I’ve come to admire our military kids more than you all will know, because you guys are heroes. And the only way your parents are able to serve is because you guys hold it down, and you do it with maturity beyond your years.

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

I liked watching Rossi, his style, his colours and everything. He was someone I looked up to and until now he is still my only hero. He is the king of motorbikes and most people like Rossi mainly because he comes across as a pretty fun and good character. He is cool and has a good style and look.

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

I just love working with Eminem. He’s just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics – he’s a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can’t think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They’ve got their heads screwed on a lot better.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

Barbra Streisand has accomplished so much, and Dustin Hoffman as well. They are down to earth and approachable. I admire that.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Adults are obsolete children.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I’ve had a crush on him since I was a teenager.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I’m drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.