Famous Quotes & Sayings

Glen Hansard

You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people Id meet. Of course, all of it has kind of come to fruition.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Harry Shum, Jr.

With parents, that's the only way sometimes that they can get across to their kids is by giving them an ultimatum.

Harry Shearer

As a kid, I really did want to hang out with the grownups, so it was hanging out with the hippest grownups in the world. This was the nicest bunch of people I've worked with in show business, with the exception of the people around A Mighty Wind. It really was a wonderful eight years.

Fred Savage

I knew I wanted to direct since I was a kid. That was something I was always fascinated by and wanted to experience and see if I would be any good at it.

Fred Rogers

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

Fred Rogers

Kids can spot a phony a mile away.

Lauren Oliver

it's weird how much people change. for example, when i was a kid i loved all of these things..and over time all of them just fell away, one after another, replaced by friends and IMing and cell phones and boys and clothes. it's kind of sad, if you think about it. like there's no continuity in people at all. like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a "young adult," and after that you're a totally different person. maybe even a less happy person. maybe even a worse one.

Lauren Oliver

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

Larry the Cable Guy

Some guy came up to me with his kids, ages probably 10 and 12, and said that the reason he likes me is because he sat through an hour and twenty-minute show, and I didn't cuss one time. So it just really depends.

Larry the Cable Guy

When I started doing my act, I wasn't married and didn't have kids. I was probably 29 years old. Some people say that's not a kid, but when you're 50, and you look back to when you were 30, you were a kid. You look back on your 30s and think, "I was an idiot!" But I would just do things then I thought were funny. I couldn't have cared less who thought anything about it.

Larry the Cable Guy

When you're married with kids, you just think differently.

Larry the Cable Guy

I was scared into being good. But I'm sure I did regular kid stuff.

Larry the Cable Guy

I was pretty subdued [as a kid ] because I didn't want to get spanked, and I didn't want to go to Hell.

P. J. O'Rourke

If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should do is quit being moral. Screw the rights of nature. Nature will have rights as soon as it get duties. The minute we see birds, trees, bugs, and squirrels picking up litter, giving money to charity, and keeping an eye on our kids at the park, we'll let them vote.

P. J. O'Rourke

I am no stranger to loud music. I've been to a Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels concert. I once dated a woman with two kids.

Pablo Picasso

When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

Paul Stanley

I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.

Paul Stanley

The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I thought you left the table when the zipper was down and you'd explode if you took another bite. I'd eat my plate and then everyone else's leftovers.

Paul Stanley

Don't kid yourself; the guy who's onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am.

Paul Houston

The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born into wealthier families. You know, it's great to tell kids to pull themselves up by their own boot straps, but you better put boots on them first.

Patti Page

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

Patsy Kensit

I'm happy to be at home with the kids, in my flannel pajamas; that's a treat.

Patti LaBelle

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.

Patricia Reilly Giff

The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?

Patricia Richardson

I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.

Patricia Velasquez

Kids suffering, with no opportunities for lack of having their basic human needs [met], like food, health, and education, but at the same time, [it] motivates me to keep fighting for them, for the ones less fortunate.

Mac Davis

First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.

Mac Davis

Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.

Mac Miller

When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life.

Mac Miller

Music is what I love, take that away from me and I really got nothing.

Luke Perry

I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.

Luke Perry

When I was a kid, I was at a bowling alley and I ran into a soda machine. I still have the scar on my right eyebrow obviously.