Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Houston

The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born into wealthier families. You know, it's great to tell kids to pull themselves up by their own boot straps, but you better put boots on them first.

Patti Page

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

Patsy Kensit

I'm happy to be at home with the kids, in my flannel pajamas; that's a treat.

Patti LaBelle

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.

Patricia Reilly Giff

The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?

Patricia Richardson

I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.

Patricia Velasquez

Kids suffering, with no opportunities for lack of having their basic human needs [met], like food, health, and education, but at the same time, [it] motivates me to keep fighting for them, for the ones less fortunate.

For the local kids, I'm just part of the scenery.

For the parents, it's a little window into what's popular and a way for them to relate to their kids more.

For our team, with all our young kids, that was amazing. They've put it together at the right time.

For someone to say they don't want kids to play on a swing set, I just don't understand.

Jack Osbourne

I'm an ass-kicking fat kid.

Jack Paar

Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!

Itzhak Perlman

Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.

Isla Fisher

I breastfed both my kids for two years so, you know it was very tiring emotionally and physically.

Ike Turner

They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through.

Idris Elba

I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.

Gloria Steinem

I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.

Gloria Steinem

For a man to say, "I have to leave work now because I need to do something with my kids," it's sometimes viewed as a career killer. He doesn't have the right drive. So when they depart from their gender roles, they face some of the same restrictions.

Gioconda Belli

I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone.

Geraldo Rivera

Every time you see someone sticking up a 7-Eleven, the kid's wearing a hoodie. Every time you see a mugging on a surveillance camera or they get the old lady in the alcove, it's a kid wearing a hoodie. You have to recognize that this whole stylizing yourself as a gangsta - you're going to be a gangsta wannabe? Well, people are going to perceive you as a menace,

J. Lee Thompson

Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.

J. Michael Straczynski

There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Stripesy... the list goes on.

J. Michael Straczynski

As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.

J. K. Rowling

Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless —unless they've got to.

J. K. Rowling

They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We’re fighting.

Nat Wolff

A lot of times you'll do a movie, and you'll be working with adults with families and kids and stuff. There's a level - you guys aren't going to be hanging out every second, you know?

Nancy Lublin

The parents in the room know that texting is actually the best way to communicate with your kids. It might be the only way to communicate with your kids.

Nancy Lublin

Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.

Kendall Jenner

Sometimes I just want to be left alone and be a normal kid for, like, five minutes. That's tough when the paparazzi are chasing you.

Katherine Jenkins

I want to have kids. I want to get married. That is still very important to me.

Katherine Paterson

There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

Katherine Paterson

If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.