Kids Quotes

When I finish playing football, I would like to work with kids and sleep!

I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.

I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?

My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks.

When you put more than a million kids in school, you take a plane today and go to Haiti, you cannot see the results. You will see the results in 30 years when you see a different type of Haitian.

Kids in different countries know my movies by heart because they've seen them so many times. And wonderful returns never stop.

If you really want your kids to fly, you don't put stones in their pockets.

Now that's hard for many people to believe, given that the media image of a drug dealer is a black kid standing on the street corner with his pants sagging down.

When you're a kid and you go to Disneyland or Disneyworld and you're so pumped and then you go when you're grown up and it's not as much fun as you remember it.

We're our kids' first and best role models. So the first question is, what are you as a mom or a dad doing every day, or every week, to start getting into the good habits?

I've always been a closet jock, but when I got married and had kids, that fell by the wayside.

My happiness is measured against my kids' happiness - when they're in a good place, I feel really good.

Happiness for me is when my kids are good and when my family is whole.

I worked so hard for so long - I did a lot of movies. I also worked a lot when my kids were smaller, before they were in school.

Most people in the world have seen more of me on-screen than my kids have.

I wouldn't want to sacrifice the last years that I have of being youthful in this business to have kids.

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

I'm keenly aware of how important it is to set a good example. You may not think that your kids are paying attention to you, especially with something like money, but they probably are.

I've decided to keep working until my last kid is thu college.

Kids can and are a blessing. But plenty of people without kids live and die just as happy.

I've always felt that kids are really smart.

I went on to host a kids' program from when I was around 10 until 15. In some ways I'm a child actor.

. . . children - not kids. Kids are goats. I've always spoken of my children as children.

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

I was an entertainer, ever since I was a kid.

I was an altar boy as a kid. And the answer is no.

I worked at a group home for a survival job years ago, and kids who have a rough home life have always tugged at my heart-strings. I also care a lot about animal cruelty.

You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.

As the father of six children, I want to know that when my wife or I drop our kids off at school they will be safe from predators, crime and violence.

Baseball is important, but it's about fifth place behind my kids, my wife and the health of my family.

I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And only then will you feel my pain.

I don't talk down to kids. Usually someone my age who's talking to a ten or twelve year old is yelling at them.

I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.

In a marriage, you and your partner come first. And unless you and your partner are happy, that kid's never going to be happy.

Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona - to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.

Another important thing to learn is that kids have a personality that has nothing to do with you.

If I have a dynamite bass player - I have Darryl Jones - it's so easy to write for him because he's such a funky kid and he's gifted. He's like a little genius.

My mom is very proud of introducing music to all her kids. But I played in some bad rock bands my junior and senior years of high school.

I tell kids not to be on the Internet. It's dangerous. It's not fun. It wastes your life. You should just be outside playing sports, instead of sitting in front of any type of screen.

I think my mom did everything pretty close to perfect, and I want to be the cool mom that the kids run home to.

I really connected with martial arts. I'd always had a fantasy as a kid of being a ninja warrior, so it definitely answered that sort of need in my psyche, too - a need to be superpowerful.

I used to sit when I was a kid, from 14 or 15 on, with a book or a paper or a magazine in front of a mirror and teach myself to speak with a more straight mouth, so it wasn't so pronounced.

I bought my kid an educational toy to help him make it through life. No matter how you put it together, it's wrong.

Our local department store had two Santas - one for regular kids and one for kids who wanted ten toys or less.

When I was a kid, I would always write down lists of my favorite things and keep them in my wallet, just in case someone ever needed to know what my 10 favorite foods were, or my 10 favorite actors.

What I've noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it's so wonderfully fair.

If you're a kid who was not especially a star in your high school, I recommend going to a college in the middle of nowhere. I got all the attention I could ever have wanted.

I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up.