Glen Campbell Quotes

We lived on the farm, and our mode of transportation was wagon and team. No electricity. I'm the seventh son of 12 kids - eight boys and four girls. Mom and Dad handled that very well. But I wanted to get out.

Glen Campbell

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• Mom
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• The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Great
  • Today
  • Team

• I had a lot of energy, and my mom decided to look for a place where I can spend the energy, because I was jumping on the couch and furniture, and I was jumping on the top of the things in the house.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • House
  • Energy
  • Mom

• I have a great team at WME.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Team
  • Great Team

• Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Today

• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Children
  • Together

• I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Mom

• You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • Man
  • Always
  • Same

• I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Music
  • School
  • Kids

• I don't know why you play a team sport and not be concerned about making your teammates better and helping your team win games. That's the only thing that really matters, and if you're the best player, surely you're going to have some effect on the game's outcome.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Why
  • Game
  • Team

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Mom
  • Mother`s

• My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.

  

  K. Flay
  • Serious
  • Died
  • Inheritance

• My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.'

  

  Oliver North
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mom

• At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Will
  • Point
  • Arm

• I have always been very choosy, but as you grow older, your tolerance for crap becomes less. The role I will do today has to justify the time I take away from my kids and my husband. I love them, spend a lot of time with them and love doing things for them. So to go away for three to six months, I need something equally powerful.

  

  Kajol
  • Time
  • Powerful
  • Husband

• In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Great
  • Dad
  • More

• I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • Kids
  • White

• As children, we all hold on to the myth of omnipotence. Comics are successful because kids identify with superheroes. They'll read a book or watch a TV programme and say, 'I'm that guy.' And that guy is always the one in control.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Children
  • Book
  • Kids

• Everybody always talks about how they can't wait until they turn 18, so they can go out on their own and get their own apartment, and I'm like, 'I want to be with Mom!' I have it good.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Good
  • Want
  • Mom

• I grew up in Alaska, okay? My dad graduated high school and went straight to the mountains. He had $300 and staked a claim. He didn't even have enough to put a title on the land: just had the records that he bought before he moved.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't.

  

  Jon Scieszka
  • May
  • Kids
  • Attention

• The fact is we came back. We gifted 15 points to a good team and were unlucky to lose.

  

  Ian Foster
  • Team
  • Lose
  • Came Back

• We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are: you're an adult, you're supposed to manage, you're supposed to get over it, you're supposed to go on with your life, and you feel like a lost child.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Kids

• Teams can't prepare for me in batting practice. They can't find anyone who throws as slow as I do.

  

  Dave LaPoint
  • Team
  • Practice
  • Batting

• We lived on the farm, and our mode of transportation was wagon and team. No electricity. I'm the seventh son of 12 kids - eight boys and four girls. Mom and Dad handled that very well. But I wanted to get out.

  

  Glen Campbell
  • Kids
  • Team
  • Dad