Kids Quotes - Page 446

I'm of the generation of kids where the G.I. Joe's developed Kung Fu Grip right around the same time I did.

Know someone you hate? Give their kid a kazoo!

I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids all day and have children be their only feedback loop.

I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.

I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.

Family is hugely important to me. Having kids is the best possible way to shake off any kind of darkness that might accompany a role that you're playing.

You could fly under the radar a little bit. You could be a weird kid without defaulting to gay, without everyone assuming you must be gay - that was literally the last place many people went.

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a kid is odd in a Greensburg, gay or straight, the default assumption is gay.

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

As someone who was gay bashed as a kid, I learned firsthand how a lot of people only feel good about themselves when they sense that someone or something is on a lower rung than they are. This inferiority complex drives racism and sexism as well as outdated attitudes about animals.

When you have a young kid you can't go out much at night, so I spent a lot of time at home, watching movies and cooking dinner with my wife. It felt like what most people experience. White picket fence stuff.So there was some enjoyment of that normalcy, but I have to admit that part of me missed the chaos of touring. I think it's about balance.

It doesn't matter if you're talking to a communist or a fascist if you say, do you want a good future for your kids? Well they're all going to say yes. Well do you think that money should be spent efficiently? Yes. Al of these things, everyone agrees on them but the way that we discuss them and the language that we use we hold different definitions for.

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

I remember somebody saying, "I feel really bad for kids growing up around iPads right now. It's just too complicated. Life's too complicated." I think, yeah, but I remember being a kid and holding up a new piece of technology that was made in the '80s and my grandparents going, "Oh, it's too complicated." It didn't seem complicated to me.

After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.

I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

I've always been a horror movie fan, since I was a kid. And I was also a really scared kid. I was easily scared of the dark. One of the ways I would try and get away from my fear of the dark was to pretend like the monsters were my friends.

I still think about the writers I loved when I was a kid.

I'd read an enormous amount but had spent so much time in my own head that I didn't have extensive social skills. Suddenly I was in this world where I was surrounded by these incredibly polished and wealthy kids who had gone to prep schools, and I felt daunted by them. I don't think people were aware of how full of anxiety I was... For a long time I felt like I was living in a place where I shouldn't have been.

Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.

I was born in 1972, which means that in "rock" terms I have no business addressing "the kids" unless it's to shoo them out of my garden.

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.

I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my dad really had to sort of push me to start singing in front of people. Ever since I got out there and really started doing it, the only thing I've ever tried to do is just sort of is be myself, you know, never put on a voice. Sing naturally.

When parents have college savings accounts for their kids, their kids show higher social and cognitive performance.