Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

When you're sitting in front of a screen, you're not using all of your senses at the same time. Nowhere than in nature do kids use their senses in such a stimulated way.

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

Something else was different when we were young: our parents were outdoors. I’m not saying they were joining health clubs and things of that sort, but they were out of the house, out on the porch, talking to neighbors. As far as physical fitness goes, today’s kids are the sorriest generation in the history of the United States. Their parents may be out jogging, but the kids just aren’t outside.

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.

St. Vincent

I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.

Sonia Braga

I have two kids now and through watching them, I keep having flashbacks to my own childhood.

Sonia Braga

If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me.

Ruta Sepetys

But wasn't there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn't seem fair.

Rosie O'Donnell

Every kid should sit in the velvet at least once in their lifetime.

Roger Stone

I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.

Roger Taylor

I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.

Sam Taylor-Wood

I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.

Sam Shepard

I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

Rush Limbaugh

The education system is where young skulls full of mush are programmed and propagandized into the system. They are highly valuable. That's why they're subsidized. You know, universities are approaching the same circumstance we have in health care. What it costs is not related at all to market forces. Meaning what it costs is not related to what people can afford. You get right down to it, how many Americans, how many families can afford 20,000, 30,000, $50,000 a year or semester to send their kids off to college? It has to be subsidized.

Rush Limbaugh

That's what the Ivy League is. And many of the people there are legacy. Their families went there; their families are in government. The kids go there.

Roy Rogers

I always feel a responsibility to the kids, to be somebody they could look up to.

Tiesto

Since I was a kid, I always felt the need to share the music I love with as many people as possible, and DJing seemed like the perfect outlet.

Thomas McDonell

I wasn't into acting when I was a kid. Maybe because I was shy or it didn't occur to me.

Tony Dorsett

Everything starts with yourself / with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.

Tony Danza

We can't want an education for kids more than they want it for themselves.