Famous Quotes & Sayings

Markus Zusak

She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren’t there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away, despite her love for them. I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.

Johnny Depp

Luckily the kids are pretty well-balanced and well-grounded and not monster-like at all.

When vastly wealthy people say, 'I'm not leaving my kids any money,' it's typically not true.

Alexandra Adornetto

I hope the two of you will descend from your love bubble long enough to learn something today," he sniped cuttingly and the other kids snickered. Embarrassed, I ducked my head to avoid eye contact with them. "It's all right, sir," Xavier replied. "The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it.

If we had a magic wand, every school would be where parents want to send kids and kids want to go. Pragmatically, we need to phase it in.

Jerry Spinelli

Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds.

Jerry Seinfeld

Boy, I miss the days they made toys that could kill a kid.

Jeff Kinney

I think humor is key [to a successful middle-grade novel]. Kids like to read for entertainment, and the best way to entertain kids is to make them laugh.

Jennifer Lopez

My main priority now is that my kids are happy; that's my number-one focus in life. Are these little people happy, content, and getting everything they need? Everything after that is secondary. Before, my work was my main priority -- even above myself.

Jeff Foxworthy

You might be a redneck if you were shooting pool when your kids were born.

Jacqueline Carey

What's the point of being a grown-up if you can't indulge the kid inside you every now and then?

Gary Carter

That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.

Hillary Clinton

What I want to do is make sure middle class kids, not Donald Trump's kids, get to be able to afford college.

Hillary Clinton

You know, the vibrancy of the black church, the black businesses that employ so many people, the opportunities that so many families are working to provide for their kids. There's a lot that we should be proud of and we should be supporting and lifting up.

Faith Prince

I just love kids. I always have.

Frances O'Grady

I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.

Christiane Amanpour

Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true.

Jewel

Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew.

Jeff Bridges

I've worked with a lot of kids, and when you're working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work.

Jean Reno

No women no kids - that's the rules.

George Burns

When they saw me walking down the street smoking a cigar, they'd say, 'Hey, that 14-year-old kid may be going places.' Of course it's also a good prop on the stage ... When you can't think of what you're supposed to say next, you can puff on your cigar until you think of your next line.

The toughest thing about raising kids is convincing them that you have seniority.

Eric Clapton

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

But I think it's really significant. First of all, as a reminder to American kids and the public at large that kids everywhere, especially in Afghanistan, really need help.

Guy Ritchie

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

Greg Giraldo

Look at Thomas Jefferson. The guy had illegitimate kids in the 1700s, and they caught him last year. If you cheat on your wife and cover it up for 200 years, you're pretty much thinking you're home free.

Gwen Stefani

I've always worked really hard, and the hardest thing I've ever done is have kids!

J. J. Abrams

When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.

Jack Black

I took a year of karate. It was like obligatory ¬ - every kid was taking like one year of karate and one year of piano in my town. It was Bruce Lee and Liberace. But I was not a white belt. I graduated. I had a colour belt - but that's all you need to know. It could have been black, it could have been yellow, or it could have been anything in between.

Jack Black

When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.

Momentum is everything to these kids. You see kids lose matches in the semifinals and not win another one.

Last week there were a series of things that went wrong for us. I know there were a lot of people concerned, but our kids stepped up tonight.

People need to remember what a successful season we had. The kids did great.