Kids Quotes

I love little kids looking up to me, young players looking up to me, respecting me.

Just as we have had great working lives, we have also had good personal lives. For instance, we have made school our number one priority. We have been in school our entire lives with kids our own age. We guess that's pretty regular.

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.

I loved working with kids because the energy is great.

I was like a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.

I used to sleep, eat, breathe volleyball. Now I have that with my kids.

The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.

Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids.

The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies.

I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.

Let's face it, 80 percent of the work I do my kids can't see.

Nobody cooks anymore. To me, to watch your parents cook, and to have a house that smells warm and delicious, is a very vital memory that I think kids don't really have anymore.

One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.

My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I'm in concert, I get people now who bring their kids.

I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.

I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.

I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in the corner eating lunch by herself.

The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife.

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato.

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

I don't know about the world, but I know kids. And I feel like sometimes kids don't get involved because they think, what can I do? I'm just a kid. And really kids can do so much.

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

It's nice to know you're working on something that will mean something to kids.

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.

Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.