Quotations
'Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.'
Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000
'I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.'
Describing a phone call to Sen. John Breaux. Crawford, Texas, Dec. 2, 2000
'The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.'
Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000
'They misunderestimated me.'
Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
'They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.'
St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
'The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.'
-All Things Considered, NPR, June 16, 2000
BUSH: 'First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's dieciseis de Septiembre, and ...'
MATTHEWS: 'What's that in English?' BUSH: 'Fifteenth of September.' (Dieciseis de Septiembre = Sept. 16)
-Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000
'It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.'
-Reuters, May 5, 2000
'Will the highways on the Internet become more few?'
-Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
'This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.'
-Speaking during 'PERSEVERENCE Month' at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000
'What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody
else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.'
-The San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000
'Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?' -Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
'Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.' -ibid
'I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.'
-U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000
George W Bush
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
Gore Vidal
My stomach is all crinkly and my boobs, they're like the ears of a dog. That's what happened after having two children.
Kate Winslet
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
Kingsley Amis
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Charles Lamb
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
Herbert Hoover
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise
Shirley Jones
Children's TV might not have been as glamorous those days, but it was brilliant fun and everyone enjoyed it [on the old 'broom cupboard']
Andi Peters
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Hosea Ballou
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
Margaret Mead
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow
Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
Margaret Mead
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves
Ernest Dimnet
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
Let your children go if you want to keep them.
Malcolm Forbes
Never have more children than you have car windows.
Erma Bombeck
We're legally bound to our children, not to each other, and I think that's the important thing [on her and Brad Pitt]
Angelina Jolie
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mignon McLaughlin
I said... how, and why, young children, were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
Roger Ascham
I've got three children at home. I just timed the wickets before they went to school so they could watch... To get the wicket of Sachin is always a great pleasure and to get him bat-pad on a turning wicket is a great joy.
Shaun Udal
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.
Hodding Carter Junior
I was deeply saddened by the death of Pope John Paul II.
Quite apart from his role as a spiritual guide to more than a billion men, women and children, he was a tireless advocate of peace, a true pioneer in interfaith dialogue and a strong force for critical self-evaluation by the Church itself.
[on Pope John Paul II]
Kofi Annan
As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life before the kids.
Delia Ephron
I'll say one thing for television. It has taken children and educated them far beyond anything I was ever involved with as a child.
Bill Bixby
No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men
John Alfred Langford
He's got a family and two young children and he's slowing down his career. He's just happy where he is at the moment and you have to respect that
Greg Rusedski
Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.
John Bradshaw
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
Thornton Wilder
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Mahatma Gandhi
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
Mary McCarthy
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
Russell Baker
Children and fooles speake true
John Lyly
On having children: Up until they go to school, they're relatively portable.
Liz Hurley
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
Honore De Balzac
Peace is possible around the world, and children are the answer.
Quincy Jones
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
Tim Allen
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S Truman
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