Nancy Pelosi Quotes

My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.

Nancy Pelosi

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• Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Thought
  • Idea
  • Coffee

• To my surprise, I have an Emmy nomination, and I have never even been to the Emmys! So it's like I am Cinderella. But actually having thought about it, I am Cinder-elder!

  

  Randee Heller
  • Cinderella
  • Emmy

• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Children
  • Together

• Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Black
  • Running

• I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Thought
  • Learn
  • Rome

• A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Children
  • Society
  • Smiling

• All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Great
  • Women
  • Family

• My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Brother

• Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Time
  • Age
  • Interesting

• My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Marriage
  • Husband
  • Moment

• I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Thought
  • Envy

• Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Freedom

• I never thought I would become that person who loves working out. It sucks while you're doing it, but the second you finish, it's like, 'Wow, I feel great! I'm stronger and much more confident.'

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Great
  • Thought
  • Stronger

• Who'd have thought the Frisbee would have caught on?

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Thought
  • Would
  • Caught

• If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • History
  • Present

• If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Hate

• To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Thought
  • Modern
  • Principles

• I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Life
  • Children
  • Kids

• I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage was over and the fragments swept away, has asked what has become of her husband and her children.

  

  Edwin A. Abbott
  • Children
  • Woman
  • Hosehold

• There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • People
  • Good
  • Numbers

• How have people come to be taken in by

  

  Peter Medawar
  • People
  • Taken

• I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself.

  

  Len Goodman
  • People

• I'm not saying you have to learn Barbershop to be a great a cappella singer... but I am promising you if you do sing Barbershop, you'll be better than if you don't.

  

  Deke Sharon Tufts Beelzebubs
  • Learn
  • Sing
  • Barbershop

• My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Children
  • Thought
  • Husband