Kids Quotes

I remember as a kid watching TV and seeing Mel Blanc doing his voices and Paul Winchell doing his ventriloquism and thinking, 'Those guys are having a good time. I want to do that.'

When you are a kid, you need to have something to do. This will keep you off the streets.

I love stories about teachers. For some reason I can't get enough of those kind of stories. If I turn a movie on about a teacher, I love it. I love that idea of an adult influence on kids.

Backstreet Boys fans don't want to hear the New Kids singing all of their hits. Just like our fans don't want to hear the Backstreet Boys singing all of our hits.

I always have been introspective, since I was a little kid, since I could remember, I was sitting in a closet trying to write out the meaning of the universe. That's been my whole life.

I am very fortunate I can send my kids to private school, but everybody does not have the money. If you cannot get your kid in a good school today, your kids are going to be behind the eight ball.

Ever since I was a kid I've always loved history. I think that kind of catapulted things, but I would say the two major factors were maybe 9/11 and the election of Barack Obama.

I attribute being a good center fielder to many things, but being outside with friends as a kid, running around and racing, that was a big part of it.

Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that.

I go through life like a Karate Kid.

I was a strange kid. I'm still strange. People didn't get me. And I didn't expect them to.

My kids are athletic, but they don't run.

I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs.

I started out in a kid’s backyard playing touch football and I never abandoned the principle when I got to the pros: if they can’t touch you, they can’t tackle you.

When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.

You might be a redneck if you keep a fly swatter in the front seat of the car so you can reach your kids in the back seat of the car.

It'll be kids next. I like the grown-up stuff. I like having a house. I've got dogs.

Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.

Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.

I was never one of those kids that felt like I had to go to practice or that I was being made to go to practice or forced to play the game. Baseball was a natural fit for me.

Got a wife and kid in Baltimore Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back. Like a river that don't know where it's flowing, I took a wrong turn and I just kept going.

When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'

All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll?

It's very irresponsible as a parent to follow Tipper Gore or the Religious Right's advice and just take the offending CD or game away from the kid without discussing it.

A big sister who cries over being human over you. A gravelly voiced kid who's friends left him over you. And a pink-haired girl who keeps your picture in her wallet.

If we don't teach kids how to be alone, they will end up only lonely.

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

Kids are so dynamic; if you're tired and you walk into a roomful of kids, your energy is brought up to their level.

Disadvantaged kids many times don't have the support network that we all have. I know how important my parents were in my life and many of these kids don't have that support network.

I would let my kids watch this stuff way before I'd let them watch something like 'Full House' that I think would make them stupid.

I'm ready to be an action figure. I'd love that very much. And all the redheaded kids will get to go out and feel loved and be able to buy a redheaded action figure.

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.

[Hillary Clinton] is going to decide war, peace, and health, education, livelihood for my kids. I want the best person.

He made me mess the song up when I looked at him... We can show the kids the tape and say, "Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other."

I lived my life as a - as a part-white, part-black but then sometimes-Jewish kid.

Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . . . The bottomline is that good kids don't suddenly go bad in adolescence.

So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.

To have kids and not be there every night is tough.

Keep at least one window pane clean to check the weather. Once when I didn't do this I sent the kids off with umbrellas for six weeks straight.

You know what I like to do? I love waking up early, making them breakfast, taking them to school, having time in the morning with them. With six kids, it's like a reality show.

Trust me, kids - your homework can wait. Don't need to be doing homework while Whose Line is on; skip it!

Fang took the entire family out for coffee and donuts the other night. The kids enjoyed it. It was the first time they'd ever given blood.

The reason I'm not an alcoholic is I don't like to drink in front of the kids . . . and when you're away from them, who needs it?.

I would say [Lamar] Kendrick, it's always fun to see what happens when Kendrick takes the stage. And my two oldest kids are huge fans of him.

Why do I find the fantasy - husband, family, kids - exhausting instead of alluring? Is there something wrong with me? Do I have a life?

It was hard to love my wife and kids because I was all wrapped up in loving only myself. I did what I wanted, when I wanted, without any real concern for them.