Kids These Days Quotes

#1. Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really quick in about 140 characters or less because of these new tools.

Erik Qualman

#2. When you're a Chicago artist, to play Lollapalooza, that's not a normal thing. It's artists on a path to a certain place that do that. Chief Keef did it; Kids These Days did it; Cool Kids did it. And I'm the next Cool-Kids-Chief, if you will.

Chance The Rapper

#3. Marv stared at his phone. Kids these days. It was like on that day in school when they taught personal responsibility, this entire fucking generation had banged in sick.

Dennis Lehane

#4. The first encounter report had come from some weak-tea heiligenschein type charting the edges of the quantum information paradox in realities with anisotropic causalities. (Kids these days. Whatever happened to popping down to Earth to play burning bush to a roving band of shepherds?)

Ian Tregillis

#5. Raising kids these days is hard. I'm the second to last child in my family. I think it's tough; I have two kids, I see them and I feel like I see things in them; they awaken the inner child in you.

Gore Verbinski

#6. YouTube is the new TV. I'm the voice of the young people. I feel like kids these days don't watch TV anymore ... No, I will never leave YouTube. Never ever ever ... If I do, you can do whatever you want to me.

Spoken Reasons

#7. The car was the iPhone of the 20th century. Kids these days don't have to drive anymore. They just go there virtually.

Jay Leno

#8. Kids these days don't know as much about music as they think they do.

Dustin Diamond

#9. Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.

Angela Davis

#10. In the future, artists will get record deals because they have fans-not the other way around ... The only memento 'kids these days' want is a selfie. It's part of the new currency, which seems to be 'how many followers you have on Instagram'.

Taylor Swift

#11. Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.

Sandra Bernhard

#12. Kids these days, right? Ignorant and in love with their ignorance.

Christopher Farnsworth

#13. Kids these days," Dragos said quietly. "They grow up so fast."
"Supersonic fast," Pia said just as quietly.

Thea Harrison

#14. 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.

Mark Ruffalo

#15. The problem with kids these days is they don't have enough fun stuff to do. When I was stationed with my family in Germany, youth basketball programs gave me something to strive to do my best at.

Shaquille O'Neal

#16. There is such pressure on kids these days to be the best at everything.

Shirley Henderson

#17. watch out for schools that promise your kids will "experience success." I'm teaching Plato's Dialogues these days, and I noticed that Socrates never let his students experience success. Socrates won the argument every time.

David Kahn

#18. It is a beautiful day outside. Birds are singning, flowers are blooming.... On days like these, kids like you... should be burning in hell

Toby Fox

#19. 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.

Susan Olsen

#20. Daniel wiped his greasy hands on his pants. 'Just some kids playing around.'
'With a crowbar?'
'Yeah, they're all the rage these days.

Bree Despain

#21. It would seem that not only is religion lacking in the schools - so is common sense. I wonder what a teacher is supposed to say if a kid asks about those four words on a dime - 'In God We Trust.' Or maybe that's why they aren't being taught how to read these days.

Ronald Reagan

#22. I used to play trumpet when I was a kid, and then I got braces, and I couldn't really play it anymore, so sometimes I wish I could still play that; I think it's a great instrument, so maybe one of these days I'll pick it back up.

Eric Hutchinson

#23. Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids!

Jim Rohn

#24. I don't really think kids care much these days - they just tell you to f*** off.

Robbie Fowler

#25. Kids are much more intuitive these days. Not that I'm crazy about what's on TV, but they know so much these days.

Joe Torre

#26. So many parents these days are totally cool with their kids living on the couch the whole time. It's like a new thing with families. But you've got to leave the nest and get out there.

Blake Anderson

#27. I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach - Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of early days in films, he put Laurel with Hardy, he created the Our Gang kids, and all these silent movies he did - he was a giant.

Billy Crystal

#28. Unless you have kids, you actually have no idea what kids are watching on TV these days.

Henry Selick

#29. These days, teachers have it rough. Kids can be hyperactive, disobedient, and obnoxious. It must feel like being locked in a room of drunk midgets.

Craig Ferguson

#30. One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.

Luke Ford

#31. They always circle back to talking about what ails them and what their kids are up to these days - the two subjects we all know the least about.

Dobby Gibson

#32. Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.

Chuck Palahniuk

#33. These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad.

John Lydon

#34. Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.

Linda Blair

#35. Sadly, a lot of what passes for feminism these days is just moaning about men, congratulating ourselves on nothing in particular, and mocking them for being big kids while doing everything we can to keep them that way.

Julie Burchill

#36. Hey, all the cool kids are sleeping with stuffed animals these days.

Shannon Messenger

#37. Kids have too much money these days, if you ask me.

John Swartzwelder

#38. Kids are more advanced these days. The teenage years now start at 11.

Michael Crichton

#39. Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast.

Serena Williams

#40. you can go just about anywhere these days and see kids that pay very little attention to their parents.

Allen Russell

#41. Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by various branches of my bloodline, that 'even lesbians can have babies these days.'

Beth Ditto

#42. 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

#43. 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.

Billy Bob Thornton

#44. I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm always working on something, whether a book, or a law review article that no one will ever read, or teaching. It pretty much means I work a lot, but it's all stuff I love.

Alafair Burke

#45. 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.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#46. You sound like a young person. You are probably all hip to the lingo the kids use these days." "You and I are the same age, Mr. Tiberius.

T.J. Klune

#47. Kids are so smart these days. They sense when there's a phony bologna out there. Especially in music, when they see something that's being marketed to them, they'll call it out. They'll be like, "This chick is bullshit."

Katy Perry

#48. Why? Do you plan to make out with her?"
His teeth ground with so much force he feared they would soon be nothing but a fond memory. "I plan to question her."
"Ah. So that's what the kids are calling it these days. Well, have fun." with that, a still-grinning Paris strolled from the room.

Gena Showalter

#49. What I'd love to do is work with kids in the U.S. to raise their awareness and encourage them to be global citizens. We're all connected these days; we can listen to the same music as kids all around the world and share our ideas.

Jason Mraz

#50. Childhood is just this amazing place, and in my books, I was trying to express my concern about childhood being eroded. You have kids' TV programs being interrupted by terrorist attacks, and kids are exposed to so much these days.

Alexandra Adornetto

#51. Ya' know, these days kids seem to be getting younger and younger.

David Foster

#52. We grew up in the good old days before kids had these damn computers and actually played outside.

Jon Stewart

#53. Kids are smarter than grown ups these days. ========== We Were Liars (Lockhart, E.)

Anonymous

#54. These days, checks are direct-deposited, money comes out of a machine in the wall, and we swipe a plastic card to make a purchase. In other words, your kids can grow up thinking money comes in an endless supply if you don't show them otherwise.

Jean Chatzky

#55. So many kids are fat drug addicts these days, it's almost as if Rush Limbaugh had puppies.

Bill Maher

#56. My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.

Omar Dorsey

#57. By putting pressure on myself to develop a great game, I had less pressure to win. These days, I tell kids that the way I grew up, it wasn't about winning. It was about playing well, about playing the "right" way. That approach helped me enjoy the game and develop mine to its maximum potential.

Pete Sampras