Quotes on Kids

If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.

Author: Aaliyah

I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get.

Author: Willie Aames

Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?

Author: Paula Abdul

No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness.

Author: Kirstie Alley

We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that.

Author: Louie Anderson

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

Author: Walter Annenberg

The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.

Author: Billie Armstrong

I think having eight kids evens things out a bit. You learn about the world; you learn about the world; you learn you've got to get along. We're all - if anything - very adjustable.

Author: Matthew Ashford

The kids have all seen it on DVD or videotape.

Author: Frankie Avalon

Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

Author: Frankie Avalon

I want kids to enjoy skating and I think it's a great workout.

Author: Oksana Baiul

We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.

Author: Annette Bening

It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.

Author: Daisy Berkowitz

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

Author: Yogi Berra

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

Author: Yogi Berra

Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents.

Author: Rod Blagojevich

Kids look up to me, and it's really incredible to be in that position.

Author: Corbin Bleu

The reason that MGM hired Bobby for Our Gang was that they could look at him and say, cry, and he'd cry, and not many kids can do that unless they really want to cry.

Author: Tommy Bond

My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.

Author: Jack Bowman

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts.

Author: Marion Bradley

I do tend to lose track since the kids are out of school.

Author: Marion Bradley

We have been in Victoria for 3 years now after moving here from Vancouver. Victoria is a great place to live and we plan on staying especially as the kids are now in school.

Author: Jonathan Brown

I want to get married again and have kids and even adopt.

Author: Sophia Bush

It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me.

Author: Geezer Butler

The kids all knew me from Wayne's World. The grown-ups knew me after True Lies.

Author: Tia Carrere

I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.

Author: David Cassidy

Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.

Author: Bobby Charlton

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

Author: Chevy Chase

We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier.

Author: Brandi Chastain

I would never want any of my kids to go into this industry; not until they are old enough to understand and if this is something that they really want to do.

Author: Morris Chestnut

I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour.

Author: Monique Coleman

The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.

Author: Joan Collins

I have an almost seven year old... I think it's essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go on for hours on this one.

Author: Stephen Collins

Will Smith is young, he's cool and my kids have his CDs.

Author: Robert Conrad

I don't watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of it isn't the kind of thing you can feel comfortable with watching with your kids. And I still feel that way even though, now, my kids are in their 30s.

Author: Tim Conway

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Author: Bill Cosby

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

Author: Bob Cousy

On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.

Author: Rodney Dangerfield

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.

Author: Mitch Daniels

Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

Author: Tony Danza

My kids are now the most popular kids in their school.

Author: Chris Daughtry

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.

Author: John Denver

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.

Author: Johnny Depp

Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.

Author: Cameron Diaz

When I was a kid, I was afraid of other kids.

Author: Andy Dick

Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.

Author: Joe DiMaggio

On her baby: He's 16 months old and he eats soap and paper. What's going on with kids?

Author: Celine Dion

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

Author: Walt Disney

Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.

Author: Jim Doyle

We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.

Author: Santiago Durango

My kids are so much better parent than I was.

Author: Dick Dyke

But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia.

Author: Dave Eggers

If you're a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.

Author: Keith Emerson

I'm proud of my kids, they are doing what they want to do.

Author: Keith Emerson

Kids today don't watch a black and white movie.

Author: Robert Englund

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

Author: Paul Farmer

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

Author: Sally Field

I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active.

Author: Harvey Fierstein

They have to exist or not in their own right. I mean, with kids, you don't say, 'Which is your favourite,' or 'Which did you enjoy bringing up the best?'

Author: Albert Finney

I think what's happening here is, there's a group or maybe one person who is saying this is gonna be the definition and this is what we want to get the kids to do now.

Author: Grandmaster Flash

We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.

Author: Art Garfunkel

I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.

Author: Balthazar Getty

Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them.

Author: John Goodman

It's nice to know you're working on something that will mean something to kids.

Author: Lucas Grabeel

When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

Author: Daniel Greenberg

I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.

Author: Sammy Hagar

Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.

Author: Tom Hall

No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.

Author: Daryl Hannah

Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.

Author: Jim Harrison

I think a lot of the problem is that at 8 o'clock there's nothing on for kids.

Author: Melissa Hart

I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids.

Author: Melissa Hart

Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live there and they have to show their face in town, and their kids play with other kids.

Author: Paul Hawken

This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.

Author: Patricia Heaton

I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.

Author: Jimi Hendrix

I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed.

Author: Gilbert Hernandez

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe.

Author: Alice Hoffman

Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

Author: James Hogan

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Author: Bob Hope

I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself.

Author: Freddie Hubbard

We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.

Author: Oliver Hudson

I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

Author: Bo Jackson

I'm never going to let nobody take those kids. They Michael's kids. They have no right to try to take those kids. It's going to be a big mess over that.

Author: Joseph Jackson

They're really nice kids. Michael is really raising them properly and right.

Author: Joseph Jackson

My songs are like my kids.

Author: Billy Joel

If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.

Author: Billy Joel

You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!

Author: Van Jones

I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble.

Author: William Joyce

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.

Author: Norton Juster

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.

Author: Norton Juster

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.

Author: Andy Kaufman

I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to New Kids on the Block.

Author: Alicia Keys

Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything.

Author: Allen Klein

I think these shows with the young kids doing these jumps, doing these fantastic back flips, I think they're absolutely great. They did what I never did.

Author: Evel Knievel

My kids get everything they want and are raised well.

Author: Suge Knight

But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us.

Author: Harvey Korman

Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.

Author: Charles Kuralt

It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have.

Author: Alan Ladd

I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.

Author: Robert Lansing

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.

Author: Philip Larkin

I think if you look at Andre then and now, you look at two different models. Of course it's personal preference, I think Andre now is a great role model for the kids. He has started training differently than he was before, and so on and so on.

Author: Ivan Lendl

Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways.

Author: Al Lewis

I get paid for what most kids get punished for.

Author: Jerry Lewis

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Author: Ben Lindsey

Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.

Author: Art Linkletter

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.

Author: John Lithgow

I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV.

Author: William Macy

Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else.

Author: Michael Madsen

I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me.

Author: Lee Majors

When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids.

Author: Method Man

I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello,' 'goodbye,' and 'I'm pregnant'.

Author: Dean Martin

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

Author: Robert Martin

Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.

Author: Harpo Marx

George Lucas puts those types of characters in for the kids. Same with Jar Jar.

Author: Peter Mayhew

The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle.

Author: Christa McAuliffe

Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest.

Author: Jenny McCarthy

I won't be having any more kids, though. Four is enough.

Author: Linda McCartney

If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts.

Author: Susannah McCorkle

Anything that was perverse and silly would be Kids in the Hall.

Author: Kevin McDonald

Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League.

Author: Tug McGraw

Kids - in a really good way - can talk about their differences without the baggage that adults have.

Author: Jim McKay

The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't.

Author: Mitch Miller

As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.

Author: Andrea Mitchell

Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television.

Author: Beverley Mitchell

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Author: Christopher Morley

I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me.

Author: Alonzo Mourning

I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie.

Author: Mike Myers

I've been very fortunate to be able to use my series as a platform to show a good message for the kids.

Author: Chuck Norris

I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?

Author: Gary Oldman

I don't want my kids going through what I went through - police stopping you, searching you and all that malarkey.

Author: John O'Neill

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

Author: Jerry Only

The packaging has to really sell the product today, because kids can go out and buy a CD and then 10 kids can burn them. So you have to really be on your toes.

Author: Jerry Only

Do your kids a favor - don't have any.

Author: Robert Orben

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

Author: Ozzy Osbourne

I would let my kids watch this stuff way before I'd let them watch something like 'Full House' that I think would make them stupid.

Author: Trey Parker

Nobody got Punk'd and he was still in his season for that show when we were filming. So the kids were very aware that it was filming and that was his show and they were very much on the lookout for that.

Author: Piper Perabo

Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.

Author: Itzhak Perlman

I listen to kids play a lot.

Author: Itzhak Perlman

I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.

Author: Luke Perry

It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.

Author: Gina Philips

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

Author: Natalie Portman

I'm not a role model to my kids. They're a role model to me.

Author: Susan Powter

Let me do five of those, and then some slower ones for those kids that can't understand what I'm sayin.

Author: Big Pun

But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.

Author: Anna Quindlen

No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids.

Author: Anthony Quinn

Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.

Author: Gilda Radner

Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.

Author: Usher Raymond

I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.

Author: Tara Reid

Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear about it.

Author: Tommy Rettig

The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it.

Author: Tommy Rettig

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

Author: Cathy Rigby