Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Lisa Ling

I hadn't wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.

Lisa Ling

It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.

Lisa Loeb

When I was a kid, for me, the '60s seemed so far away. But I was actually born in the late '60s.

Johnny Cash

So I simply don't buy the concept of "Generation X" as the "lost generation." I see too many good kids out there, kids who are ready and willing to do the right thing, just as Jack was. Their distractions are greater, though. There's no more simple life with simple choices for the young.

Johnny Depp

I think kids, in general as an audience, are the way forward because they're not sort of sullied by intellectual expectation or this or that. It's a very pure kind of response to the work.

Johnny Depp

I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth.

Johnny Depp

Kids accept a lot more, and they buy it, because they're free.

Johnny Depp

Out on the street, you never know what you're getting, and suddenly two days later you're beating yourself in the head with a tennis racket, wearing a towel, quoting Poe. You don't want that for your kid. You really don't want that.

Johnny Depp

other kids pack lunch

Johnny Depp

We would just go out and line up a bunch of cans and shoot with rifles, handguns and at times, submachine guns... When I was a kid it was a controlled atmosphere, we weren't shooting at humans... we were shooting at cans and bottles mostly. I will most certainly take my kids out for target practice.

Johnny Depp

My kids, they're my energy, my soul, and my nicest friend.

John Travolta

I'm a jet jockey and I've always escaped ever since I was a kid. I've always been a weekend type runaway person. Work hard, play hard type thing. It's not been a mid-life thing at all, it's been a habit because I think it changes your environment and how you feel even if it's for the day. It's a good thing.

John Travolta

From the time I was a kid, I had a wanderlust. I always wanted to travel, in any form - plane, train, boat, car, motorcycle. So I think that if I ever do have a mid-life crisis, I have all the toys to refer to quickly.

John Travolta

Having kids is something you can't always do. Kids are like lightning. You grab that lightning when you can get it.

John Travolta

The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.

John Scalzi

When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.

Mark Teixeira

Christ doesn't keep score. It's not about what you do here. It's about the person you are. It's about your faith. That's one thing that I'd like for young kids or anybody to know.