Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Allin Cornell

My mother taught me to read when I was still quite young, and at least in my memory I passed the majority of my childhood reading.

I was thrilled that the school system would choose to honor her in this way. She was the embodiment of Dr. King's legacy. She was all about her children and family ù and if they can continue to follow her example, they'll be very successful in their lives.

I was thinking, maybe, the child was still alive.

I was very reluctant to put her back into any childcare facility, ... When something like this happens, you just feel so guiltylike how could you be so selfish to go right back to work and put your child back into childcare?

I was trying to think of some kind of educational project so that they'd get more out of their time here, ... When the children learned that the older wild horses that are considered unadoptable could be sold for slaughter, a couple of kids asked, 'How can we stop this?,' and it went on from there. It's sort of an introduction to how they can make a difference, even if they're little. It's great for the kids to learn they can.

I was very encouraged that there were families with young children at the festival. History today has to be presented in inventive ways in order to hold children's interest.

I was tired of not being able to take my children where they wanted to go and where I thought they should be able to go.

I was in denial all the way to the hospital that morning. All the while I was thinking, 'These poor parents that don't know their child is dead yet, because I know it's not my daughter' and then I opened the curtain and there she was.

It evolved that any child we could take out of institutionalized care, while waiting for adoption, could transition into their families so much more easily when they had one-on-one care.

Nicholas Sparks

I still live in a small town, my wife and children keep me grounded.

Nicole Kidman

I think particularly with this it's a theme that runs through a lot of my films which is the love a mother has for a child .

Jasmine Guinness

I think children of divorced parents do grow up quicker. You just do.

It does not mean they will not have difficulty, it does not mean they will not need help, but the good news is that most children are not likely to develop PTSD.

It does not go away overnight, but parents look for immediate solutions. Developing a child needs a lot of patience and time.

Janet Reno

It does the child no good to be in limbo,

Didi Conn

It doesn't matter how your child comes to you. I've never felt such joy and such love. It's the most beautiful delicious little thing.

Joseph Bruchac

I think I always knew I would be a writer some day, but it wasn't until I was grown and had children of my own that I turned to telling Native American stories.

Pete Townshend

I think I may have been sexually abused as a child and I was doing research into it

Corin Tucker

I think having musical training as a child was really, really important. I studied piano as a child. Piano is a great instrument to understand musical theory on. I think I have that in my brain somewhere.

Josh Hamilton

I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.

Brian Jacques

I suppose there's a child inside me who wants to get out, ... A little baldy child with a beard. Ha!

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I suppose the Church would be perfect only if it were run by perfect beings. God is perfect, and His doctrine is pure. But He works through us - His imperfect children - and imperfect people make mistakes.

It depends how managers wish to learn, but one idea is to give them some relatively stress-free ways of exploring how they might go about managing what, inevitably, many people see as conflict. You should do this on a frequent basis, as you might do with your children - it makes for a better relationship.

Emma Thompson

I think it would be terrible if what children come away (with) from this movie was that you've always got to behave. No! Not so!

Jonathan Edwards - he has his faith, his health, his wife and his children, but more importantly, he has his Olympic gold medal.

Charles Stross

I write more for the children of the computer revolution, who are also interested in speculation and exploring the human condition, but approach it from an information perspective.

Justice Zenoff was a caring, intelligent and dedicated individual, ... He worked hard for the children of this state and I remember thinking, as a young lawyer and judge, 'That's the type of person I want to be.'

Judge Todd Walton was instrumental in getting this program started. All home environments are not like yours and mine. Some children grow up in homes that are worse than horror stories.

It is critical that we work to ensure the success of our public school children in a highly competitive and global marketplace.

It is deeply unfair to the children of this state to mislead them about science.

I don't know exactly when he got the memory flash, but he was in D.C. when it was the horrible defining moment, 'Oh my goodness, I think I've left my child back in my car.

Russell Crowe

I didn't want to be a dad under those circumstances. I never wanted to have to have children who would hear the kind of conversations I had to hear my parents having, wondering where the money was going to come from for the next rent.

I didn't want my children to work in the rice fields, I wanted them to go to school and get good jobs, ... Lula helped.