Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Van Dyke

I have two kids who were like me, we get out of bed feeling good, and the other two would sit at the breakfast table and grumble. I think it's born into us. I usually wake up feeling pretty good. Looking forward to the day.

Dick Van Dyke

My son Barry, of course, has been on from the beginning. And his son Shane is playing now a med student regularly on the show. And at one point or another, I've had all four of his kids on the show.

Dick Van Dyke

Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'

Dick Van Dyke

My kids are so much better parent than I was.

Dick Van Dyke

I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.

Dick Van Dyke

I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!

Dick Van Dyke

When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'

Dick Van Dyke

I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see.

Dick Van Dyke

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

Dick Van Dyke

I had an uncle who had a car with a rumble seat, and I used to love to ride in that thing. I mentioned this to some kids, and they were like, "What are you even talking about?"

Dick Van Dyke

Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.

Diane Lane

I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids.

Dennis Weaver

I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.

Dennis Rader

I actually think I may be possessed with demons, I was dropped on my head as a kid.

Dennis Quaid

I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.

Dennis Quaid

I would like my kids to follow their bliss.

Dennis Prager

Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?

Dennis Farina

When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.

Dennis Farina

As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.

Denis Hayes

With time environmental issues got much more complicated. It is pretty easy, if you know what you are doing, to stop a company from pouring poison into a lake where kids swim. It is much harder to address all the myriad greenhouse gases emitted by different sources - from petrochemical refineries to hundreds of millions of peasants cutting down trees for their incredibly inefficient cook stoves.

Debra Winger

I am one of the happiest people I know. And that's a weird place to have arrived at from being a depressed Jewish kid.

Until we know what the kids have signed up for and who they are, there's no way to know how much it will cost.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what's happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

Mark Haddon

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times, and their parents are going to have to read it with them. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

Montel Williams

The ability to talk to kids and reach kids is a gift I've been given, and I may as well use it.

Nellie McKay

The other kids wanted to play Destiny's Child, but I wanted Anita O'Day.

Lindsay Lohan

I did say that I wanted to be a young mom, just because my mom was a young mom. It is better because I can be closer to my kids and stuff.

Lisa Vidal

All three of my kids play soccer. Each one of them started from the time they were about 5 or 6, and we just love it.

Kids are always told that they can be anything that they want. But what if you want to be a ballerina, and you're terrible at ballet? Or what if you're gifted at ballet, but you don't like doing it?

Watching my kids grow up made me realize that they would never know a world or a time without the Internet.

We're starting to find that there are some young kids starting to step up.

We're going to get it started right after the kids come back from spring break.

We wrestled really well as a team. Our kids competed really well.