Kids Quotes - Page 13

• Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm.

  Gottfried Keller

  Grandma, Gossip, Long

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• "On what motivated Colorado voters: "Let's face it, the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned ... but it sent millions of kids to prison, gave them felonies often times when they had no violent crimes ... I was against this, but I can see why so many people supported it."

  John Hickenlooper

  War, Marijuana, People

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• Kids haven't changed - you have.

  John Kapelos

  Aging, Changed, Havens

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• Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Years, Aging

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• When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel of the books in my hands and the magical new worlds I discovered always drew me back to that fantastic place. Each time I visited, I could expect to find a new adventure and from time to time use my imagination to revisit my favorite place and enjoy Green Eggs and Ham in a house, with a mouse, on a train, on a plane, in a box, with a fox.

  William Lacy Clay, Jr.

  Book, School, Adventure

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• If you want to know how many prison cells to build, look at the number of third graders who can't read.

  Mary Landrieu

  Cells, Numbers, Library

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• Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.

  William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

  Children, Praise, Your Children

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• Lies! All lies! You're all lying against my boys!

  Ma Barker

  Lying, Boys, My Boys

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• When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age I live by the word.

  Horace Dyer

  Teenager, Power, Authority

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• When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.'

  Jan Hutchins

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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• The other night I was walking down the stairs behind one of my daughters. I was tired, and she was goofing around, you know like kids do, doing all this stupid stuff on the stairs. And I was thinking, please just go down the stairs and let's get you to bed. It's after your bedtime. I've had enough for one day. And then I sort of caught myself. I snapped out of it. I was like, 'dude, you should be dancing down the stairs behind her'!

  Forest Whitaker

  Daughter, Dad, Stupid

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• Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.

  Rick Moranis

  Travel, Airports, Parent

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• Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip.

  Tom Berenger

  Running, Travel, Mean

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Basketball teams, after the perfunctory lay-up drill, fall into the crowded isolation and personal style of 10 city kids shooting at the same basket or playing one-on-one.

  Ted Solotaroff

  Basketball, Team, Fall

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• First off, do everything they can to give their kids the opportunities to play sports; asthma is not a deterrent to playing sports.

  Dominique Wilkins

  Basketball, Sports, Opportunity

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• You have to teach now - tell a kid how to box out, tell him how to pass, teach him footwork. Players don't understand that anymore.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Player, Boxes

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• I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my religious makeup.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Religious, Believe

  Interview with Cathleen Falsani, www.beliefnet.com. March 27, 2004.

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• I went to a high school reunion a couple years ago and realized that the kids who were the most unusual in high school are the ones who are the most interesting now and the ones who were popular are dull and boring.

  Anderson Cooper

  Couple, School, Years

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• I was the naughty kid that the teachers liked. I bullied a kid in the 1st year when I was in the 2nd, who then hit puberty like a plane crash and grew into a gorilla who bullied me when he was in the 4th year and I was in the 5th. That's Karma.

  Simon Pegg

  Karma, Teacher, Naughty

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• When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Mother, Father, Home

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• It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Jobs, Motivation

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• Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as a kid, he and his siblings would sell pasta door to door. After he became a movie producer, he opened up De Laurentiis Food Stores - one in Los Angeles and one in New York.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  New York, Sibling, Doors

  "Get To Know Giada". The TIME Interview, content.time.com. June 2, 2006.

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• I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.

  Jessica Pare

  Summer, Dad, Sibling

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• I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.

  Sophia Bush

  Funny, Sibling, Home

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• My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Mom, Sibling, Six

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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