Kids Quotes

I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I've been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the end of the year I had to pick a charity to donate my taxes to.

I told (God) I'd take every opportunity to speak for the kids who can't speak.

Poor kid,' Jenna says, and rolls her eyes toward me for a moment. Then she returns to her book. 'She doesn't even understand what kind of place this is.

Even the presence of my kids cannot, during those writing hours, disturb me. Unless there's a bone sticking out of their arm, I'm not interested.

It always made me sad that there were kids who didn't have homes.

Well, Luce, my dear, you may have gone to boarding school parties, but you've never seen a throw-down like reform school kids do it.

And books are such an empowering way to give voice to some of these kids who aren't yet ready to tell their story. Or don't know what their story is, or are trying to figure it out.

It's unfair how the kids who are starving for attention tended to be so annoying that people had no inclination to give it to them.

I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.

I am so grateful for after-school snack time, when I light a candle, pour some tea, slice some apples, and get to listen in on my kids' highs and lows of the day.

I watch some kids ask the cafeteria ladies to sign their books. What do they write: "Hope your chicken patties never bleed?" Or, maybe, "May your Jell-O always wiggle?

Kids are mostly very resilient.

One of my favorite things about 'Spring Awakening' is that it is enjoyable and important for both kids and adults to see.

My kids can't watch ('Howard the Duck'). By the time I get in bed with the duck, they are, like, 'Turn it off, mom. You in bed with a duck is just pretty much a deal breaker.'

I used to do skits for my mom... and I was always entertaining as a kid.

I signed my deal when I was 11, and the success I had, no one could explain that to an adult, what's about to happen to them, much less a kid. There's not many people around who've experienced that.

I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids.

A kid with a dream from Akron Ohio. Now chopping it up with the Prez. Life is Good

Working with all of these kids is great. It doesn't get any better than this, to come down and inspire kids who want to play the game of basketball and put smiles on their faces.

My favorite thing about being a father is just seeing my kids grow and do some of the same things that I did when I was a kid, man.

As a parent, if you have multiple kids, you can't teach them all the same thing because they all have different personalities. They're their own person.

As a parent you protect your kids as much as possible.

Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.

I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.

I don't think many kids question their surroundings. Everything seems so permanent and inevitable growing up, even chaos.

Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.

I couldn't relate to kid stuff. 'Jimmy doesn't like me!' Who cares? I was worried we didn't have gas money or food. Those were my concerns.

For my kids, I cook everything. We have dinner every night, pretty much, just the four of us: my husband and me and our two kids.

The thing that's so hard about being a kid is you don't have enough knowledge to explain things yourself.

At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

Not to speak for Jason [Benjamin], but he's a straight married dude with two kids.

I was always talking about peace and love, even when I was a kid. That's how I grew up in my family.

I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things the right way. Low expectations reap great rewards.

Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.

Kids need somewhere to go, so they're not bored on the street.

As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way.

What I would do in order to be popular was, I'd put myself on line and joke around and be funny, and I was always known as the crazy kid.

I was single for most of my life. The best thing that happened to me is my wife. I've got four kids. All of them go to Harvard. Much better than their dad. They're really bright kids.

My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.

I remember, as a kid, my dad always told me, "Getting older beats the alternative." Although, now my father actually is the alternative, so I don't know what he would say. He's completely dead.

There are mothers that feel they made a mistake by having a kid at a very young age and they didn't get to live their life.

Kids are sponges. They will emulate what they see and what they're exposed to.

We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.

I don't buy the 'at 60 it's great to have kids' thing. I don't buy the line that has been thrown down - 'You can have a kid at any time.' That doesn't mean you should.

I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked.

Kids seem to get me when I play colleges - they like it because I go after them. They'll come up after and say I am like their dads, only funny.

I don't think I would be a good politician. I kid about it when I get a standing ovation. Sometimes I'll say, "I may run for Governor," but it's strictly a joke.

Ever since I was a little kid I was obsessed with films, and I always wanted to make them

The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven’t been skating as a kid it’s impossible to play - and I wasn’t a skater.

I'd kind of expected that kids who knew about the Real World wouldn't act like jock dipwads. Guess I was wrong.