Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Seuss

You can do better than this.” The best slogan I can think of to leave with the kids of the U.S.A. would be “We can . . . and we’ve got to . . . do better than this.

Dr. Seuss

A kid is a guy I never wrote down to. He's interested in what I say if I make it interesting.

Donald Miller

There are about 360,000 churches in America, so we could mentor a million kids within a short period of time if everyone signed on, which, of course, is a pipedream, but we're going to reach toward that.

Don Scardino

Just like every kid who comes into show business on some level, I used to put shows on in my basement. I even started with doing tricks and having a ventriloquist dummy.

Dwayne McDuffie

I was born in Detroit. I never really saw myself working in comics, I just fell into it. But it's been one of the best things to happen to a kid from Detroit.

Dwayne Hickman

I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.

Dusty Springfield

I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad.

Dwayne Johnson

When I was a kid, I was always enamored by - I appreciated the movies, and I was able to see them on VHS when I was a kid, but I was so enamored by the one-sheets and the posters. I had them in my room when I was a kid.

Claudio Reyna

I think kids should be doing pickup or futsal all the time,

Dolph Lundgren

When I was a kid, I was like everyone else: afraid of getting nuked. We had drills in school - Sweden was very close to the Soviet Union. There was definitely a lot of tension.

Dolph Lundgren

First the movie, the actual playing of the role and trying to deliver what everybody wanted. Then, when the film came out, there was instant fame. I was just a kid from Sweden, I didn't know what was going on.

Dolph Lundgren

I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.

Dolph Lundgren

I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.

Dolores Huerta

My kids have lived experiences that could have never been duplicated otherwise. That's one thing about people who get involved in activism, you live so many experiences that otherwise they wouldn't be there. This is why peoples' lives are so enriched.

Dolores Huerta

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.

Dolly Parton

After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

Dolly Parton

People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

Dolly Parton

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

Dolly Parton

I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy.

Dolly Parton

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

Dolly Parton

I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it is to inspire them to read more.

Devin Kelley

As a kid, Punky Brewster was my idol. I wanted to dress like her and talk like her.

Derek Waters

When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was to be a musician. I lost everything I had, but I just knew that someday I'd be able to tell the world to 'go big or go home.' The world needs to know.

Derek Magyar

I've been an actor since I was a kid.

Derek Luke

I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.

DeLoss Dodds

If you win all the time, it's not good for the coaches or the kids.

David Beckham

Like any parent, I just want the best for my kids, whatever they decide to do. They will choose what path they want to follow, and we will always be there to encourage them.

David Beckham

Coaching is not something I'm passionate about. I'm passionate about coaching kids

David Beckham

I'm happy in Madrid, my kids are happy and my wife is happy, so everything's good. If anyone knows about contracts they take a while to sort out.

Dave Van Ronk

I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.

Dave Sitek

I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.

Dave Grohl

There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.

Dave Grohl

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.