Famous Quotes & Sayings

The problem is that those who are the worst off are the first to move. You would need the strong to go back first, but instead it is the women, children and disabled who are going back,

those children will be coming into our district. We need to have kindergarten classrooms ready for them.

Those are things that we just wouldn't experience these days. That was a time when people lost a quarter of their kids to childhood illnesses.

David Gregory

We are committed to raising our children as Jews. I knew that it had to start with me at a greater level, at a deeper level, if it was going to be a meaningful example to them.

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.

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

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

Julian Fellowes

You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny.

You have the peace of mind of being able to contact your child and being able to have control over the situation.

Dick Gephardt

Today, we got the teachers, and now we must come back with a new Congress and get the (improved buildings). We are thrilled that our children are going to have a better education.

We don't have athletes, or movie stars or other celebrities that the children can look up to.

We don't have any statistics of how many times that would reach to the moon. But that is one for every man, woman and child in the state.

Garrison Keillor

Where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above-average.

Nita Ambani

We are living in the 21st century, and children are dying of hunger, so how do we fight it?

As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.

Nancy Gibbs

Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.

Natalie Babbitt

I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.

Lola Kirke

I will never be good at the oboe. No matter what happens, I will never be good at it because I just don't have that much time on my hands. I don't have the gift of going back to being a child and having my brain develop around this instrument.

Megan Gallagher

We're not going to go into a place where there's children and old people and create chaos.

Milla Jovovich

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.

Mitch McConnell

There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.

Nancy Jo Sales

That's why teenagers fascinate me - they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.

Eugene Kennedy

Facebook may not only propagate cyber-loneliness but exacerbate the pain of loss that estranged family members feel when they hear only indirectly, through a third-party posting, news of a child or parent with whom they have not spoken in years.

Ellen Greene

There was a time in my life that my mother told me that they didn't know whether they were going to send me to college or an institution, and it's rough to hear that... Childhood is tough.

Rita Rudner

Whenever I date a guy, I think, "Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?