Kids Quotes - Page 18

• Rome wasn't built in a day, and we won't replace fossil fuels with clean energy based on the events of a single week, either. But the important thing to remember is that, once they happen, clean energy victories are irreversible. No one will tear down wind farms because they are nostalgic for fracking in our watersheds. And nobody will pull down their solar panels because they miss having mercury in their tuna or asthma inhalers for their kids. Because once we leave fossil fuels behind, we are never going back.

  Michael Brune

  Wind Farms, Rome, Missing

  "The Road Ahead (And Some Bumps Along the Way)" by Michael Brune, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2013.

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• What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did? There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, but because you think I should be. I look back on the way I was. A young, stupid kid that committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try to talk some sense to him. Tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone, and this old man is all that's left.

  Stephen King

  Sorry, Regret, Stupid

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• Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got 50 percent of African-American or Latino kids dropping out of high school, it doesn't really matter what you do in terms of affirmative action. Those kids aren't going to college.

  Barack Obama

  School, College, America

  "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, edition.cnn.com. July 27, 2008.

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• We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged, aren't getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who struggled more.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Thinking, White

  "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", www.cnn.com. July 27, 2008.

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• These are 8- and 12-year-old kids. It doesn't matter how they got here. It is time to show a little compassion

  Paul Soglin

  Compassion, Years, Littles

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• Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A new industry moves into an undeveloped area. Factories go up, machines go in and you're in business. It's coincidental that people who've never seen a dime now have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their faces washed. What's wrong with an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?

  Humphrey Bogart

  Baseball, Moving, Night

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• The proliferation of state concealed carry laws has evidently reduced the rate of violent street crime to a considerable extent. When the goblins do not know who is armed and who is not, their professional enthusiasm declines. Now that Britain has made sure (insofar as any law can so insure) that everybody is disarmed, the streets arem given back to the bad kid with the baseball bat. We hope they are satisfied.

  Jeff Cooper

  Baseball, Gun, Law

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• You've been fightin again and, you forgot why
  Hey kid, walk straight, master your high

  Slick Rick

  Hip Hop, Hey, Masters

  Song: Hey Young World, Album: The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, 1988

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• Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

  Jane Fonda

  Mistake, Women, Lying

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• I would rather die than let my kid eat Cup-a-Soup.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Epic, Dumb

  "10 Epic Quotes From Gwyneth Paltrow" by Michael Rothman, abcnews.go.com. March 26, 2014.

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• It's so much easier to sit home and not exercise and criticize other people. What I love is inspiring people. People come up to me and say, 'I want to have two kids and wear a bathing suit and not feel terrible about myself. I see how hard you work and it makes me feel like I can do that too.'

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Home, Exercise

  "The Spellbinder: Gwyneth Paltrow" by Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. August 3, 2011.

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• If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Nature, Stars

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mother, Hurt, Caring

  "Jonas Brothers among Kids' Choice winners" by Noela Hueso, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 29, 2009.

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• Now that I've got kids, it's become really important for me on the health front to try to buy as much organic produce as possible.

  Jamie Oliver

  Important, Trying, Environment

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• Never point a finger where you never lent a hand.

  Robert Breault

  Responsibility, Helping Others, Hands

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• Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human needs if one billion people starve while another billion have excess. It would be more efficient to distribute resources so that at least vital needs were met everywhere. Otherwise, for example, if kids are starving somewhere, dad goes out to slash and burn the rain forest to feed them - and so would I if my kids were dying. And this kind of destruction is everyone's problem, because we live in the same ecosphere.

  Karl-Henrik Robert

  Inspiring, Dad, Rain

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• Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

  Chevy Chase

  Family, Kissing, Years

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• Seriously, if you complain about going to a Paris fashion show, you have officially lost all perspective on life as we know it. And I have little kids who are hard to be away from sometimes when school's going back and there are tons of things that you're missing. But you know, there's that great Billie Jean King expression: "Pressure is a privilege." We can all deal.

  Cynthia Leive

  Fashion, Kings, School

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• I'm also married for the first time, and I have two kids. So there's some kind of good karma right now.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Karma, Two, Firsts

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• Go is most fun I've had with a compiled PL since I've discovered Turbo Pascal as a kid.

  Bojan Markovic

  Fun, Pascal, Programming

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• It's hard being a girl. There are a lot of body image issues that come up and I think the best thing we can do for our kids is lead by example.

  Cheryl Hines

  Inspiring, Girl, Journey

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• Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a blessing I'm not left to my own devices. Because the truth is I have amazing friends and a deep faith in God, to whom I can turn. I have a cool kid, a sweet boyfriend, darling pets. I've learned to pay attention to life, and to listen. I'd give up all this for a flatter belly? Are you crazy?

  Anne Lamott

  Inspiring, Sweet, Giving Up

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• You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment...Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.

  Phil Collins

  Song, Disappointment, Sometimes

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• You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent is only a starting point. You've got to keep working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there. ... Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. ... The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. ... After you get what you want you don't want it. ... Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies. ... The song is ended, but as the songwriter wrote, the melody lingers on.

  Irving Berlin

  Song, Hate, Writing

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• I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. ... If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. ... My songs are like my kids.

  Billy Joel

  Song, Writing, Expression

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