Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Ewing

I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.

Patrick Ewing

Every parent wants to see their kids excel.

Patrick Carney

I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.

John Scalzi

When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.

Mark Teixeira

Christ doesn't keep score. It's not about what you do here. It's about the person you are. It's about your faith. That's one thing that I'd like for young kids or anybody to know.

Mariella Frostrup

Having lived a full and stimulating life before I had my kids, I've relished every minute I've had to spend with them and felt a degree of confidence in dealing with their trials and tribulations to date.

Nicole Kidman

I'm not drawn to stories that are just sort of fluffy. I'm just not, and I've tried to, and as a kid I was never drawn to them. I always chose complicated.

Nick Jonas

I had an emotional breakdown since I really had no idea what diabetes was all about. I wondered, 'why me?' Then I asked myself, 'why not me?' and realized that I might be able to help other kids with diabetes.

Nick Cave

If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?'

Nick Carter

The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.

Nick Cannon

Me personally, I wouldn't put my kids on television. But to each his own.

Nancy Fox

We see a lot of startup companies, people that have a home-based office, they've been working out of their basement for two or three years, and now their basement or kids cannot accommodate them any longer.

Missy Elliot

I like to go on YouTube to see the underground sounds, what the kids are listening to, and kind of gauge my music around that.

Missy Elliot

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.

Pauly Shore

All these kids in Hollywood, the people born and raised out here, their parents are all in show business, and that's why I think we're good. That's why we're on top of the game now because we were born in it.

Pauly Shore

When you're a kid, all you really care about are Slurpees and Slip N Slide and riding your bike, and that's what I did.

Ozzy Osbourne

I don't forget what I used to do and so I can't justifiably say to my kid, "Don't you do that," when I used to do it myself.

Ozzy Osbourne

Most guys my age are boring human beings. They sit in bars, get drunk, and then go home to tell their kids the way to rule their lives, while they're absolutely stewed out of their brains.

Ozzy Osbourne

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didnt want to see my kids do the same thing

Ozzy Osbourne

I am a raging alcoholic, but I don't want my kids to do the same.

Ozzy Osbourne

I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

Paul Pierce

Kids get influenced by other kids.

Paul Farmer

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

Paul Feig

I love the pictures of Old Hollywood, seeing the directors dressed in suits and ties. Even the grips would be wearing ties. But the biggest thing is when I was a kid, I couldn't wait to be an adult, and I think what happens with most guys is that no one wants to be an adult anymore. So they're dressing like kids.

Paul Feig

My wife and I don't have kids and people are down on us about it. But we're just not wired that way, so don't tell me I have to.

Paul Feig

Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.

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.