Kids Quotes - Page 353

Anyone who grew up in the crack era - you know, I grew up in that era - knew that there were also people out - and there are still guys to this day that are out there, you know, obviously drug dealing - but those were the guys who had access and had money. And some of those guys felt responsible to create opportunity for other people and were also aware of the dangers of their work and often aren't really the ones that are encouraging kids to get into drug dealing.

Gay, straight - whatever - adolescents in high school and coming out of junior high, that's such a difficult, awkward period and kids can be so cruel and mean.

The freedom that I wanted as a kid would - probably would not have been good for me and not in the way in which I wanted it.

It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.

My message with 'LazyTown' has always been really simple; I just want to get kids and families moving together.

Getting kids moving is a key factor in tackling obesity and health problems among the young.

At the weekends I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.

I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move.

If she and Sam ever had kids, they'd be gluten-intolerant out of self-defence.

When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

We all, one day, realize that we’re not going to be kids forever and we’re going to grow up.

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you're suddenly in charge of other people.

I'm not my mother. And so I'm not raising my kids in the same way. I don't respond in the same way. We don't spend our days in the same way because I don't necessarily enjoy the same things she likes to do.

I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.

Our kids just aren't living in the same generation, and if they're not introduced to gender identity as a problem, they won't internalize them as a problem. Which isn't to say they won't meet bigotry in their lives.

People write things in newspapers about me that aren't true - or that are true. They take pictures of my kids on the way to school. I get a little bit inured to it in a way that I think most people probably aren't.

The real test will be having a family; when I have a family you have to come home, you have to eat dinner with your kids.

I really want my kids to feel, is that they can be themselves in the world.

In every single 'Tinker Bell' movie, I feel like there's a message that I'm proud to communicate with kids.

I think it would be pretty cool if my kids were super kids.

Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little.

Michael Jordan was a cultural icon that everybody on the playground wanted to be. The Bulls dynasty was a huge part of my childhood and it was the peak of my basketball interest as a kid.

Us as rappers underestimate the power and effects that we have on these kids

When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life.

I get asked that a lot: "What do you think your role is, with all the people that look up to you?" I'm an entertainer, you know? I'm not trying to bombard anybody with anything, but at the same time, face-to-face or in real life, if I'm talking to some kid, I have opinions just like everybody else does.