Kids Quotes

• The parent reads the book. The kid reads the book and then they can talk about the characters instead of talking about themselves. You know there's a connection even if you don't talk about it when you read the same books.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Character
  • Book
  • Parent

• The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Decision

• I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Book

• I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Think
  • Pretty

• My wife and I have never been able to have kids of our own. Physically, it's impossible. The doctor checked. So we tend to unofficially adopt lots of twenty-somethings. I have a real soft spot in my heart for youth.

  

  Doug Jones
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Wife

• My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Country
  • Today
  • Parents

• Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Important
  • History
  • Science

• Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I've never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I'm a good person. I believe I'm a good mom. But that's for my kids to decide, not for the world.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Broken
  • Same
  • White

• In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Alone

• I've spent a lot of time being bohemian and sleeping on floors, but eventually I want to have kids and I want to bring them up in a secure environment.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Up
  • Time
  • Want

• I did grow up in a very small town, and I only had a couple of people in my year at school. There were a lot of kids to play with - maybe not the same age, but there was always someone around.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that.

  

  Eric Cantor
  • Kids
  • Simple

• I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Character

• My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'.

  

  Katie Chang
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Perception

• He was so good with the kids on the set. He just knew exactly how to handle them. The baby would cry and Vin would hold him and do all these weird sounds and the baby would stop crying. It was really cute.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Weird

• I have enough money for the rest of my life and enough to leave a good inheritance for our kids.

  

  David A. Siegel
  • Life
  • Good
  • Money

• The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Know
  • Old
  • Roots

• What typically emerges from looking at kids, gifted and ordinary, is that, from the kids’ point of view, accomplishment, that is, the private sense of mastery, the hard thing suddenly made easy, counts for far more in their inner lives than does the achievement-the competition won, the reward secured.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Competition
  • Achievement
  • Accomplishment

• People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • World
  • Work

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