Top 100 Quotes About Kids
#1. I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.
Simon Baker
#2. I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying.
Dick Van Dyke
#3. I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'
Dwight Henry
#4. If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back, you're 90 percent of the way to where you need to go, because no, we're not kids, and no, this is not a bike.
Seth Godin
#5. I've basically grown up with Harry Potter, as so many kids my age have. It's kind of a part of my life.
Saoirse Ronan
#6. In high school, I was one of the cofounders of New Kids on the Block my freshman year in high school. But I also started studying theatre in high school my freshman year as well. So throughout high school, I was actually doing both.
Donnie Wahlberg
#7. I'm not very charismatic or telegenic. I feel bad for the kids waiting three hours in line for their book to be signed.
Jeff Kinney
#9. What self-respecting teenage kid growing up in the U.S. hasn't played Truth or Dare? Before cell phones, we kids spent a lot of time in the same place and actually had to come up with our own entertainment. Truth or Dare was the game of choice to break the ice between the boys and the girls.
Catherine Bybee
#10. I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!
Mercedes McCambridge
#11. The time I spend with my kids informs every fiber of who I am.
Annette Bening
#12. Being mom is one of my favorite things. It makes my day watching my kids grow and accomplish things in their lives.
Amanda Penland
#13. I get a lot of kids distracted. Sometimes they got to go cover left field, but they're over here talking to me, getting an autograph.
Pedro Martinez
#14. Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.
Mitt Romney
#15. The very success of the modern American family - where kids get punctually to SAT-tutoring classes, the mortgage gets paid, the second-story remodel stays on budget - surely depends on spouses' not being in love.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#16. What is the thing that Will could do to make me not love him? That would make me abandon him? I can't think of one. I'm sorry. Except if he did something bad to the kids - now we've got a problem.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#17. Be present in your work because kids live in the moment, so as soon as you're not in the present, you're not being authentic.
Kadir Nelson
#18. I think you have to be careful with spices. Kids' palates can be very delicate, and they might not like things overspiced. In my cookbooks for kids, I do a milder version of my signature spice blend, Emeril's Essence, called Baby Bam, which has no cayenne pepper.
Emeril Lagasse
#19. Life without kids is like a camera without film.
Dirk Benedict
#20. My happiness is measured against my kids' happiness - when they're in a good place, I feel really good.
Michelle Obama
#21. Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true.
Robert Breault
#22. I'm trying to do what's right, but I don't know if there is a such a thing as a right option anymore. Just different kids of wrong."
Breakfast narrowed his eyes at her. "Don't get too comfortable with that notion.
Josephine Angelini
#23. I don't think of cartoons or comics as being for kids.
Jeff Kinney
#24. One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
Claire Scovell LaZebnik
#25. With the chronic obesity in America, it's more important than ever to not only feed kids healthy foods but to teach them how to make healthy choices on their own.
Jennie Garth
#26. The summer brings new and unwanted orange freckles to my face. I hate my hair and my skin ... kids call me freckle-face strawberry. My hair is cherry. Who wants that?
Lisa Dekis
#27. I can only really speak for myself and what I've noticed in my kids and the people in my life, but because dinosaurs were real, and yet they seem so fantastical, is why they held such a huge fascination for me as a child. They're so different from human beings.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#28. If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?
Marilyn Manson
#29. How am I going to tell the kids? How do I tell the man that I love, the man that I swore I'd grow old with that we won't have that happy ending that he and I have worked so hard for? How do I say goodbye to all of you? How do I let go?
Nicole Ireland
#30. Moms seem so overinvolved in solving problems for their children instead of letting the kids learn to work it out. Whatever happens between the kids becomes a drama between the moms.
Julie Lythcott-Haims
#31. Having kids certainly gets me to ask the question, 'Who is the adult here, and who is the kid?'
Christian Slater
#32. The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.
Jock Sturges
#33. When you're sitting in front of a screen, you're not using all of your senses at the same time. Nowhere than in nature do kids use their senses in such a stimulated way.
Richard Louv
#34. A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how they behave with their kids.
Jason Statham
#35. I used to babysit. And the kids I babysat were huge Hilary Duff fans, and so we used to have dance parties every day to her music. So I am very familiar with the albums of Miss Hilary Duff.
Gillian Jacobs
#36. These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying to inspire kids to create their own stories and comics, and I don't want them to feel stifled by 'perfectionism.'
Dav Pilkey
#37. If there is some sort of trouble at home, kids don't think that James Bond is going to come save their mum from their dad, or their dad from their mum. They don't think, "Bond is going to come and save me." Superman is a different sort of idealized figure.
Henry Cavill
#38. I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.
Trent Reznor
#39. The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24/hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids.
David Rolf
#40. Open yer mind to the world, kids. No point havin' yer windows open if yer don't pull back the curtains to let in the light! - Grandpa's favourite saying to Kirsten and Jeremy. Quoted in The Hybrid and the Emeralds of Elisar
Suellen Drysdale
#41. I was born in 1972, which means that in "rock" terms I have no business addressing "the kids" unless it's to shoo them out of my garden.
Dan Bejar
#42. All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.
Martin Gore
#43. We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.
Stephen Baxter
#44. As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds.
Darell Hammond
#45. Can I brush your hair? she asked as she led the way, her disposition doing a 180 on a dime. Kids. Can't live with 'em. Can't eat 'em for lunch.
Darynda Jones
#46. Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.
Alice Walker
#48. I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.
Marian Wright Edelman
#49. It's 2010. I'm forty-three years old. I've just turned in the final draft of what will be my third novel when I decide I want a tattoo. Maybe it's a middle-age thing. Or maybe now that my kids are nearly grown and I have a career in place, I'm finally coming into my own.
Therese Fowler
#50. I think a lot of the problem is that at 8 o'clock there's nothing on for kids.
Melissa Joan Hart
#51. My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the paper and the articles she wrote. She had the best memory of anyone I know, and she could really tell a tale.
Candace Camp
#52. People get into relationships. They get married and have kids, and all of a sudden, you can't just pick up and go get coffee, or go away for the weekend together, or go to a costume party together. It becomes a thing you have to plan.
Cristin Milioti
#53. But even more important, I think hip-hop has bridged the culture gap. It brings white kids together with Black kids, brown kids with yellow kids. They all have something in common that they love. It gets past the stereotypes and people hating each other because of those stereotypes. People
Jeff Chang
#54. Probably the best part of my life has been watching the kids play their games.
Jerry Kramer
#55. I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry ... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.
Adriana Lima
#56. Millions of Mexicans leave their kids in order to take care of other kids. That's a very painful thing.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#57. I think great songs appeal to people at any age. Kids love the Beatles, too. Kids love Tom T. Hall. Of course, Tom T. wrote some things that were specifically for kids. But I think kids recognize quality more than they get credit for sometimes.
Jason Isbell
#58. Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.
Tony DiCicco
#59. Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
Bill Cosby
#60. Kids today don't know that much about vinyl.
Martin Gore
#61. 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
#62. Coming from Morocco was just different, man. It's a third-world country, and you are trying to make it happen. That's all it is. I didn't have any problem hooking up with the black kids because I'm from North Africa. And as far as Latinos, we are all the same.
French Montana
#63. We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other,
Henry Jenkins
#64. Hopefully, kids realize you can do anything you want. Skateboarding can be that gateway.
Ryan Sheckler
#65. The thing I don't get about paedophilia ... Why the hell do kids find old men in dirty raincoats so sexy?
Frankie Boyle
#66. I think there's no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It's like inventing something, but it's invisible, you know? It's weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that's the joy. It's like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they're your kids.
Jason Mraz
#67. People are also dying from vaccinations. Evan, my son, died in front of me for two minutes. You ask any mother in the autism community if we'll take the flu, the measles, over autism and day of the week. I think they need to wake up and stop hurting our kids.
Jenny McCarthy
#68. Kids were that way. The worse thing you could do to them was make them feel you had no use for them, that their presence didn't matter one way or the other, that they had nothing
Nick Wilgus
#69. Children usually have a natural curiosity about the world and everything in it until they get to school and somebody throws them against the locker because they get A's and act intelligent. After that, some kids try to dumb it down and adapt.
Joshua Neik
#70. When I was designing, I had in mind Jimi Hendrix, and I could hardly find skinny indie black kids to wear my clothes. I remember one telling me he had to swap his skinny jeans for baggy ones in the subway before going home, so he wouldn't get in trouble in his neighborhood.
Hedi Slimane
#71. I could get through this. I would be strong because I was so close to achieving my dream of having my kids together.
Abeba Habtu
#72. I don't think it really matters whether parents are strict or lenient, as long as they're consistent. Kids can live with more or less any set of rules so long as they know what they are. It's arbitrary tyranny that gets them mixed up.
Ken Follett
#73. When I get in the car I love my wife and kids more than anything, but I'm not thinking about that side of things. I'm thinking about the car, I'm thinking about the race and I'm thinking about how to make the car faster.
Scott Dixon
#74. You can't judge your parenting by the choices of your kids.
Todd Stocker
#75. It's one of my biggest internal struggles - the whole schooling system in London and the fact that my kids are going to a posh school. It freaks me out.
Stella McCartney
#76. The bells are a very good investment. They never break if they are maintained. I can teach the kids the basics. They may play bells for only one year, but many of them go on to play at local churches.
Dan Gable
#77. I don't know what I'm saying, really, but I guess it's like having a kid, though I don't have any kids. It's yours, you made it, and no matter what happens, you have that pride of ownership. You love it, even it it didn't amount to much.
Kevin Wilson
#78. I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.
Jack Black
#79. Sometimes, it's just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It's exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.
Michelle Obama
#80. I always remind my kids, "I'm your parent, but I'm a human being, too, so I may not be perfect."
Kelly Ripa
#81. When I talk to people, their concern is, how are you going to create jobs? How are you going to help turn this economy around? How are we going to make sure that when my kids get out of high school or college there will be some job there? Those are the concerns that are on their minds.
Alexi Giannoulias
#82. There's nothing better for kids than a bucket and shovel at the beach. I grew up across the marsh from The Citadel. We loved buying chicken necks at the Piggly Wiggly, tying them to a string on a stick and catching blue crabs.
Thomas Gibson
#83. I thanked the lucky stars for my great metabolism, because Karsen had showed me pictures of her mom once and it was scary the transformation she underwent after popping three kids out. She went from a small, dainty beauty to a giant pineapple blob of a body.
Holly Hood
#84. I definitely think that movies have the possibility to be something positive, and are really becoming teaching tools for a lot of kids growing up.
Larisa Oleynik
#85. Maybe kids are the only ones capable of love. As good as it gets, before you get all fucked-up.
Katey Hawthorne
#86. Kids do not appreciate subtlety in adults when they are trying to understand something.
Stan Morris
#87. We're celebrating our freedom. We're celebrating our ability to be kids when everything is trying to take that away from us. It's a choice, Ty. We can do whatever we want.
Matthew Quick
#88. Nowdays, Rosie the Rivetere was a former soccer mom who had just opened her own catering business when Last Night came down and her husband and kids were eaten by a parking attendant at the local megamall's discount- appliance emporium.
Colson Whitehead
#89. People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.
John Lasseter
#90. You can tell your kids they are perfect and don't need to change - which could cause insecurity when they recognize their own shortcomings - or tell them they are terrible, which would undermine their sense of self-worth and confidence. There's a happy middle ground.
Daphne Oz
#91. My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!
Vanessa Hudgens
#92. Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"
Rose chuckled.
"But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out.
Mitch Albom
#94. If we expose kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it.
Kevin Henkes
#95. The message I'll share ... is that inclusion is extremely important for kids with and without disabilities.
Clay Aiken
#96. I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says.
Marco Rubio
#97. I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
Roald Dahl
#98. If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what life is about.
Sandra Bullock
#99. I'm hooked on email. That's right, kids, I'm one of you.
Craig Ferguson
#100. Shit, if I can teach you precalc, I can teach anybody. like maybe kids with autism.
John Green
