Famous Quotes & Sayings

He's proved to me and proved to other kids in the region that he should be a one or two seed.

Jerry Spinelli

I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that; otherwise, you end up preaching down. You need to listen not so much to the audience but to the story itself.

I don't know how independent truckers do it. I've got a wife and three kids to support. It's just not an option for me with prices like this.

I dont know how independent truckers do it, ... Ive got a wife and three kids to support. Its just not an option for me with prices like this.

Isaac Mizrahi

I don't know if kids will love it,

I didn't think the older kids would be interested, but they love it.

Kobe Bryant

I didn't know that kid had that big of (a heart). I think it was good.

Jack Kirby

An American is a guy, a rich guy with a family, a decent guy with a family with as many kids as he likes, doing what he wants, working with people that he likes, and enjoying himself to his very old age.

Jack Kirby

Kid ... Comics will break your heart.

Jack LaLanne

I was going to be a singer. If I hadn't been in my profession, I was going to be an Opera singer. That's from a young kid. I had all these records from all those famous Opera singers. I wanted to be an Opera singer -- that was my whole thing and physical fitness got in the way, thank God.

Jack Coleman

I was a Spidey fan as a kid. I always liked the complexity and the teenaged angst that Spider-Man, Peter Parker, always had to deal with. It was kind of a deeper, darker storytelling that just good-guy-beats-bad-guy.

Jack Dee

But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

Jack Canfield

Don't kid yourself. Be honest with yourself. Take your own inventory.

J. J. Abrams

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

J. J. Abrams

With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.

J. J. Abrams

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

J. J. Abrams

When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.

J. D. Salinger

Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.

Ioan Gruffudd

I love doing kids' films.

Ira Glass

I was a chubby, unathletic kid and conformed to every possible stereotype you could imagine of someone who would end up in public broadcasting.

Jack McBrayer

When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.

Jack Nicklaus

I'm deadly serious even when I play tennis against my kids. I want to beat their brains out.

Jack Nicklaus

I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.

Jack Nicklaus

Barbara [my wife] and I said a long time ago that if we were in a position to help somebody, it would be kids. So when we started the Memorial Tournament (in Columbus, OH), Nationwide Children's Hospital, which saved my daughter's life when she was less than a year old, was the beneficiary from day one.

Jack Nicklaus

[My boys] they're all different. Jackie was very competitive. He was a tough kid - a little bit like Nick. Steve was sort of a finesse guy. He was a little bit like Nick - if he could touch it, he'd catch it. He played wide receiver at Florida State. Then, Gary came along and Gary was more my size.

Jack Nicklaus

I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

Jack Nicklaus

Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.

Jack Nicklaus

You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

Jack Nicklaus

Nick [ O'Leary] is a tough kid. He doesn't use gloves. It's freezing outside and he's obviously wearing short sleeves like all the other guys that let their "guns" stick out.

Jack Nicklaus

I didn't push any of my kids into golf, and they played golf because they wanted to.

Jack Nicklaus

I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I watched him on the driving range hit balls that day. We went on to become great friends.

Jack Nicklaus

I'll tell you one thing, they [my kids] all do love to hunt and fish. When they get together, I think that's what they get together more for than anything else.

Jack Nicholson

Having kids is the most innately positive thing that anyone can do.