Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katy Perry

I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow up to be people of themselves, of their own.

Ultimately, the competitiveness of your kids ought to prompt people into action.

Don Cheadle

I don't know what would be antithetical to do on the other side, maybe a Tyler Perry movie or something. No, there are very few comedies that live in between that. Or you're doing some kid thing like a Jim Carrey movie with animated something that's like that. Yeah, I've wanted to do them. I like doing them. I did Talk to Me. That was pretty much a comedy.

Don Cheadle

I think that it's much more important to do than to say. And you learn that a lot from your kids, who are watching you, you know?

DJ Quik

I look down and see little kids in the audience and I'm like, "Oh man, I hope I'm not poisoning these kids!"

DJ Quik

I'm 14 years in the game, ... There's some kids that weren't even born when my first album came out. I wanted to draw a timeline between my old stuff and my new stuff and bridge it to where there's a level of continuity.

Djimon Hounsou

The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

Dianne Wiest

I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.

Dianne Wiest

I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.

Dexter Scott King

I was a little bit chubby when I was a kid.

Dhirubhai Ambani

I, as school kid, was a member of the Civil Guard, something like today's NCC. We had to salute our officers who went round in jeeps. So I thought one day I will also ride in a jeep and somebody else will salute me.

Dhani Harrison

In almost any profession, even if you're the kid of an actor, people are very supportive and want to see the next generation.

David A. Stewart

I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.

David A. Siegel

I have enough money for the rest of my life and enough to leave a good inheritance for our kids.

There are two kinds of parents. The parents who want kids and the kind who really, really don't.

There are times when you think well, maybe it's not your night. I had one of those when the kid banked in that three off the glass.

E. B. White

There are people on all sides of me that I know and trust. I know they're watching out for my kids as if they were their own.

Justin Timberlake

Honestly, the only thing I loved when I was a kid was basketball. I was an athlete when I was a kid, and that was it.

LeAnn Rimes

I think it is important for kids to be kids.

Rob Lowe

The first shooter video game stuff which - look, admittedly, I missed that generationally, so it's not a thing for me. I've never played them. I don't really get it. My kids do.

Robert Plant

So many white kids, English kids - we had no culture.

Alexis Bledel

You hear all these great stories about kids starting their own businesses and getting involved in their communities and politics and foundations - all kinds of things. And it's so much easier for kids to get motivated and do that. [on her belief that teens are motivated to effect change.]

Alexis Arguello

Later in July I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best.

Alexis Arguello

I made a gym, it's the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I'm sure at least one will win a gold medal.

Alexis Ohanian

The best part of being an angel investor is seeing these kids coming up with companies that get way more traffic than Reddit had when we sold it. I think, 'Are you kidding me? They're just kids, and they've done so much.

Alexandra Adornetto

I hope the two of you will descend from your love bubble long enough to learn something today," he sniped cuttingly and the other kids snickered. Embarrassed, I ducked my head to avoid eye contact with them. "It's all right, sir," Xavier replied. "The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it.

Like a kid on a playground, he said, 'Well, that is awesome. This is terrific research.'

Letting kids out of our schools who don't know how to read and write, it's always been morally indefensible and now it's economically indefensible as well.

Johnny Depp

Luckily the kids are pretty well-balanced and well-grounded and not monster-like at all.

Scott Walker

Let's not kid ourselves. He's probably the No. 1 reason we are where we are.

Let your kids select the vegetables they want as pizza toppings.

Meryl Streep

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

Ricky Gervais

[As a kid] I did enjoy making people laugh but I was also attracted to funny people. I'm [still] quite happy to not be the one trying to make other people laugh. I'm happy laughing at someone else. I enjoy laughing and I'll happily be the one just laughing all night if you can make me laugh.