S For Kids Quotes
When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids.
I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up and it was getting closer to my turn, I knew that when I got into the box I would lie! Again!
It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, you won't get your mitts on the kid as often.
When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.
I notice that if there are some times I've been stressed, because I'm human and stress about things, that affects your kids. So you have to make sure you're a happy mom so they can be happy.
I started out as a molecules kid. In high school and early college I loved chemistry, but I gradually shifted toward physics, which seemed cleaner - odorless, in fact.
The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.
When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I'm finished with it.
I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.
Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I'm not an actor who can just play the kid.
It means a lot to me to have my kids like what I do. And that's why I limit them. But I don't want to put that pressure on them to be a fan of mine.
When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.
All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
Jon Stewart says that he was a little kid with a big head. He had very little athletic ability. He went out to the soccer field, and it was awful.
I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
Call them pros, call them mercenaries - but in fact they are just grown - up kids who have learned on the frozen creek or flooded corner lot that hockey is the greatest thrill of all.
Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.
Incarceration is as useful for addiction as it is for diabetes - i.e., not useful and potentially harmful, particularly for kids.
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.
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.
Kids are always open to anything. It's very rare that a kid isn't extremely eager to make you happy.
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.
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.
Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.
The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids.
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.