Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Hoeppner

The best compliment I can give Blake is just to say that if I hadn't inherited him as the quarterback, he would have been a kid I would have recruited. I think he has all the tools to be very successful in our system.

Terry McMillan

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That's about the most you can do, I think.

Margaret Haddix

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

Kevin Sorbo

If you ever watched 'Hercules,' you can see that it was made in a comical way for the most part. I remember getting lots of letters from kids around the world saying that the show helped them curb their temper and not look for trouble and just walk away from it because that was the stronger thing to do.

Kevin Systrom

I really love connecting people, creating communities. As a kid, creation was something that I always loved.

Michael Kors

When I was a kid, I was trendier. I'd wear anything. I was in love beads and platforms.

Michael Fishman

It's very rewarding if I make a difference to a kid.

Michael Finley

I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete.

Michael Flatley

Since I was a kid, I've been a dancer, and, of course, I'll always be a dancer till the day I die.

Michael Birch

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

Michael Biehn

When I was a kid everyone used to call me pork 'n.

Michael Bloomberg

When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as a citizen, as - as a human being, to help others. Smoking is going to kill a billion people this century. I've put six hundred million dollars from my own money into trying to stop the tobacco companies from getting kids to smoke and convincing adults that it's not in their health.

Melinda Gates

You can't save kids just with vaccines.

Melinda Gates

But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids.

Melissa Etheridge

My kids and I love to listen to Bill Cosby.

Peter Andre

Nobody is going to take my kids away from me and I will fight to the death for that.

Peter Andre

Divorce isn't just the person, it's everything that goes with it - your kids, the adjustment, everything.

Peter Andre

My kids are my life and the thought of someone taking them away from me is my worst nightmare.

Peter Andre

Teach kids not to fight. Can they change taxes? I'd get rid of all the congestion charges, because they've not stopped traffic. They're a waste of time, not that I'm getting all political.

Penn Jillette

When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was concentrating on big things like poverty and hunger and leading the space race.

Penn Jillette

The fact that the majority wants something good does not give them the right to use force on the minority that don't want to pay for it. If you have to use a gun, it's not really a very good idea. Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up on the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

Penn Jillette

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

Pedro Noguera

Middle-class kids get to play, develop their thinking ability. Poor kids are much more likely to get regimentation under the guise of socialization. On top of it, we have huge segregation in early childhood programs. I don't see these patterns changing anytime soon, and that's a big obstacle.

Pedro Noguera

That's at the core of equity: understanding who your kids are and how to meet their needs. You are still focused on outcomes, but the path to get there may not be the same for each one.

Marlee Matlin

The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.

Marlee Matlin

When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whatever it takes to communicate.

Marlon Brando

Ask most kids about details about Auschwitz or about how the American Indians were assassinated as a people and they don't know anything about it. They don't want to know anything. Most people just want their beer or their soap opera or their lullaby.

Mariska Hargitay

Kids who drink alcohol, fairly regularly before they're 14 have a 48% chance... of becoming alcoholics.

Marjane Satrapi

Maybe the biggest problem is that there's no empathy. Nobody puts themselves in the place of others. Everyone thinks they are the only one to suffer. Or that they're the only ones who like ice cream or take their kids on vacation.

Marjane Satrapi

There's this scene in "The Night of the Hunter" when the kids are downstairs, and you have the feeling that they're both in a room and at the same time it looks remote. And you wonder, How can you give the effect of both "inside" and "outside" at the same time. And you realize, by watching it many times, that around the scene there's this black edging.

Mariano Rivera

Ever since I was a little kid, I was competitive.

Maria Sharapova

When I make commitments I like to stick to them, especially when I'm giving back to kids. Just giving them an example of what they can achieve. I love giving back to kids. It's fantastic.

Megyn Kelly

I don't even watch Fox News usually in the prime time hours because I'm home with my kids and that's more important to me.