Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miley Cyrus

Every day after work, my mom and I go shopping. My dad is about to kill me. I say, We need it, daddy!

Miley Cyrus

My dad has never actually grounded me. He always tells my mom to do it. He tells her, "Miley was so bad today, you need to ground her."

Carol Alt

My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds.

Amy Schumer

My mom is very good at being passive-aggressive, and my Dad is a total wiseass, so I think the mixture of the two of them is my comedy. But, I am definitely the first comedian in my family.

Ally Walker

This is the hardest job I've ever had, being a mom, but it's the most rewarding job I've ever had.

Anthony Bourdain

The biggest empty space, the biggest gap in what should be a premier and always vibrant food scene in America is that we don't have hawker centers like they do in Singapore, basically food courts where mom and pop specialists can set up shop in fairly hygienic little stalls all up to health code making one dish they've been doing forever and ever.

Andy Samberg

My mom let me kind of run free and be rowdy. She encouraged it. I'm a youngest child. So I was spazzy and trying to be funny to my older sisters. It's kind of my role in the family - tension reliever. I was funny or annoying, depending on your perspective.

Richard Bach

Why, Jon, why?" his mother asked. "Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the alhatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers!" "I don't mind being bone and feathers mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know.

Robert Bly

If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.

Ansel Elgort

I always did workshops. I would be at theater camp, doing shows, or after-school programs.

Anne Bancroft

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

Angelina Jolie

Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone to law school and we're not experts on policy. We're just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.

Angelina Jolie

The money it would cost to buy another car could be [used to] build two schools. So it's an easy choice that makes me very happy.

Angelina Jolie

People always slow down for a train wreck. It's like junk food. If you don't feel good about yourself, you want to read crap about other people, like gossip in high school. You don't understand why it's there, but somehow it makes a lot of people feel better.

Andrew Carnegie

If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.

Amy Adams

I didn't necessarily fit in in high school. I felt very awkward. I still feel completely awkward and weird in my body sometimes. I'm hoping that's going to go away, but I've just embraced it as reality.

Amy Adams

In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of me. I thought of myself as just painfully awkward and dorky. I had a lot of hair and was kind of weird. I sang a lot in the hallways.

Amy Adams

I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn't go to a big theater to see one until probably after I graduated from high school when I took myself to see 'Tommy' when it was on tour. I absolutely loved it.

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Cory Monteith

I don’t want kids to think it’s okay to drop out of school and get high, and they’ll be famous actors, too,

Cory Doctorow

The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids.

Courteney Cox

I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.

Courteney Cox

So many people have so much trouble having kids.

Amy Poehler

Most of the women in your life will outlast the men in your life. The Saturday Night Live ladies - Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Tina - and I text pictures of our kids back and forth all the time. It keeps us connected. As my nanny used to say, the older you get, the more important it is to know people that knew you when.

Amy Poehler

Always remember your kid's name,

Ally Carter

So you just...left?' Zach huffed. 'All the cool kids are doing it.

Allen Klein

Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything.