Kid Who Quotes

#1. Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to censor some kid who's swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.

Willie Nelson

#2. We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children who are advantaged aren't getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who has struggled more.

Barack Obama

#3. I went to school with a kid who was so smart, the only time he got an answer wrong, they had to go back and change the question.

Gene Perret

#4. In that moment, I don't see the brother that I grew up with. I don't see the geek who can't use an iPod. I don't see the kid who can't throw a football to save his life. I see the man he will become. I see a leader, strong, pure, unconquered.

Douglas Pershing

#5. I was this weird loner kid who got drunk by himself all the time.

Gerard Way

#6. I was that kid who was always practicing crying or falling asleep or being angry or being excited. I was that weirdo in my room making faces.

Rosa Salazar

#7. It starts with water. The kid who doesn't get to go to school because he's looking for water around his neck of the woods, that kid doesn't learn about HIV and then dies from AIDS. Or cholera or whatever. It all links back.

Kenna

#8. From a young age, I understood the idea of balanced flavor - the reason you put ketchup on a hamburger. I was that kid who wouldn't eat something if there was something missing. I never really understood it until I began cooking professionally, balancing acids, sweets, spicy flavors and fat.

Michael Mina

#9. I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is targeted at them.

Fred Durst

#10. I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.

Dave Mustaine

#11. Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life.

Winona Ryder

#12. The word "fronting" was important to Rob. A coward who acted tough was fronting. A nerd who acted dumb was fronting. A rich kid who acted poor was fronting. Rob found the instinct very offensive, and in college he saw it all around.

Jeff Hobbs

#13. I still wanna know who to sue to get my store fixed. (Bubba)
I'm a turnip. Sue the rich kid who started it. (Nick)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.

Natasha Lyonne

#15. I want to be six years old again - just for a day.
It's not that things were so much better back then. They sucked.
But I was the kind of kid who knew how to laugh about it all.
That's what I want. I want to laugh.

Jaye Murray

#16. In my family, as in all dysfunctional families, instead of parents who act as strong and nurturing role models for their children, you get these needy people who use their children. I was the kid who tried to take on the marriage.

John Bradshaw

#17. I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.

Vanilla Ice

#18. I was the kind of kid who loved singing. I loved rapping; I loved attention. But for me, it was more about chasing the dream of being a superstar because of the town I was from and because of what I'd seen.

Trey Songz

#19. People punch up," he said. "They punch the ones who are better than them. Nobody likes a kid who does something well. That

Ethan Canin

#20. As a fan of science fiction and as a kid who loves monsters, science fiction movies and this, that and the other, there's no real way to make a career out of that. Especially when I grew up.

Kevin Grevioux

#21. I was the kid who would take the car out at night when he was 16 and see if he can redline it. And then there's the kid who will be careful of it because it's his dad's car, or whatever, and drive it safely home and go to bed. And that's how my whole life was.

George Jung

#22. At school, I was this tomboy kid who just loved to hang out with her friends and learn curse words, trying to fit in with the cool kids and defending all the kids who got picked on.

Michelle Rodriguez

#23. In our neighborhood it's rare to find a kid who doesn't drink once in a while. But Soda never touches a drop - he doesn't need to. He gets drunk on just plain living.

S.E. Hinton

#24. The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.

Mordecai Richler

#25. Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appallingly steep.

M.R. Carey

#26. I grew up as normally as any other kid. Between that small TV part I did at five and when I turned professional actor at 18, I stayed away from the limelight, so I was just like any typical kid who went to school.

Timothy Hutton

#27. A kid who has just started to lie is taking the first step as a storyteller.

Young-Ha Kim

#28. What kind of freak is this kid who's giggling hysterically with the girls in the neighbouring beds, each with a crush on the other for being the same age when the rest of the world seems so old?

Melina Marchetta

#29. A week before shooting, they told me, You don't have the part, yet. We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs.

Kieran Culkin

#30. I wasn't the kid who lined up her toys, although when it came to Barbies and that little traveling wardrobe with the drawers and the little shoes, my stuff was always on hangers and the shoes were always in pairs. Things had their places.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#31. And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.

Angela Johnson

#32. I like being a 10-year-old kid who's in charge.

Tibor Kalman

#33. Christians are like a thirteen year old kid who still believes in Santa.

Jim Jefferies

#34. It was easy to be proud of the kid who got straight A's and who made the winning basket-a kid the world already adored. But true character showed when you could find something to love in a child everyone else hated.

Jodi Picoult

#35. I love playing the bad guy getting away with stuff. I was that kid who learned from my older brothers who got away with everything by smiling.

Kellan Lutz

#36. Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'

Rachel Bloom

#37. My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.

Rodney Dangerfield

#38. Head back into the house. They were in their sixties, the kind of people who rushed outside to scold a kid who happened to walk across their grass to retrieve a Frisbee or baseball. And even though they were Jewish, they decorated their house with Christmas lights in addition to the menorah they

Nicholas Sparks

#39. I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.

Jeff Ross

#40. I don't want everyone to think of me as just 'that kid who called Jesse Jackson a communist in middle school.' That's why I decided to become a famous actress.

Evangeline Lilly

#41. If you were a young kid, 19, 20 years old who has two children and a third one on the way and refuses to leave them. A kid who was on welfare, because he refused to steal anybody's property or take anybody's money. You found life a lot tougher.

Barry White

#42. I don't know anyone who's going to see Grind 22 times in the theater. My mom. Some kid who has short-term memory loss and forgot that he's seen it.

Adam Brody

#43. 'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.

Victor Salva

#44. Getting one bill passed is close to impossible. Ask any kid who has spent a summer in Washington, or better yet a semester, and can't understand how people tolerate its menu of constant frustration. Imagine mastering it.

Susan Estrich

#45. ... sometimes when I close my eyes as I'm being taken, I can pretend that I'm someone special to these men. In my head I can be someone, someone worthy of love, not that white trash kid who left home on foot five years prior.

Candi Kay

#46. All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.

Charles De Lint

#47. Kids know what's going on. They always respond to The Beatles, for instance. Doesn't matter when they were born, they always seem to respond. Show me a kid who innately doesn't like The Beatles, and I'll show you a bad seed.

Mark Oliver Everett

#48. I'd love to pop back into 'Being Human' as Adam. I love the character so much. I've never really played a character like that. I'm always playing the geek, so to play a kid who is very energetic when he wants to be, and who is always trying to get the girls, was really cool.

Craig Roberts

#49. I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.

Howard Nemerov

#50. I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS.

Tupac Shakur

#51. [He] seemed like a kid who was looking for something, looking for something, just didn't know what it was. I was like that once, but then I realized what I was looking for: Money! Ha! Ha hyah, hooh boy! (pg.43)

Jon Krakauer

#52. I wasn't the kind of kid who would get A's without even trying. I had to work to get good grades, but I was very organised about it because I always wanted to do well at everything I did. I'm very competitive.

Jessica Ennis

#53. Having a hangover with small children is never a good idea. I did it once and it was the biggest mistake I've ever made, I've never felt so ill in my life. You have to get out of bed and look after your kid who doesn't care if you've got a sore head.

Sharleen Spiteri

#54. We all can think of at least one kid who had great parents, a great family, and an all-around great childhood ... who suddenly went crazy as soon as he left the house for college or adulthood. And nobody can figure out how or why it happened!

Andy Andrews

#55. MIGHT HAVE LIKED Xandra in other circumstances - which, I guess, is sort of like saying I might have liked the kid who beat me up if he hadn't beat me up.

Donna Tartt

#56. I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.

Bob Brown

#57. I was not a kid who watched every movie. I watched a very small number of movies over and over again.

Colin Trevorrow

#58. Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

Jon Lee Anderson

#59. Burnett fidgeted. She had never seen Burnett like this. He looked like a kid who needed to go to the bathroom.

C.C. Hunter

#60. I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'

Robert Redford

#61. I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's not the life of a lot of my friends.

Ana Ortiz

#62. Paying a royalty to someone for prepping an ebook is akin to paying the kid who cuts your grass a percentage of the purchase price when you sell your house. It makes no sense.

Michael A. Stackpole

#63. Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

Sam Levenson

#64. I have never been a physically engaged person. Like, I was not an athletic kid. I was the kid who came up with a thousand excuses not to take a gym class. Even now, if I could, I would do all my work from bed.

Lena Dunham

#65. I'd hope to reach any kid who feels apart from the group - those who seem to be outsiders, who feel different. Kids who want to reach their parents often don't know how to do so.

Ellen Muth

#66. I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book to herself in her room over and over and over. And Raymond Carver is great for that. Tobias Wolff is an author who is really good for that as well.

Lorde

#67. What do you do with the kid who can't read? ... Well, what he did with the kid who couldn't read was to make her his mistress. What Farley did was to make her his punching bag. What the Cuban did was to make her his whore, or one among them
so Coleman believed more often than not.

Philip Roth

#68. Ever since I was a little kid, I've felt comfortable in a suit. It all started when my mom bought me a three-piece Pierre Cardin suit. I wore that thing everywhere. Eventually I realized I was going to be the kid who got beat up in school, but I kept wearing it.

Paul Feig

#69. I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids.

Patrick Rothfuss

#70. I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write.

Isabel Gillies

#71. I was a kid who would try anything, and I said, 'Sure, I'll try theater - sounds like fun.'

Katherine McNamara

#72. It's like the difference between a kid who goes to school and learns and a kid who goes to school and learns and comes home to parents who are reading to her and talking to her about the world, showing her things, teaching by their actions.

Roland Merullo

#73. I was that kid who did every activity when I was in high school. There wasn't a day that I didn't stay after school to do something. I just had my hands in everything. And I was similarly very, very angry. I was an angry little guy.

Chris Gethard

#74. Bullying is an evil because it not only destroys the life of the kid who's bullied, but also makes everyone in the class who knows this is going on feel guilty for not doing anything.

Philip Zimbardo

#75. Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'

Terry Pratchett

#76. Before i was jumped in i remember Lucky telling us how being in a gang was like having a second family ... a family who would be there when your own family wasn't. They would offer protection and security. It sounded perfect to a kid who'd lost his father.

Simone Elkeles

#77. I am the kid who sticks her finger in the light socket. I am the person who doesn't check the expiration date on the milk. I am the idiot who has never looked before she leaped. I am the girl who is falling apart, right now.

Amy Garvey

#78. I could have been a rich kid who stayed in college and got by on the path of least resistance, but I got much more out of being in the world and pulling my own weight.

Tim Daly

#79. The definition of cool: popularity without achievement. It's how President Obama got the youth vote. Ask any kid who voted for him,

Greg Gutfeld

#80. And I don't just mean that they change you. A lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. It's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people.

Sara Zarr

#81. I'm a small-town kid who grew up with a cornfield in the back yard and dreaming of serving my country in public office.

Mike Pence

#82. A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four hours a week and that's considered exemplary. [Whereas] a poor kid who lives in that community and takes care of all the kids in that neighborhood four hours every day is not seen as a volunteer.

Patricia Hill Collins

#83. I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a 'Housewives' whisperer and talk-show host.

Andy Cohen

#84. I'm of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn't look black. I was the super-nerdy kid who was also willing to fight.

Junot Diaz

#85. I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.

Samuel R. Delany

#86. I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

Lady Gaga

#87. Nobody's cut out for this town," Shane said. "Nobody sane anyway." "Says the kid who came back." "Yeah, kind of proves my point.

Rachel Caine

#88. I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.

St. Vincent

#89. You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.

Mehmet Oz

#90. I went from being a kid who loved to perform magic tricks to becoming the world's most notorious hacker, feared by corporations and the government.

Kevin Mitnick

#91. My whole life was absorbed with my art. I was known by my schoolmates as the kid who could draw.

Thomas Kinkade

#92. I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.

J. Cole

#93. All my life I thought I knew what music was. But I was like a kid who confuses his grandfather with God. A

Richard Powers

#94. They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who's getting beaten up in school is promoting homosexuality. If you gave me a million dollars, I wouldn't know how to promote homosexuality.

Barney Frank

#95. I was a sullen kid who smoked cigarettes and wore black every day, and I went to a school that was lacrosse players and Izods.

Peter Dinklage

#96. He bursts into tears, and not some manlike tears either, where you pretend you're brushing something off your face and, incidentally, wipe a tear. Nope. He starts bawling like a kid who spilled his Slushie ...

Alex Flinn

#97. If you're a kid who was not especially a star in your high school, I recommend going to a college in the middle of nowhere. I got all the attention I could ever have wanted.

Mindy Kaling

#98. I'm not a salsa singer who wants to sing in English, and I'm not this American kid who wants to sing Spanish.

Marc Anthony

#99. I don't know a kid who grew up in the '90s who wasn't obsessed with Disney, and I guess I never grew out of that phase, honestly. It's not just Disney: it's anything that has to do with fairytales for me. I think I just have Peter Pan Syndrome or something.

Todrick Hall

#100. There are things you won't know unless you try to find out. it's possible to notice things without seeming to. You're not a kid who doesn't know what a word says unless someone tells him. And how many years have you gone on living like that?

Kazuya Minekura