Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paula Danziger

I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes

Paula Abdul

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

Paula Deen

The thought of eating rabbit and squirrels doesn't appeal to me. And that was on our table quite often as a kid. In your uppity restaurants, they serve a lot of rabbit. But I just can't help but think of Peter. And deer, I can't go there, because of Bambi.

Paul Weller

Young people can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind of devalues it as well. They don't feel the need to own it. They certainly don't feel the need to pay for it. I'd have to save up for weeks to buy an album when I was a kid, and that made it even more great for me when I finally got that thing in my hand.

Paul Weller

I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really.

Paul Weller

I saw an interview with Keith Richards. He said, 'How else could a kid in Dartford suddenly connect with and understand what Muddy Waters is singing?' There's a cultural difference, but there's just something in that music that subconsciously or internally you just understand; it just makes sense.

Paul Weller

The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.

Phil Keoghan

Where we really effect change, in terms of creating a passionate work force, is by listening to kids early.

Phil Keoghan

Schools often box kids into predefined categories. But we don't know what amazing ideas, inventions, cures, and contributions all these youths really have.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I was that overachieving, annoying kid who was always trying to win some contest or win the role. I look back on it now and I'm like, "Chill, man." Calm down.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.

Martin Scorsese

As a kid I watched the Academy Awards on television and always wanted one - or several - like one of my favorite directions, John Ford. He won six. On the other hand, Orson Welles, who's on the top of my list, didn't win any. Alfred Hitchcock didn't win any. Howard Hawks didn't win any.

LeBron James

As a parent you protect your kids as much as possible.

LeBron James

As a parent, if you have multiple kids, you can't teach them all the same thing because they all have different personalities. They're their own person.

LeBron James

I'm just a little kid from Akron.

LeBron James

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this.

LeBron James

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.

Lauryn Hill

I'm in a very close-knit, very, very tight family. My grandmother had 13 kids, so we had a lot of family like 50, 60 grandchildren and we all lived in Jersey, relatively in the same area. So every time there was something, my entire family was there. And I just believed everybody's family was like that.

Lauryn Hill

I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.

Laura Lippman

It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.

Laura Lippman

I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

Nicole Kidman

I love just sitting quietly meditating. With an hour free, it depends. I love getting down on the floor and playing with my kids.

Nicole Kidman

Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again.

Nas

Hip-hop is such an amazing thing that kids still want to do it. They're not saying, "Ugh, that's the old people's music." No, they're younger than they've ever been that want to get into hip-hop music.

Mort Sahl

If anybody comes up to you and says, My kid is a conservative - why is that? you say, Remember in the 60′s when we told you if you kept using drugs your kids would be mutants?

Morris Chestnut

Sometimes the stereotypes that a lot of people have are of black men in jail or who don't take care of their kids, so I think it's always important to have that.

Monica Keena

I think what sets this one apart is that there are two horror movie icons finally battling each other. You actually see them beat the crap out of each other instead of just terrorizing the kids in the movie.

Milla Jovovich

You have the energy when you're a kid to really fight for rights - that's why kids make great soldiers, right?

Milla Jovovich

Statistically you take thousands of photographs of your first kid, and then with your second kidyou take about half of that. And then with your third kid, you, like, pawn off your first and second kids' photographs and tell them they're theirs.

Johnny Manziel

I'm a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas.

Norm MacDonald

When I was a kid, everybody that played golf was an old man. Until Tiger showed up, they weren't in very good shape.

Noel Fisher

When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in love with.

Noel Gallagher

My kids have got to work themselves around my life, not the other way. That's how kids become brats, if you're there staring at them all the time going, 'Are you alright?'