Famous Quotes & Sayings

Annette Funicello

I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart

Anna Kendrick

My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.

Angela Lansbury

As a kid, I just was a contract player at MGM Studios. They put me into goodness knows how many different roles.Some of them were wonderful and some of them were very just distasteful and awful because I was playing out of my age range and I was thoroughly uncomfortable, let's put it that way. So it took me many years to find my acting feet.

Angela Davis

Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.

Amy Grant

I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else.

Amy Grant

I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God's unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they'll have confidence to persevere in life

Amy Chua

Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.

Amy Chua

Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

Amy Chua

I do think that maybe, even subconsciously, a lot of parents in the West are wondering, have we gone too far in the direction of coddling and protecting - you know, you see kids, sometimes that seem very rude and disrespectful. And the more important thing is they don't seem that happy.

Alonzo Mourning

I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.

Alma Guillermoprieto

For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.

Anna Deavere Smith

I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

Anna Deavere Smith

Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.

Andrew Stanton

I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.

Andrew Stanton

I was that kind of kid that was going to the movies every weekend, I couldnt get enough of the movies, and now I get to make them. So I kind of have a one-track mind.

Andrew Stanton

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

Andrew Solomon

There is a tendency to dehumanize kids that commit crimes. The system is focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation. These kids are the most misunderstood and most cruelly treated.

Andrew Solomon

Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.

Clay Aiken

The message I'll share...is that inclusion is extremely important for kids with and without disabilities.

Claire Danes

I used to have nightmares when I was a little kid that I woke up prematurely and opened all the Christmas presents. And then I would be so relieved when I woke up and I realized that I hadn't done it.

Claire Danes

I got an agent when I was 12, and I started working in more amateur productions well before that. But even as a kid, I never felt like a kid actor, you know? I always took myself kind of absurdly seriously.

Claire Danes

I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.

Claire Danes

I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.

Claire Danes

I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.

Conor Oberst

A kid that picks up a record, he doesn't need to know anything other than the music and have it in his or her headphones. They're getting ideas directly, it's like someone whispering in their ear. That's such a personal way to receive information.

Conor Oberst

The drunk kids, the catholics They're all about the same They're waiting for something Hoping to be saved

Conor Oberst

And me I'm in the bathroom crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man when you're scared, just like a little kid.

Conor Oberst

If there's ever a kid out there that can't afford to buy the music, I still want them to hear it, and hopefully they'll go to the show, or buy a T-shirt from the band. That's the idea.

Clint Eastwood

Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids.

Clint Eastwood

Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?

Clint Eastwood

I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

Clare Balding

I think all kids should have something they feels is theirs.

Danny Strong

I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.