Famous Quotes & Sayings

Today is a great day in the state of North Carolina. The greatest lottery winners will be our children.

Bill Bradley

Today, at a time of unparalleled prosperity, I look out over a nation and I see that nearly one-fifth of our children are ill-fed, ill-house, and ill-educated,

Alex Jones

Criminality is now legal. I guess criminal racketeering these days would be like burning little children at the stake or something. That's about what it takes to get anyone to care.

What you learn is that this is a very hard job. You have to give so much of yourself to be a good teacher. You have to reach every one of the children in your classroom. You can't just teach some of them. You should be reaching every student.

Dannel Malloy

What we want to do is guarantee all 4-year-old children in the City of Stamford a prekindergarten experience regardless of their financial circumstances.

What we do today is so our children will have peace in their time,

Ellar Coltrane

It was surreal to step out of my own existence and see how most American children experience things.

Enid Blyton

If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.

Eddi Reader

I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.

E. L. Konigsburg

After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.

Eric Schlosser

I'm just angry at the sort of things that are winding up in ground beef. I'm angry that other people - mainly children - are going to be sickened by eating a hamburger.

Jeremy Clarkson

I dish the dirt out, and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it? In 20 years, I have taken any number of stories, most of which are not true, without a murmur of complaint. But some stories you have to draw the line and say No.

I can't think of anything more important than the environment we leave to our children and our children's children.

Karl Lagerfeld

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.

Karen Gillan

I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make myself be not like that because I knew it was going to hinder me.

Juan Pablo Galavis

Gay and lesbian people, and the children they are raising, wrongfully face discrimination, and I want them to know that I'm on their side.

Jim Wallis

We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question.

We did not have any children together. I'm scared.

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Nancy Cartwright

Wedgies are unhealthy for children and other living things

We desperately need more teens. We've currently got 21 volunteers matched up with younger kids, but there are at least 15 more children on our waiting list.

Luis Suarez

I wanted my children to be able to see me play at the World Cup.

Kirstie Alley

Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives.

Jane Asher

As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.

Jane Asher

I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young.

Jane Austen

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.

Jane Austen

[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.

Jane Austen

Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.

Jane Austen

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

Jane Austen

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.

Jane Austen

A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

Jan Brett

I create books for six-year-olds. I don't know why that time of my life was so important to me, but no matter what I draw, it always looks like it comes from a children's book. I can't resist. I'll set out to paint a serious picture then think, "Well, maybe there would be a little bunny in that corner."