Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Burton

So we were doing this scene, and the kids get 20 minutes a day, um, so, all I had to do was pick him up out of the incubator and take him out, and that was the whole shot.

Joel Kaplan

Nowadays, it's the kids who have the power. When they don't do the work and get lower grades, they scream and yell. Parents side with the kids who pressure teachers to lower standards.

O. Henry

I wanted to be on the winning side (on the record), but to it was truly unbelievable to have the season we had. The kids just stepped up and played well.

Mary Pope Osborne

Sometimes when I go out on the road, I feel almost embarrassed or dismayed because I can't be the image of what kids want me to be. So I just try to be myself, and usually that works out OK.

Luke Jensen

Tennis for me is the same whether I'm playing in a tournament or instructing, ... I just have a passion for the sport and love the game. That's what I tell all the kids I work with about life. Just find something you love to do and be passionate about it and it won't seem like work.'

Ennis Proctor

Sometimes these kids that are well-rounded don't get enough credit. We want to recognize the true scholar-athlete.

Jane Lowe

Sometimes it's not visible, but the kids all know.

Chris Lasoya

Seeing how the kids react, smiling and all, that makes it all worth it. I let the kids shoot me sometimes and they'll be talking about that for years.

Bruce Graham

Pulling kids from line really shakes a lot of people up, ... It is important to keep teachers accountable.

Brad Pitt

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?

Jamie Foxx

My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I've taught you to be.'

Diane Cilento

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

Edwidge Danticat

My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were not literate in a formal sense, but they were storytellers. So I had this experience of just watching somebody spin a tale off the top of her head. I loved that.

Ann Coulter

...while a sane world would not employ 5-foot-tall grandmothers as law enforcement officers, a sane world would also not give full body-cavity searches to 5-foot-tall grandmothers at airports.

Doug Larson

The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.

Douglas Adams

They wouldn’t even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.

Clifton Fadiman

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.

Curtis Jackson

My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptist, and when I got old enough to say I didn't want to go to church, she didn't force me. She was cool.

Art Modell

I don't want my grandchildren to go through what I went through

Al Gore

Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

E. Stanley Jones

God doesn't have any grandchildren.

Ted Turner

Every action or inaction has an impact-good or bad-upon our surroundings, and anything we do today will have an impact on the lives of our grandchildren.

Isabel Allende

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

James Ellroy

In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity, no politics of victimization. Reparation wasn't in the language. Nobody thought about giving the great grandchildren of black slaves so much as $1.98. And all of a sudden the bombs hit, interventionism versus isolationism became a dead issue, and it was us-versus-them in a heartbeat.

Katie McGrath

I want to have a little toy version of Morgana. I can then show it to my grandchildren one day. So I can say I used to have a waist.

Benjamin Spock

Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.

Adora Svitak

By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.