Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evelyn Glennie

I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.

Eva Longoria

I never had a time line for my life. I didn't say I wanted to be married at 28 and have three kids by the time I was 32.

Eva Longoria

I do want to have a family at some point. I also want to adopt. I don't feel pressure to have kids because I know that there are so many out there.

Esther Dyson

When I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles.

Ernie Hudson

Every once in a while as an actor, you do something that the kids really like.

Ernest Hemingway

And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it. You never had it before and now you have it. What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

Etta James

I was a sloppy kid, wanted to be just wild.

Ethel Waters

My aunts lived on liquor and seldom felt like eating much. I don't know what's wrong about a kid stealing when he's hungry.

Erma Bombeck

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

Erma Bombeck

You become about as exciting as your food blender. The kids come in, look you in the eye, and ask if anybody's home.

Erma Bombeck

Before we sent kids to computer camps and told them they were having a good time, there was imagination among the human species.

Erma Bombeck

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

Erma Bombeck

Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.

Erma Bombeck

It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.

Feist

I love storms and how the whole house shakes. When I was a kid, there would be lots of thunder and lightning storms, and they would knock the electricity out. We had this oil lantern that had been in my grandfather's homestead at the turn of the century, before there even was electricity. He'd bring it down off the top shelf, and we'd always play cards.

Fantasia Barrino

I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.

Faith Prince

I just love kids. I always have.

Faith Hill

I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.

Faith Hill

I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.

F. Murray Abraham

I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

Ezra Miller

I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9. I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult.

Ezra Miller

I always thought it would be really, really cool to play Edgar Allan Poe, because when I was a kid, he was one of the authors who really blew my mind open to all sorts of weird dark and twisted places.

Evel Knievel

I think these shows with the young kids doing these jumps, doing these fantastic back flips, I think they're absolutely great. They did what I never did.

Eula Biss

I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing. We have good insurance and easy access to health care. It's a different situation for another family. I didn't want to make the decision for them.

Eugene Mirman

I just loved comedy as a kid and I think at some point, it just occurred to me that you could try it, and I did.

Eugene Mirman

A lot of people think that kids say the darnedest things. But so would you if you had no education. You'd just be like, I am bike cheese. Because you wouldn't know what words were.

Francis Collins

We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.

Francis Ford Coppola

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.

Francis Ford Coppola

I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.

Francis Chan

I want to train my kids so where they are the only believers they can stand on their own two feet and teach others.

Frances O'Grady

I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.

Foster Friess

I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.