Quotes of Chaff - somelinesforyou

“ There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee...that says, fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me...you can't get fooled again. ”

- George W. Bush

“ It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood. ”

- Corey Feldman

“ I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things. ”

- Antonio Banderas

“ Editor: a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to seperate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. ”

- Adlai E. Stevenson

“ Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it. ”

- Lawrence Taylor

“ Have you ever tried to split sawdust? ”

- Eugene McCarthy

“ I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. ”

- Abba Eban

“ Kids will drive this,... There's no 16-year-old that's not digital.? When someone's kids go to college, parents sign up on America Online to send E-mail to their kids. ”

- Nicholas Negroponte

“ There's a lot of competition now and a lot of the players have adapted his game to what they do, keeping the ball in play and chasing balls down. ”

- Rod Laver

“ We want to make sure that every kid who wants to play is going to continue to play and then we'll end up having more kids in the game. ”

- Bobby Orr

“ I won't be having any more kids, though. Four is enough. ”

- Linda McCartney

“ Parents always think it's the kids' fault. If they're naughty, it's the kids' fault. Not true! Children generally are not naughty for no reason. ”

- Emma Thompson

“ For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids. ”

- David Duchovny

“ I think we kept focus on the reason we're here, the kids. I think the compromise you came up with still addresses the kids, and they'll come out the winners. ”

- John Hunter

“ I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up. ”

- Martina Hingis

“ Our task is to provide an education for the kind of kids we have... Not the kind of kids we used to have... Or want to have... Or the kids that exist in our dreams. ”

- Mary Kay Utecht

“ As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. ”

- Sir Richard Burton

“ You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway. ”

- Walt Disney

“ On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me. ”

- Rodney Dangerfield

“ As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you. ”

- Gwendolyn Brooks

“ I'm not saying Meredith doesn't cry some days. But the fact is, we're just two people trying to raise three kids; we have a normal household, with all the good things and bad things that everyone else has. We do homework with the kids; we yell at the kids; we punish them; we go to movies with them… ”

- Richard Cohen

“ The goal is to create in the culture passion among kids to do something. I think the trouble is our culture does create a passion for kids, but their passion is related to one of two industries: entertainment or sports. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ We want to make sure children aren't left without any books. We want to make sure our children have the books, that they have a place in the castle. We want to make sure that their mothers have affordable day care. We want to make sure we give the older people the care that they need. ”

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

“ I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids and the East Indian kids. It was very interesting because it made me open to lots of musical sounds. ”

- Nelly Furtado

“ When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it. ”

- Horace Rutledge

“ Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ”

- Dinah Mulock Craik

“ A lot of good has come from drugs. I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. Because a lot of kids wouldn't even be born if it weren't for that album, so it evens out. ”

- Bill Maher

“ A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. ”

- Unknown
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