Kids Quotes

I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things.

I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices.

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

I don't have kids, but in many ways I feel I've had them already. I don't want to say I raised my brothers - that sounds too strong - but actually I do feel like that a bit.

The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off.

All I do is play football, eat, sleep, play with my kids, play football.

Our first priority is our kids.

I think my kids give mommy more attention than they give me.

Me personally, I wouldn't put my kids on television. But to each his own.

But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them.

You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that.

I mean, obviously, a lot of people know me around the world. Kids know me.

I don't even know if I have kind of a personal, like a take or a mental manual of how I'm raising kids. It's really - I think with everybody, it's just day-to-day and you just try to deal with every situation as they come.

You know what Disneyland is known for? The Big Turkey Leg. People walk around with enormous deep-fried turkey legs. Like little kids, three-year-old kids eating these five-pound turkey legs.

You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not the way life's going to go, and I think kids have to have some reality.

Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid.

I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids.

I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: 'It's the man from TV!'

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.

Kids will tease you for just about anything.

I got beat up by the comic-book kids when I was younger! They were cooler than me. Talk about levels of geekdom, I was a couple rungs below the kids who read comic books. Yeah. Not so cool, man.

I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as it can be so I can swing my kids around and not worry about aches and pains.

On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.

I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.

I'm the guy to call. Look at the resume. I have kids of my own. I have dogs.

I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things.

Our kids are in their twenties now, which is a wonderful time.

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.

Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.

I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.

I've made a lot of movies with kids in them. I don't know why that is, but it's something I've noticed.

Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out.

I don't want to be that parent that puts my kids into what I think they should be in, you know what I mean?

My kids are now the most popular kids in their school.

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

I've always favored kids as a player. If I walked out of the locker room and there were 100 people there and 50 of them were kids, I'd sign the 50 kids before anything else.

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

I just feel like every kid is growing up too fast and they're seeing too much. Everything is about sex, and that's fine for me. I'm not saying I don't like it. But I don't think it should be everywhere, where kids are exposed to everything sexual. Because they have to have some innocence; there's just no innocence left.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

The break down for kids is communication. Music helps bring that bond.

The youth are very important to me, they're the next generation, but I want to instill in kids, even in playing, that it's never too late and there's no right or wrong way to do anything.

I got a feeling that when I have kids, I'm going to have a little girl, and she's going to be completely sensible.

I love 'Harry Potter.' I love those books. That started because I lived with a woman who had kids who were, like, 10 and 7 when they moved in with me.

Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.

When my kids are in college, maybe I'll drag my fishnets and high heels out.

Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.

I'm just passionately in love with my kids.

But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia.

But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.

I am very different as a parent to new kids. My work changed from being rooted in the sky to being rooted in the earth.

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.

You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.

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've spent a lot of time being bohemian and sleeping on floors, but eventually I want to have kids and I want to bring them up in a secure environment.

I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.

I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do.

As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

I love my kids. I'm crazy about them.

I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.

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.

Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It's easier, and we're usually right! But it rarely works.

Tired of nagging your kids to hurry up, get dressed, drink their milk and brush their teeth? Here's a radical idea: Don't.

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.

I love kids.