Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ryan Lochte

I've always been honest with all my kids. So I - if they did well, they did well. And if they didn't, actually, I asked, did you try your best? And if they tried their best, then, you know, I back out because I expect them to be honest with me or with themselves. And I can't make you go out there and work out hard.

Ryan Lochte

When I was a kid, I looked up to an Olympian superstar. I won't mention his name but when I asked for his autograph he said, 'no.'

Russell Banks

Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men—at least he always did when he was a kid—because they pretend that’s what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives.

Russell Crowe

When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents.

Roz Chast

A friend of mine gave me a very good piece of advice, which is if you don't think your kids are going to want it, don't take it.

Roz Chast

I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid.

Robert Moog

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

Robert Greene

I think it comes in cycles for Brandy [Burre] and for many women. You want to take care of your home, making it as good as possible for your kids and for yourself, and then eventually you feel trapped and you want to break out of that. You want to be someone else and you want the world to look at you as something else. Eventually, you come back again. The cycles are very much a part of her life.

Robert Greene

I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone.

Robert Ballard

I would not let an adult drive my robot. You don't have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with no license take control of my vehicle system.

Rob Mariano

I'm a kid from Boston.

Rob Lowe

Did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid?

Rick Yune

Since I was a kid I've wanted to be in a Bond movie.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

I love kids, and I'm great with them, but I also love being able to give them back.

Ricky Jay

I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.

Rickie Lee Jones

I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states.

Rickey Henderson

When you're a kid, you want to be a millionaire.

Ricky Martin

Love, acceptance, friends, two kids that I love. I have to take care of myself for them. I've also been a vegetarian for two years.

Richard Louv

Our kids are actually doing what we told them to do when they sit in front of that TV all day or in front of that computer game all day. The society is telling kids unconsciously that nature's in the past. It really doesn't count anymore, that the future is in electronics, and besides, the bogeyman is in the woods.

Richard Louv

How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?

Richard Louv

Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale.

Richard Louv

Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.

Richard Louv

Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.

Richard Louv

We are telling our kids that nature is in the past and it probably doesn't count anymore, the future is in electronics, the boogeyman is in the woods, and playing outdoors is probably illicit and possibly illegal.

Richard M. Nixon

I don't mind the homosexuality. I understand it. Nevertheless, goddamn, I don't think you glorify it on public television, homosexuality, even more than you glorify whores. We all know we have weaknesses. But, goddammit, what do you think that does to kids? You know what happened to the Greeks! Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo. We all know that. So was Socrates.

Rian Johnson

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.

Ric Flair

My kids are my main hobby but, now they’ve gotten older, they’ve forced me to do things without them. I do a lot of things with my boat. My wife and I enjoy boating.

Richard Gere

Julia [Roberts]. She's got two kids and animals, and I think she's a night nibbler. There'd be crumbs everywhere.

Red Auerbach

I have two college degrees, but the only way I could make a living was by showing kids how to put a ball in a hole.

Rebecca Hall

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

Rebecca Hall

I think loads of people see acting, when they're kids, as these magical stories that just happen within the context of the film or the play or the cartoon or whatever they're seeing. They don't imagine that there are actually people that go and do that for a living.

Ray Winstone

I'm lucky enough to have a kid with me who is actually really intellectually up with what's going on in the world and actually puts his money where his mouth is and goes and does something about it; he goes and talks about it. It livens you up a bit and it brings you into the 21st Century.

Rebel Wilson

When you're a kid, you don't want to be teased.