Kids Need Us Quotes

#1. I would want America to know our kids need us. Spend as much time with your kids as you can. Enjoy them. Be with them. Hug your children; You never know when it will be the last time.

Tony Dungy

#2. Our kids need us to be the dad, not a fun single uncle. When you can replace your 007 poster with a framed portrait of Grandma, your kids will experience an underlying sense of being at home when they are with you - whether for a weekend, a summer, or full-time.

Tez Brooks

#3. I'd like there to be less refugees. I'd like all girls to go to school. That's what we need to be thinking about, and working on making our own families good and strong and our own kids happy.

Angelina Jolie

#4. Kids certainly need a lot of love so they know you're behind them whatever they do, well, more or less.

Eve Branson

#5. In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.

Ian Rush

#6. I've always thought stability was suffocating and deadly. Like, when I read that the kids I went to law school with have stayed at the same firm, I feel like I'm reading an obituary. How much money do you need? Six million, seven million? Put that in the bank and do something else. Get out!

Glenn Greenwald

#7. Children do not need half a dozen sports, music, art, or theater activities. Kids actually need more free playtime without adult instruction.

Laura Schlessinger

#8. Young men need a positive influence, especially when they don't have a strong male figure in their lives. They can be influenced by a great, godly man in the church, which gives men a great mission in the church to influence these kids.

Tony Evans

#9. You don't need to have kids to write a good book for kids. I don't want my kids to see themselves in my books. Their lives should be their lives.

Kevin Henkes

#10. 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?

Susan Sarandon

#11. When you are a kid, you need to have something to do. This will keep you off the streets.

Jim Carrey

#12. And on that note," Nate smiled at them, "I'm leaving. I think I've got everything I need from you two. Good luck with all your relationship drama. Glad to see you kids are finally working things out. And by 'working things out', I mean bickering like an old divorced couple. So fun.

Chelsea Fine

#13. I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more math major CEOs, more math major senators. But we won't get there unless we dump the stereotype that math is only worthwhile for kid geniuses.

Jordan Ellenberg

#14. These days, kids need to be sensitive and care about others. Not even fake-caring either, but they're actually expected to worry about everyone's every feeling. Children basically have to behave as no adult has behaved ever.

Bijou Hunter

#15. Kids? It's like living with homeless people. They're cute but they just chase you around all day long going, 'Can I have a dollar? I'm missing a shoe! I need a ride!

Kathleen Madigan

#16. I got lots of love for my crew, that is;
No love for them other crews and rival kids.
All them out-of-town niggas know what time it is,
And if they don't? They need to buy a watch, word up.

Prodigy

#17. My parents want me to be a lawyer or something like that. Something steady. That's always their main concern as parents: "Oh, you need a salary, you need life insurance, why aren't you having kids?" But in the end, they're happy about it.

Thu Tran

#18. The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways

Russell Barkley

#19. Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into neighborhood stickball games. We need to give kids room to create their own rules, set their own terms, and move their bodies in their own ways.

Darell Hammond

#20. In the NBA you need a little bit more than that when Jordan is front of you. You need a little bit more than that when it is Barkley or Karl Malone or Shaq or whoever else. You need a lot more than that frankly if you're the English kid who can't jump.

John Amaechi

#21. One of the most important things is just to be kind to other people. That is absolutely really important to us, and important to me. That's something that you need to help your kids with, for sure.

Sam Trammell

#22. "A closed mouth doesn't get fed." Oftentimes, we feel not worthy or we don't want to bother people. We forget to ask for help or what we need or would like. My grandmother used to say that quote to us as kids. It's kind of always stuck with me.

Kevin Daniels

#23. Communicating w/kids, its a 2 way street, sometimes they just need us to be there for them & listen.

Kevin Heath

#24. But kids like us grow up and need our own relationship with God, forged in the heart through time and experience, not draped around us by the church we attend. We need to know God for ourselves, not secondhand.

Frank E. Peretti

#25. Jack, we gotta chance to make a difference in their lives. They need us. How can we go back to that big empty house knowing that these kids got no place to call home?

Randolph Randy Camp

#26. It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that ... look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.

Burt Rutan

#27. Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves and from other adults.

Margaret Kennedy

#28. It's easy to let your family suffer for your work. Many of us do this because we see our jobs as a means of maintaining our families. We have thoughts such as 'I need to make more money so that my kids can go to college debt-free.'

Travis Bradberry

#29. We need to actually teach kids that books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat every bit on your plate. It's like secret adult's business. It's the secret we never, ever tell our children. No adult ever read a book because it's good for us. We read because it is fun.

Jackie French

#30. We all need to save money to send our kids to college, to buy our first house, and to retire. But the truth is that most of us don't save very much.

Timothy Noah

#31. We need more child abuse laws, these kids have been abusing us parents long enough.

Lawrence Foort

#32. Child abuse is one of those issues that's very difficult to talk about because it's surrounded by guilt and shame and so on, but us avoiding that issue doesn't help those kids in need out there who need support.

Chris Hemsworth

#33. Kids need to see that Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. And they need to know it can happen to them.

Sue Miller

#34. Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.

Helen Hunt

#35. Kids need to start thinking for themselves. Not to be like their friends that think they're individuals. I don't want you to be like us, I want you to be like you.

Marilyn Manson

#36. The one thing that kids need is consistency.

Julianne Moore

#37. Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to.

Rod Blagojevich

#38. My kids will be needing me a lot when they hit their teens. If I know anything about being a teenager. I need to be braced to be spending a lot of time with all six of them and making sure I can be there for when they go through everything.

Angelina Jolie

#39. The government says Rant's alive because they need a villain. The kids say he's alive because they need a hero.

Chuck Palahniuk

#40. These kids are already hard. They don't need to be made harder. The issue is softening them up. They need to learn how to care about life again. They've lost that. That's what we need to give back to them.

Edward Humes

#41. Preacher's kids need another consistent voice in their lives over the years.

Andy Stanley

#42. My mom always wanted a bunch of kids, but they stopped after me. I never understood why."
His voice was wistful. Haven closed the distance between them and wrapped her arms around his neck. "Maybe they realized they created perfection when they made you and didnt need anymore.

J.M. Darhower

#43. My dream is to try to reach as many kids and readers who might need an unlikely hero to connect to.

Tim Federle

#44. SAT tests are designed by huge panels of experts in education and psychology who work for years to design tests in which not one single question measures any bit of knowledge that anyone might actually need in the real world. We should applaud kids for getting lower scores.

Dave Barry

#45. Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays ... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

Ryan Giggs

#46. 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.

Ron Taffel

#47. The biggest single problem of American parents today is the foolish idea that you just have to be a friend to your children. Kids need parents, not just another pal. This means being able and willing to say no, to challenge faulty thinking, and to expect accountability.

Steve Biddulph

#48. I think parents need to make sure they have parental controls and not have their credit card linked up to in-app purchases so their kids can just spend whenever they want to. They need to ask permission.

Kim Kardashian

#49. Kids everywhere need to feel safe, hopeful, connected and appreciated.

Michele Borba

#50. There's nothing I like better than talking to kids, just sharing the music with them. To relate to them, you need to play songs they're familiar with.

Jake Shimabukuro

#51. Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#52. I was allowed to have an imagination rather than a need to be entertained all the time by television or computers or anything like that. So, I think it's helpful to try and give your kids.

Kirsten Dunst

#53. I think we need to be a bit more proactive. Let's not just talk about availability of sports, let's make the facilities more accessible to kids and make them want to come along.

Hope Powell

#54. I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.

Kajol

#55. Kids need to think that you care before they care what you think.

Wes Moore

#56. If we're going to change the world for the better, kids need to know that they can by feeling good about who they are and helping others.

Dorothy Koomson

#57. I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.

Christine Lagarde

#58. For British cinema to survive, you really need a British film culture, and it's got to start down there, with young kids watching films in the cinema - so they can be transported to a different world.

Gurinder Chadha

#59. But it appeared that the motivation for the project was a newspaper article titled 'Research Proves Kids Need a Mom and a Dad.' Someone had written the word 'crap' in red beside the article. It was an excellent start. Scientists need to cultivate a suspicious attitude to research.

Graeme Simsion

#60. Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.

Henry Rollins

#61. Kids need a mom and a dad, and people understand that. Marriage between a mom and a dad is most important for kids.

Tim Huelskamp

#62. hard to find a children's cartoon or movie that doesn't tell kids that they need to look inside themselves for moral guidance.

Anonymous

#63. I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

Karl Marlantes

#64. Kids in North Lawndale need not be confused about their prospects: Cook County's Juvenile Temporary Detention Center sits directly adjacent to the neighborhood.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#65. There's an internal battle. I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids and the kids win.

Jennifer Garner

#66. Every generation seems to have its members who think the world has gone to hell and a hand basket and that they need to explain a challenging world to their kids.

Steven Petrow

#67. Women need to turn their attention from saving their spouse, their mothers, their this, their that, their kids, to putting that financial oxygen mask on their face first. When they're solid, they can pick up the whole world.

Suze Orman

#68. Kids need their minds blown every now and then. It'll keep them from thinking that managing a McDonald's is the most they can hope for.

Richard Kadrey