Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're trying to give our young kids an opportunity to play and rest some of the legs of our veterans.

Elle Fanning

I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do.

Clark Gregg

I'm just an actor who happened to love these [Marvel] comics when I was a kid, and got to rediscover them.

Clarence Thomas

When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because of the color of your skin.

Clarence Thomas

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

Colin Greenwood

In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.

Colin Hanks

You learn stuff from your kids, every day.

Dante Hall

Part of my success was having a place to play as a kid.

Dante Alighieri

Well, if the kid screws up, then I'll just have to kick his ass.

Dan Savage

You could fly under the radar a little bit. You could be a weird kid without defaulting to gay, without everyone assuming you must be gay - that was literally the last place many people went.

Dan Savage

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

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.

Dan Savage

Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it’s bad, you’ve never been so miserable, but when it’s good you’ve never been so high.

Dan Savage

When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a kid is odd in a Greensburg, gay or straight, the default assumption is gay.

Dan Fogler

I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

Dan Fogler

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

Dan Fogler

After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.

Dan Gable

The bells are a very good investment. They never break if they are maintained. I can teach the kids the basics. They may play bells for only one year, but many of them go on to play at local churches.

Cynthia Voigt

Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.

Daria Werbowy

When I was a kid, everywhere I went people said I should be a model, but I was more into skateboarding,

Dar Williams

I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.

Daphne Oz

Tell your kids they are perfect the way they are, but they shouldn't stay where they are forever because growing, testing the limits, and evolving make life better and more fulfilling.

Daphne Oz

You can tell your kids they are perfect and don't need to change - which could cause insecurity when they recognize their own shortcomings - or tell them they are terrible, which would undermine their sense of self-worth and confidence. There's a happy middle ground.

Daphne Oz

Don't make a different meal for every person, but make buildable meals. And, I do this with my kids, try to expand their palates gently.

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.

Danielle Steel

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

Danielle Steel

I don't just want to catch some guy and have a bunch of kids. I want to make something of myself.

Danielle Steel

My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

Daniel Libeskind

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

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.

Colson Whitehead

Isn't it great when you're a kid and the world is full of anonymous things? Everything is bright and mysterious until you know what it is called and then all the light goes out of it...Once we knew the name of it, how could we ever come to love it?...For things had true natures, and they hid behind false names, beneath the skin we gave them.

Common

As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights Movement, I realized... I am the hopeful black woman who was denied her right to vote. I am the caring white supporter killed on the front lines of freedom. I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given a bullet. I am the two fallen police officers murdered in the line of duty. 'Selma' has awakened my humanity.

Common

I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given a bullet.