Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Millions of Mexicans leave their kids in order to take care of other kids. That's a very painful thing.

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

Me and my husband, we got all this paper, we got all the information. We took me and my kids and we go to Milwaukee.

Andrew Marr

My kids wouldn't dream of buying a newspaper - and we are a newspaper household.

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.

That was really big. The kids realized Zach wasn't there and they stepped up.

George Muller

That's what it's going to take - veterans groups, veterans and mothers who have lost kids speaking out.

Morris Chestnut

I would never want any of my kids to go into this industry; not until they are old enough to understand and if this is something that they really want to do.

John Brady

Most of that occurred before these kids were even born.

I think she really raised our expectations for little kids at Warren over the years. She's raised the bar, but still let the kids be children.

We must make sure that there is recess and P.E. class in every school, getting kids outside for 60 minutes, every day.

Slick Rick

I think kids can learn from some of my mistakes.

Jay Leno

That American Taliban kid Johnny Walker was indicted today. Ten counts of terrorism. He could get 5 life sentences. In Taliban terms, that's 360 virgins.

Jay Leno

This Osama bin Laden guy, spoiled rich kid worth $300M. I have three words for this guy: Anna Nicole Smith. We send her over there, she'll get his money, he'll be dead in a week.

Jay Leno

More details coming out about Michael Jackson. It seems his 13-year-old accuser testified before a grand jury that Michael had seven locks on his bedroom door. See, what happened was whenever Michael would install one lock, the kid would grow an inch taller, and he'd have to put in another one, and then another one, and then another one.

Burleigh Grimes

One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.

Janet Fitch

The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story. Sometimes we try to protect them from getting booboos that are too big. Don’t. This is your protagonist, not your kid.

Ethan Hawke

Emma Watson is my kids' favorite actor on the planet. They never took me more seriously than when I was working with her.

Freddie Hubbard

I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself.

Chris Hemsworth

As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.

Gerard Way

The difference we wanna make is number one to let these kids know that they’re not alone, that they’re actually not that messed up and that they can do whatever they want; they can express themselves however they want, without being persecuted or called a faggot or some kind of racist thing. You know, really just to get people to get over their stuff so they can live.

Jessica Hagedorn

There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.