Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bo Jackson

My confidence and drive to go play came when I realized how gifted I was at such a young age and how much bigger my build was than the kids my age.

Dick Cavett

When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he perceived enemies, ingeniously rigged up a shotgun in his house, trained on the inside of his front door so as to widely distribute any intruder.

Dennis Lehane

We were supposed to grow old together, Dolores. Have kids. Take walks under old trees. I wanted to watch the lines etch themselves into your flesh and know when each and every one of them appeared. Die together.

Eliza Coupe

I'm a kid from New Hampshire who's pretty normal.

Bobby Heenan

Stu Hart trained all his kids--only three of them use the litter box.

Ben Affleck

I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.

Betty Friedan

I loved my kids. And I loved my house, and I loved a lot of things about my life in the 1950s. But there were a lot like me in that era, very overeducated housewives.

Bill Gates

The first big effects will be farmers that live on the edge. Today's weather, they barely get by. Their kids, a high percentage are malnourished, and so if you impose more variable weather and more heat, you're getting more floods, more droughts, and during the germination time, the high heat, most crops...do poorly when there's more heat.

Bill Gates

Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.

Bill Gates

K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.

Charlie Worsham

No matter what does, or doesn't, happen for me in the music industry, getting to play the Opry as a kid was always be a highlight of mine.

Bob Paisley

The sort of lad I am looking for is a kid who will nutmeg Kevin Keegan in training, then step aside him in the corridor

Blake Shelton

Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.

Our kids do very well. The quality of our school is a reflection of Leo.

Vicki Lawrence

I feel like my life has been very serendipitous and really kind of humorous. Everything that's happened to me has been like an, 'Omigod, are you kidding me?'

Flip Saunders

We'd like to mix our young kids with our veteran players if we can, to have them play with our veterans. But every night, we still want to go out and win.

Imelda May

I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

Wendelin Van Draanen

You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.

Olly Murs

I want to be in a stable relationship and have kids by the time I'm 30.

Dan Mullen

We need to know what kids are reading, what they are saying.

Typically it's a Catch-22. A lot of the adults don't like to come in when the kids are in there.

Adam Young

It's been very humbling and very cool to see [that at] each show I tend to see more and more kids lock onto the new lyrics and every night they start to sing louder and louder and it's just been very exciting.

Usually, when you're one of the better kids in your area, there's a lot of people that try to talk to you.

Dane Cook

I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work with a lot of kids.

Daley Thompson

Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.

Daley Thompson

Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.

Curtis Stone

In my travels, I also noticed that kids in Thailand like spicy food, and kids in India love curry. I'm hoping to introduce my son, Hudson, to lots of veggies and spices when he's young. I say that before he's started on solid foods, so it could be easier in theory than practice!

Dave Eggers

But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia.

David Letterman

The White House has now put together a website for kids. It's a website to teach kids how to manage a budget responsibly. The website is called ' Irony.gov. '

David Garrett

A lot of my colleagues just don't really realize that they have to work in order to get the interest of an audience, especially with young kids, especially because it [classical music] is not that popular. You don't see it on TV, you don't hear it on radio, so you really gotta put an effort into promoting classical music.

Dave Grohl

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

Darrell Issa

Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun shining.

We've been consistently getting kids into the finals, so we're consistently putting up photos.