Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton Yelchin

I don't really like watching my work. I don't mind watching it when I was a little kid because I forgive myself a lot, since I was a little kid.

Antonin Scalia

I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society that I’ve enjoyed in my lifetime. I really think it’s coarsened. It’s coarsened in so many ways. One of the things that upsets me about modern society is the coarseness of manners. You can’t go to a movie — or watch a television show for that matter — without hearing the constant use of the F-word — including, you know, ladies using it. People that I know don’t talk like that!

Bruce Hornsby

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.

Bruce Jenner

We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.

Bruce Jenner

It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards.

Bruce Jenner

Trans people deserve something vital: They deserve your respect. If you want to call me names, make jokes, doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is, I can take it. But for the thousands of kids out there, coming to terms with being true to who they are, they shouldn't have to take it.

Bruce Jenner

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

Bruce Jenner

I don't think I've ever been as scared in my life as I was to be extraordinarily honest with my kids.

Brittany Howard

I was a strange kid. I'm still strange. People didn't get me. And I didn't expect them to.

Bronson Arroyo

It's one of those scenarios you feel will never happen to you. Nobody thinks they're going to be the one, whatever, to get in a car wreck to have their, you know, their kids killed in a plane crash, whatever, you don't think those things are going to happen to you. And I didn't think that I'd be traded. So.

Brittany Murphy

I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays when I was younger, and I sang all styles of music: everything from Italian opera to blues.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

If you don’t sign up your kids for cryonics then you are a lousy parent.

Edward Norton

I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.

Buddy Rogers

We live in a tennis community. A lot of kids take lessons year-round, and like any sport you play year-round you get better.

Dwight Henry

I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'

Dwight Henry

Everything that I do in my life is geared towards my kids and their survival and giving them the best education that I can possibly give them and the best home that I can possibly give them.

Dwight Howard

I've always played 'NBA Live' since I was a kid, so to be on the cover is a blessing.

Dwyane Wade

I'm always telling my kids to be themselves and let their personalities show in other ways than with their mouths.

Dwyane Wade

I always remind my kids that hard work pays off. They see that I take nothing for granted in life. It helps them stay grounded.

Dwyane Wade

I always remind my kids that hard work pays off. That's how I got to where I am right now because of sacrifice and the work I put into it.

Dwyane Wade

I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.

Dwyane Wade

We go through life so fast and we never really get to enjoy moments. It seems like they go past us...Tonight I just wanted to take a minute, a moment and soak it in and be a kid from Robbins Illinois and be a kid from Marquette University.

Courtney Love

How does Macy Gray or Kid Rock not win over Christina Aguilera?

Colin Mochrie

As a kid I watched television 24 hours a day and loved every minute of it. The two shows that always make me laugh and are therefore my favourites are The Dick Van Dyke Show and Fawlty Towers.

Donna Tartt

Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all. And writers - not just literary writers, but popular writers as well - breathe air into English and keep it lively by making it their own, not by adhering to some style manual that gets handed out to college Freshmen in a composition class.

Heidi Klum

I wouldn't push my kids to do anything. I want them to be happy, healthy, and I want them to be who they want to be, you know?

Gerard Way

I understand that kids look up to me, that some people might have gotten sober because of me.

Ian Rush

In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.

Gary Owen

I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.

George Michael

It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are.

Ursula Burns

Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.

The kids are so much fun. I'm always taking a look over at what they're doing because it reminds me of when I was so small before.

Oscar Hijuelos

People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.