The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.

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Adam's abduction was our private hell - but it was not an isolated incident. On any given day, any number of children are absent from their homes for diverse and numerous reasons.

John Walsh

I figured out how to catch fugitives without a gun.

John Walsh

One missing child is one too many.

John Walsh

The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.

John Walsh

America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV.

John Walsh

People don't understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up in divorce. The only thing you have in common is that horrible sadness. You can't see the joy of your previous life.

John Walsh

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?

Howard Fineman

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

Charlize Theron

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

Samuel P. Huntington

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

Craig Benson

I hate wasting people's time.

Daniel Day Lewis

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

Neil Young

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Ernest Hemingway

The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.

Valentino Rossi

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

Roddy McDowall

I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level.

Thomas Dooley

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

J. B. Priestley

Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.

Bud Abbott

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

Jeanette Winterson

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

Birch Bayh

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.

Robert Vaughn

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

Bruce Babbitt

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.

Matthew Sweet

Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.

Clark Gable

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

Billy Bob Thornton

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

Barbara Bush

I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

Bill Wyman

Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.

Javier Bardem

To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.

George Takei

I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

Paul Westerberg

So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore.

Miroslav Vitous

I enjoyed the opportunities, but there was no time to think.

Namie Amuro

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

Amy Grant

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

Harold Brodkey

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

Tom Wilson

'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

Christian Bale

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

A. R. Ammons

A big part of letting go is recognizing when it is time to stay in a situation and when it is time to move on.

Darren L. Johnson

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.

Susan George

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

Jack Nicholson

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

Nat King Cole

Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

Edward Gorey

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

Kerry Thornley

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

Hannes Alfven

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Mia Hamm

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Colin Powell

My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

Barbara Amiel