Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natalie Portman

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

Natalie Portman

It's a lot easier to make friends when you're younger, because kids are a lot less judgmental than adults. They're more like, "O.K., let's be friends." Not, "So, what's your job?" "What's your marriage status?"

Taylor Swift

I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

Taylor Swift

In the future, artists will get record deals because they have fans-not the other way around...The only memento 'kids these days' want is a selfie. It's part of the new currency, which seems to be 'how many followers you have on Instagram'.

Taylor Swift

I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!

Tatiana Maslany

I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.

Tatiana Maslany

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.

Tatiana Maslany

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.

Talib Kweli

Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

Sxip Shirey

I was obsessed with the Beatles as a kid.

Syd Barrett

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

Suzanne Crough

I still say I would love to go back to acting, but after my kids are older. You can't just drop everything and go out on a call and keep a stable life.

Tony Parsons

When you have a kid, money matters.

Tony Parsons

I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families.

Tony Parsons

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them theres a way out.

Tony Robbins

You can't raise a happy, more resilient kid if you're not a happy, more resilient adult.

Tony Robbins

I love my kids. But I don't give them the burden of being the source of my love.

Tony Abbott

I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get

Simone Elkeles

What are you boys doing?” she asks, as if we’re still little kids messing around. “Arguin’,” Carlos says matter-of-factly.

Simon Rich

There are actual monsters in the world, but when my kids ask I pretend like there aren’t.

Simon Le Bon

My kids love vinyl, I had to teach them how to put the needle on the records. Now they're worried about scratching the records, but it's incredible!

Simon Le Bon

I've got three kids, and those are mouths to feed.

Simon Cowell

I don't like kids that are pushed into things by stage mums, but when I can see they are having a good time, they're excited and enjoying the process, then I think it's wrong to discriminate.

Rick Riordan

Coach Hedge grunted like he was pleased to have an excuse. He unclipped the megaphone from his belt and continued giving directions, but his voice came out like Darth Vader's. The kids cracked up. The coach tried again, but this time the megaphone blared: "The cow says moo!

Rick Riordan

Maybe it's okay to still be a kid every once in a while.

Rick Riordan

Just sit tight. Reinforcements should be here soon. Hopefully nothing happens before-" Lightning crackled overhead. The wind picked up with a vengeance. Worksheets flew into the Grand Canyon, and the entire bridge shuddered. Kids screamed, stumbling and grabbing the rails. "I had to say something," Hedge grumbled. He bellowed into his megaphone: "Everyone inside! The cow says moo! Off the skywalk!" "I thought you said this thing was stable!" Jason shouted over the wind. "Under normal circumstances," Hedge agreed, "which these aren't.

Rick Riordan

Who's the other kid in the photo?' he asked. 'The sandy-haired guy.' Annabeth's expression tightened. Touchy subject. 'That's Luke,' she said. 'He's dead now.

Tony Dorsett

Everything starts with yourself / with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.

Tony Danza

We can't want an education for kids more than they want it for themselves.

Tony Danza

Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

Tony Campolo

Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.

Tommy Rettig

I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.

Tommy Rettig

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.