Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. W. Howe

Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

E. W. Howe

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

E. W. Howe

The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk.

Dwight Henry

I wouldn't sacrifice my business for no acting career because my business is something, ultimately, that I know I'm going to pass down to my kids, and that's most important to me than anything else in the world. I can't pass an acting career down to my children.

Dwight Yoakam

I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.

Dwight Howard

I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn't have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren't around. I was lucky to have mine around.

Dwyane Wade

Every time I look at my children, they remind me to work harder and become a better man.

Dwyane Wade

Always be involved in your children's lives. Life gets hectic but we have to find a way to always stay connected and let our kids know that they are loved.

Dwyane Wade

I would have to name two people - my parents. I've seen them come through adversity and work hard to create the best life for me and my siblings. Although I don't remember them together as a couple, I remember the love they had for their children.

Dwyane Wade

All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.

Tanith Lee

We used to go to the cinema once or twice a week, and they used to preview X-certificate films-those which children couldn't see-and I was terrified, and used to have nightmares just from the previews.

We use a PlayStation with them, and the children get on it and exercise. In order to play the game, they have to peddle and steer. It's lots of fun and good exercise.

We should not have our children going to school to learn how to become obese.

Gurinder Chadha

I know it sounds really weedy, but we are all children who seek approval from our parents.

Gurinder Chadha

DVDs have their place, but the cinema is a tangible, emotional experience that I would hate my children not to have.

Amanda Harlech

I don't think I am a proud person, but I think my children are incredible... I think I am part of that.

Allan Houston

There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be.

Steve Alford

My children see me being coach enough. I gotta make sure they see me being dad.

Steve Burns

I mean, that's another big surprise of the show, is that I see sixteen year old people who recognize me and they're honest, for-real fans of the show. And it goes down to nine months. I mean, I've heard of nine month to year-old children who are watching the show.

Helena Bonham Carter

I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.

Every day, new laws are created that further hamper the ways children can engage with the world.

The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Educated mothers are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling.

George W. S. Trow

Children are the beneficiaries - and also the victims - of the theater of various moments.

If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them.

Helena Bonham Carter

Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn't really matter. When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train.

Tim Costello

While impoverished nations may need funding to help their police or their bureaucrats - it will do little if we don't also help desperately poor people feed or educate their children or stop them dying from preventable diseases or dirty drinking water.

With some parents' work schedules, some children might be here at the school for 11 hours.

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

We have many teachers who can say they are now teaching children of students they've taught.

We wanted to get the children involved in Spring Street. The response was excellent.

We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too.

Jay Inslee

The president recently asked, 'Is our children learning?' Well in this budget, they is not.