Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Crist

If we're willing to grade 5- or 6-year-old children, we ought to be willing to grade the schools that they propose to perform for those children.

There are no quick fixes. But we need to work together to make our lives more livable and to make our children and ourselves more successful as people.

The owners of this library are the taxpayers who put up the money to get it built. I am disappointed for the children -- that they don't have their library.

The overwhelming response has been positive. People are very excited and they're very happy and they know, especially people that know us, that these children will have a great home.

Unless we do something about it, my children and grandchildren are going to be out in the cold.

William P. Young

In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all..

William Wilberforce

In an age in which infidelity abounds, do we observe parents carefully instructing their children in the principles of faith which they profess? Or do they furnish their children with arguments for the defense of that faith? ...it is not surprising to see them abandon a position which they are unable to defend.

To me, I'm the epitome of what a ghetto child is: I was raised by a single parent; I stayed in apartments my whole life; I don't think I've ever cut the grass.

When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.

The Europeans have lots of data on the use of adjuvanted flu vaccine in the elderly, but I dont think anybody has really good data on adjuvants in children.

An AIDS-free generation would mean that virtually no child is born with HIV; that, as those children grow up, their risk of becoming infected is far lower than it is today; and that those who become infected can access treatment to help prevent them from developing AIDS and from passing the virus on to others.

Tom Allen

We must invest in America's children to give them the opportunity for success and to strengthen our nation's competitive edge in the global economy.

Mike Pence

We must ensure that a catastrophe of nature does not become a catastrophe of debt for our children and grandchildren.

Jose Serrano

We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law.

Gary Sinise

Well, you're not incorrect on either front, because absolutely, there are children here in this country that need help as are everywhere in the world.

We made the decision that with all their needs, it was more important to be here for them. We just decided the children needed us more than we needed the money.

My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

Kingsley Amis

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

Kingsley Amis

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

Kim Yuna

Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.

How wonderful it is to see the goodness of a gracious God to the children of men, - it is so plain, that every one that runs can read and understand.

Hurricane Katrina gave the world a glimpse of the disparities in the South. Our research documents just how profoundly these disparities impact the health of children in the region.

He wasn't going to look at the Ivy League. I told him he didn't want me to tell his children that he passed up just the option. There had to be one Ivy League school visit. I wasn't going to tell my grandkids that their father didn't even consider it.

Laura Bush

I also think it's a time if parents want to do this, especially if your children are a little older, to have a little, you know, memorial service of your own. Maybe light a candle,

Jim Parsons

I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to me, and I still remember feeling this way - but I don't know why - but I wouldn't even say 'Hi' back. I was that shy.

Christina Baker Kline

I was stunned to learn that more than 200,000 abandoned, neglected, or orphaned children had been sent from the East Coast to the Midwest on trains between 1854 and 1929.

Roger Lloyd-Pack

I was so determined not to pass on to my children what I perceived to be the faults of my upbringing.

Ravi Teja

I was shooting for a Telugu film at the Taj Mahal in Agra, and there were all these women and children pointing and screaming, 'Rowdy Rathore.' But I am not really 'Rowdy Rathore.' I am the guy who did the original version of 'Rowdy Rathore' six years ago.

I wouldn't want parents to think that they're putting their children at a disadvantage (if they don't do it). It may raise their IQ but do your children need their IQ raised?

I would say if we can select children who are not going to be severely disadvantaged, then we should do so, but I think it has to be done by voluntary choice.

Victor Borge

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible...and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

I grew up with great values and tremendous opportunities, ... I want my three kids and other's people's children to have the same opportunities that I had.

Maeve Binchy

I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.