KIDS QUOTES

• But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.
  ~ Eric Clapton ~
• My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.
  ~ Idina Menzel ~
• My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.
  ~ Tom Hooper ~
• I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids.
  ~ Mindy Kaling ~
• I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again.' I can't bring my mom back, but I can have children.
  ~ Mindy Kaling ~
• I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again.' I can't bring my mom back, but I can have children.
  ~ Mindy Kaling ~
• Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.
  ~ Mindy Kaling ~
• It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.
  ~ Andrew Weil ~
• It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.
  ~ Andrew Weil ~
• I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.
  ~ Tim Robbins ~
• My kids give me the balance to live right.
  ~ Celine Dion ~
• I have a wonderful husband. I have three amazing kids.
  ~ Celine Dion ~
• Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.
  ~ Michael Jackson ~
• I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.
  ~ Antonio Banderas ~
• The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
  ~ Vin Diesel ~
• I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.
  ~ Steven Spielberg ~
• I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.
  ~ Steven Spielberg ~
• I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books the other two are too small but they like the movies.
  ~ Gary Oldman ~
• I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.
  ~ Gary Oldman ~
• I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.
  ~ Gary Oldman ~
• And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.
  ~ Gary Oldman ~
• And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.
  ~ Gary Oldman ~
• So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.
  ~ Gary Oldman ~
• Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
  ~ Kareem Abdul-jabbar ~
• Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
  ~ Kareem Abdul-jabbar ~
• I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
  ~ Kareem Abdul-jabbar ~
• As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.
  ~ David Suzuki ~
• There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.
  ~ Joaquin Phoenix ~
• When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.
  ~ Kevin Costner ~
• When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.
  ~ Kevin Costner ~
• When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.
  ~ Adam Carolla ~
• Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.
  ~ Clive Owen ~
• I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.
  ~ Glenn Beck ~
• I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.
  ~ Glenn Beck ~
• I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.
  ~ Glenn Beck ~
• I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.
  ~ David Duchovny ~
• My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.
  ~ Jennifer Garner ~
• I remember, my mom didn't have any help, so if she needed to be somewhere after school, we'd just go down to the neighbors' and she'd give us a snack and make sure we did our homework. There weren't any latchkey kids.
  ~ Jennifer Garner ~
• It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.
  ~ Jennifer Garner ~
• There's an internal battle. I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids and the kids win.
  ~ Jennifer Garner ~
• My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.
  ~ Jennifer Garner ~
• My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.
  ~ Jennifer Garner ~
• My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.
  ~ Jennifer Garner ~
• We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.
  ~ Bo Bennett ~
• A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'
  ~ Eminem ~
• A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'
  ~ Eminem ~
• The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.
  ~ Eminem ~
• Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
  ~ Jesse Jackson ~
• Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
  ~ Jesse Jackson ~
• We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.
  ~ Suze Orman ~
• I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
  ~ Dee Dee Myers ~
• 'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.
  ~ Beth Ditto ~
• I was born to be married. I just feel comfortable there. I love the idea of being partnered for ever. I love my girlfriend, we've been best friends since I was 18. There's not a thing we haven't been through except for marriage... We've had talks about what we would name our kids since we were in our 20s.
  ~ Beth Ditto ~
• All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.
  ~ Beth Ditto ~
• Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?
  ~ Jeffrey Kluger ~
• Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.
  ~ Jeffrey Kluger ~
• There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family.
  ~ Jeffrey Kluger ~
• It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.
  ~ Jeffrey Kluger ~
• Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.
  ~ Jeffrey Kluger ~
• When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble.
  ~ Jeffrey Kluger ~
• Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.
  ~ Jeffrey Kluger ~
• Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.
  ~ Jeff Bridges ~
• For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.
  ~ Heidi Klum ~
• I'm a lioness. I have four cubs. I'm a mom. I want to take care of my kids and protect them.
  ~ Heidi Klum ~
• I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.
  ~ Heidi Klum ~
• In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
  ~ Tori Amos ~
• In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
  ~ Tori Amos ~
• Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
  ~ Thomas Sowell ~
• I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.
  ~ Tiger Woods ~
• Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
  ~ Tiger Woods ~
• I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.
  ~ Tiger Woods ~
• I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.
  ~ Tiger Woods ~
• All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.
  ~ Tiger Woods ~
• Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
  ~ Tiger Woods ~
• All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.
  ~ Tiger Woods ~
• I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.
  ~ Katy Perry ~
• Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.
  ~ Joan Rivers ~
• One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.
  ~ Nick Clegg ~
• I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.
  ~ Nick Clegg ~
• We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules.
  ~ Nick Clegg ~
• I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.
  ~ Rand Paul ~
• My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.
  ~ William Shatner ~
• When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.
  ~ Ben Stein ~
• Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.
  ~ Adam Sandler ~
• This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
  ~ Adam Sandler ~
• I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.
  ~ Adam Sandler ~
• I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.
  ~ Adam Sandler ~
• Every cliche about kids is true they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.
  ~ Liam Neeson ~
• I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.
  ~ Liam Neeson ~
• Every cliche about kids is true they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.
  ~ Liam Neeson ~
• I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I'm acting. It's always, 'When I say you'll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?' Then, 'Yeah, Dad.'
  ~ Liam Neeson ~
• I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.
  ~ Joe Biden ~
• I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!
  ~ Taylor Swift ~
• As kids we're not taught how to deal with success we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?
  ~ Charlie Sheen ~
• As kids we're not taught how to deal with success we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?
  ~ Charlie Sheen ~
• I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.
  ~ Salma Hayek ~
• I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.
  ~ Kristen Stewart ~