have very much personified these vehicles. We think of them as our children, because they have very human characteristics. They see, they move, they interact, they respond to our commands, and they think on their own.

We just didn't have any children in the home. We kept hearing all these horrible stories about children being abused and neglected.

Raquel Welch

Without women to nurture in this world, how do - how do men get by? How do children get by? How does society get by at all?

Renzo Piano

I don't remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics.

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

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.