Kids Quotes

• You know how it's almost impossible for kids to not say what they think? That's me. I have to make the conscious effort to be situationally appropriate.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Kids
  • Effort

• Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.

  

  Kenneth Lonergan
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• The big problem is just this kind of gigantic piece, of kids reading less and liking it less and so getting worse at it. It's kind of this terrible spiral: Since they're not so good at it they do less of it, get worse at it, do less of it. And it's really what I discovered five, six years ago when I started the 'Guys Read' thing.

  

  Jon Scieszka
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Reading

• I'm also married for the first time, and I have two kids. So there's some kind of good karma right now.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Karma

• Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity.

  

  Jamie Cullum
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Creativity

• When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Family
  • Funny
  • Nice

• Making films is like making stuff together as kids.

  

  Sofia Coppola
  • Together
  • Film
  • Stuff

• I think kids, in general as an audience, are the way forward because they're not sort of sullied by intellectual expectation or this or that. It's a very pure kind of response to the work.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Work
  • Audience
  • Intellectual

• It's unfortunate that cyberbullying is something that happens to 13-year-old kids in junior high and adults in the workplace. It's something that we have to deal with as Americans.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Kids
  • High
  • Workplace

• When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

  

  David Beckham
  • Up
  • World
  • Children

• It was one of the first things I did on my own; I worked at McDonald's, raised the money and did it. I'm really, really passionate about pro-choice, because I wouldn't be here talking to you right now if I'd had a kid at 15.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Choices
  • Firsts
  • Passionate

• Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us.

  

  Alison Sweeney
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Heart

• I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.

  

  Lemon Andersen
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk.

  

  David Small
  • World
  • Believe
  • Character

• I was on the board of Andre Agassi's foundation, and seeing the way it operated blew my mind. In 2002, I told my wife, I want to start a foundation to give back, I want it to be for kids in hard circumstances, and I want it to be culinary-driven, because that's who I am.

  

  Emeril Lagasse
  • Mind
  • Kids
  • Wife

• I love kids. My sister has four boys, and I'm obsessed with them.

  

  Elizabeth Reaser
  • Kids
  • Sister

• Some guys that know me from when I was a kid say "My son, oh he's just like your father." It's just a natural part of our lives. But, within the music industry and within the industry of the critiques of music, where it becomes "Ziggy's music is not as good as Bob's music," I don't understand. But I don't really pay much attention to that because I'm just expressing myself.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Good
  • Music
  • Father

• I understand and get when kids and teenagers feel like they're alone and it's not going to get better. My advice is that there is a support system out there, there are a lot of people who have been through what you're going through and are going through it now.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • People
  • Support
  • Alone

• Kids can handle a lot more than you think they can. It's when they get to be grown up that you have to start worrying.

  

  Anne Ursu
  • Handle
  • Worrying
  • Grown-Up

• I like circle time and school drop-off. And I like that I have kids still willing to hold my hand.

  

  Christine Taylor
  • Time
  • School
  • Hand

• It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin' nothing.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Kids
  • Facade
  • True Work

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

  

  Eoin Colfer
  • Kids

• At the time - but we've since made amends - James Franco and I really didn't get along. When we were on 'Freaks and Geeks,' we were 19, and we really, really disliked each other. He shoved me to the ground once; it was really brutal. We're friends now, and we really like each other now as adults - but as kids, we did not get along.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Friends

• The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.

  

  Maureen Johnson
  • Kids

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