Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Hanks

You learn stuff from your kids, every day.

Dan Savage

If kids got raped at Denny's as often as they get raped at church it would be illegal to take your kids to Denny's.

Daniella Alonso

Ive always loved movies since I was a kid. I loved how they could make me happy, sad, or just show me different parts of the world and people. So when I was about six, I decided that that was what I wanted to do: make movies.

Cormac McCarthy

They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in the sun. What do you want to do? said the kid. Get a drink of water. Other than that. I dont know. You want to try and head back? To Texas? I don't know where else. We'd never make it. Well you say. I aint got no say. He was coughing again. He held his chest with his good hand and sat as if he'd get his breath. What have you got, a cold? I got consumption. Consumption? He nodded. I come out here for my health.

Clifford Stoll

A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.

Colin Mochrie

As a kid I watched television 24 hours a day and loved every minute of it. The two shows that always make me laugh and are therefore my favourites are The Dick Van Dyke Show and Fawlty Towers.

Donna Tartt

Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all. And writers - not just literary writers, but popular writers as well - breathe air into English and keep it lively by making it their own, not by adhering to some style manual that gets handed out to college Freshmen in a composition class.

We have seven very solid kids going. We're going to make some noise.

Carine Roitfeld

When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.

What kids really want to do is become the hero.

There have been some miraculous comebacks. The kids have done everything right.

Louis C. K.

I do feel a lot of times like I'm out of my league with my kids in terms of what my responsibility is.

Louis C. K.

I was an awkward kid.

When big kids get better and they realize it and it clicks, sometimes they take off.

We're young but we have some kids who can do some things. I think 90 percent of it was nerves.

We're trying desperately to do something for the 25 to 30 kids who live here,

We just have a lot of kids out. We're trying to work them all and give them all a chance.

We knew she'd be good, but we didn't know if she'd be ready to play at this level yet. She has proven to be more than ready. I've had so many kids step up, it's just amazing.

We knew our kids wouldn't give up. We had to get a stop at the end and obviously we didn't do it.

We think we've got enough other programs that kids won't suffer for lack of programs.

We were well-prepared tonight, and the kids were ready,

When I was growing up, there was still that narrative of 'you finish school, you go and get married, you become somebody's wife and you get kids and tend to them.' I think it is really important to reach for something.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

When I was fourteen, I was one of those kids who wore all black because it matched everything. Seriously.

David Eckstein

When my sister has the two kids (and) the two of them look like they're going to have the same problem in life, it just is like, 'Yeah, this can end now. But there are so many worse things that could happen.

Kurt Vonnegut

It often is a terrible insult to some families if one of the kids turns out to be an artist and that's one way to really shake up the family if you haven't got nerve enough to turn into a homosexual.

Kurt Vonnegut

We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.

Karch Kiraly

I couldn't be messing around and acting like an 11-year-old if we expected to compete well. I wanted to compete well, because it was great to see the looks in the eyes of men—like, "Wow, I am having a hard time beating this kid."