Kids Quotes

At restaurants, I carry paper and markers and tell everyone to draw a picture with a unicorn, an octopus and an explosion. That keeps kids still for a minute.

I have three kids. I should know how to take care of them.

As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.

The benefits kids get from watching "Sesame Street" can be as powerful as the ones children get from preschool.

As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.

As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none.

I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.

I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get.

I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.

When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood.

I listened to a lot of Michael Jackson growing up. A lot of Boyz II Men. I loved Mariah Carey. Just big vocalists. I was always that kid who just wore whatever and did whatever.

I've never been a huge prog fan. My background is punk. My background is learning how to play a bar chord and listen to Discharge records when I was a kid.

When I first started making music, for about the first 10 years, I was always the young kid. Everyone referred to me as such in any band.

I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.

One of the reasons I started acting was to re-make The Karate Kid, but Jaden Smith beat me to it.

I'm not married and I don't have kids, and so I like to go to work.

I think ultimately that sense of hope is something that even as a little kid I was able to kind of grab onto.

I'm really developing feelings for the kid.

I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

Pakistan tries mentally challenged girl of blasphemy against the Holy Book. India arrests kids for posts on Facebook. Morbid competition?

I am anyway acting all the time with my bacche log (kids), so I do not miss it at all!

I think America just needs to get real when it comes to the way our kids speak and communicate. They need to understand what happens in rap.

Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with "Idol," it has got me past so much of that.

I was always the weirdo at school. When I became a model [at 16], I didn't tell anybody. I was terrified that the kids would rip me to pieces.

Kid, you might just annoy me into killing you.

I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.

The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle.

Just once, I would like there to be something special about being the kid stuck in the middle.

If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.

I know when I was a kid I ate a beetle. I ate a beetle because I thought it was licorice.

I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.

I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

I was a kid who lived to read. It was the primary pleasure of my existence. It's still one of the primary pleasures of my existence. It's where I draw my sustenance.

Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their kids see them reading books for their own pleasure.

What would make me happiest is if kids read these books [Bink & Gollie] and think: there is so much to love in the world; and words are so much fun.

Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?

I like going to schools and telling classes that when I was a child, I failed every "will this kid become a writer" test.

To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things will happen. Maybe they won't, but it has to keep on moving.

Everything when I was a kid was illustrated.

Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.

[What's beautiful about my mother is] her compassion, how much she gives, whether it be to her kids and grandkids or out in the world. She's got a sparkle.

I'm a normal human being. I don't have any desire to change my body as a result of having had two kids. That's a good thing, isn't it?

I ordinarily do one film a year and the rest of the time I'm at home with the kids. Even when I am working I'm still basically at home and with the kids. I've never left them to go to work.

You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.

I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.

I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff.

The reason I haven't had kids yet is because I was so focused on my acting career, hoping I could get something to break.

I think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal.