Famous Quotes & Sayings

McLean Stevenson

I'd just like to take a moment here to say that I'm totally opposed to violence in the school system. I think that teachers are subjected to a lot of stuff that kids are... Children out there, if you feel so compelled to maim your teacher, I think that's okay, but to really get rough and snuff 'em out, that's tough.

I don't expect (their numbers) to go to zero, because of support from the local community, and the numbers of children living in remote locations.

I'd love to see a park for small children in each neighborhood. I don't think that's going to happen in the next four years.

I'd like to see a safer Conroe for all to live in and raise children in.

Stephanie Bennett

I'd like to think that I'm paving the road for all of the women out there who have not had children yet. I'm setting the tone for how it's going to be when you're at this place in your life.

I don't know what happened to (the diamonds). His wife and children are living in very poor conditions.

James Inhofe

I do not think our priorities are misplaced when we are looking at creating a whole new class of children from these gay marriages who could end up completely dependent on the State, on the taxpayers - the American people.

I can look at our management group and see they are mostly young enough to be our children.

I always wanted to do it (paint), but I never had the chance. Back in the '50s, you took Home Ec, not art. I tried in the '60s, but I had little children then and it didn't work out.

Julian Fellowes

He wants to hear their opinions. As an actor, it was what I always craved. You really want as an actor to be treated as one of the grown-ups. Half the time, you are treated as a demented child who has wandered onto the set.

Michael Foley

He wants an update on how the children are.

He didn't even take up golf because it would take away time from his family or children or grandchildren. He was completely selfless.

He didn't have to ask. I told him (he needs to find) the money to fund projects similar to what you're seeing in Rio Rancho. ... If you truly want to leave no child behind, Mr. President, the magic elixir is to transform public education and engage children into their passions.

Ciara

Having a child with someone, you're always going to be respectful of that. But the song 'I Bet' was honestly inspired by my life experiences - I can't just say it's from one experience.

He just kind of fit in, personality wise. He was funny, happy. Chandler was the kind of kid that the children always wanted around. He just was kind of the life of the party.

Larry Brown

He just gets better and better, and you won't find a finer kid. He should be a poster child for our league.

O. J. Simpson

Guilt is an issue that we try to deal with. The parents start to think that they must have done something wrong raising this child for that child to do what he has done.

William Baldwin

Guess what? There's more and more compelling evidence that if you feed a child a steady diet of Marilyn Manson and violent video games and hyper-sexual imagery... something needs to be done.

Gerhard Richter

People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facility we have. Children don't stop doing it or having it. On the other hand, it seems we don't need painting anymore. Culture is more interested in entertaining people.

Sam Brownback

Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to look at the unborn child, and recognize that it is really a young human, who can feel pain and should be treated with care.

Tony Buzan

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

Sugata Mitra

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

Sugata Mitra

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Sugata Mitra

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

Ann Veneman

There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need.

George Romero

There are still some wonderful child actors out there.

Cliff Stearns

There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words.

Najib Razak

Don't gamble the future of your children and Malaysia; think and contemplate because your vote will determine not only the future of the country but also your grandchildren.

Jesus' love for His children continues to be the greatest love story of all time.

Mike Huckabee

Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing, and it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock.

Quentin Blake

I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.

Quentin Blake

I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.

Laura Schlessinger

A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.