Best groups & kids Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along with most players of my generation, I have a real affection for the music of 'Horace Silver.”

Thinking Firsts Real Kids Player Generations Heard Groups Jazz Affection Silver My Generation Back When

Author:David Sanborn

“One kid said to me, he said, Mr. Lloyd, we really owe you. And I explained to him, man, you owe me absolutely nothing. I said, whatever kind of career I had, it has served me well, but you do owe some people. And the people you owe are the folks who are going to come behind you. It's incumbent upon each watch — when you play your 10, 11 years and you're in your group — when you leave, I truly hope that you've done all you can possibly do to leave it a better place for the folks who come behind you.”

People Men Years Wells Kind Said Done Play Kids Behinds Careers Watches Groups Folks Better Place Behind You Absolutely Nothing Incumbents

Author:Earl Lloyd

“It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.”

Stills Different Shows Kids Enjoy Laughing Groups

Author:Scott Putesky

“I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.”

Kids School Groups Public School

Book:That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

Source: That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

“I think horror movies are still - this can be said of all movies - but being with a group of people scared together is more and more something unusual and fun. Especially for kids who are going out less generally.”

People Thinking Said Stills Kids Together Fun Groups Horror Scared Unusual Going Out

Author:Jason Blum

“I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.”

Years Kids Groups Team Worst Swim Pool Inspirational Team Swim Team

Author:Lance Armstrong

“Wasn't it thrilling when the U.S. Women's team took home the gold in gymnastics? A group of American teenagers getting a higher score than Chinese kids? That never happens.”

Home Happens Kids Funny Groups Team Higher Gold Chinese Teenager Score Olympics Thrilling Gymnastics London Olympics

Author:Jay Leno

“I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.”

Writing Book Ideas Different Kids Age Young Groups Adults Teenager Range Different Ideas

Author:Catherine Jinks

“If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.”

Ifs Looks Littles Two Moments Kids Force Animal Groups Little Kid Wild Animal

Author:Dominic Monaghan

“I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.”

Kind Kids School Bits Acting Groups Insecurity Halls Circus Uneducated Educated And Uneducated Music Hall

Author:Rupert Graves

“I was always the kid at the side of the playground, looking at the other kids. I didn't know how to get into the group. I was quiet and bookish, a bit of a geek. I was into orienteering when my friends were out clubbing.”

Knows Kids Bits Sides Know How Groups Quiet My Friends Geek Playgrounds

Author:Richard Coyle

“Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.”

Ifs Giving Years Hard Problem Running Kids Given Groups Minutes Giving Up Tests Math Seconds Given Up Math Problems

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“I can have a song with Ariana Grande that is going to be the song for all the kids and the teen girls, and then another song that could be for a different group of people who all love the song. Im with whoever. Whatever type of people want to love the music and whatever they love about the music is fine with me.”

People Want I Can Different Kids Song Girl Groups Fine Type Music Is

Author:Mac Miller

“As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always played up against older age groups.”

Kids Age Wanted Player Groups Tennis Academy Tennis Player

Author:Matt Kuchar

“if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.”

Ifs Kids Four Groups Claims Faults Terror Soccer Gaza Wednesday Hamas Playing Soccer Kids Playing

Author:Naftali Bennett

“So it would be a good thing for Chinese parents to instill enthusiasm among their kids for football. It's a great game, not only regarding the emotions behind it, but it's also a game for young people to gain experience of working in a bigger group and work to achieve goals.”

People Would Be Kids Young Games Parent Goal Emotion Behinds Groups Achieve Football Gains Bigger Good Things Enthusiasm Chinese Instill Achieving Goals

Author:Berti Vogts

“My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one.”

Thinking Kids Christian Leadership Church Groups Supposed To Be Small Groups

Author:Andy Stanley

“Any kind of dictatorship, I'm uneasy. I just don't like dictators. I don't like crowds. I don't like hordes, and I don't like other people telling me what to do. This is probably a reaction against people telling me what to do when I was a kid. I won't join any group, espouse a cause against some other people.”

People Kind Kids Causes Groups Crowds Reactions Dictatorship Dictator Uneasy Horde

Author:Frank Capra

“People go through different stages of their lives at different times. If you're out of sync with your friend group, that gets exploded once everyone starts having kids because they just have to deal with different stuff that you don't really relate to.”

People Ifs Different Kids Stuff Deals Groups Stage Relate Different Times Having Kids Sync

Author:Jon Hamm

“All my friends were black and Mexican. I was the only white kid in our group and had to work hard to be accepted. Year after year, we'd breakdance and we all became close and they labeled me "Vanilla" - like "Hey, Vanilla" and they knew I hated it, so of course they kept calling me it.”

Years Hard Kids Courses Black White Groups Hard Work Calling My Friends Accepted Hey Hated Mexican Vanilla

Author:Vanilla Ice

“In the culture of America, in a free culture, you get what you celebrate. And in this culture, we have two obsessions, become a group that becomes a group that celebrates sports heroes and entertainment heroes. There's no room left for kids to see even a little bit of the opportunities to really, really get excited about becoming an inventor, an engineer, or a scientist, a problem solver.”

“I've been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months. The funny thing is that I actually took classes from Savion Glover, who worked in Happy Feet, when I was a kid. Isn't that wild? I was part of a selected group that was brought into New York from New Jersey (which is where I'm from) to study, every Saturday: ballet, jazz and tap. It was a musical comedy group.”

Kids Used Bits Class Study Comedy Groups Feet New York Months Couple Right Now Dancing Jazz Musical Used To Be Ballet Saturday Brushes Jersey Funny Things Selected New Jersey Happy Feet

Author:Brittany Murphy

“I am an author-illustrator of children's books - and yet - I must confess I don't do the books for the kids. When I'm working on a book I'm somewhere else - at the circus - or a rustic old farm - or deep in a forest - with no thought of who might read the book or what age group it would appeal to. I write them so I can illustrate them.”

Writing Children I Can Book Might Kids Age Groups Forests Appeals Farms Somewhere Else Circus Children's Books Illustrators Rustic

Author:Bill Peet

“Administrators tend to lump Asians in Chicago into one group, not understanding that these kids would be fighting each other, the Cambodians and the Vietnamese. We started a thing called cultural gift sharing, where everyone comes and says what his culture is, so the teachers and the administrators could understand they are different.”

Different Would Be Kids Culture Fighting Understanding Teacher Groups Chicago Lumps Vietnamese Administrators Fighting Each Other

Author:Malik Yusef

“When I was a kid I started a baseball team. I was a terrible player, but I put together a group of neighborhood kids. I started a hockey team. I put the kids together and got a sponsor. So I can always kind of organize people and get things done.”

People Kind I Can Done Kids Together Player Groups Team Terrible Baseball Neighborhood Hockey Organize Things Done Sponsors Baseball Team Hockey Team

Author:Jerry Bruckheimer

“I am going to name a group of my kids after my favorite cartoons, I am going to name them after Transformers.”

Kids Names Groups My Favorite Cartoon

Author:Dane Cook

“I was very healthy from a young age. I was always known as the healthy kid in my group of friends. My mom had us drink barley-grass powder, and I've taken vitamins and fish oil and multivitamins since I was a kid. My mom just had me doing that for a long, long time. And I enjoy eating healthy. It's not a chore to me to eat healthy food.”

“From the time I was a kid, I'd never joined groups. I hated high school groups. I hung out with hippies, musical people. I hung out with whomever I found compelling and interesting and smart. And I continued to do that throughout my life.”

People Kids School Found Interesting Groups Smart High School Musical Hated Compelling Hung Hippie

Author:Sandra Bernhard

“President Obama told a group of school children that broccoli was his favorite food, and they believed him. Then he told them Obamacare would reduce the deficit and the kids all busted out laughing.”

Children Kids School President Laughing Groups President Obama Deficit Obamacare Busted Broccoli Favorite Foods

Author:Jay Leno

“The New Romantic scene was so tiny. Although it got lots of mileage in the media, it was a really small club with only a core group of people. As it got more popular, kids started to come from the suburbs all dressed up, but it -really wasn't as big as it looked.”

People Bigs Kids Groups Media Scene Clubs Tiny Core Suburbs Dressed Up Mileage

Author:Boy George

“Today it feels as if rock'n'roll has sort of turned in on its self, kids are 'rockin' to the same groups their parents do/did. We've seen it recently with The Stone Roses reunion shows, quite unique but is it healthy. Wasn't the 60's about rebelling against the tastes of your parents?”

Ifs Feels Self Shows Kids Today Parent Groups Rocks Healthy Taste Unique Stones Rose Rock N Roll Reunion

Author:Andrew Loog Oldham

“It's the fault of the chess players themselves. I don't know what they used to be, but now they're not the most gentlemanly group. When it was a game played by the aristocrats it had more like you know dignity to it. When they used to have the clubs, like no women were allowed and everybody went in dressed in a suit, a tie, like gentlemen, you know. Now, kids come running in their sneakers. Even in the best chess club-and they got women in there. It's a social place and people are making noise, it's a madhouse.”

People Knows Running Kids Used Games Social Player Groups Like You Dignity Faults Clubs Chess Noise Used To Be Suits Ties Gentleman Sneakers Chess Players Madhouses Gentlemanly

Author:Bobby Fischer

“My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.”

Knows Kids Guy Groups College Grew Dad Republican Grew Up Labor Horse Democratic Democrat My Dad Jew Lawyer Immigrants Bubbles Hippie Hardworking

Author:David Mamet

“And me having kids, with my family history? My mom: mentally ill, shot and killed her last husband. My father: six ex-wives, four heart attacks. Both of my parents think alcohol is a food group.”

Thinking Heart Kids Lasts Father Parent Four Wife Groups Mom Husband Six Shots My Family Ill My Mom Alcohol Exes Family History Heart Attack Mentally Ill Having Kids Ex Wife

Author:Christopher Titus

“We don't give federal grants to tobacco companies to teach students 'low-risk' forms of smoking on the grounds that 'kids are going to smoke anyway.' We shouldn't be giving federal grants to groups that sell contraception, to teach kids to use contraception.”

Giving Use Kids Form Company Teach Risk Groups Students Lows Sells Smoke Smoking Grants Tobacco Contraception

Author:Jennifer Morse

“One time I was doing a speech to a group of kids, and just before I get there, I see this little kid crying. I found out they just lost a game, and he was the losing pitcher. I went over there, put my arm around him, and said, 'What are you crying for? When major league players lose, they don't cry.'”

Littles Said Kids Found Games Lost Loses Player Groups Cry Arms Speech Majors Losing League One Time Little Kid Pitcher Major League

Author:Tommy Lasorda

“Emerson, Lake & Palmer or King Crimson or Gentle Giant - the worst prog rock references I can come up with. Though I totally loved those groups as a kid.”

I Can Kids Groups Worst Rocks Kings Come Up Gentle Giants Lakes Crimson King Crimson

Author:Duncan Sheik

“Now that I'm in my 40s, it's much easier to be an artist. It's good knowing that I'm not in the game to be competing with really young groups of kids on the radio. Or to, you know, make 'beat' music.”

Knows Kids Young Artist Games Knowing Groups Easier Beats Radio Competing

Author:Sheryl Crow

“My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther.”

Two Kids Mother Black Dark Groups Hair Black Women No Love Single Mother Panthers Short Hair Black Panther Dark Skinned

Author:Tupac Shakur

Groups Quotes

Related topics

Groups Quotes