Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Buettner

Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.

Dan Chaon

I still think about the writers I loved when I was a kid.

Dan Chaon

The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.

David Foster

Ya' know, these days kids seem to be getting younger and younger.

David Foster Wallace

Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest stories nightmarish rather than surreal.

David Cronenberg

Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them.

David Arquette

Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.

David Axelrod

But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it.

David Antin

I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.

Daryl Hannah

No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.

Don Knotts

Mainly, I thought of Barney Fife as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

Don Johnson

“I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.”

Don McLean

I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew why back then, but now it's obvious.

Doris Lessing

I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.

Donna Shalala

Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.

Donnie Wahlberg

With the Internet, kids today learn things quicker than we do and they have everything there is to see, so you have to do more than just remake some old '70s film

Donnie Wahlberg

Backstreet Boys fans don't want to hear the New Kids singing all of their hits. Just like our fans don't want to hear the Backstreet Boys singing all of our hits.

Donnie Wahlberg

A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.

Donnie Wahlberg

When New Kids became really successful, I got a lot of offers to do parts in movies and TV shows, but I was really busy, so I pretty much turned everything down. But I always knew it was something that I would eventually put some energy into.

Donald Fagen

I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.

Donald Glover

We put stereotypes on ourselves. Everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just be who they are.

Donald Glover

Also, I realized a lot of kids are listening to me. Whether I want to be or not, they're looking up to me.

Don Tapscott

These kids [of the current generation] have no fear of technology ... sort of like I have no fear of a refrigerator.

Donal Logue

This sounds so bogus, but I would love to, at some point when my kids are in college, is just go do a whole season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and do a year of plays. Most actors miss the days of live theater.

Donal Logue

Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.

Don Rickles

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

Don Rickles

It's tough having the last name Rickles. Luckily, my kids handled it great.

Craig Thompson

On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.

Corbin Bleu

I'm a very outgoing person. I'm always happy, I'm one of those people who are always smiling. If somebody described me to somebody else, they'd say the kid with the curly hair with the big smile on his face. I get along with everybody.

Corbin Bleu

Kids look up to me, and it's really incredible to be in that position.

Clara Bow

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.

Claire McCaskill

Do I want Social Security to be there for my kids and my grandkids? Absolutely. Will I fight like a tiger to make sure that we protect Social Security? I absolutely will.

Daniel Radcliffe

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.