Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hilary Duff

I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It's really funny the way that some people don't give kids enough credit for like really being driven, and really wanting to do things so badly.

Henry Winkler

I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can't vote.

Henry Cloud

If your boundary training consists only of words, you are wasting your breath. But if you 'do' boundaries with your kids, they internalize the experiences, remember them, digest them, and make them part of how they see reality.

Helena Bonham Carter

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

John Krasinski

I don't want my kids to ever think that I am choosing my job over them.

John Krasinski

I'm not gonna be one of those actors who's like, "It's such a drag to not see your kids." Of course it is, but that's the compromise that you're making.

John Krasinski

We live in a very modern age and the dynamic of raising kids and being a professional are intersecting a lot more - especially for women.

John Krasinski

Now all of us in our thirties are the first generation that get to say, "I don't know how I feel about that system, I don't know if I want kids, I don't know if I want to get married."

John Krasinski

I related so much to the responsibility of being a parent, the responsibility of "did you screw your kid up," the responsibility of letting your own parents down.

Harlan Coben

Im 48 years old, not a kid anymore by any definition, but here is a universal truth that every adult at some point will realize: We are all always 17 years old, waiting for our lives to begin.

Harlan Coben

Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?

Gustave Flaubert

Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of somebody's wishing to become, of all things, a Professor of Literature.

Graydon Carter

The greatest thing that prepared me for editing 'Vanity Fair' was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego with the greater interest in mind.

Graydon Carter

Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over.

Gore Verbinski

I just don't know when we all decided that if it doesn't fit in a Happy Meal box, it's not for kids. I remember flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz, and I grew up watching Monty Python. I think that kids can handle a lot more than we give them credit for, especially when it comes to the absurd.

Gore Verbinski

I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre, because there's a language there and you can twist it and turn it on its head or play to it or go sideways at any time.

Gordon Ramsay

MasterChef Junior for me was about working closely with these kids and getting them to reeducate their parents to understand that food is as important educationally as Math and English and it's important that we don't take it for granted.

John Mayer

You should have a picture of yourself as a kid in your home so that you remember where you came from.

John Madden

I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

John Lloyd Young

I was a Hollywood musical fan as a kid, and I know how rare it is for someone who originates the Broadway role to get to then do it on screen.

John Lithgow

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too

John Legend

I do speak to kids a lot. I am very clear with them that not all of them should aspire to be me and not all of them should be aspire to be LeBron.

John Legend

I hear melodies and hooks all day. I've always been that way, since I was a kid.

John Leguizamo

I keep my kids out of the whole business entirely. Allegra and Lucas are five and six and I'm not interested in them doing any acting at all. I don't want my kids in show business. I keep them as far away from my work as possible.

John Leguizamo

After kids leave the house, they can decide to do whatever they want, but while they're under my roof, they're going to be lawyers or writers or something, something important, anything except actors.

John Leguizamo

With kids, the days are long, but the years are short.

John Lennon

I was a great one as a kid for standing and just looking out a window for hours and hours and hours. Now the TV does that for me, except for the view changes immensely.

John Lennon

When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids.

John Lennon

Some people say it's a when you get older fans the kids don't like you. It's true.

John Lennon

I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we'd done it in England, there's no reason why we couldn't do it in America too.

John Lennon

All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the Seventies who were screaming to the Bee Gees that their music was just The Beatles redone. There is nothing wrong with the Bee Gees.

John Lennon

Everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of “experts” who made them up in the first place.

John Lasseter

I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.