Top 1200 Two-Year-Old Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

This is a devastating problem, is, the longer our children are in school, the worse they do. Year after year after year, our children in America are falling further behind. Our 3- and 4-year-olds enter kindergarten OK, and they fall further and further behind. Each year, children in other countries are learning more than children in this country. And so the gap between American student performance in Singapore and Finland and South Korea and Canada and these other countries, the gap widens year after year after year.

But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other, two by two, as in combinatorial analysis, that is to say, everyone with all the others, and especially every man with all the women, old maids or married, and every woman with all the men. All I had to do was to select two names at random, better if different sex, and ask a third person, "What happened with those two?" and lo and behold, a splendid story was unfolded for me, since everyone knew the story of everyone else.

'The Notebook' wrecks me! I cry like a 6-year-old girl at the end.

Rookie year you get out there and want to make as many plays as possible, then second year you want to be perfect, and then you kind of find a combination between the two - making a lot of plays and trying to be as perfect as possible.

Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my house. After all the physical activity the summer provided, I craved movement in the cold of winter. I had no skates, so Mom stuffed socks into my brother's old ones.

Christians are like a thirteen year old kid who still believes in Santa.

I was trying my best not to drink. I'd go a day or two, and I just couldn't stand it. It kinda got around that 'Hamilton got religion.' So for about a year, it was the most miserable time of my life because I was secretly still drinking. One night I came home, after about a year of this, and I woke up the next day and the desire was gone.

I think there's still a little bit of that 9 year-old in me and I'm pretty happy.

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.

Number one, we need to get in shape, number two we need to shoot, number three, we need to learn self-defense, and number four, we need to study small-unit tactics... If you do not have 5,000 rounds of .223, 5,000 rounds of .22 and 1,000 rounds of handgun ammo, as a MINIMUM, you're wrong. We need to train our families how to shoot as well. We need to get food. We need to have a year's supply of food, two years supply of seeds, we need to have a year's supply of sundry items. That's what it means to be an American. We prepare for the worst but hope for the best.

I have the humor of a 9-year-old boy, and sometimes I've had laughing fits on-air.

I made a decision as a five-year-old boy that my kids will know who their father is.

There aren't a lot of roles in comedy for women of a certain age to play, especially with a 22-year-old.

I'm an 18-year-old girl, at the end of the day. I'm a human person, and so are the people that I work with.

We used to wrestle every night, 385 times a year. For ten years. 365 days. Never had any holidays off, ever. Holidays were always two-day venues. Two event venues. Afternoon and night.

I don't feel 70. I am still looking out from 14-year-old eyes.

What better job is there for a 17-year-old girl than being in a pop group?

I have stayed away from my family since I was 19-year-old because of my career in music.

All kinds of violence on the TV. You're not supposed to watch violence on the TV. Children, they can't watch it 'cause they're afraid maybe the kids will copy something they see on the TV. I can't even get a funny cartoon anymore because some 12-year-old somewhere watched a particularly violent episode of the Road Runner-Coyote show, and the next day, they found him at the bottom of a canyon, two giant springs strapped to his feet.

We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.

When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.

I actually became a Christian in my rookie year on tour when I was 16 years old.

I would only date a 15 year old high school girl.

Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.

On weekends, I'm chasing my six-year-old girls around the city. That's my cardio!

At the same time that you've got to open yourself up to the fact that experience is going to teach you year after year, decade after decade. I remember I very badly wanted to write a newspaper column when I was only 21 years old, and I went to my editor and told him that, and he said, "You're a really good writer, but you haven't lived long enough to be qualified to live out loud."

The trouble is, the older you get, it's hard to find time to make a film: it's a year to write, a year to get money, a year to make it, a year to edit. It's four years of your life.

When I was thirteen years old, and we had just moved to Germany, I definitely felt I was missing out on normal teenage life. I was watching my old school friends from Canada grow up without me while I was in Germany trying to learn the language and trying to pass each year without failing.

I'd say I'm the best 19-year-old ever, and I still feel that way at 21.

I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color.

I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.

I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old.

I met a girl, and two months after we met I wrote 'Nevermind.' And 'Never Go Back' is actually a song I wrote two or three days after the breakup, after a year and a half. Straight continuation of the story.

I do like two hours of new material every year.

It's fun to play mom. Last I knew I was playing a 17-year-old who graduated.

I decided I wanted to be a musician when I saw the movie 'Amadeus' around 1987. I was five years old, so it was a good time to start piano lessons after seeing Tom Hulce who played Mozart play the harpsichord on his back with his hands crossed. Such a great movie to inspire a five-year-old.

I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal - because I think cinema should come from cinema. I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that's it. I don't know why we should transform them.

Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.

I'm a 50-year-old man. The most I can do these days on a night out is wobble on the spot.

As a 27-year-old, I'm like, 'everything is hard for me. Being young is so difficult.'

My 11-year-old thinks I'm cool because he watches things I've made on YouTube.

Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.

If I was confronted with some 20-year-old American hotshot, I'd hate him.

I'm an educated woman, and I don't believe in marrying off a 15-year-old girl.

Can you giggle while racing for your life and protecting a six-year-old? I can.

I've always thought New Year's Day was an especially American tradition, full of the optimism and hope we're famous for in our daily lives -- an energy and confidence we call the American spirit. Perhaps because we know we control our own destiny, we believe deep down inside that working together we can make each new year better than the old.

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head

The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.

Somebody told me a story where they met a celebrity when they were six years old, and the celebrity was really mean. They still remember that to this day. I never want some 22-year-old in ten years' time to say, 'I met Madelaine Petcsh, and it ruined my idea of celebrities,' so I'm always aware.

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

The idea that I got to be on a team with Trischa Zorn - as a 12-year-old - is wild to me.

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping of the rain; I want him at the shrinking of the tide; The old snows melt from every mountain-side, And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane; But last year's bitter loving must remain Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide! There are a hundred places where I fear To go,--so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, 'There is no memory of him here!' And so stand stricken, so remembering him!

Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate...

I've never had a 12-year-old try to explain to me about groove.

If I can look at a 6-year-old and learn from him, that's life. That's God for me, that's inspiring.

He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.

There's no way to be a 30-year-old band, go on tour, and pretend the nostalgia isn't happening.

When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So that makes me two and a half billion.

I can tell you, young 22-year-old Rob Liefeld was having quite a run.