Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I'm going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.
~ Kobe Bryant
Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.
~ Ann Voskamp
I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
~ Bernard Manning
Everything I achieve affects my family as well, and suddenly, my kids' dad became the most famous man in the country for a couple of weeks.
~ Bradley Wiggins
The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.
~ Harry Connick
I just am a huge cheerleader for getting kids interested in science and technology.
~ Vint Cerf
I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
~ Langston Hughes
The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
~ P. J. O'rourke
Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.
~ Michael Bennet
I wonder if liberal kids call liberal talk shows and ask how to get along in a conservative teacher's class? No. No. It doesn't happen, 'cause there's no thought of getting along.
~ Rush Limbaugh
I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.
~ Kevin Spacey
As a master of graphic creation, as teacher, historian, and roving ambassador of comics, Jerry Robinson has ensured that future generations of talented kids will continue to imagine and then put marks on paper.
~ Pete Hamill
Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.
~ Samira Wiley
My mum was a music teacher. I've got three sisters, and we all played instruments when we were kids.
~ Tom Ellis
I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.
~ Karlie Kloss
Of course, MIT was notable not just for its faculty but also for its students. And, facing such extremely bright kids as a rookie teacher was something like being thrown to the wolves.
~ Eric Maskin
I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever.
~ Yolanda Adams
I have taught some master classes and things at my alma mater and sometimes at my kids' school. I will go in and talk to the theater students. I wouldn't really call myself a teacher.
~ Annie Potts
Kids teach you a lot of patience.
~ Mona Singh
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
~ Ben Lindsey
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
~ George Foreman
I've always enjoyed teen characters, and kids as well. For whatever reason, I seem to have an ability to do it sort of well, and I enjoy doing it.
~ Jeff Lemire
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
~ Alice Hoffman
I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.
~ Sylvia Earle
There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.
~ Billy Higgins
The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
~ Zac Hanson
I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.
~ Shakira
Look, it's to the point where kids are getting Botox. It's insane. We're not allowed to age.
~ Rosanna Arquette
I really don't get nervous when I perform -it's more of an exciting feeling than anything else. But put me in a classroom with kids my age and have me take a test and yeah, I'll be nervous!
~ Alexa Vega
I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly.
~ Chuck Close
Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.
~ Matt Bomer
My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.
~ Anna Kendrick
I have a lot of nieces and nephews. I was always around kids. I was like the family babysitter because I was the only one that wasn't married.
~ Doreen Cronin
My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.
~ Denzel Washington
A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.
~ Chaz Bono
Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.
~ Ashley Olsen
My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.
~ Joel Osteen
I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.
~ Heidi Klum
I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.
~ Dennis Lehane
The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.
~ Dennis Wilson
