Kids Quotes

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

It's uncomfortable, definitely, but it's also really, really great to talk drums with kids and hear them get excited about music and talk about listening to the drums.

I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy the doing of telling a story.

Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.

My wife and I don't have kids and people are down on us about it. But we're just not wired that way, so don't tell me I have to.

I think your typical high-school straight kid nowadays is not the straight guy of yesterday. I think he's way more open and accepting.

But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.

When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.

Linda's at her best when she's doing you a meal at home. That's when you see Linda. She cooks, she looks after the kids.

Kids get influenced by other kids.

Parents often give middle names just so that later, when they're yelling at the kid, they can drag it out. Henry David Thoreau, you come in here this instant!

New parents always sound like hucksters in a pyramid scheme. Anyone who has kids and then gets you to go and have kids gets a check from Huckster Headquarters.

Younger kids, they understand that things aren't so perfect with their father or with their mother.

Our date-nightrule is no talking about the kids. That lasts about to the end of the driveway.

With young kids (I have four including the newborn) times passes weirdly for me.

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.

I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.

There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.

[My kids] were very young at the time and didn't realize what was going on. We told them that mom made a mistake and people want to talk about it in the news so they're outside our house.

I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do

I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television.

I only do two things in my life, and that's take care of my kids and work. Fortunately, these are my favorite things to do, so it works out.

You have to have a lot of kids.

I don't think I spoil my kids, I'm fairly responsible.

I loved working with kids because the energy is great.

Sometimes I feel embarrassed because I'll tell the kids if someone is driving really slow or cutting in, I'll say "Bloody Asian drivers." But I feel justified in saying it because I'm Asian.

Parents tend to name all of baby boys' body parts, but with girls they go from belly button to knees with this void in the middle. That doesn't change as kids go into puberty.

As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.

Cheerios bring back memories. I actually don't think I ate them much as a kid, though; maybe it's some sort of Jungian memory, I don't know. But they have so much sugar, it's great.

Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all.

I've been into golf, trying to get into the gym to stay somewhat fit. I've got two boys now, they're active kids.

I can't just wake up and watch TV and do nothing. I need a day off working out, seeing the wife, play a little golf, see my kids.

I'm enjoying my retirement, enjoying my life. I have two kids and a lot of my time is spent chasing these two animals.

But you couldn’t touch this kid right now, bullets would have dodged him.

As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then.

Divorce isn't just the person, it's everything that goes with it - your kids, the adjustment, everything.

Nobody is going to take my kids away from me and I will fight to the death for that.

My kids are my life and the thought of someone taking them away from me is my worst nightmare.

I hope Barack Obama puts another woman on the Supreme Court. And this time, I hope it's a woman with kids.

Songs came first. I started out in 1965 trying to copy the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Stones, like most kids I knew. I'm still trying. Songs are hard to beat.

Dad loves my stuff. No matter how many times my voice cracks or I miss a tap, he doesn't care. He's like some businessman making it to his kid's recital.

I was the fat kid, so as a defense mechanism, I was the jokester.

It definitely gets challenging at times. I travel a lot more now, and its never easy having to leave the kids, even if its for a few days.

I was so shy. Instead of waiting in line with other kids at lunch, I'd go to a corner and buy a pretzel and orange juice. I think I had that for lunch the first three years of high school.

When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.

The only reason these kids keep score in these games is for the parents and coaches satisfaction. Who cares? They're 10 years old.