Kids Quotes
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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.
Thomas Sowell -
It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory.
David Bowie
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When you're a kid, you don't want to be teased.
Rebel Wilson -
Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men—at least he always did when he was a kid—because they pretend that’s what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives.
Russell Banks -
(...) Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.
Ned Vizzini -
When I was a kid they didn't call it dyslexia. They called it you know, you were slow, or you were retarded, or whatever. What you can never change is the effect that the words 'dumb' and 'stupid' have on young people. I knew I wasn't stupid, and I knew I wasn't dumb. My mother told me that. If you read to me, I could tell you everything that you read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?
Whoopi Goldberg -
Narratives that were taken for granted when I was a kid are still there, but they don't have the same depth and fervor anymore. Even the makers of the propaganda don't fully believe the propaganda. The surface structures are more frozen than they ever were, but the core is hollowing out, and it's becoming very fragile. People don't believe in the system anymore. But they're still going along with it because, one, they don't know what else is possible, they don't even know anything else is possible. Secondly, everybody else is doing it. So they go through the motions.
Charles Eisenstein -
The truth is that I didn't start as a winner. When I was a kid, I was just another reject. I started at the bottom. I think all winners do.
Georges St-Pierre
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Enjoy the little fun things - like taking your kids to school - before they're all grown up.
Will Ferrell -
Kids ... can get to the point where they feel peer pressure that isn't even there simply because of how they see themselves.
Walt Mueller -
Grade school was perilous. ... I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both.
Sue Grafton -
As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.
Simon Baker -
I'm obsessed with hula-hooping. I do it for 20 minutes a day. I don't use the old-fashioned hollow plastic kind we had when we were kids, but I discovered a new one at Danskin that's smaller and weighted.
Catherine Zeta-Jones -
I didn't design schools for poor kids. I'm designing schools to be world-class.
Eva Moskowitz
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That was other thing i hated about kids; they always said th exact things that deep dpwn you already knew, would never admit, and most certainly never wanted to hear.
Cecelia Ahern -
I love my job but it takes a lot for me to leave my kids, leave my husband and leave my dogs.
Catherine Zeta-Jones -
I think the younger kids need to realize there's this whole forgotten 90s that people don't really talk about.
Bradford Cox -
The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time.
Studs Terkel -
One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.
Norton Juster -
What you get is what you see, which is suspending kids doesn't lead to high attrition rate. That is what the data shows.
Eva Moskowitz
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I think most kids have a sense that it's not supposed to be this way. You're not supposed to hate Monday, or be happy when you don't have to go to school. School should be something that you love. Life should be something that you love.
Charles Eisenstein -
I’d say we have about three generations of fans at this point. When we started, some of our fans were older than we were … and then they started bringing their kids, and then their kids started bringing their kids, so it’s been great that it’s a generational thing that gets passed along.
Jeff Hanna -
Sometimes when kids look like they're daydreaming, it's because they are, and we can't allow that possibility.
Eva Moskowitz -
I was really hyperactive as a kid and no one knew how or where I got all this energy.
Catherine Zeta-Jones