Kids Quotes
Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.
And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.
Fine! I'll throw on some clothes. Turn around. I'm in my pj's" "I'm a guy. That's like asking a kid not to glance at the candy counter.
Now, kids are bulls**t meters. We can smell bulls**t right away. When something's not real, you can't connect to it.
I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.
I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.
Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist.
I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.
When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.
I'd start to sing, and the record would start skipping. You'd be skipping along with it. Those were the days, my friend. We'd look so stupid, but the kids loved it.
I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.
When we look at our children, I think a lot of the troubles we're having as a society is because we don't have strong fathers in these families that can tell their kids that they can do more.
We want to give kids something to hope for. If one kid says, "Your cd helped get me through this year," that's all it takes.
I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.
If we invest in jobs for our kids and do our best to keep them in school, we will end up saving a whole lot of lives and whole lot of money.
There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start.
The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.
I like stirring things up. Im on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I dont get in too much trouble.
I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.
Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?
These Negroes who go for integration and intermarriage are linking up with the very people who lynched their fathers, raped their mothers, and put their kid sisters in the kitchen to scrub floors.
Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.
Incarceration is as useful for addiction as it is for diabetes - i.e., not useful and potentially harmful, particularly for kids.
I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I'd get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.
The big thing I tell my kids is you have to control how you label things. It's very important to me they understand the power they have to create the lives that they want.
There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.
Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.
We should fill the syllabuses of schools with lessons about love and compassion.
When I was a kid watching "The Blues Brothers," I could not think of a better thing than watching 300 cop cars crash into each other.
Since I was eight years old, I went to Trinity. I mean, I listened to Reverend Wright since I was a kid and I always heard him preach sermons of love and inspiration.
The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids.
Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.
Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.
I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.
Kids are always open to anything. It's very rare that a kid isn't extremely eager to make you happy.
Russia has banned all adoptions to Americans. So, if you were hoping to get a little white kid with fetal alcohol syndrome, you're going to have to wait until Lindsay Lohan reproduces.
We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could reintroduce them to a new audience.
Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we’re depriving them of happiness as adults?
By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up.
And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.
If kids really made all the parents better, there wouldn't be crazy kids in the world.
I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have it, okay?