Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Malala Yousafzai

My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.

Malala Yousafzai

Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.

Malala Yousafzai

In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.

Women are the sustaining force of any society - they think of the children and the next generation's chances.

Phil McGraw

As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

Morgan Brittany

Well, our children do know what this industry is about, but they have a good grip on who they are.

We have these children spread out all over the district,

We have tap dancers, singers, choirs, children choirs ... we try to keep a variety in there.

To lose your child the way I lost mine is not something you want to live with.

To leave a child unattended for an hour on a city street in New York is pretty inappropriate.

Marco Rubio

Thousands of years of human history have shown that the ideal setting for children to grow up is with a mother and a father committed to one another, living together, and sharing the responsibility of raising their children.

Troy University has got 100 years of alumni, of people coming to school here and people sending their children here,

Sophie Aldred

'Tree Fu Tom' is a truly interactive programme because it is designed to help children get up off the sofa and physically move, which is a very important part of children's development.

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

Lance Armstrong

Yeah. Sheryl and I are very happy. To me, when you have a relationship, you're happy and in love, children are a natural part of the equation,

Laura Bush

You know George doesn't like to think of his childhood home as historic yet.

When I leave the agency, I am going to continue working to keep families and children safe,

We need to teach our children to respect money and not worship it. We need to leave a financial legacy to the help the next generation.

Jennifer Dunn

We need to talk to our children after they get home from school, every night at the dinner table, on weekends to find out what they are thinking, what they are feeling. The solution is found with our children.

Margaret Fuller

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

Hilda Solis

Protecting children and vulnerable workers abroad is a part of our overall efforts here at the Department of Labor.

Helene D. Gayle

Ethiopia's government is doing a commendable job of working closely with donors and humanitarian organizations to educate parents about child marriage, and to support organizations like the Hamlin Fistula Hospital.

Harriet Harman

I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.

Unless your dogs started messing with it, or a child stepped on it.

We got to a point where we were dropping off our child at 6 a.m. and picking him up at 6 p.m.. Someone else was raising our child.

Ashton Shepherd

I'm thankful to God for having a family that's been there for me. He's been there from the time I was a child to even now with my family helping with my little boy. It's worth more than words could ever describe. That's one of the ways I've been able to stay grounded is thanks to family and God.

Alison Gopnik

We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.

Alison Gopnik

Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.

Alice Waters

I think America's food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.

Alexandra Stoddard

Be mindful of the very moment you are living. Start exactly this second. You don't wait until the children get out of the house or when the sun comes out. Create something better.

Ben Affleck

I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.