Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mike Myers

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

Joely Fisher

I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out.

Joely Fisher

But unfortunately, when you have a kid, you sometimes eat everything they leave behind. So far today I've had some of her leftover pancakes with peanut butter.

Joey McIntyre

Being in a rock n' roll and pop world, it's very easy to act like a kid.

Joe Mauer

When I learned the news about Harmon today, I felt like I lost a family member. He has treated me like one of his own. It's hard to put into words what Harmon has meant to me. He first welcomed me into the Twins family as an 18-year-old kid and has continued to influence my life in many ways. He is someone I will never forget and will always treasure the time we spent together. Harmon will be missed but never forgotten.

Joe Dante

So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.

Joe Dante

I've made a lot of movies with kids in them. I don't know why that is, but it's something I've noticed.

Joe DiMaggio

Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.

Joe DiMaggio

The reason I play so hard is that somewhere out there is some kid who has never seen me play before, and I don't want to disappoint him.

Joe DiMaggio

There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.

Jodi Picoult

When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.

Jodi Picoult

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.

John Green

I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad kids and the good kids and all kids--as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.

John Green

But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?

John Green

I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said.

John Green

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.

John Green

You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.

Patton Oswalt

With acting, you see some of the kids are literally just off the street, untrained, and they are great. And others are off the street, untrained, and kind of horrible.

Patti Smith

When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective and his process, which to me is a lot like the artist.

Patti Smith

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

Patti Smith

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

P. J. O'Rourke

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

P. J. O'Rourke

Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system

Martin Gore

Kids today don't know that much about vinyl.

Marshall Faulk

I think as a kid I never really understood the magnitude of a hurricane and what it could do.

Mark Mothersbaugh

When I was a kid, I would go to the record store, where there was a bin of things they didn't know quite how to classify. Those were my choices. That's where you would find Captain Beefheart or an early electronic album.

Noam Chomsky

Very commonly substances are criminalized because they're associated with what's called the dangerous classes, you know, poor people, or working people.... Actually, the peak of marijuana use was as I said, in the seventies, but that was rich kids, so you don't throw them in jail. And then it got seriously criminalized, you know, you really throw people in jail for it, when it was poor people.