Little Kid Quotes - Page 8

• I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.

  Herschel Walker

  Kids, Speech, Littles

  "Herschel Walker: 'Tell the World My Truth'" by Bob Woodruff, Jaime Hennessey and James Hill, abcnews.go.com. April 14, 2008.

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• When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete.

  Herschel Walker

  Football, Running, Athlete

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• When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

  Amy Winehouse

  Kids, People, Magic

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• When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

  J. J. Abrams

  Mean, Kids, Feelings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.

  Rob Zombie

  Kids, Hockey, Boston

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• I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out.

  Robert Redford

  Strong, Kids, Air

  “Robert Redford: What I've Learned” by Matthew Belloni, www.esquire.com. August 18, 2014.

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• Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.

  Richard Pryor

  Kids, One Day, Would Be

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• When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.

  Brad Pitt

  Kids, Tulsa, Littles

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• Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Kids, Littles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn't resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me.

  Hugh Jackman

  Kids, Boys, Men

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• I'm just a little kid from Akron.

  LeBron James

  Kids, Littles

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• At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.

  Elton John

  Heart, Kids, Fans

  "A star is reborn". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2004.

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• When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.

  Jason Kidd

  Basketball, Jobs, Kids

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• Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Brother, Book

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• I do feel like I have a direct connection with God for some reason; always have since I was a little kid - I would talk to God, talk to the sky.

  Queen Latifah

  Kids, Sky, Connections

  "Queen Latifah: 'Joyful Noise' Role Brings Her Closer to God". Interview with Kelly Mahan, theboombox.com. January 4, 2012.

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• I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable.

  Moby

  Sleep, Kids, Insomnia

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• I was a very confident little kid.

  Tina Fey

  Kids, Littles

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• Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'

  Viggo Mortensen

  War, Kids, Iran

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• You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It's OK with them. A guy smoking a joint, blowing the smoke into your little kid's face? OK with them. And I'm not exaggerating here. This is exactly what the secular movement stands for.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Kids, Years, Two

  "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2003.

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• I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.

  Rand Paul

  Kids, Littles, Interest

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• But for my own example, I'd never believe one little kid could have so much brains!

  Bill Watterson

  Believe, Kids, Brain

  "The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1992.

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• When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

  Haley Joel Osment

  Kids, Capes, Littles

  "Haley Joel Osment: What I've Learned" by Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

  Barbara Bush

  Strong, Kids, Arms

  "Exclusive Interview: Barbara Bush Sits Down With Greta Van Susteren". "On the Record", www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2006.

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• There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

  Katherine Paterson

  Kids, Littles, Helpful

  Katherine Paterson (2011). “Read for Your Life #18”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Seriously, if you complain about going to a Paris fashion show, you have officially lost all perspective on life as we know it. And I have little kids who are hard to be away from sometimes when school's going back and there are tons of things that you're missing. But you know, there's that great Billie Jean King expression: "Pressure is a privilege." We can all deal.

  Cynthia Leive

  Fashion, Kings, School

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