I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.

Kid Rock

I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, How can we screw this kid up.

Russell Bishop

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You'll see it when you believe it.

Wayne Dyer

Its very strange, said Mr. Dick that I never can get that quite right; I never can make that perfectly clear.

Charles Dickens

In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.

Paul Martin

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

Les Brown

But is there any comfort to be found? Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?

William Butler Yeats

Women are still second-class citizens.

Joan Jett

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

John Bolton

The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.

Ai Weiwei

Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

Maggie Stiefvater