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What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today. NOVAK DJOKOVIC When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big...
CAROLL SPINNEY Oscar is the exact opposite of how I think you should behave. I just think of it as a negative view ...
CAROLL SPINNEY You can exaggerate with puppets. You're not trying to look like real people. The way the Muppets...
CAROLL SPINNEY When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collect...
CAROLL SPINNEY I was asked to be on 'The Colbert Report' last year as Big Bird and Oscar. But when we got t...
CAROLL SPINNEY I see no reason to quit. I can't imagine walking away from being Big Bird. I mean, that's an...
CAROLL SPINNEY I was called such names as a kid. Being the smallest boy in the class with a name like Caroll. I rem...
CAROLL SPINNEY Big Bird went through his very human kind of struggles as a child. No other children's character...
CAROLL SPINNEY Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to r...
CAROLL SPINNEY When I got to New York, I had no place to sleep. The pay from 'Sesame Street' wasn't eno...
CAROLL SPINNEY I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me whe...
CAROLL SPINNEY I have a strong memory of my early childhood. I can remember life before I was two. I remember being...
CAROLL SPINNEY I found out animation is incredibly boring. You draw and draw and draw, and it's only a few seco...
CAROLL SPINNEY Frankly, I think if I won the lottery and won a billion dollars, I'd still want to continue doin...
CAROLL SPINNEY
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS Based on the results, local tests show he is positive for bird flu.
HARIADI WIBISONO My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I&#...
CHRISTINA PERRI The training we're constantly modifying is based on lessons learned,
JOHN SATTLER
All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know. NIKKI HALEY Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN Based on lessons learned from the Deutch matter,
BILL HARLOW
I am big on - even with our whole team - it's always about, well, what were the lessons learned?... GINNI ROMETTY
I'm a big fan of intention. That's because I have learned first-hand the power of setting my... LEWIS HOWES
I basically have my life today as a result of what I did as a child. What did I miss out on? Yeah, I... NADIA COMANECI I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
JERRY VAN AMERONGEN
It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gor... JIM HENSON Big Bird was the biggest star, I mean, children's favorite for a number of years. I have a 22-ye...
JOAN GANZ COONEY I learned the most important part about life as a child, now I have to learn how to be something els...
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER
That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of ... MEL GIBSON
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll ... RICHARD FEYNMAN When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... The modern child, when asked what he learned today, replies, "Nothing, but I gained some meaningful ...
WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
BEVERLY CLEARY
I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the great... HILLARY CLINTON I learned a big lesson going two and out last year. I learned what not to do. This year I focused an...
SHANE WEBSTER Hush a-bye my little bird
Hush a-bye my child
I have lost a love so great
Oh...
KELLY CREAGH
I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project. SHAKIRA Every decision you make today is based on what you have learned from your past and your present atti...
LORRIN L. LEE I was always inquisitive as a child, ... I always knocked on doors to find out what could be possibl...
SABEER BHATIA
Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with. DREW CAREY I learned something very important early on: You accept what happens and move on. In other words, if...
BILLY CASPER Do you know what the difference is between knowing a bird and knowing about a bird?
LIONEL SUGGS A child can learn what is right as easy as what is wrong and whatever impressions are made on the mi...
JOSEPH DEVLIN The brain is behind the really big questions we have. Who am I, what is my identity? What is that ba...
SEBASTIAN SEUNG My grandmother is a Russian immigrant and, as a child, I always dreamed of going to Russia and openi...
CHRISTINA GREENBERG We're now segregating our schools based on economics; we're segregating our schools based on...
DAVID BOIES
He was cold, standing in a wood, talking to a big black bird who was currently brunching on Bambi. NEIL GAIMAN
Everywhere on the Continent, the tourist is looked upon as a bird to be plucked, and presently the b... THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I le...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN As fast as those airplanes are going, even if you have a medium-sized bird, that's a pretty big forc...
MIKE YEARY What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.
PETER HOOK
True love is not based on what you have, but it is based on who you really are. UNKNOWN The whole issue is, she made the decision based knowing that I wasn't going to be there for the chil...
MATT DUBAY I was horribly picked on as a child,
BRUCE DANIELS Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpilla...
BRADLEY MILLAR He has become the icon, more so than Big Bird. Let's capitalize on the momentum.
BOB CARUSO
I owe a lot to those three men for helping me become the coach I am today. So much of my coaching ph... MICHAEL JACKSON
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. LANGSTON HUGHES
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should b... JANE GOODALL Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES
When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th... CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD This is a grim prognosis based on business as usual,
KLAUS TOEPFER A lot of times, it is based on a child?s personality. If they are the type of child to ask a million...
LINDA CULLEN
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child a... WILL ROGERS Until now, three children are being treated in a hospital . . . two are suspected of having the symp...
SITI FADILAH SUPARI All that pressure is not good for any lake, but based on what I've seen the past couple of weeks big...
LONNIE STANLEY As a child, we visited the San Juan Islands during the summer. Kayaking, big family meals, playing o...
ZOE MCLELLAN
What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property. THOMAS PIKETTY
Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child. ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor... GERMAINE GREER
I have ridiculously bad eyesight, but I have learned to live with an impressionistic view. Life is a... MILO YIANNOPOULOS I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the pr...
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I ...
BIBLE When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I be...
BIBLE When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I b...
HOLY BIBLE, 1 CORINTHIANS 13:11
Your relevancy is based on what you understand SUNDAY ADELAJA
Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have ... MICHAEL LEUNIG
A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't jus... JASON MRAZ
What I learned on my own I still remember NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly g...
ERIC SAN 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa...
JAMES C. DOBSON I realise I might pass down an incurable illness to my son, but living based on what might go wrong ...
VICTOR LAVALLE It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird. ETHEL MERMAN
I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool... TOM HIDDLESTON I'm going to make a decision based on what I see in practice.
JACK DEL RIO And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is th...
JENNA ELFMAN On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.
NIGELLA LAWSON
What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse. HENRY MILLER One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it migh...
JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN A child is no longer a child when they have learned of death. It will haunt them by day and fill the...
GARY COE
I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. Wh... CAITLIN MORAN Bullet, he's as happy as a singing bird, and Clever is too.
COLLEEN DAVIDSON The Salvation Army and the Red Cross are having a big impact here, as well as the faith-based organi...
ROBERT BARNES I always loved horror, but I read all sorts of books. My favourite as a child was 'The Secret Ga...
DARREN SHAN
I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. ... JAMES D. WATSON
