S For Kids Quotes

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'

While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.

If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

A message to parents who think legalizing weed will make their kids want to try it: they will anyway.

Yeah, if it hadn't been for me everybody'd be a lot better off--my wife and my kids and my friends.... I wish I'd never been born.I suppose it'd been better if I'd never been born at all.

I've played the clarinet since I was a kid. I love to sing, but I'm not much of a singer. Let's say that when it comes to vocalizing, I have the soul of Billy Bigelow but the voice of Jigger Cragan.

Look, at some point, people have to tell their kids that Santa Claus isn't real. I hate to be the guy to do it, but it's just not real.

I still haven't gotten that little something out of my system that I'm still not a kid going to a football game. I'm excited.

I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little kids they want to play, and I don't have time for that."

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, "What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?"

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

I was confused as a kid. I was confused about my sexual identity.

In my own way, I was a rebellious kid.

You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not the way life's going to go, and I think kids have to have some reality.

Kids love rabbits... they just like them.

Is there anything better than making a kid laugh?

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."

I used to have to wear a gas mask to school when I was a kid because of the dust. I would tell people that the first light I saw was in a movie theater, because the sun was just a little glow.

You can do better than this.” The best slogan I can think of to leave with the kids of the U.S.A. would be “We can . . . and we’ve got to . . . do better than this.

Now the kids are portrayed as dirty when they talk to an agent, a shoe guy, some hanger-on. Well, it's only natural that people are circling them - there are millions of dollars involved.

Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

Kids are dying from causes of sexual activity. You're not going to find a tombstone stating that Frankie died because he was a virgin.

You know, my life's changed now. I'm starting to experience what people are really supposed to do. You supposed to be married. You're supposed to have a family, kids, treat your wife right.

I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side.

I've had to calm down, I have a kid! It is amazing. It's the best thing ever. Nothing better than it.

If I got a dollar every time someone told me to name my future kid 'Batmo' I'd almost have enough to pay for therapy for a kid named Batmo.

Imagine if your kids had to carry a ladder to climb an apartheid wall to get to school everyday.

Nowadays they say you need a special chip to put in the TV so kids can't watch this and that. In my day, we didn't need a chip. My mom was the chip. End of story.

I don't want to do something where I play a kid in a school. And I don't understand these spoof movies.

Everybody wants to get along with everyone else in the sandbox. I'm that kind of kid, you know what I mean? That will never change about me.

I do like to read in bed, but because I have two kids I'm often forced to read in the bathroom.

Remember when we used to worry about some weirdo having a razor blade inside an apple on Halloween? Not anymore. Like a kid today would eat an apple.

Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.

It's not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.

I'm just a kid. I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

My books are just pure escapism for kids.

Let me give you a lesson about school. All the kids who were popular end up on the dole with babies. All the nerds end up as pop stars

Kid A is about an abortion. *laughs* It's about how our music is an abortion

I'm a chill guy, a very normal guy. I hang out with my friends, play video games. I'm just a normal kid.

I've always been the annoying kid who sang.

I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world.

I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.

It's up to the parents to watch their kids and make sure their kids aren't doing any crazy drugs. I always blame the parents. When their kids are doing something crazy, I blame the parents.