Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Ramsey

Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully.

Dave Ramsey

This is not a game, ... Debt has become a part of who we are. It's become that spoiled child in the grocery store with their lip stuck out: 'I want it. I want it. I deserve it because I breathe air.' And, well, that's an uphill climb in our culture right now, to go against that and say, 'Hey, let's be grownups here. Let's be mature, learn to delay pleasure, save up and pay for things.'

Dave Ramsey

My children were taught at an early age how money works and that it comes from hard work. They've been on a commission - not an allowance - since they were little. They learned that if they worked around the house, they got paid. If they didn't work, they didn't get paid.

Dave Ramsey

You have to teach children about money intentionally - create teachable moments.

Dave Ramsey

Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good.

David Neeleman

And you've got to remember that I'm also the father of nine children.

David Nicholls

I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.

David Nicholls

For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.

David J. Anderson

Elementary school children are very impressionable

Edward Zwick

I am a fan of movies and there is something about watching film that is burned into celluloid for all time that is now a piece of history. You go watch, being a fan of classic films and my children and their children are going to be watching these movies.

Edward Zwick

To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.

Ai-jen Poo

One thing I've learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and love the children they care for.

Ai-jen Poo

I've always believed it's important to make the invisible visible. And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that I've always instinctually known is the key to the kind of society I want to live in and raise my children in.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

Do not despair! Work steadily. Sincerity and love will conquer hate. How many seemingly impossible events are coming to pass in these days! Set your faces steadily towards the Light of the World. Show love to all.... Take courage! God never forsakes His children who strive and work and pray! Let your hearts be filled with the strenuous desire that tranquillity and harmony may encircle all this warring world. So will success crown your efforts, and with the universal brotherhood will come the Kingdom of God in peace and goodwill.

Abdul Kalam

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Abdul Kalam

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

Aaron Huey

More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

Love your parents and your children will have loving grandparents.

Lots of people wanted to jump out of the windows, children were crying.

Let Serbia turn out en masse on September 24 and vote for itself, its children and its freedom.

Laura Bush

Let children talk. It's important for children to be able to express their feelings.

Many of the children didn't know their score, and if they did know the numbers they didn't know what scoring a level one, two or three meant in their school career.

Many schools really want children reading in kindergarten when that wasn't done in our day.

Mark Twain

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates - 1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion

Many times in our society, children are the forgotten grievers because they don't grieve the way we do. They don't openly talk about how they are feeling because they don't have the vocabulary. How on earth would kids know how to describe these feelings?

Nancy Gibbs

'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.

Jim Knight

Secondary school parents tell me that they are frustrated, that their teachers ignore them, their children don't give them much feedback because they are adolescents, they feel kind of out of the loop.

Nicholas Kristof

Seniors vote, and that is why we have, you know, Medicare since the 1960s for seniors, and we didn't have a national healthcare program for children, even though it's a lot more cost-effective to deal with children than with seniors.

Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children; / Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

sending a letter home to all the parents in the district that will also include some handouts with some helpful hints on how to sit down with your children and talk about safety.