Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shannon Miller

I share Len Saunders’ concerns about childhood obesity and getting kids to be active beginning at an early age.

Seymour Papert

If a kid really is retarded and can only come up to a certain level, he will still have more success if what he learns is connected with something important to him.

Seymour Papert

I don't like MTV, and I don't like the culture that goes with it. It's OK in very small doses, maybe. Nevertheless, it's a social reality and has influenced how kids perceive things around them, the pace of life and the way people do things.

Seymour Papert

Parents can learn that parental authority doesn't depend on knowing everything. The more you pretend, the more risk that it'll be traumatic and damaging to the kids and their relationship with you when they find out the truth.

Seymour Papert

This frenzy about cyberporn indicates some deeper fear of adults as they see kids become more independent and learn things they never learned. I think those fears also reflect a failure to communicate. Parents should be able to say to their kids: "There is stuff out there that we don't look at, and if you find yourself looking at it or someone approaching you about it, then let's talk about it."

Seymour Papert

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.

Sean Paul

I'm a big hip-hop fan since being a kid. It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah.

Sean Paul

I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.

Leonard Maltin

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

Lena Headey

Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.

Lemmy Kilmister

We sent out tapes to the others but they didn't wake up. It was worth it just to have one kid wake up. I got to meet him after he woke up.

Lee Majors

I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me

Neil Patrick Harris

I've gotten to hang out with Elmo, I'm the Fairy Shoeperson on 'Sesame Street'. So hopefully our kids will get to see and hear me as much as they're able.

Lindsey Vonn

I remember when I met Picabo Street, you know, how in awe I was of her and how much she inspired me, and I really hope to be that for young kids.

Lindsey Graham

I don't have kids, but I do understand family, and I understand how precious family is.

Linda McCartney

I won't be having any more kids, though. Four is enough.

Linda Fiorentino

You can talk about movies all you want, but I have this porcelain fetish. I've had it since I was a kid, because there were so many kids in my family, the only place I had any solace was in the bathroom.

Linda Cardellini

When I was a kid, 'Scooby Doo' was, hands down, my favorite cartoon. Even when I was older, when I was in college studying and I needed to tune out for a while, I'd watch 'Scooby Doo.

Linda Blair

One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.

Linda Blair

Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.

Linda Ellerbee

Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of the mass media or whether the mass media is a tool for kids to use.

Lilith Saintcrow

Boys always get the best eyelashes; it's like some kind of cosmic law. And half-breed kids get some kind of extra help there from genetics, too.

Peter Eisenman

I am very different as a parent to new kids. My work changed from being rooted in the sky to being rooted in the earth.

Peter Facinelli

It definitely gets challenging at times. I travel a lot more now, and its never easy having to leave the kids, even if its for a few days.

Paulo Costanzo

I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.

Pawan Kalyan

I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.

Paz Vega

I loved working with kids because the energy is great.

Phil Donahue

When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.

Phil Collins

I suppose you can't take kids into consideration all the time, but I just wish there could be a bit of flexibility.

Phil Collins

In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents

Peter Senge

Theres a lot of American kids think their food comes from the grocery store and the concept of seasonality has no meaning to them whatsoever.

Peter Robinson

I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.

Peter Coyote

I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.