Kids Quotes

The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know.

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic.

We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.

I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves.

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.

While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.

We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules.

My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff.

I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.

We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wedding.

I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous.

I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a lot of kids. There were schools just for these kids. There was a whole world that doesn't exist anymore.

Oh yeah, I think about kids all the time. I feel like the next person I commit to, that's going to be the guy who I'm going to have kids with. That's in my crazy female brain. So that's why I'm like, 'I can't commit.'

I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices.

If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.

I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.

I definitely have a family. I have a boyfriend who has kids, and we do normal things every day, like get up and go to school. Eat breakfast, lunch and dinner.

I'll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, 'I'll leave my bedroom window open for you.

Kids have awkward moments.

If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.

I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.

I grew up like Huck Finn, always outdoors, exploring, collecting frogs - there was space everywhere. I want my kids to experience that too. I love being outside.

If my time with my kids is shorter than it was yesterday, it's better than nothing.

I think it's the great thing about having kids. They have interests that you might not have, and it opens your horizons.

No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.

Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.