S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Some Jungian or Freudian would tell me I'm just trying to go back to the womb... at gunpoint, if necessary.”
“Some just wanted to be on the side of the good cookies.”
Source: Twice Upon a Marigold
“Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.”
“Some kid can say, "Hey, I really want you to play my town in Switzerland, or Sweden, or Latvia," and they could have a fun night at the show. On the other hand, all those kids could have a record that means something to them in a more personal way a couple months down the road. The live band is a really important thing for us, but my focus is on the album now.”
“Some kids are black, or brown - some kids are red, and others white.
Kids come in all different colors, shapes and styles - beautiful and bright!”
Source: Other Kids Are Kids Almost Just Like You
“Some kids are fine, but often I don't like what I see in child actors. My kids are young and they are already showing an interest, so I have to try to discourage them, squash that in them.”
“Some kids are good at math, some kids can run, and acting was an interest of mine. Because I knew you could do it for a living I decided, that's what I'm going to do.”
“Some kids are so depressed at home and with how people treat them in school that they cut themselves. This happens all over the world - kids who don't want to kill themselves, but nobody understands how much they hurt, so they cut themselves with razor blades.”
“some kids can't do drama because their life is a lie”
“Some kids do drugs. Some kids light stuff on fire. Me, I eat oats.”
“Some kids don't want to be organized all the time. They want to let their imaginations run; they want to see where a stream of water takes them.”
Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
“Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.”
Source: Balls
“Some kids get called "bundles of joy" or "slices of heaven" or "dreams come true." We got "the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments." Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm oversensitive.”
“Some kids have never seen what a real tomato looks like off the vine. They don't know where a cucumber comes from. And that really affects the way they view food. So a garden helps them really get their hands dirty, literally, and understand the whole process of where their food comes from. And I wanted them to see just how challenging and rewarding it is to grow your own food, so that they would better understand what our farmers are doing every single day across this country and have an appreciation for ... that American tradition of growing our own food and feeding ourselves.”
“Some kids in Italy call me 'Mama Jazz; I thought that was so cute. As long as they don't call me 'Grandma Jazz.'”
“Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“Some kids my age experiment with drugs, I experiment with music.”
“Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.”
“Some kids tell me their parents are never at home. How I wish. I never have a minute to myself, except in my room. Our back yard is no escape. Every time I sit by the pool, Mom is at the kitchen window doing this and that. Always watching.”
Source: Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe
“Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.”
“Some kids were afraid of the dark
I was too, but eventually I hid in it like a spark
I lit myself but soon disappeared
Because being seen is what I mostly feared”
Source: Hey Humanity
“Some kids, when they grown, come back and say, 'Why didn't you fight for us?' And I swear I did. We all did.”
Source: We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
“Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.”
“Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.”
“Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers - but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I'm always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.”
“Some kind of fun lasts longer than others.”
“Some kind of mistake is remaining (within us) due to which conflicts are being created (by us). It is not as if only the Gnan (right knowledge) can destroy conflicts; they can be removed even through the intellect (buddhi).”
Source: Life Without Conflict
“Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.”
“Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both countries [Pakistan and India]. It's also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities in the region which is controlled by Indian armed forces.”
“Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both India and Pakistan. It's also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities in the region which is controlled by Indian armed forces. This is feeding right back into society even in the domain of elementary civil rights.”
“Some kind of way, we have to say enough is enough.”
“Some kindnesses you do not ever forget. You carry them to your grave, held warmly somewhere, brought up and savored from time to time.”
Source: Zikora
“Some kinds of activists are more willing to try stuff out, see if works and think on their feet, but some of the people who are working on [change] find that very difficult: They've been schooled into thinking you have to come up with the perfect plan in advance. It has become a bit technocratic.”
“Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.”
Source: The Tempest
“some kinds of beauty did not heal, but hollowed the pain even deeper.”
Source: Angels in the Gloom: A Novel
“Some kinds of communication, on some kinds of issues, brought to the attention of some kinds of people, under some kinds of conditions, have some kinds of effects”
“Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.”
“Some kinds of misery make you hate the world, but some kinds make you hate yourself, and--butter and cheese not withstanding--Neve had no question that Spear was the latter.”
Source: My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
“Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.”
Source: An Essay on General Principles which regulate the Application of Machinery to Manufactures
“Some kinds of stocks are easier to analyse than others.”
“Some kings may serve voluntarily while others will end up exploiting their citizens day and night.”
“Some kings of England could not read or write; some died of illness which
would keep us in bed only for a week or two; some had palaces so cold the
wine froze on the banqueting table; some lost wives and heirs in needless
deaths at childbirth; and some fled regularly as plague swept London.
Quite ordinary men, women and children nowadays live much healthier,
longer, more luxurious lives than the great men they read about in history
books. Yet never before have we been so agitated about the poor, the sick,
the unfortunate and the ill-educated among us. We are all fussed over by
the State from birth to burial.”
“Some kisses are worth living for”
“Some kisses were worth risking your life for.”
Source: Tides of Mutiny
“Some kleptomaniacs do not steal things only; they also, while some only, steal lovers.”
“Some kneel and lie to God.”
“Some knitters say that they buy yarn with no project in mind and wait patiently for the yarn to "speak" to them. This reminds me of Michelangelo, who believed that every block of stone he carved had the statue waiting inside and that all he did was reveal it. I think I've had yarn speak to me during the knitting process, and I've definitely spoken to it. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong, or maybe my yarn and I aren't on such good terms, but it really seems to me that all I say is "please" and all it ever says is "no".”
“Some know not how to walk again for a blinding pain has burned their sight, while some kiss their pain away. Some know not how dawn feels like till they feel the thick of night. Some choose to force their way while some walk away in peace. Some live this life holding grudges high, while some stay afloat merrily with ease.”
“Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.”
Source: The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches
“Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.”
Source: The Mists of Avalon