Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Cliff Martinez

If I had kids, I don't think I would recommend they pursue a career in music.

Clifford Stoll

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

Clifford Stoll

What's society going to be like when the kids today are phenomenally good at text messaging and spend a huge amount of on-screen time, but have never gone bowling together?

Dwight Henry

I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'

Dwight Henry

Everything that I do in my life is geared towards my kids and their survival and giving them the best education that I can possibly give them and the best home that I can possibly give them.

Dwight Howard

I've always played 'NBA Live' since I was a kid, so to be on the cover is a blessing.

Dwyane Wade

I'm always telling my kids to be themselves and let their personalities show in other ways than with their mouths.

Dwyane Wade

I always remind my kids that hard work pays off. They see that I take nothing for granted in life. It helps them stay grounded.

Dwyane Wade

I always remind my kids that hard work pays off. That's how I got to where I am right now because of sacrifice and the work I put into it.

Dwyane Wade

I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.

Dwyane Wade

We go through life so fast and we never really get to enjoy moments. It seems like they go past us...Tonight I just wanted to take a minute, a moment and soak it in and be a kid from Robbins Illinois and be a kid from Marquette University.

Courtney Love

How does Macy Gray or Kid Rock not win over Christina Aguilera?

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.

Ansel Elgort

There's going to come a time when maybe I have kids and a wife.

Anthony Hamilton

I have a passion for not only my own kids but just kids in general.

Barbara Lynn

I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I could have stayed in college and still recorded. Isn't that something? The kids of today are doing it.

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

This really was a team effort. The kids weathered the storm and we got some big contributions from the bench. Every one of the kids stepped up. They did a marvelous job.

There are a lot of wonderful young women out here. They're very approachable, and they love it when the younger kids watch them.

Chip Kelly

There are a lot of very, very talented kids out there. It's not just a one-man show.

When you play the No. 1 team in the nation, kids get focused.

There are kids who all they ever wanted to do was get their name on that board. It's a neat tradition. The kids shoot for that.

We always tell them, we want to go out there and make a statement early. The kids did that tonight.

We always say Millis kids are tough kids and we weren't going to back down.

Carine Roitfeld

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

When you don't know David, he can be tough to wrestle against. But there are a lot of tough kids in that weight.