Kenny Guinn famous quotes

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.
-- Kenny Guinn

#Children #Believe #Abuse

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.
-- Kenny Guinn

#Home #Owning A Home #Profound

We must rely less on spreadsheets and funding formulas and more on common sense.
-- Kenny Guinn

#Common Sense #Funding #Formulas

As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada.
-- Kenny Guinn

#Doors #California #Addresses

The state of our state is fragile, but I know our spirit and love for Nevada is not.
-- Kenny Guinn

#And Love #Spirit #States

Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our childrens lives.
-- Kenny Guinn

#Teacher #Mistake #Parent

Gaming is the backbone of Nevadas economy.
-- Kenny Guinn

#Economy #Nevada #Backbone

Education isn't part of my agenda, it is my agenda.
-- Kenny Guinn

#Agendas

Nevada once again has shown double digit increases in tax revenue... Nevada continues to show economic stability with its desirable business climate and booming tourism sector.
-- Kenny Guinn

#Tourism #Climate #Economic

The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.

The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful ends. A swindler (or crook) of higher condition is more blameworthy than a vulgar scoundrel; an intelligent eveil-doer, having benefited from a higher education, represent a more saddening phenomenon ("phénomène", Fr.) than an unfortune illiterate fellow having commited an offence.

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.