Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Jackson

I have a smile on my face that's 10 feet wide. It represents the smiling faces of the 1.1 million school children smiling they're so happy with this decision.

Mike Medavoy

I have lived the American dream, and that is the dream I want for our children and all children everywhere.

Mariella Frostrup

I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.

I have a 6-year-old daughter from Roderick and a 6-month-old daughter. He is very good to his children -- all of his children and we do a lot of family things together.

Robert Rodriguez

I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country.

Sam Childers

I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.

Susan Smith

If immunization in children is to be recommended as public health policy, large-scale studies assessing important outcomes and directly comparing vaccine types are urgently required.

Mary Ellen Mark

If I'm in an unusual or extreme social environment, I always want to know what it's like to grow up there and experience it as normal, everyday life. And I want to know what sort of adults these children are going to turn into.

I feel very sorry for innocent children who through no fault of their own find themselves undocumented. But not going to college is not a passport to failure. We have to set some rules. We can't educate the whole world.

Karen Hughes

I feel the pain that you are feeling, ... It is impossible to say that the plight of women was better under Saddam Hussein . Women were tortured, they had their children tortured in front of them.

John Shelby Spong

I find that children have very little trouble understanding non-literal stories.

Chelsea Clinton

I find the fact that more than 750,000 children still die every year around the world because of severe dehydration due to diarrhea unacceptable.

John Rowland

If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.

Peng Liyuan

I feel strongly about HIV/AIDS and children because I'm a famous singer, a public figure, and I'm a female and a mother. I have the responsibility and the passion to help out and do whatever I can.

Amanda Hearst

I can't imagine what it's like to go through life without shoes to protect your feet, and yet millions of kids do it. That's why TOMS is such an incredible company - it gives shoes to children who need them!

Terry Anderson

If other parents understood the potential their children could gain from that school, it would make a huge difference.

Ewan McGregor

I found my partner, my life partner, and I really am in love with my wife, and we have a lovely time, and we share a long history together and children together, and that's it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Growing things in a sustainable manner is important and growing things organically is important. I'd like children and students to know that it's important and why it is important. You don't want to eat poison. Frankly, the farming techniques in this country are very polluting and they end up in people's bodies. It's not a healthy situation. If you teach it to young children, it stays with them.

Elizabeth McCracken

I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to literature - terrifies me. But you could do worse than Mary Norton's 'The Borrowers.' I loved it as a kid, and my kids love it, too.

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.

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.

Ben Goldacre

Children can be disgusting, and often they can develop extraordinary talents, but I’m yet to meet any child who can stimulate his carotid arteries inside his ribcage.

Barry Hannah

Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?