Famous Quotes & Sayings

Slash

I am married and I have two kids now, and I love them all to death. So I am trying to put all that together and maintain the same pace I've been keeping. But really, I relish what we do. A year and a half sounds like a cakewalk to me.

Slash

When I was a kid, a lot of my parents' friends were in the music business. In the late '60s and early '70s - all the way through the '70s, actually - a lot of the bands that were around had kids at a very young age. So they were all working on that concept way early on. And I figured if they can do it, I could do it, too.

Slash

If you were a kid and you wanted to come out and make a statement now, you'd have to really dig deep to find something that no one has exposed already.

Slash

I don't physically put Appetite For Destruction in and listen to it, but I hear it on the radio or at sporting events or wherever else it pops up, and it's great. I dig everything about it. When I hear Appetite, it sounds like exactly what it was. It sounds like a record made by an angry bunch of kids.

Sloane Crosley

I was pretty dorky, but there are tiers of dorkdom and I always had friends, though they were equally dorky. I was one of those kids who contracted cooties in the second grade and then had cooties, because there wasn't a vaccine for it. When I was around people, though, I generally wanted to make them laugh. I told a lot of stories.

Skeet Ulrich

I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.

Sinclair Lewis

Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.

Michael J. Fox

I have now is whenever my kids say, "Can you look at this?" or "Can I ask you something?" or "Can you come here for a minute?" no matter what I am doing, I say yes instead of saying, "Just a sec." They never abuse the privilege, and I never once regretted it. What they took me away to do was never less important than what I was doing already.

Michael J. Fox

If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinking about Parkinson's. And honestly, I don't think about it that much either. I talk about it because it's there, but it's not my totality.

Michael J. Fox

I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.

Michael J. Fox

Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, 'Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,' it'll be 15, it'll be 20. And then when you get there, the shine will have worn off whatever it is they wanted to share with you.

Michael J. Fox

I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.

Michael Jordan

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and that's everybody's wish. I try to be a role model for black kids, white kids, yellow kids, green kids. This is what I felt was good about my personality.

Michael Jordan

It is nerve-wracking watching my kids' games.

Michael Jordan

I make shoes for white suburban kids, not the poor black kids. That would be like opening a restaurant for people without stomachs.

Martha Wainwright

Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.

Martha Stewart

We met financial expectations for the quarter in a difficult economic environment. We also signed a two-year programming agreement with Home & Garden Television to launch two new cable television series, and launched the Martha Stewart Kids magazine These initiatives provide future revenue and earnings growth for the brand and build long-term value for shareholders.

Martha Stewart

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

Mark Ruffalo

The fact that I can make a living and support three kids and my wife doing what I love to do... who does that? That's golden. It's a very privileged thing.

Mark Ruffalo

I have a carpool with a corrections officer and a construction worker. My kids get to see that we're not segregated based on wealth or standing. It's very cool.

Mark Ruffalo

My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.

Mark Ruffalo

Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out.

Mark Ruffalo

I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff.

Marie Lu

Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me.

Marge Piercy

People are very afraid of any controversy. We've become very passive spectator types. And when the kids were protesting globilization - quite reasonably - they really got bashed.

Teresa Palmer

Kids are really cruel.

Terrell Owens

I have donated money to the kids overseas, the open hand project and the homeless.

Ted Nugent

I don't plan [my recordings], I really don't. It's so spontaneous I wish all rock lovers and rock journalist could witness a Ted Nugent recording session. It is so primal, it's like idiot kids in the garage with their first loud amplifiers, its intoxicating, it is irreverent, it is uninhibited.

Ted Cruz

I'll fight with every breath in my body to stop the out of control spending and debt that are bankrupting our kids and grandkids.

Ted Cruz

Every parent is wondering, how do we keep our kids safe? We need a commander in chief who does what Ronald Reagan did with communism, which is he set out a global strategy to defeat Soviet communism.

Ted Cruz

I think the people who have been finding it harder and harder to feed their kids - the young people who are afraid "I'm never going to have a job and be able to provide for a family," all of that can turn around and it can turn around quickly.

Thelonious Monk

We have two kids, my wife and myself.

Thalia

My kids are my No. 1 priority. Theyre the light in my everyday life. The sunshine. The miracle. Those eyes. Those smiles. At the same time, I have an extended, amazing family that is my audience. All these people have been with me for such a long time. I have these two responsibilities.