Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shannon Miller

I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces.

Shannon Miller

I share Len Saunders’ concerns about childhood obesity and getting kids to be active beginning at an early age.

Seymour Papert

If a kid really is retarded and can only come up to a certain level, he will still have more success if what he learns is connected with something important to him.

Seymour Papert

I don't like MTV, and I don't like the culture that goes with it. It's OK in very small doses, maybe. Nevertheless, it's a social reality and has influenced how kids perceive things around them, the pace of life and the way people do things.

Seymour Papert

Parents can learn that parental authority doesn't depend on knowing everything. The more you pretend, the more risk that it'll be traumatic and damaging to the kids and their relationship with you when they find out the truth.

Seymour Papert

This frenzy about cyberporn indicates some deeper fear of adults as they see kids become more independent and learn things they never learned. I think those fears also reflect a failure to communicate. Parents should be able to say to their kids: "There is stuff out there that we don't look at, and if you find yourself looking at it or someone approaching you about it, then let's talk about it."

Seymour Papert

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.

Sean Paul

I'm a big hip-hop fan since being a kid. It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah.

Sean Paul

I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.

Leonard Maltin

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

Lena Headey

Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.

Lemmy Kilmister

We sent out tapes to the others but they didn't wake up. It was worth it just to have one kid wake up. I got to meet him after he woke up.

Lee Majors

I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me

Larry Clark

I was over self-medicating back when I was a kid and didn't know it.

Larry Clark

I've wanted to make a film about French youth since I went to Cannes with my first film 'Kids' in 1995 ... Scribe's screenplay is about French kids today, and the world today. Just like my films 'Kids' and 'Ken Park', this will be a movie like you have never seen before.

Larry Ellison

Building Oracle is like doing math puzzles as a kid.

Kyle Gallner

I do not have a fear of heights at all. I was the kid who would see how high I could get in the trees. I was always climbing something. But I wasnt allowed to look down; I had to step off completely blind and backwards.

Marcia Gay Harden

Its important that kids learn, but I really dont like all the testing, testing, testing.

Marc Maron

When you're a kid, you always feel you have this weird kindred-spirit thing with other Jews, until you get older and you realize it's just middle-class bourgeois Jews that sort of fit a template that your family fits into one way or another.

Marc Maron

When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon.

Sam Trammell

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.

Sam Trammell

One of the most important things is just to be kind to other people. That is absolutely really important to us, and important to me. That's something that you need to help your kids with, for sure.

Sadie Frost

I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.

Sadie Frost

My kids inspire me to be the person I am today - without them I wouldn't be who I am today.

Ryan Gosling

As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.

Ruth Ozeki

Do all kids have to worry about their parents’ mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be the grown-up ones and look after the kids, but a lot of times it’s the other way around.

Rodney Carrington

Kids today know way more than you think they do, with the Internet and 500 TV channels.

Rodney Carrington

I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things.

Roddy Doyle

When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.

Rodney Dangerfield

I have three kids, one of each.

Rodney Dangerfield

I don't know kid, there are so many places they could hide.

Rodney Dangerfield

Oh, when I was a kid, I was poor. Christmas, I got no presents. Well, there was one Christmas, on our front lawn - Prancer and Dancer - they dropped off a little something.

Rodney Dangerfield

We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again.