Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mcewan

It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.

Ian Mcewan

Looking after children is one of the ways of looking after yourself.

Ian Mcewan

It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the more. When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, a family line, connection.

Ian Fleming

Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

Hugh Lofting

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.

Hugh Lofting

I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.

Hugh Mackay

Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.

Hugh Mackay

But many researchers operate as if it is their responsibility to demonstrate that video violence has a direct effect on the behaviour of young children, because that will help to explain why society is becoming more violent.

Hugh Mackay

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

Hugh Mackay

Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.

Hugh Laurie

I suppose actors crave attention of some kind or they have suffered some form of arrested development and are still living in a sort of child's fantasy existence at some level in their psyche.

Hugh Hefner

I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children.

Hugh Hefner

I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.

Hugh Hefner

I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married.

Hugh Jackman

That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

Hugh Jackman

I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

Horace Mann

When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.

Horace Mann

After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.

Horace Mann

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

Horace Mann

There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

Horace Mann

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

Horace Mann

Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.

Horace Mann

Truths, no matter how momentous or enduring, are nothing to the individual until he appreciates them, and feels their force, and acknowledges their sovereignty. He cannot bow to their majesty until he sees their power. All the blind then, and all the ignorant--that is, all the children--must be educated up to the point of perceiving and admitting the truth, and acting according to its mandates.

Homer

I believe children are the future...which is why they must be stopped now!

Homer

He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.

Homer

I believe that children are our future. Unless we stop them now.

Homer

O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.

If I don't speak up, who else is going to get stabbed? ... They don't know their children are having to deal with criminal gang members in their 20s. What are these people doing stabbing teenagers?

Mara Wilson

If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'

If he does have it, he put these children at risk. Think about the fear he has inflicted in these parents. Not only in the inhumanity (of the crimes), but also with this disease.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

If having a beautiful lawn means putting up warning signs several times a year to keep children and pets off of it, it's probably a good idea to look into alternatives.

I feel like my two loves have come together -- my love for children and my love for God.

I called him and told him to turn on the Pentagon Channel, since (the children) were going to be on in five minutes.