Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brooks

We live in a culture of a big me. We're encouraged - we raise our kids to think how great they are, where we have to market ourselves to get through life. We're in social media, where we broadcast highlight - highlight reels of our own lives on Facebook.

Benh Zeitlin

I've always loved movies, since I was a little kid, but I never wanted to be part of that industry. It always seemed horrifying, the way films were made.

Benicio Del Toro

Well when I was a kid, I asked Santa Claus for some toys. Santa Claus wrote me a letter that he lost his bag. He said he'd get back to me next year.

Benicio Del Toro

To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.

Benicio Del Toro

When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.

Ben Stiller

I'd love to travel more. I really look forward to traveling with my kids. I'm just waiting for them to want to travel with me.

Ben Stiller

When you have kids you want to be able to go to movies and take the family too, and actually all enjoy it together. I don't think there are that many great, live action family movies that everybody can enjoy.

Benedict Cumberbatch

When are you ever settled enough to have kids?

Beau Bridges

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

Beau Bridges

When we work to end childhood hunger, we are giving our love to kids who need it so much they will never ask for it.

Bear Grylls

Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.

Bear Grylls

I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.

Bear Grylls

When I take kids into the woods, I tell them, "What we're going to do today is going to be incredibly dangerous." And you just see 20 smiles go up. "But, we're also going to learn to look after each other, who to work together and who to understand and manage that risk." That's what it's about, you don't empower kids if you don't expose them to risk.

Bear Grylls

Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.

Barry Bonds

I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves

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.