Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Groening

My standard comment is, 'If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act like Homer Simpson.'

Matt Groening

I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way to justify to myself all those wasted hours of watching TV as a kid. I can now look back and say, 'Oh, that was research.'

Matt Groening

I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced to from 'The Simpsons', and then later in life they see the thing we're parodying. My kids had not seen 'Casablanca,' and we'd done parodies of 'Casablanca.'

Matt Groening

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

Masa Takayama

I began cutting up fish when I was a little kid.

Marya Hornbacher

My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids.

Mary Grandpre

I think kids need to be allowed to be more creative and learn more about artists these days, so I'm all about that.

Mary J. Blige

When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.

Mary J. Blige

As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

Mary J. Blige

As a kid, I was in love with Michael Jackson, and I just knew I was going to marry him someday.

Mark Hall

We want to encourage people. You are not just another kid in the youth group or the lady on the third row. God has a purpose for every life.

Mark Haddon

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts

Marion Cotillard

I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.

Mo Ibrahim

Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable. And the way African men treat African women is total unacceptable.

Miuccia Prada

Before I had kids, I was out every night of the week.

Miuccia Prada

I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids.

Miuccia Prada

The older I get, the more I prefer to talk to old people. Old people or kids.

Mike Pompeo

I am working hard to provide solutions to meet a most pressing goal: preserving our way of life for our kids and grandkids.

Rachel McAdams

I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

Rachel Maddow

But there's a reason that we have different laws for juveniles than we do for adults. And it's because kids are not liable for the things they do in the way that adults are, because we think that kids are different.

R. Lee Ermey

You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.

R. L. Stine

I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.

R. L. Stine

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

R. L. Stine

I feel happy to terrify kids.

Mike Huckabee

I love my kids; I'm very close to all three of them.

Nia Long

My priorities are really about creating balance in my home, making sure that I have enough time with my kids, making sure that I have the time to do the things that I want to do with my career, and to continue to make movies.

Newt Gingrich

If you've been here 15 years and you've got three kids and grandkids and you've been paying taxes and obeying the law, you belong to a local church, I don't think we're going to separate you from your family, uproot you forcefully and kick you out.

Neneh Cherry

My kids love Ibiza and we feel committed to it because we keep coming back to the same area. People recognise us in shops now and we have a social life here. We cook at home and have friends around.

Nick Cannon

I think my kids give mommy more attention than they give me.

Noam Chomsky

The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine.

Noam Chomsky

You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections.

Mike Myers

I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie.