300 Quotes on Kids

• So, it didn't do well. But now when I talk to kids who are first seeing it, they're surprised to hear the movie failed at the box office. Sometimes that's what happens.

  Author: David Zucker

• You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!

  Author: John Zorn

• White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it.

  Author: Rob Zombie

• I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves.

  Author: Dweezil Zappa

• You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.

  Author: Robin Yount

• Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.

  Author: Neil Young

• I definitely have a family. I have a boyfriend who has kids, and we do normal things every day, like get up and go to school. Eat breakfast, lunch and dinner.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• With a lot of kids in the business, the parents get as twisted as they do, and there's a lot of opportunities to go their own way, but anyone has that opportunity.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• Because normally with Western cuisine, you'll serve vegetables separate from the meat, so kids will eat the meat and never touch the vegetables.

  Author: Martin Yan

• So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

  Author: Martin Yan

• I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

  Author: Zakk Wylde

• Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

  Author: Tiger Woods

• Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

  Author: James Woods

• Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.

  Author: Evan Wood

• I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them.

  Author: Gene Wolfe

• I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• For our first date, I made Ryan Hamburger Helper, which is basically what I grew up on. I make my own version of it now, with macaroni and cheese and hamburger meat. And the kids - it's their favorite dinner.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.

  Author: Kate Winslet

• I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can't vote.

  Author: Henry Winkler

• You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.

  Author: Dave Winfield

• When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.

  Author: Joe Wilson

• I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a lot of people who write for children can remember their own childhoods vividly and I can remember my childhood very vividly.

  Author: Eric Wilson

• Even a lot of kids who are gifted can be kids who feel like wimps or nerds.

  Author: Eric Wilson

• He just had a very unique way of expressing himself physically with his kids.

  Author: Dennis Wilson

• The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.

  Author: Dennis Wilson

• What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.

  Author: Kevin Williamson

• Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college.

  Author: Treat Williams

• I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.

  Author: Robbie Williams

• The reason why you were allowed to get away with that in the '60s and '70s is because this country's racist administrative policies were such that rich white kids were getting exemptions. I said no exemptions.

  Author: Montel Williams

• I've had lots of kids come up and ask for my autograph, I've had a grandmother stop me and ask me if I know a good place to buy underwear.

  Author: Prince William

• We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.

  Author: Prince William

• All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

  Author: William Wiley

• Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

  Author: Olivia Wilde

• I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.

  Author: Dianne Wiest

• I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.

  Author: Dianne Wiest

• I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

  Author: Meg Whitman

• We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We don't do too many modern composers, although we include songs from Billy Joel and other writers like him.

  Author: Margaret Whiting

• So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.

  Author: Margaret Whiting

• I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.

  Author: Vanna White

• I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

  Author: Ryan White

• I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.

  Author: Raquel Welch

• If I can raise more money for charities, or get more Canadian kids to play golf, the green jacket will mean even more.

  Author: Mike Weir

• A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.

  Author: Karrie Webb

• I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.

  Author: Dennis Weaver

• But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did.

  Author: Damon Wayans

• My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.

  Author: Damon Wayans

• Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.

  Author: Jody Watley

• However, most of my part, I play a pediatrician, and most of my role had to do with being in another place, staying at the hospital and trying to save kids and stay until people could come. So, it was more based on reality.

  Author: Sela Ward

• My kids enjoy the Disney program, Lizzy McGuire.

  Author: Sela Ward

• My book is very wild. But you know during the period of BATMAN, that there were thousands of Batman and Robin costumes sold and these weren't just for kids.

  Author: Burt Ward

• No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.

  Author: Burt Ward

• Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.

  Author: Julie Walters

• It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed.

  Author: Julie Walters

• You don't want to give kids an idea that they might not have thought of.

  Author: John Walters

• This was a result of a number of factors, but we do know that the messages kids get about the harms of drugs has a significant impact on their decision on whether or not to use.

  Author: John Walters

• And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

  Author: James Walsh

• All these older kids here, and I'm the only one from a town that's so small, if everyone breathed at the same time, you'd run out of oxygen. Man, there is nothing there.

  Author: Herschel Walker

• Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids.

  Author: Herschel Walker

• I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• With the Internet, kids today learn things quicker than we do and they have everything there is to see, so you have to do more than just remake some old '70s film.

  Author: Donnie Wahlberg

• A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.

  Author: Donnie Wahlberg

• The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.

  Author: Troy Vincent

• These kids are the future of the National Football League. They're the next generation that will be playing high school football, NCAA football, and some even to the pros.

  Author: Troy Vincent

• I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.

  Author: Johnny Vegas

• But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television.

  Author: Jhonen Vasquez

• In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids.

  Author: Jhonen Vasquez

• I don't want little kids reading my comics.

  Author: Jhonen Vasquez

• A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

  Author: Andrew Vachss

• I want my permanent address to be in Oklahoma. Someday, when I get married and I have kids, that's where I want to raise my kids.

  Author: Carrie Underwood

• I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it.

  Author: Blair Underwood

• I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.

  Author: Blair Underwood

• It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it.

  Author: Alanna Ubach

• The main concern was making sure the kids didn't get caught in the middle.

  Author: Hunter Tylo

• CBS started to confiscate our packages and mail as a safety procedure. A lot of packages that people send for the holidays and to our kids we can't open. A lot of times they are from overseas. It's very upsetting at times.

  Author: Hunter Tylo

• I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

  Author: Tina Turner

• What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.

  Author: Tanya Tucker

• I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.

  Author: Garry Trudeau

• Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.

  Author: Thuy Trang

• We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify.

  Author: Thuy Trang

• It'll be basically a live album, but it will also include songs, Judas Priest songs, the audience have never heard before, because we felt we wanted to give the kids something else, something they haven't already bought.

  Author: Glenn Tipton

• I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.

  Author: George Thorogood

• Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

  Author: Billy Thornton

• Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.

  Author: Billy Thornton

• I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.

  Author: Richard Thompson

• On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

  Author: Ken Thompson

• 'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.

  Author: J. Thompson

• For kids it's natural to be competitive.

  Author: Daley Thompson

• But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.

  Author: Daley Thompson

• I sign every autograph I can for kids because I remember myself at that age. I think it's ridiculous that some guys won't sign for a kid.

  Author: Jim Thome

• I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

  Author: Michael Thomas

• My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.

  Author: Alan Thicke

• In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.

  Author: Keith Thibodeaux

• I had such a nice time making it, and I can't wait to make the fifth one. The whole crew were just really, really lovely. All the costume people, the make-up girls, the kids - even my driver.

  Author: David Thewlis

• Yeah, well that's the best thing about it, I think, is knowing kids and kids getting mental when they know you're in it. Any kid you meet and anyone I know tells the kid you're in it and they get short of breath.

  Author: David Thewlis

• Some of the money from the senior players goes to helping out the younger kids. It is from the players' pool, the fines for being late and so on. Some will go to something like the tsunami appeal and some to helping out young players.

  Author: John Terry

• When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.

  Author: Sachin Tendulkar

• I think I have enough tattoos for now. If I get any others, I'll probably do my kids initials.

  Author: Niki Taylor

• Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.

  Author: Lawrence Taylor

• Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

  Author: Ron Taffel

• I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!

  Author: Taylor Swift

• The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

  Author: Ichiro Suzuki

• I want to have a bunch of kids so I can boss them around.

  Author: Jeremy Sumpter

• A friend of mine called and said they're interested in having you do a song for the new Pokemon. All my kids are grown up, so I'd heard of it, but I didn't really know what it was.

  Author: Donna Summer

• The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.

  Author: Jock Sturges

• I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.

  Author: Sally Struthers

• I donate money to the existing foundation that funds the US Ski Team kids.

  Author: Picabo Street

• Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

  Author: Meryl Streep

• And in the future, you know, maybe there's kids in the future for me, I don't really know. The interesting thing with me is that there has never been a woman doing what I'm doing at this level for this long. So, it's like, would Vince give me maternity leave?

  Author: Trish Stratus

• When I finish playing football, I would like to work with kids and sleep!

  Author: Michael Strahan

• Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids.

  Author: Sharon Stone

• Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.

  Author: Mink Stole

• I feel happy to terrify kids.

  Author: R. Stine

• I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.

  Author: Stephen Stills

• What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

  Author: David Stiers

• Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

  Author: David Stiers

• I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

  Author: Kristen Stewart

• In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

  Author: Robert Sternberg

• If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training.

  Author: Robert Sternberg

• I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.

  Author: Robert Sternberg

• Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing.

  Author: Leigh Steinberg

• The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.

  Author: Danielle Steel

• My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

  Author: Danielle Steel

• The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

  Author: Ralph Steadman

• I also find it interesting that a lot of people in their 30s are not married and don't have kids. There are a lot of people in this age bracket that are out there dating and trying to find love. And I never thought that at my age I would be.

  Author: John Stamos

• We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.

  Author: Layne Staley

• I think that, I'm sure there are gonna be some teachers who are very entrenched in the system, who are going to buy in to what they're being told, as to what the kids are being fed.

  Author: Morgan Spurlock

• The food is absolutely atrocious, and parents have no idea. Parents are giving their kids three dollars and saying, 'Okay, see you later. Go off to school and have a good lunch.'

  Author: Morgan Spurlock

• In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.

  Author: Bruce Springsteen

• I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

  Author: Rick Springfield

• I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

  Author: Margaret Spellings

• I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to court, and I was never able to get a project going.

  Author: Ronnie Spector

• I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.

  Author: Nicholas Sparks

• Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.

  Author: Hal Sparks

• I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

  Author: Kevin Spacey

• Ultimately, love conquers all, and gay or straight, don't we all want to believe that? I would that if this was to happen to me, and one of my kids had come and told me he or she was gay, I would say: If that's the only way you can live, then I love you.

  Author: Paul Sorvino

• These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

  Author: Barry Sonnenfeld

• 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.

  Author: Brittany Snow

• Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.

  Author: Dick Smothers

• There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?

  Author: Will Smith

• When I get out... if I get out of here, I hope that maybe we can get back together and have more kids.

  Author: Susan Smith

• I think it all comes down to relationships - how I treat my wife, how I treat my kids, how I treat the guys at the grocery store, all aspects of every day, what I'm involved in.

  Author: Michael Smith

• I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns.

  Author: Jimmy Smith

• That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

  Author: Iain Smith

• Kids flourish if we get them to school every day.

  Author: Connie Smith

• My husband gave up all his work to stay at home with the kids, and we split all the duties at home. I do all the boring stuff - like pay the bills, and he does all the exercising for both of us, which I'm very grateful for... I thank him for it regularly.

  Author: Erika Slezak

• What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?

  Author: O. Simpson

• I have to go... drop some kids in the pool.

  Author: Jessica Simpson

• We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

  Author: Paul Simon

• In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.

  Author: Joe Simon

• I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

  Author: Russell Simmons

• If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains.

  Author: Ron Silver

• I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.

  Author: Frank Shorter

• Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.

  Author: Frank Shorter

• My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

  Author: Michelle Shocked

• As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about.

  Author: Cindy Sheehan

• Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.

  Author: Donna Shalala

• The only animals that we test on are the two of us and our kids.

  Author: Connie Sellecca

• There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play.

  Author: Connie Sellecca

• I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.

  Author: Bob Seger

• If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you're not really needed by your family, but you're there. And my kids like to know I'm there.

  Author: Bob Seger

• I'm really glad I didn't have kids earlier, because I probably would have ignored them. I was so into my career. I could just go and play a ton of shows, night after night after night. I can't do that anymore.

  Author: Bob Seger

• I sold my first script when I was 21 - this kids' adventure movie that never got made. I just bought that one back, actually. I'm pretty psyched about it.

  Author: Jason Segel

• There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

  Author: Jill Scott

• I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.

  Author: Martin Scorsese

• So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

  Author: Charles Schumer

• I always thought I had a problem socially, because I was pulled out of school so early. I had a tough time talking to other kids and being comfortable with them.

  Author: Rick Schroder

• When you don't have kids and you're in a Catholic family - one of my sisters had 10 children in 11 years - she's part rabbit - you feel kind of guilty about that. So, I want to do things for other people's children.

  Author: Marge Schott

• Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.

  Author: Marge Schott

• Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it.

  Author: Wally Schirra

• There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know.

  Author: Jack Scalia

• I've never put myself in the mindset that I'm actually any good at taking pictures, I just love to shoot things that catch my eye, whether it's landscapes or just my kids.

  Author: Graeme Saux

• You need to be an adrenalin junkie when you travel with kids.

  Author: Graeme Saux

• Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?

  Author: Susan Sarandon

• The only time I've really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years that I haven't been with my kids.

  Author: Susan Sarandon

• I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• Athletes know kids look up to them, and it's important for athletes to be responsible.

  Author: Deion Sanders

• When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were a lot of them and they actually never spoke to each other.

  Author: Eric San

• Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales have dropped dramatically, too. I think 90% of the books are bought only by 5% of the US population.

  Author: Stan Sakai

• By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.

  Author: Buffy Sainte-Marie

• Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

  Author: Buffy Sainte-Marie

• I have three kids, the oldest is 18 and her friends are going to see it The Aristocrats because they told her they're going to see it, especially her guy friends.

  Author: Bob Saget

• Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

  Author: Morley Safer

• Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

  Author: Morley Safer

• I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together.

  Author: Fred Saberhagen

• I can assume that the younger generations will no longer know what vinyl was. Maybe some kids will take their CD back to the shop, telling the shop owner they have a faulty disc and if they could please get a new one.

  Author: Mike Rutherford

• I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.

  Author: Richard Russo

• Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• I love acting with kids, cause they're great acting partners. They're totally present. Even when they're acting, they're still available and you can crack them up or something weird will happen and they'll go with it.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• It evolved out of the idea to make a kids TV show. And it actually turned out to be a bit dull and a bit regulated and too many people looking over your shoulder and it wasn't really.

  Author: Dave Rowntree

• You know, we were worried that in the UK, there's no anarchy on kids TV. When we grew up kids TV was very anarchic and it was about stuff that your parents would probably object to, if they got to object. And it's gotten very safe.

  Author: Dave Rowntree

• Well, we certainly weren't making a cartoon show for kids. It was a completely different kind of idea.

  Author: Dave Rowntree

• When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.

  Author: Tim Roth

• The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.

  Author: Andy Rooney

• It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids.

  Author: Henry Rollins

• In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

  Author: Al Roker

• When Courtney's mother and I first separated I tried to be Disney Dad, showering her with gifts, trips and then I snapped out of it. You don't have to try to impress your kids. If they're not getting what they need from you, they will let you know.

  Author: Al Roker

• I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV.

  Author: Al Roker

• Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.

  Author: Jim Rohn

• The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.

  Author: Mimi Rogers

• As far as my street cred goes, I'll always have that, because I always hang with the kids. I'll jump right off the stage and buy them a beer. I'll be a star on stage, but I'll always hang with the kids.

  Author: Kid Rock

• That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.

  Author: Kid Rock

• Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?

  Author: John Robinson

• Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man.

  Author: Jake Roberts

• I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

  Author: Graham Roberts

• We consider all our animals to be our kids.

  Author: Eric Roberts

• I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

  Author: Tim Robbins

• There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.

  Author: Jerome Robbins

• Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.

  Author: Joan Rivers

• Jackson and I spent the day together, just me and him and his children. Little underlings came and went. The PR person came and went. It was just Michael and me and the kids. And it was very interesting.

  Author: Geraldo Rivera

• I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever.

  Author: Guy Ritchie

• I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids.

  Author: LeAnn Rimes

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

  Author: Cathy Rigby

• So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you.

  Author: Cathy Rigby

• I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.

  Author: Patricia Richardson

• If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger.

  Author: Kevin Richardson

• Yeah, some kids called me fish lips because I had these really full lips. Now I'm sure all those same girls are getting collagen injections, so I'm having the last laugh.

  Author: Denise Richards

• I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

  Author: Frank Rich

• It is an honor to be on the cover of this game because the World Cup is such a big thing around the world. My kids are really quite impressed so that's fun.

  Author: Claudio Reyna

• Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.

  Author: Mary Retton

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

  Author: Tommy Rettig

• 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

• And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently.

  Author: Paul Reiser

• Young kids are taking Viagra, ecstasy. They even want instant sex.

  Author: Tim Reid

• 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

• My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I'm in concert, I get people now who bring their kids.

  Author: Helen Reddy

• My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do.

  Author: Stephen Rea

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

  Author: Usher Raymond

• From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore.

  Author: John Ratzenberger

• Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.

  Author: John Ratzenberger

• I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids.

  Author: Bonnie Raitt

• Well, there are about 10 million children that aren't covered by health insurance. About 3 million qualify for Medicaid but don't get it, so we're going to reach out and bring more of those kids into the Medicaid program.

  Author: Franklin Raines

• They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'

  Author: Charlotte Rae

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

  Author: Gilda Radner

• Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!

  Author: Martha Quinn

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

  Author: Anthony Quinn

• The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.

  Author: Anna Quindlen

• Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

  Author: Anna Quindlen

• 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

• 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

• Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care.

  Author: Anthony Principi

• I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.

  Author: Kelly Preston

• So I delegate a lot and I make my family come first, my husband and our kids.

  Author: Kelly Preston

• They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.

  Author: Kelly Preston

• I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.

  Author: Kelly Preston

• My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.

  Author: Jack Prelutsky

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

  Author: Susan Powter

• Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

  Author: Paula Poundstone

• 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 was like a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.

  Author: Natalie Portman

• I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.

  Author: Sydney Pollack

• Music is one of the easy things to eliminate because of budget cuts, but it's important to give kids the avenue to express themselves.

  Author: Ted Poe

• If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

  Author: Andrei Platonov

• Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.

  Author: Steven Pinker

• Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.

  Author: River Phoenix

• When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.

  Author: River Phoenix

• I becan acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they got me and my little sister, Summer, to do it. After that I did some really weird guest spots with orangutans and stuff.

  Author: Joaquin Phoenix

• LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight.

  Author: Ryan Phillippe

• I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live.

  Author: Ryan Phillippe

• I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.

  Author: Ryan Phillippe

• 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

• Into The Woods was... a lot of running around in the woods! I can't wait to see the show again. People didn't realize it back then, but kids still come up to me-young people-and they talk about it. It really made its mark.

  Author: Bernadette Peters

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

  Author: Luke Perry

• I love to work with young kids.

  Author: Itzhak Perlman

• I listen to kids play a lot.

  Author: Itzhak Perlman

• Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.

  Author: Itzhak Perlman

• My kids are old enough now that they can watch that, but I like to do the family movies.

  Author: Elizabeth Perkins

• 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

• Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.

  Author: Robin Penn

• A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right.

  Author: John Passos

• 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

• I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for.

  Author: Christopher Parker

• Let's face it, 80 percent of the work I do my kids can't see.

  Author: Joe Pantoliano

• Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?

  Author: Carl Paladino

• 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

• Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

  Author: Bobby Orr

• We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.

  Author: Bobby Orr

• The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that's missing today.

  Author: Bobby Orr

• We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.

  Author: Suze Orman

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

  Author: Robert Orben

• 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

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

  Author: Jerry Only

• 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

• That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'

  Author: Ed O'Neill

• These days kids get paid enough that they probably don't need to work too much. The problem is when the person is old enough that they need to work to make a living, and the only thing that they know how to do is what they are already washed up in.

  Author: Susan Olsen

• Just as we have had great working lives, we have also had good personal lives. For instance, we have made school our number one priority. We have been in school our entire lives with kids our own age. We guess that's pretty regular.

  Author: Mary-Kate Olsen

• We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them.

  Author: Mary-Kate Olsen

• Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.

  Author: Ashley Olsen

• Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.

  Author: Jamie Oliver

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