Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Negroponte

Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.

Nicholas Negroponte

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

Nicholas Negroponte

Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.

Nicholas Negroponte

Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.

Nicholas Negroponte

It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.

Nicholas Sparks

Not everything," he said. "Not the important things. My kids are safe. You're safe. That's all I really care about. This" - he said motioning - "is just stuff. Most of it can be replaced. It just takes time.

Nicholas Sparks

You know...it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the maturity of adults to deal with everything going on around them.

Natascha McElhone

Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.

Muddy Waters

All the kids made their own git-tars. Made mine out of a box and bit of stick for a neck. Couldn't do much with it, but that's how you learn.

Mr. T

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

Muhammad Ali

I had something to do, which most kids really need. Something they can look forward to - a goal, a purpose to work towards. Something to achieve. Keeps them out of trouble.

Muhammad Ali

Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough.

Muhammad Ali

Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.

Mitchel Resnick

With Scratch, we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer.

Mitch Miller

The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't

Mikey Way

Big Day Out is one of our favourite festivals, it's such an eclectic mix of so many different things and it's really about music - which is what a good festival should be about. The reaction from the fans in that part of the world rivals our greatest territories and the kids are always very rabid and very appreciative of us being there, so we're super excited to get back.

Mikey Way

Everyone expects us to be assholes nowadays. I think we've let them down. We're regular dudes and dorky kids. Success doesn't mean you have to change.

Mac Davis

First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.

Mac Davis

Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.

Mac Miller

When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life.

Mac Miller

Music is what I love, take that away from me and I really got nothing.

Luke Perry

I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.

Luke Perry

When I was a kid, I was at a bowling alley and I ran into a soda machine. I still have the scar on my right eyebrow obviously.

Luke Perry

When I was a kid, I just devoured TV 24 hours a day. Now that it's actually available 24 hours a day, I'm usually busy doing other stuff. But I do watch TV when I can.

Lou Barletta

I love the new legal immigrants; they want their kids to be safe just like I do.

Lleyton Hewitt

When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.

Lizzy Caplan

My first acting role as a kid was on Freaks and Geeks.

Lizzy Caplan

I'm also 31 years old. It's not like I'm some kid who can be slapped across the newspaper pages like some harlot.

Liz Phair

Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.

Mia Bloom

The issue of motherhood is no longer salient. In fact, the very first female bomber for Hamas posed in her last will and testament video with her two kids.

Method Man

When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids.

Mia Hamm

I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids.

Melissa Joan Hart

I think a lot of the problem is that at 8 o'clock there's nothing on for kids.