“I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsShouldYearsWellsChildrenRealDoneStreetsBabyIndustrySixJokesOur ChildrenYour ChildrenEntertainingCircusGypsySix Year Olds Author:Natasha Lyonne
“I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.” KnowsYearsKidsCollegeBabyGrewMomGrew UpRapIceSoccerBroadsGrandparentDemographicsNinjaSoccer Mom Author:Vanilla Ice
“When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!” YearsMadeHomeNextBreakMillionsRecordsSawsHugeBabyMountainPropertySurpriseProfitSellingIceFoxesPalacesTouringMiamiCabinsUtahCobwebsMichael J Fox Author:Vanilla Ice
“I actually had a small kangaroo - and I'm not kidding this time. I was holding a small kangaroo, baby kangaroo ... it was very nice to me this time. Do you know what it did afterward? I gave it some milk, and it just spit it all over me. I was like, Is this a thank-you for just being nice and petting the kangaroo? I got milk all over myself. I guess I deserved that from the story last year.” KnowsYearsStoriesLastsNiceBabyDo You KnowMilkLast YearJust BeingBeing NiceSpitVery NiceKangaroos Author:Caroline Wozniacki
“Some people are so afraid of losing their individuality. Wouldn't it be better for the pig to lose his pig-individuality if he can become God? Yes. But the poor pig does not think so at the time. Which state is my individuality? When I was a baby sprawling on the floor trying to swallow my thumb? Was that the individuality I should be sorry to lose? Fifty years hence I shall look upon this present state and laugh, just as I now look upon the baby state. Which of these individualities shall I keep?” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldTryingYearsLooksDoeStatesLosesPoorLaughingBabyLosingSorryIndividualityLook UpFiftyPigsThumbs Book:Practical Vedanta Philosophy Source: Practical Vedanta Philosophy
“Life's short, so if you're going to spend months doing something, it's gotta be pretty special... But I'm very happy to enter my Baby Jane years, and hopefully segue into the Ruth Gordon years.” IfsYearsSpecialBabyMonthsHopefullyVery HappyJaneMy BabyRuth Author:Winona Ryder
“I can't believe it's been four years now, and from watching that pilot, we really all looked like babies. It's unbelievable just how far everything has come. I'm happier now than I've ever been on the show and in my life. I really owe so much of my happiness to 'Glee.'” YearsBelieveI CanShowsFourBabyFour YearsPilotsUnbelievableGlee Author:Lea Michele
“When people talk about wanting to have children someday, what they really mean is that they want babies. Nobody wants an angry adolescent. Nobody wants an obnoxious seven-year-old trying to wear out dirty words they just learned in school that day. What they really want is cute, adorable babies who love you and need you. The bad stuff is just the price you agree to pay for having the good stuff.” PeopleWantNeedsTryingYearsMeanChildrenSchoolStuffPayLove YouBabyAgreeAngrySevenDirtyCuteSomedaySeven YearsNeed YouReally MeanAdorableObnoxiousDirty WordsBad Stuff Author:Paul Reiser
“After I got divorced, I said to myself, I will never, ever get married again. It was in cement. I went through a really rough twenty-five years, but it happened again. I fell in love. I told her, Baby, I don't want a prenuptial agreement. This is it. Everyone told me I was nuts. Well, my new wife and I are married six years and we get along great. You can make anything work if you're both givers.” IfsWantYearsWellsSaidFiveWifeHappenedBabySixMarriedTwentiesFive YearsAgreementRoughNutsDivorcedGiverTwenty FiveCement Author:Rodney Dangerfield
“Whatever cleaning goes on on the planet, women do 99% of it. But see, women are not as proud of their 99% as men are of our one! We clean something up, we're gonna talk about it all year long. It might be on the news, you don't know. A woman could be out re-paving the driveway. Men actually have enough gall to run out on the porch and go "Hey baby? Man, it's hot as hell out here, ain't it! Look, don't worry about emptyin' that ashtray in the den, I done got it, all right? Did it for you, sweet pea. I'm gonna go take a nap now, all right?"” KnowsMenYearsLooksLongDoneEnoughMightWalksWorryHellPlanetsSweetBabyGoes OnProudNewsHotCleanHeyCleaningNapsPorchPeasDensDrivewayAshtraysPavingSweet Peas Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“I don't consider success doing a show for 30 years; I'm sorry. To me, you're successful when you graduate from something. I did a series, I did a talk show, I did movies, I replaced Mickey Rooney [on Broadway] in "Sugar Babies." You understand?” YearsShowsSuccessSuccessfulBabySeriesSorrySugarGraduatesReplacedI'm SorryBroadwayTalk ShowsMickeyRooney Author:Joey Bishop
“Having a baby, it's like a five year commitment.” YearsFiveBabyCommitmentFive YearsHaving A Baby Author:Chelsea Handler
“[On sister Kim's pregnancy] The new year, we've got another child coming, so that's great. Kim's never had a baby, so it's going to be a beautiful blessing.” YearsChildrenBeautifulBabyBlessingPregnancyNew YearKim Author:Rob Kardashian
“I'm on this planet for another forty years at the most and I got a baby and a wife and I'm worried about their future and that kind of fear, that anger is spilling into my lyrics, I can't just sit back and talk about myself until I'm dead.” YearsKindI CanWifePlanetsBabyWorriedFortySpilling Author:Richard Patrick
“I just had a baby girl. My daughter weighed 27 pounds. She was 3 years old. She was delivered to me by way of the court system and a blood test.” WayYearsGirlBloodBabyDaughterTestsCourtPoundsMy DaughterBaby GirlCourt SystemBlood Tests Author:Donnell Rawlings
“My dad plays the fiddle. He stopped playing for years. He was playing when I was a baby, and then he stopped for about five years, or ten years, he says. Then all of a sudden he started playing again, and we all got interested. We started having people like Ciarán Tourish coming up to the house, and Dinny McLaughlin, who taught Ciarán, and who taught myself as well. And it just grew from that” PeopleYearsWellsPlayHouseFiveTaughtBabyGrewDadTenMy DadFive YearsFiddle Author:Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh
“Hanoi Rocks was our baby and we were the core and we started the band. All those years that went to waste because of that accident, it's only right that we have some kind of advantage because it's our history. The name 'Hanoi Rocks' I think is one of the very best names, if not the best name of all rock n' roll bands.” IfsThinkingYearsKindNamesRocksBabyBandWasteAdvantageAccidentsCoreRock N RollHanoi Author:Michael Monroe
“A lot of sad things have happened to my friends' children, people you knew as babies. They've been killed or become crazy or all kinds of tragic things. There are some people whose children haven't talked to them in fifteen years. There's all kind of meshugaas in this world.” PeopleWorldYearsKindChildrenHappenedCrazyHavensThis WorldBabyMy FriendsAll KindsTragicFifteenFifteen YearsSad Things Author:Grace Paley
“My mum and dad ran a family cafe in Sligo for 35 years and worked long hours. We grew up in a very hard-working family and had a lovely atmosphere, as we lived above the restaurant. It definitely made me want to work hard, whatever I chose to do. As the baby of seven kids, I was definitely a bit spoilt.” WantYearsLongMadeHardKidsBitsHoursHard WorkBabyGrewDadGrew UpSevenLovelyAtmosphereRanRestaurantsMumCafesLong HoursMum And DadSpoilt Author:Shane Filan
“I have a '68 Mustang, which is my baby. I've had her for about six years, which is kind of a miracle, considering how many times she's been stolen.” YearsKindBabySixMiracleConsideringStolenMy BabyMustang Author:Amber Heard
“I was 19 when I recorded my first album, and I've been exposed to many things during these last few years; all the baby fat is gone.” YearsFirstsLastsGoneBabyAlbumsFatsExposed Author:Lykke Li
“The baby boomers are out there, they've had a lot of good years of earnings, they've inherited wealth. They are buying trophy homes and will be for years. We are one of those places people dream of. They come here to buy a piece of that dream.” PeopleYearsHomeDreamWealthPiecesBabyBuyingEarningTrophiesBoomersBaby BoomerGood YearsInherited Wealth Author:Frank Lloyd Wright
“One day, a pretty, fresh-faced young lady - intelligent and sincerely concerned - asked me if abortion wasn't preferable to making a young, unmarried girl have a baby she didn't want and which would, therefore, grow up unloved and probably turn out to be a criminal. I gave an answer which apparently she hadn't considered. I told her there were literally millions of people in this country who wanted but could not have children and who waited eagerly, sometimes for years, to adopt the baby she had described.” PeopleIfsWantYearsChildrenCountrySometimesWantedYoungTurnsGirlGrowsAnswersMillionsGrowing UpBabyOne DayConcernedIntelligentCriminalsAbortionSincerelyUnlovedUnmarriedYoung Ladies Author:Ronald Reagan
“I'll say this again: Her presence would be the best Mother's Day gift I could ever ask for. I know Kate Siegel a big bestselling author now, but I was sliced, no, ripped open from my boobs down to my baby cannon to bring her into this world, all but bathed in her puke for years, and acted as her own personal chauffeur for the first sixteen years of her life.” KnowsWorldYearsFirstsBigsWould BeMotherAsksThis WorldBabyBeing The BestMothers DayKateSixteenRippedMy BabyCannonsBest MotherPukeChauffeurs Author:Kate Siegel
“We go from Malachi to Matthew in one page of our scriptures, but that one piece of paper that separates the Old Testament from the New Testament represents 400 years of history - 400 years where there wasn't a prophet, 400 years where God's voice wasn't heard. And that silence was broken with the cry of a baby on Christmas night.” YearsNightVoiceSilencePiecesHeardCryBrokenBabyPaperPagesScriptureProphetTestamentNew TestamentOld TestamentOne PieceMatthew Author:Louie Giglio
“Having done television for almost 20 years now, a pilot is kind of like a rough draft. It's like bringing people into your ultrasound and hooking up to the monitor and going, "Isn't my baby beautiful?" "Yeah. I can only see the outline of it, but it looks like it might be."” PeopleYearsLooksKindI CanDoneMightBeautifulTelevisionBabyYeahRoughPilotsOutlinesMy BabyRough DraftsUltrasounds Author:Matt Bomer
“I was more intrigued by the relationship [in Felicity]; the idea of these two teenagers who were placed together. What would that be like, and what would it be like to watch that unravel. Living together, and having babies with somebody, missing out on your whole childhood, and then spending all these years with someone. I was more intrigued by that.” YearsTwoIdeasWholeTogetherWatchesChildhoodMissingBabySpendingTeenagerIntriguedFelicityHaving A BabyLiving TogetherMissing Out Author:Keri Russell
“The majority of Latinos in this country are 28 years old or younger. All of those people out there attacking the Latino community, when you see a Latino going down the street with a baby carriage and a couple of children walking beside them, they should say 'Hey, there goes my social security and my Medicare.' Those are the people that are going to contribute to keep our social security system funded and our medical system funded.” PeopleShouldYearsChildrenCountrySocialCommunityStreetsSecurityBabyCoupleWalkingMajorityMedicalHeySocial SecurityAttackingLatinoMedicareCarriagesSecurity Systems Author:Dolores Huerta
“I, 100 percent don't think that's where the American people at, because when there's viral pictures as a baby is in Aleppo with, you know, rubble all over them going viral, and then there are celebrities tweeting why haven't we done nothing about this? And like, oh, there are actually many people for years who've been trying to send aid then and this president won't let us.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingYearsDonePresidentHavensBabyPercentAidsRubbleViral Author:John McCain
“Can a controlled experiment explain why people like Kewpie dolls in one year, Beanie Babies in another, and American Girl dolls this year? Yet social scientists are asked to answer analogous questions. We economists and perhaps psychologists shouldn't overreact to the derision. That is, we shouldn't try to overlay a false sense of precision on our admittedly squooshy work.” PeopleTryingYearsGirlSocialAnswersBabyScientistExperimentsControlledEconomistDollsPsychologistPrecisionDerision Author:Robert J. Shiller
“In Calcutta alone, we have given more than 1,000 children in adoption. I cannot calculate how many babies we get a year. But we never refuse anybody. Everybody is most welcome.” YearsChildrenGivenBabyRefuseWelcomeAdoptionCalcutta Author:Mother Teresa
“Very often mothers go to work right away after the child is born and, unless the father or someone else stays home, this is quite serious. A baby has to be near its kin most of the time when he is little for three, four or five years. To give him this grounding, this feeling of connection, this feeling of relationship, is the most important thing.” GivingYearsChildrenLittlesImportantFeelingsHomeMotherThreeFatherBornFiveFourSeriousBabyConnectionsImportant ThingsFive YearsGrounding Author:Laura Huxley
“When you ask single men in their 20s, "Do you want children?" they want children more than women do. Again, economics drive this. If you're a 29-year-old woman, having a baby is going to seriously blow up your career. If you're a 29-year-old man, it isn't.” IfsMenWantYearsChildrenAsksCareersBabyEconomicsBlowOld ManOld WomanHaving A BabySingle Man Author:Stephen Marche
“Not so much anymore but some years ago in my homeland there was a habit, something called 'casamiento de apuro,' a marriage in haste because the baby is coming and to cover socially the honor of the family. There, they weren't free and it happened many times this marriage is null. As a bishop I forbade my priests to do this.” YearsHappenedBabyHabitHonorYears AgoPriestsHomelandHasteBishopsNull Author:Pope Francis
“Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be passed on. A 20-year-old man and woman will each pass on about 20 de novo mutations to a baby they conceive. By the time the couple is 40, a woman's total has remained at 20, while a man's has jumped to 65 - and it keeps climbing from there.” MenYearsOpportunityBabyCoupleMen And WomenOld ManClimbingMutationTyposGenetic Mutation Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward your goal, whatever it is, whether it's giving up something, a terrible addiction or trying to work your way through an illness. When you total up those baby steps you'd be amazed over the course of 10 years, the strides you've taken.” IfsWayGivingTryingYearsLittlesLife IsCoursesGoalStepsTakenBabyTerribleGiving UpAddSeriesAddictionIllnessTinyAmazedStrideBaby Steps Author:Hoda Kotb
“If I ran into a 19-year-old version of myself, I'd just tell her to live, full out. I might also tell her to go ahead and have a few babies and not worry about the timing of it.” IfsYearsMightWorryBabyVersionsRanTiming Author:Queen Latifah
“I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.'” YearsBabyHipsAdopting Author:Tyra Banks
“It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a child into your life who is not genetically yours is one of the most beautiful things you can do. But I'm also interested in having my own baby, too.” WantYearsChildrenSaidBeautifulCan DoMy OwnBabyYears AgoHopsBeautiful ThingsGmosBandwagon Author:Tyra Banks
“I'm very comfortable in Argentina. I was raised there as a baby and stayed there until I was 11 years old, so the first decade of my life or my formative years were spent in Argentina. I stayed in tune with the food, music and language.” YearsFirstsLanguageBabyComfortableRaisedDecadesTunesArgentinaFormative Years Author:Viggo Mortensen
“I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.” YearsChildrenStillsParentBloodBrotherBabyDadDiedSevenRelatedPilotsAdoptedCousinSeven YearsAirlineMy CousinAirline PilotsBrother Died Author:Gary Numan
“I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.” IfsWantYearsFirstsTwoMotherValuesMistakeMoralTeachBabyDaughterTwo DaughtersValues And Morals Author:Barack Obama
“You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.” PeopleYearsFirstsLooksLittlesTwoShowsYoungGirlBoysSeeingBabyFirst TimeEnjoyedTwo YearsCowboyBoy And GirlAnnie Author:Bernadette Peters
“My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.” YearsKidsCuttingDogBabyBirthParentingMotherhoodDumbMemorableCordsLeashesBaby BoyObstetricians Author:Joan Rivers
“People talk about this Julia Roberts almost like it's a cup of Pepsi. People think Julia Roberts is something they created. The fact is, 26 years ago, there was this scrunched-up little pink baby named Julia Roberts. I am a girl, like anybody else.” PeopleThinkingYearsLittlesFactsGirlBabyYears AgoCupsJuliaPepsi Author:Julia Roberts
“For right now, it really is the end. Hopefully in 10 years we'll all be married and have babies.” YearsEndsBabyRight NowMarriedHopefullyBeing Married Author:Kelly Rowland
“I do sing in the car. I actually sing Britney Spears songs in the car - me and a close friend of mine. She lives in West Palm and I live in Miami, and when we're going back and forth to see each other, we sing: 'Oh, Baby Baby.' We sing all these 1990s songs. We're like two 14-year-old kids just having a good time.” YearsTwoKidsSongCarMinesBabyWestGood TimesPalmsBack And ForthHaving A Good TimeMiamiSpearsClose Friends Author:Kelly Rowland
“Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.” YearsChildrenMightTroubleBabyYears AgoCanadaRestrictionSuggesting Author:Maurice Strong
“A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.” YearsChildrenDoeHappinessThreeFunBoysBabySixFindingsGreenDollarsParentingFiftyThree YearsSwingsWormsHaving KidsFunny ParentingBaby BoyThree Year Olds Author:Bill Vaughan
“I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by [Elia] Kazan and was called Baby Doll.” YearsFirstsFilmNextWifeWrittenBabyMetsTenMy WifeDollsTennessee Author:Eli Wallach