To My Kids Quotes

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

Robbie Williams

#2. I have been a huge nerd to my kids. I haven't done the cool movies that they like. With '24,' I gained a lot of respect. '24' is now, it's hip, it's their generation.

Ricky Schroder

#3. There is a joke that I use all the time. I say it to my kids. I used to say it to my wife. She'd be talking to me about something very serious and then I would just look at her and go "Where are you from originally?" And she would go "Humphhh! C'mon. That's terrible!"

Stanley Tucci

#4. Because I'm an older mom, I have a responsibility to my kids as well as myself. I want to be there for them.

Christie Brinkley

#5. The truth is, I'd like to be closer to my kids. I'd like to share more with them. But that's not what this time in their lives is about. This is their time to separate, to self-direct, to become independent.

Kelly Corrigan

#6. I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.

Sally Phillips

#7. I'm attached to my children with whatever flaws they have, and if some glorious angel broke through the living room ceiling and offered to exchange them for other, better children, I'd cling to my kids and pray away this specter.

Andrew Solomon

#8. I've said to my kids, 'I don't want you to think I jumped away from you and clicked my heels and said bon voyage. It wasn't like that at all. It just about destroyed me.'

Ozzy Osbourne

#9. I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That's her first language. I don't want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating.

Miyavi

#10. It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages.

Jodi Picoult

#11. The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife.

Terrence Howard

#12. The last thing I think I am is perfect. I'm just trying to do the best job I can. I'm trying to be the best father I can to my kids. I'm trying to do the best job I can running my business.

James Packer

#13. I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.

Gayle Forman

#14. When talking w/kids its not what we say but how we say it! Think about your tone of voice & non-verbal communication.
When talking to my kids I can get them to listen better by not talking down to them, but talking to them at eyeball level

Kevin Heath

#15. Though I made my share of mistakes, as all parents do, I was devoted to my kids. I walked them to school every morning and walked back to pick them up at 3.

Sally Mann

#16. A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.

Gary Oldman

#17. Work hard, believe in your dreams, follow your dreams, don't give up, don't let failures hold you back. Those things were preached to me. They've taken a firm rooting system in my beliefs and what I'm passing on to my kids.

Kevin Sorbo

#18. I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.

R. Kelly

#19. My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things.

Mary Engelbreit

#20. I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.

Jodie Foster

#21. I wouldn't sacrifice my business for no acting career because my business is something, ultimately, that I know I'm going to pass down to my kids, and that's most important to me than anything else in the world. I can't pass an acting career down to my children.

Dwight Henry

#22. How am I going to explain to my kids one day that I can't buy them a happy meal because the toy will make them fat?

Carroll Bryant

#23. I have so many things that I say to my kids, I just drive them crazy.

Michael J. Fox

#24. I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.'

Genie Francis

#25. I can't see any separation between my music and my life. I play pretty much race music: its about what happened to my father, to me, and what can happen to my kids.

Archie Shepp

#26. The thing that is my main focus is my family. More than anything, I want to be a good husband to my wife and a good father to my kids.

Rex Hudler

#27. I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express.

Meryl Streep

#28. I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game.

Neil Diamond

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

Susan Powter

#30. Sometimes I hesitate to use the term sexual abuse. It conjures up worst-case scenarios in our minds, and we think, "That will never happen to my kids." And we never begin the conversation regarding sexual abuse with our children. But one violation left in secret can cause significant pain.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#31. I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!

Josh Hartnett

#32. Health has always been an important thing to me. I exercise and try to take care of myself, and drink a lot of water! And I push that to my kids so that they can carry on that same energy.

Doug E. Fresh

#33. I think I've been an incredible example to my kids of what not to do.

Woody Harrelson

#34. I try to explain that to my kids - the experience of going to a record store, flipping through racks and finding that album cover that intrigues you - but my kids don't want to know about it. They download the one song on the album they like, and pay their 99 cents.

Jon Bon Jovi

#35. I did say that I wanted to be a young mom, just because my mom was a young mom. It is better because I can be closer to my kids and stuff.

Lindsay Lohan

#36. I would have wanted my mom to see me settle down and to be a grandma to my kids.

Stephen Dorff

#37. What I learned from my kids is that the greatest joy in life is not from material trappings, power, or visibility. The greatest joy comes from your kids. Nothing is even close to my kids in terms of bringing me joy.

Guy Kawasaki

#38. You are going to be what you put in your body, so I try to teach that to my kids, and the kids around me.

Emeril Lagasse

#39. My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time.

Carol Vorderman

#40. My secret agenda is to convey my values to my kids.

Robert Fulghum

#41. I am like a friend to my kids. My wife, Sangeeta, handles their studies, etc.

Vijay

#42. I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.

Corey Hart

#43. I get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids.

Paula Poundstone

#44. If I compared myself to my kids, they know everything, and they're like small little hackers. I feel also that my identity can be stolen; I'm very paranoid about it compared to other people in the younger generation.

Michael Nyqvist

#45. Like anyone, I stress and get hard on myself from time to time, but it's minute compared to the pressure I used to put on myself to perform and succeed. To my kids' credit, they've probably helped me the most here: I'm more worried about what they're doing than what I'm doing!

Amanda Beard

#46. The best thing about having my own company is that I get to go to my kids' school events. I make my own schedule. I make my own destiny. - Allison Krongard, Wall Candy Arts

Holly Hurd

#47. You can't get anymore classic than being a part of a Disney animated film. To me, that's something I can have in my back pocket for the rest of my life. I'll be able to show it to my kids. I'll be walking around Disneyland, and it'll be bizarre to shake hands with Rapunzel.

Mandy Moore

#48. Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.

Kajol

#49. My kids accuse me and my wife of being fascists and overly concerned about tech, and they say that none of their friends have the same rules ... That's because we have seen the dangers of technology firsthand. I've seen it in myself, I don't want to see that happen to my kids.

Steve Jobs

#50. As for my career, I always said to my kids, 'you don't cry because it's over, you're happy because it happened.'

Pat Burns

#51. What makes me cry? Anything bad related to my kids. The world.

Raheem Devaughn

#52. I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.

Lemon Andersen

#53. I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

Bo Jackson

#54. That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

Taylor Dayne

#55. I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

Edie Falco

#56. I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I'd done and said. And I wished that I had done more of those things.

Don Yaeger

#57. Like many women, I stay active juggling many aspects of a very full life! I'm a busy mom. I also love to travel, garden, cook and volunteer at my kids school.

Jane Clayson

#58. Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.

Steven Spielberg

#59. You rich kids are all the same. Daddy may give you everything you want but the world won't, and it's my job to teach you that.

Evelyn Smith

#60. I have a responsibility to not look crazy in public. I don't want to be the person where later in life when I have kids, to say, 'Don't do this' and my kids go, 'But Mom, you did it.'

Raven-Symone

#61. I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us to discover the world for ourselves.

Ahmet Zappa

#62. Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible.

Wylie Dufresne

#63. If I can save one person along the way, I'm okay. The trials and tribulations my special needs kids go through daily is far greater than the journey I'm about to go on.

Renee Sloan

#64. If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.

Martin Freeman

#65. I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.

Christina Perri

#66. My fan base is extremely random. It's the 14-year-old white kid sitting next to your auntie from St. Luke's Baptist Church, to the 20-year-old Black girl who probably would go to a Rihanna concert, but she's coming to my show.

Robert Glasper

#67. Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, "How do I get my kids interested in science?" They're already interested in science. Just stop beating it out of them.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#68. You should've just gotten a kids' meal." Adrian told me, pointing to my half-eaten burger and fries. "You could've saved me a lot of money. And gotten a toy.

Richelle Mead

#69. I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.

Jared Harris

#70. I know we were kids at Brown. But there's no one I've met before you, or since, who even came close to completing my heart. It's always been there for you, waiting for your love to finn in the nooks and crannies. (Drew)

Eva Charles

#71. Sometimes I ride my bike to see the kids after a matinee and then ride back to do the show. That's the hard part, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Marcia Gay Harden

#72. It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'

Garrett Hedlund

#73. I hope I'm never a mom. But if I am, I'll make damn sure my kids look up to me.

Ellen Hopkins

#74. I feel like I have a very unique perspective especially for someone in the hip-hop genre. I'm not afraid to explore it, and how my upbringing then shapes my music and being a New York kid and all of that stuff ... that's really the most unique thing I can offer to the music in general.

Hoodie Allen

#75. I don't want to misrepresent who I am personally. I don't want my kids to see me on a talk show and say, "You're talking different" or "You look different, dad." I'm not gonna be an animal; I know how to conduct myself.

Michael Rapaport

#76. I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.

Carine Roitfeld

#77. For the rest of my life I'll be thinking about that hamburger. I'll be sitting there at the counter, holding it in my hands with tears streaming down my cheeks. The waitress will be looking away because she doesn't like to see kids crying when they are eating hamburgers ...

Richard Brautigan

#78. My kids just brought home a beautiful pumpkin, but you know what? I'm going to return it because it's a Democratic pumpkin. It has the orange color of John Kerry's tan, and the roundness of Teddy Kennedy.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#79. I'd forced books on my kids from the day they were born and, as it turned out, it had been completely unnecessary because all of them liked to read. Or maybe they liked to read because I'd read aloud nearly every children's book in print.

Jeff Shelby

#80. My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.

Anna Kendrick

#81. My husband and I have a deal, which has worked out well: He cooks one Sunday, I cook the next. The kids set the table, and we eat in the dining room together, just as I used to do as a kid.

Christa Miller

#82. I don't live my life through my kids, nor do I expect them to live theirs through mine. But of course, they're everything.

Neneh Cherry

#83. Moving [to the White House], whatever stresses would be on my husband and me, we could handle; we are grown-ups. But it wouldn't be until the day that my kids came home and said to me, "I like it here," that I'd feel like I could breathe and know that we're all going to be okay here.

Michelle Obama

#84. I go to see my kids in school plays.

Sean Bean

#85. I'm very rigid about my schedule. I sit down at 8 A.M., and the Internet blocker goes on. My standard time is 120 minutes. I'm a compulsive writer, so it reminds me to stop writing ... If I write more than that, I turn into an ogre for my kids.

Claire Cameron

#86. I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

Rachel McAdams

#87. I tell my kids they are going to live to over 100.

Michael Douglas

#88. I demand my kids be respectful, responsible and grateful. And they have to love the Lord with all their hearts.

Mariano Rivera

#89. When most artists walk offstage, they go to a lonely hotel room. I went home to my family. They were there before the show, during and after. It's been great. I never would have done it any other way. I wasn't gonna miss raising my kids. There was no way that was gonna happen.

Gloria Estefan

#90. I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one.

Ann Hood

#91. I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing. We have good insurance and easy access to health care. It's a different situation for another family. I didn't want to make the decision for them.

Eula Biss

#92. I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has tough things to overcome. My kids say to me, 'This isn't fair.' I said, 'Life isn't fair.' Everybody has their issues. It's how you handle your issues that distinguishes you.

Maria Shriver

#93. She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it.

Louise Fletcher

#94. I tried to talk my daughter out of going with a hockey player but, he's a good kid. He asked me if he could marry Carrie before he asked her. I said: You want to what? I thought he was just going to ask for more ice time.

Phil Esposito

#95. I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.

Virginia Postrel

#96. I'm not shooting every day of the week, which allows me to fly home to be with my kids for the weekends. That's how I keep it moving.

Vanessa L. Williams

#97. I feel like I was born the day my kids were and that my life before was only there to gain wisdom for them. The point is you do your best. Your very best every day. You do it and you do it for them!

Drew Barrymore

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

Tim Federle

#99. I watch my daughter wanting to be like other kids and getting upset that she's not. But I always try and instill in her the idea that she's perfect as she is.

Idris Elba

#100. I was very spiritual as a kid. I think I felt and thought about things a lot more deeply than most of the other kids my age. I wanted to help people.

Jake Epstein