Kids Quotes

My kids are in front of the computer 247 despite having all the parental control. There is no way to stop the flow of information. The flow of information is too fast and too much.

People always say 'They [teens] need a good talking to.' I've never agreed with that. A kid needs a good listening to.

One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.

I can take $15,000 a year and raise kids on that. Later, they'll figure out I've got millions, but hopefully they'll have the values to say, 'So what?

I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable.

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

As a kid, I can't remember having anything to play with except a loose tooth. And that wasn't mine. It was my brother's.

I never got into fights with kids about whose dad is bigger and who can beat up who. What am I going to say? My dad can kill your dad when he's asleep?

I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.

I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.

If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for Iron Giant, and I'm not even on the screen.

[Kid] never learned to read in kindergarten, first, and second, so in third grade he begins to be placed in the EMH or the learning-disabled rooms.

Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.

Nobody's born rotten. You just don't have bad kids. It's not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad.

I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.

It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.

I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.

I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.

These are 8- and 12-year-old kids. It doesn't matter how they got here. It is time to show a little compassion

The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.

Kids are dying from diarrhea ... that just shouldn't be in this day and age, and it's that kind of thing that needs to be changed. Enough is enough

I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.

I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.

I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.

Kid, you'll move mountains.

As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.

I demand my kids be respectful, responsible and grateful. And they have to love the Lord with all their hearts.

My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much.

George Lucas puts those types of characters in for the kids. Same with Jar Jar.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action.

I may be even more grateful to George Lucas now than I was as a kid.

All the selling out talk is really overrated, the funny thing is it hardly ever comes from bands, it comes from some kid who thinks they're so punk because they have a purple mohawk

When I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles.

All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.

I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too.

When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were a lot of them and they actually never spoke to each other.

And one thing I can be proud of is we have a 'Come and Try Fishing' day every year. And there's 20 venues throughout the state, and see, these thousands of kids who've never been fishing come along.

That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.

I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

The minute you walk through the door and your kid runs into your arms, you're smacked in the face with a dose of reality: It's like, this is my real life.

Kids are natural little outdoor people. It is we, the adults, who turn them into indoor people. If you don't get of fyour computer, why should they?

Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career.

In my perfect world, Hanna and Caleb would get married in Paris and have six kids and she's the new Anna Wintour. Just because I'm such a Haleb fan.

Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!

If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid.