It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol. - Xavier Becerra Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse. - Sherwood Boehlert I don't want to get in a big, long discussion about right and wrong, but our company has been working on the issue of underage drinking and alcohol abuse for a long time. I've been outspoken about it. - Pete Coors Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority. - Lucille Roybalallard With such compelling information, the question is why haven't we been able to do more to prevent the crisis ...

But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking. - Rick Allen I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities. - Cate Blanchett When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place. - Jimmy Breslin Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer. - Billy Carter She's happier than Nicola. That's probably true. Alcoholics can stop drinking but what is there for the children of alcoholics? Is it always too late? Probably. She doesn't know. - Roddy Doyle I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows. - Colin Hay If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it. - Edward Koch What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoki...

I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process. - Freddie Hubbard I told the waitress I wanted some coffee. She asked if I wanted leaded of unleaded, so I had to leave the restaurant, because I quit drinking gasoline years ago. - Jarod Kintz When you quit drinking you stop waiting. - Caroline Knapp But I should note, for all my resistance to organized religion, that I don't believe Charlie could have quit drinking without it. It provided him with a way to structure his behavior, and a way to explain that behavior, both past and present, to himself. Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events? -- and perhaps it is my avid reading that has been my faith all along. - Curtis Sittenfeld My grandmother stepped back into the kitchen to get their drinks. I had come to love her more after death than I ever had on Earth. I wish I could s...

Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring. - Jeffrey Bernard Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose. - R H Blyth You find that you have lot of time on your hands when you suddenly are not drinking because you are pregnant. - Chelsea Cain I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow. - Kelly Mcgillis My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated. - Bill Rodgers

I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process. - Freddie Hubbard I told the waitress I wanted some coffee. She asked if I wanted leaded of unleaded, so I had to leave the restaurant, because I quit drinking gasoline years ago. - Jarod Kintz

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell. - Brandon Sanderson I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me. - Macaulay Culkin That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed. - Richard Matheson As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body. - Orhan Pamuk For he was drinking too much. Not uncontrollably nor offensively, but still he seldom seemed to have a glass out of his hand. - Rosamunde Pilcher I didn't check into rehab. Instead of me heading into a place - I was just drinking too much and I needed to get my life together. I'm still in therapy and stuff like that, but it's go...

Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking. - Tom Hodgkinson There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it. - Esther Williams

There's something to be said about drinking a carafe of wine by yourself... I just can't remember at the moment what it is! (said after drinking a carafe of wine by himself) - Gerard De Marigny As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body. - Orhan Pamuk