Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter F. Mondale

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

Walter Dean Myers

As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.

Yo-Yo Ma

There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.

Yogi Berra

I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.

Willie Mays

I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act

Willie Aames

It's good that kids know the Scripture. It's best that they know the Scripture and get the concept. All I can say is, it's working.

Willie Aames

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

Willie Aames

I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get.

William S. Burroughs

Ever see a hot shot hit, kid? I saw the Gimp catch one in Philly. We rigged his room with a one-way whorehouse mirror and charged a sawski to watch it. He never got the needle out of his arm. They don't if the shot is right. That's the way they find them, dropper full of clotted blood hanging out of a blue arm. The look in his eyes when it hit --- Kid, it was tasty.

Wong Kar-wai

I never studied film formally at school, but as a kid, I spent most of my time in cinemas.

Woody Hayes

Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.

Woody Harrelson

I think I've been an incredible example to my kids of what not to do.

Woody Allen

Since I was a kid, I could make up stories, I could make up funny jokes and I could always do it. When I'm walking down the street or having dinner, ideas will hit me, and I write them down on matchbooks or napkins and throw them in the draw.

William Shatner

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.

William Shatner

I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.

William J. Clinton

We don't need a constitutional amendment for kids to pray.

William J. Clinton

Everybody has a gas-guzzling car because people like SUVs. They would like SUVs if they were hybrid vehicles that had the same horsepower and used less gasoline. Instead, what the auto manufacturers are doing is building SUVs that are hybrid vehicles that use the same amount of gasoline because they up the horsepower. That's a decision that they make to market irresponsible economic behavior. The American people like the SUVs, they have kids, they, they need them, they get around in them, but we have options.

William Gibson

All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.

Will Forte

I don't know if I was a funny kid. I would say I was a loud and weird kid.

Will Eisner

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.

Will Ferrell

I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.

Will Ferrell

In junior high P.E., I was way too shy to take a shower in front of the other kids. It was a horribly awkward time - body hair, odors... So I'd go from my sweaty shirt back into my regular clothes and have to continue the day.

Sarah Silverman

I was paralyzed with fear. It was unbearable to be among other kids who were just standing around being fine. It was one of the many inconveniences of this paradox I lived with -the more people I was surrounded by, the more frighteningly alone I felt.

Sarah Silverman

I think maybe I became funny because as a kid, I was a Jew in a town of no Jews, and being funny just instinctively came about as a way to put people at ease around me.

Sarah Silverman

If I have kids, I'll adopt.

Sarah Silverman

I had a lot of depression as a kid.

Sarah Palin

[Tax] dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.

Saoirse Ronan

I've basically grown up with Harry Potter, as so many kids my age have. It's kind of a part of my life.

Willard Scott

Why do we love our grandparents so much? Part of the reason I think has to do with the tremendous natural affection and affinity that kids have for older people, whether they are their actual grandparents or not.

Willem Dafoe

When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.

Wil Wheaton

When you get a group of kids together, especially boys, the psychology of those kids requires that they find a weak kid or a sensitive kid or a soft kid.

Whoopi Goldberg

I'd like somebody to get rid of the death tax. That's what I want. I don't want to get taxed just because I died. I just don't think it's right. If I give something to my kid, I already paid the tax. Why should I have to pay it again because I died?

Warren Gatland

In some ways the players are no different to kids as you've got to set boundaries and you've got to work within those boundaries. If you work hard and you do everything that's asked of you, there's great reward afterwards.