Kids Quotes
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Kids certainly need a lot of love so they know you're behind them whatever they do, well, more or less.
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As any parent can tell you, it’s better to keep your mouth shut and your eyes open when you go looking for kids who are being unreasonably quiet. They’re probably doing something they don’t want you to see, and if they hear you coming, they’ll hide the evidence.
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Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's treading water.
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I still say I would love to go back to acting, but after my kids are older. You can't just drop everything and go out on a call and keep a stable life.
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I had a public school education - 3,000 kids when I was there. And there were a lot of teachers who would just sit there. You'd come in and sign your name and the teacher would just sit there at the head of the class and you would literally just have to stay in your seat for 40 minutes and that was the only thing you'd have to do in class.
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When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.
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If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much.
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I'd say imagine that you wake up one morning when you're going through a midlife crisis. You're getting divorced. Your kids won't speak to you. Their faces are covered with acne, and you have to decide why you should get out of bed. That's the career you should pick. The one that keeps you going no matter what, even if your life is falling apart. That's how I feel about my career.
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I didn't design schools for poor kids. I'm designing schools to be world-class.
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I'd say my sound's really rooted in Jamaica and Barbados heritage , infused with just me growing up in Brooklyn, really, and being an American kid.
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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.
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I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.
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As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than it is to let them grow up into young thugs who have to be sent to prison, not to mention the savings in the wear and tear on the nerves, property, and safety of the rest of the citizenry.
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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.
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I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.
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The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.
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I firmly believe kids don't want your understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, your blinding love and your car keys, but you try to understand them and you're in big trouble.
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I was really hyperactive as a kid and no one knew how or where I got all this energy.
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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.
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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.
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I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.
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I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.
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Kids ... can get to the point where they feel peer pressure that isn't even there simply because of how they see themselves.
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Fact is that I played piano and performed, as a young kid, a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . Don't forget I was only eleven-years-old and to be on the stage at that age had tremendous impact on me. Basically love for classical music and performing as a kid on the big stage probably led toward this decision, which meant that music is going to be my big love but also my profession.
