Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikola Tesla

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

My mother had no idea that her daughter would turn out to be a writer, but she would not let me go through a day of my childhood without music.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

Terry Teachout

I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.

Natalie Babbitt

I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.

Milla Jovovich

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.

Ellen Greene

There was a time in my life that my mother told me that they didn't know whether they were going to send me to college or an institution, and it's rough to hear that... Childhood is tough.

Karel Capek

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

Roberto Benigni

I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

Chang-Rae Lee

I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish wish on my part.

Missy Clark

We had no clue. We want parents to do the research, get informed, talk to their kids.

Nile Rodgers

I never wished my parents were normal, because they were unique, special and fabulous.

Vanessa Williams

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.

Amy Winehouse

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

Sonny Landham

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

Bela Karolyi

You are already winners every time you step into this gym. And, parents, you are to be congratulated.

Hosea Ballou

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction....

Clint Eastwood

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

Walter Benjamin

If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk

Jacque Jones

We haven't been scoring a lot of runs lately. I was stuck in no-man's land. You look back on it, and it's a dumb decision, but I play hard. I play aggressive.

Charles Dickens

Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

Phil Bass

The only dumb question is the one you don't ask.

Ed Schultz

If I lived in Massachusetts, I'd try to vote ten times ... Yeah that's right, I'd cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. Because that's exactly what they are.

Mike Stevenson

What a dumb number to be at. She's ready to go over 12-feet She has been really focused and could possibly regionally qualify at this meet.

Stephen Meyer

We're mostly trying to stop people from doing dumb things.

Lisa Kudrow

Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.