Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barney Frank

The public is ready now for a safety net for the middle class, something not just for the poor, but for everyone who will need help, from time to time, in order to own a home, educate their kids, keep themselves healthy or have something to retire on.

Athol Fugard

Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.

Arnold Palmer

I talk to golfers, I talk to my grand kids about their game, and tell them to develop a system, Now, when they're young. And if they develop that system, it will be the crutch they need to be good. To know that system and make it work for you, know what it is and make it work.

Antonis Samaras

There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.

Derek Jeter

Work hard, love what you do, put your best foot forward and never forget the kid in you.

Denis Leary

The only difference between kids and jungle animals is pants. Kids wear them. Jungle animals don't.

Denis Leary

Kids are incredibly expensive. But it pays off later when they are better educated, bigger, and better-looking than you. And find you incessantly boring and uncool.

Denis Leary

I went to see the 'Spider-Man' movies because my wife is a fan, and so are my kids.

Denis Leary

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.

Denis Leary

I didn't raise my kids with the fear of God.

Dee Wallace

I think a lot of kids get scared by 'E.T.' Sometimes when I do the science-fiction conventions, I'll have a 35-year-old guy with tatts and piercings all over, and he comes up and says, 'You know, it scared me so much I still can't watch it.

Deborah Norville

I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.

Deb Caletti

Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.

Deb Caletti

She'd be one of those parents who left a kid behind at a rest stop, driving for miles before she noticed. We'd hear about her on the evening news.

Diego Della Valle

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.

Diego Corrales

As a person, the only people who matter are my kids and how they see me.

Dick Cavett

I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, 'Kid, don't make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you're like David Frost. Make it a conversation.'

Dick Cavett

When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he perceived enemies, ingeniously rigged up a shotgun in his house, trained on the inside of his front door so as to widely distribute any intruder.

Dennis Lehane

We were supposed to grow old together, Dolores. Have kids. Take walks under old trees. I wanted to watch the lines etch themselves into your flesh and know when each and every one of them appeared. Die together.

When vastly wealthy people say, 'I'm not leaving my kids any money,' it's typically not true.

When this happened, the kids were just deflated. They had their sights set so high. This was a team that had state championship type talent.

There are two kinds of parents. The parents who want kids and the kind who really, really don't.

There are times when you think well, maybe it's not your night. I had one of those when the kid banked in that three off the glass.

E. B. White

There are people on all sides of me that I know and trust. I know they're watching out for my kids as if they were their own.

Justin Timberlake

Honestly, the only thing I loved when I was a kid was basketball. I was an athlete when I was a kid, and that was it.

LeAnn Rimes

I think it is important for kids to be kids.

Rob Lowe

The first shooter video game stuff which - look, admittedly, I missed that generationally, so it's not a thing for me. I've never played them. I don't really get it. My kids do.

Robert Plant

So many white kids, English kids - we had no culture.

Alexis Bledel

You hear all these great stories about kids starting their own businesses and getting involved in their communities and politics and foundations - all kinds of things. And it's so much easier for kids to get motivated and do that. [on her belief that teens are motivated to effect change.]

Alexis Arguello

Later in July I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best.

Alexis Arguello

I made a gym, it's the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I'm sure at least one will win a gold medal.

Alexis Ohanian

The best part of being an angel investor is seeing these kids coming up with companies that get way more traffic than Reddit had when we sold it. I think, 'Are you kidding me? They're just kids, and they've done so much.

Alexandra Adornetto

I hope the two of you will descend from your love bubble long enough to learn something today," he sniped cuttingly and the other kids snickered. Embarrassed, I ducked my head to avoid eye contact with them. "It's all right, sir," Xavier replied. "The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it.