Kids Quotes

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

~ Ted Ligety

I didn't get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

~ Huey Newton

I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.

~ P. J. O'rourke

I always love it when I hear back from kids who say they discovered Percy Jackson and now wear their learning difference as a badge of honour.

~ Rick Riordan

We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they're called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.

~ Joel Fuhrman

It was gross enough for fast food restaurants to ban, but apparently our government wants so-called pink slime to be a staple in your kids' lunches.

~ Jane Velez-Mitchell

Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.

~ Jamie Oliver

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

~ Meryl Streep

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

~ Erma Bombeck

To come out and meet kids who have my books in their hands is kind of amazing.

~ Jeff Kinney

It's amazing to me that some kids are surprised to find out Indians are still alive.

~ Michael Horse

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

~ Billie Holiday

There's talent on the streets, kids with ideas who have stories to tell and never get a chance.

~ James Jannard

There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it.

~ Michael Bay

There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

~ Arianna Huffington

I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.

~ Ann Hood

The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.

~ Virginia Foxx

I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.

~ William Shatner

I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance.

~ Will Smith

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care.

~ Anthony Principi

We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

~ Carl Lewis

I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.

~ Christopher Walken

I grew up in Harlem in New York, very rough, urban environment, and so what I found is that, if I can have kids travel to different places, countries, areas, it can expand their minds.

~ Ving Rhames

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

~ Phyllis Diller

The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.

~ Hank Azaria

Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.

~ Richard Louv

Our kids will never have to remember things, because it's all in pictures. Want to remember your fourth birthday? There'll be video of it on your phone.

~ Jason Bateman

I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I'd find in their refrigerators.

~ Amanda Marshall

I'm a single parent, and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies. So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn't miss it.

~ Rick Moranis

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 don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

~ Kristen Stewart

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

~ Ken Thompson

Programs like ACE's Bootstrap Summer Camp teach our kids important computer coding skills that will allow them to design their own futures.

~ Gina Raimondo

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

~ Loretta Lynn

It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.

~ Bob Hoskins

Because I'm always away, coming home to a clean house means a lot to me. Trust me, I've lived with a lot of roommates, and straight guys are just kids who don't pick up after themselves.

~ Kellan Lutz

I think in order to push kids and coach kids the way we want to coach them, we've got to have their trust.

~ Kirby Smart

I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.

~ Tiger Woods

There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.

~ Vanessa Bayer