Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen G. White

Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.

Valeria Golino

I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.

Nanette White

We're doing the best we can. There's a lot of bending that must be done, but it's being done as quickly and efficiently as it can be.

Mark McKinnon

Convention speeches are powerful tools to bend the curve of public opinion. George H. W. Bush's 1988 convention speech is a great example. His son's speech was also quite powerful.

Joe Bugel

We couldn't be any more pleased with his progress, ... When he learns how to bend his knees and do the things that he's doing right now, he'll be perennial all-pro.

Ike Taylor

We came out flat in the first half. Coach told us to bend but don't break. The offense had an opportunity, and they went out and made a play.

Richard Carlson

Typically you issue those releases when you get partial payment. We were bending over backward, issuing them even when we were not getting partial payment. We stopped doing that when they filed bankruptcy.

Uri Geller

To be very honest with you, I even managed to bend it ever so slightly

Isabella Bird

The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it.

Vince Vaughn

I love Snoop. I worked with him on 'Old School,' and he's very accessible. He's very kind. He's always nice to everyone, to the crew. He's always got something positive to say. He's very childlike and loves to come and play. So, I had fun working with him.

Vanessa Paradis

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

Chuck Palahniuk

One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided.

Billy Graham

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

Billy Graham

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

Zubin Mehta

You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!

Emma Thompson

One is a child when one has a child. No one says, 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?

Ellen Key

The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery, a devotion to duty, a sense of honour - habits that adults get out of with astonishing rapidity.

Ellen G. White

I see in Jesus matchless charms. I see in Him everything to be desired by the children of men.

Virginia Postrel

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.

Jacek Tyszkiewicz

The pavement underneath the asphalt is crumbling. The drainage wasn't that particularly good. The planners back in the 1960's expect only 150,000 vehicles a day.

Mike Quade

The past two or three weeks we've pitched it the way I thought we would from the get-go. This is also the kind of pitching I expect from Mitre.

Paul Kantner

I wouldn't have expected an audience of ours to burn down our equipment.

Joe Kirk

We play physical. We take pride in not giving up many points. We expect great things for this year.

Nancy McDaniel

We play at Stanford at least once a year, so I expect our seniors to lead.

Pat Casey

We play 56 games. We expect to win them all, but we're not going to. We're just trying to find our way around.

H. Hart

We probably should have lost that game, really. We made a lot of mistakes. You don't expect them to miss two field goals and get that many chances, that's for sure.

Brian Harper

We probably did 25 percent of the sales we were expected to do.

John Hawkins

This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal.

Thomas Fuller

Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.

Alexander Hamilton

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing

Abraham Lincoln

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

Ellen G. White

The more we talk of Jesus, the more of His matchless charms we shall behold.

L.A. Reid

I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.

Rig Veda

Those who are misers shall never part with their money.

Ronald Reagan

Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again.

John Donne

Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?

Yani Tseng

I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

Bulgarian Proverb

If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water

Pat Paulsen

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

Anna Nicole Smith

I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.

Tracy Reese

I did not have a big view of many designers until I got to high school.

Tim Curry

I remember candy rationing until I was, like, 7.

Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark

My mum had me brought up by nannies and governesses. I didn't have much to do with my parents until I was 21.

Mike Nichols

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.

Lori Foster

I'm up before 6, but then I'm parked in front of the PC until noon.

Jim Lovell

We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.

Mike Lewis

We have to wait until the water temperature is about 60 degrees.

Ray Liotta

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.

William Shakespeare

Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

Charles Spurgeon

A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust

Carlos Slim

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

Carl Jung

Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.

David Brainerd

It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.

Barney Frank

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

Edward Kennedy

Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow we will. I yield the floor.