Shirley Henderson Quotes

It's such a stress always trying to get bigger houses and larger cars and better schools. Of course, parents want to give their children the best opportunities in life, but sometimes that can stifle them.

Shirley Henderson

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• Opportunity
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• You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Important
  • Money
  • Success

• The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Safe Kids Campaign

• I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Think
  • Attention
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• Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • People
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• Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

  

  Quintilian
  • Ambition
  • Times
  • Often

• The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Life
  • Long
  • My Life

• In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Support

• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Deal
  • Regulations

• My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Great
  • College
  • Brother

• Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Country
  • Care

• I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Team
  • Attention

• Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Son
  • Write
  • Encouragement

• I want Bolivians to support their president.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Want
  • Support
  • President

• I like to tell people that I have the best job in the media. All I do is hang around with heroes. I do that every week for my 'War Stories' documentary series - and when FOX News wants - I go off and cover the young Americans we send to places like Afghanistan or Iraq.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Job
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• I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Free
  • Anger

• When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Political
  • Caring

• When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Experience
  • Support

• When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way. You're asking that I second say the world.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Life
  • World
  • Beginning

• I don't have family in this business. I had two parents that loved me, that worked 24-7, and this is what instilled hard work in me. So you hear the stories about my upbringing, my religion.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Work
  • Family
  • Business

• We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services.

  

  Bernard Ebbers
  • Future
  • Growth

• I'd had a relationship with a woman when I was 20, but nobody cared then. As it came out at the same time as my fame, I started to have panic attacks.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Time
  • Relationship

• I'm not trying to steal the show. I tend to shy away from - I don't want to say the spotlight - how about responsibility? It's just very daunting. These movies are very intimidating. 'Captain America.' This is the stuff I struggle with.

  

  Chris Evans
  • Trying
  • America
  • Responsibility

• My priorities were taking the kids to school and being a mum and being a daughter and being a sister. Just spending a lot of that time with my family that I'd probably lost a lot of, touring with the Cranberries.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Time
  • Family
  • School

• It's such a stress always trying to get bigger houses and larger cars and better schools. Of course, parents want to give their children the best opportunities in life, but sometimes that can stifle them.

  

  Shirley Henderson
  • Children
  • School
  • Opportunity