Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherynne M. Valente

I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me.

Caryl Churchill

England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.

Casey Miller

conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning our backs on that insight is an option, of course, but it is an option like teaching children that the world is flat.

Carl Honore

My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a minute here, a few seconds there. My wake-up call came when I found myself toying with the idea of buying a collection of One-Minute Bedtime Stories Snow White in 60 seconds. Suddenly it hit me: my rushaholism has got so out of hand that I'm even willing to speed up those precious moments with my children at the end of the day. There has to be a better way, I thought, because living in fast forward is not really living at all. That's why I began investigating the possibility of slowing down.

Carl Lewis

You can't live your life through your children.

Carl Hiaasen

That dreadful alligator attack in Orlando would never have happened if Disney had put up real warning signs, like other Florida resorts do. But wild alligators don't fit the Disney image, so they were no proper warnings, and a child died for no reason.

Lorraine Toussaint

I grew up under the British system, which I think is horrific for children - very, very strict - a system that did not recognize children as being individuals. You were small animals earning the right to be human.

Lisa Cholodenko

There's a lot of technology out there to help people have children in different ways, and later in life, for better or worse.

Michael Specter

Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, because they have never seen measles and have no idea what it might do.

The people who go into this field don't generally take a look at the income data and let that determine whether they do it, ... A lot of times people go into it because they have children of their own at home and it's an economically viable option.

Susan Oliver

The point of our demographics is that we're not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration, we're not going to have the population.

We are proud that they were there for each other. Any one of the four (children) would have done it because it is in their heart.

We are pleased to offer consumers this technology, but consumers should make the choice rather than have it made for them. If they don't have children or pets and they don't feel they need it, they shouldn't be compelled to pay for it.

We've always been known for a diverse menu that offers a wide variety of fresh, quality options. Now, we're continuing to innovate by expanding our kids' meal menu with delicious and nutritious choices that children love and parents appreciate. It's a win-win for everyone.

We are lucky to have such a nice facility for this event. The children, staff and volunteers always look forward to this event; it is the most popular fundraiser that the library has.

There are children everywhere out there that are lost. The scary thing is the list of children we have that are lost ? not the children that are here, but how many people can't find their children.

Steve Fisher

There are children as young as 14, 15 and 16 we know are working in the industry. Until the Government acknowledges the exploitation of children in the industry is flourishing, all children are at risk from pedophiles.

We're in a valley, surrounded by mountains, and the playing field gets dark very quickly in the fall. Many parents can't get home from work in time to watch their children play, and kids who'd like to play don't get a chance.

Mia Love

I will tell them that you can work hard, you can improve your life and the lives of your children in one day when you deliver your youngest child to the university, you will look her in the eye and say, 'You will give back.'

Medgar Evers

I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.

Gunter Grass

I've always been surrounded by children - never bothered by their noise.

In 1996, after 29 years as an artist for Marvel Comics, I got fired - 56 years old, two children still in college, and no job.

Harry Treadaway

You know the way that children play make-believe in the garden? I did that and I thought, 'This will do for life. Why would I want to do anything else?'

Louis C. K.

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

Louis C. K.

Some people think it's demeaning to victims if you ever say anything out-loud about sexual abuse of children. I don't know if that's true.

Maria Montessori

Any child who is self-sufficient , who can ties his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence.

Kurt Vonnegut

I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same.

Kurt Vonnegut

If I was ever to have a child, this is what I'd tell it: 'Child,' I'd say, 'don't never mess with time. Keep now now and then then. And if you ever get lost in thick smoke, child, set still till it clears. Set still till you can see where you are and where you been and where you're going, child.

L. Frank Baum

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

Mark Morris

Every child dances, and then you learn not to.

Madeleine Albright

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

Charles William Eliot

In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.

Charles Williams

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.