Kids Quotes - Page 8

• I could sit and watch nature documentaries with Jenks and the kids the rest of the night if I wanted. And trust me, watching a dozen pixies scream as a crocodile chomped on a zebra was something not to be missed. They invariably cheered for the crocodile, not the zebra.

  Kim Harrison

  Zebras, Night, Watches

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• Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy.

  Suzanne Collins

  Watches, Way, Mercy

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

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• When we grow up," she said, "we'll have amazing families. Our dens will be better than this. Your kids and my kids will play together in a humongous room with every kind of toy and game." "Except I won't have kids," Dan said. "I'll come over myself and play.

  Peter Lerangis

  Growing Up, Games, Play

  Peter Lerangis (2012). “The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 3: The Dead of Night”, p.92, Scholastic Inc.

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• Remember when you were a little kid and you'd fall asleep in the car? And someone would carry you out and put you into bed, so that when you woke up in the morning, you knew automatically you were home again? That's what I think it's like to die.

  Jodi Picoult

  Morning, Fall, Home

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?

  Malorie Blackman

  Wry Smile, Years, People

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• I’m home. Ya happy now?’ Beck’s gravelly voice demanded. ‘Yes, I am.’ ‘Yer’ treatin’ me like i’m some idiot kid,’ he complained. ‘Gee, I wonder where I learned that?’ He hung up on her.

  Jana Oliver

  Home, Voice, Idiot

  Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.602, Pan Macmillan

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• Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything.

  Amy Chua

  Believe, Parent, Chinese

  Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Sorry, Two, Legs

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.173, Faber & Faber

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• I’ve been thinking about that ever since. Am I lucky? Am I lucky that I didn’t die? Am I lucky that, compared to the other kids here, my life doesn’t seem so bad? Maybe I am, but I have to say, I don’t feel lucky. For one thing, I’m stuck in this pit. And just because your life isn’t as awful as someone else’s, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t suck. You can’t compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn’t work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• And anyway, the truth isn't all that great. I mean, what's the truth? Planes falling out of the sky. Buses blowing up and ripping little kids into millions of pieces. Twelve-year-olds raping people and then shooting them in the head so they can't tell. I can't watch the news anymore or look at the papers. It's like whoever sits up there in Heaven has this big bag of really crappy stuff, and once or twice a day she or he reaches in and sprinkles a little bit of it over the world and makes everything crazy, like fairy dust that's past its expiration date.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Crazy, Fall, Mean

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• Throughout the book, she refers to herself as "the side effect," which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible.

  John Green

  Cancer, Book, Diversity

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.49, Penguin

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• I realize it's commonplace for parents to say to their child sternly, 'I love you, but I don't always like you.' But what kind of love is that? It seems to me that comes down to, 'I'm not oblivious to you - that is, you can still hurt my feelings - but I can't stand having you around.' Who wants to be loved like that? Given a choice, I might skip the deep blood tie and settle for being liked. I wonder if wouldn't have been more moved if my own mother had taken me in her arms and said, 'I like you.' I wonder if just enjoying your kid's company isn't more important.

  Lionel Shriver

  Mother, I Like You, Hurt

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.143, Counterpoint Press

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• You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.

  Barbara Delinsky

  College, Men, Years

  Barbara Delinsky (2011). “Escape”, p.101, Anchor

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• So you just...left?' Zach huffed. 'All the cool kids are doing it.

  Ally Carter

  Cool Kid, Left

  Ally Carter (2012). “Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time”, p.119, Hachette UK

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• And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating. "Ordered" eating is the practice of eating when you are hungry and ceasing to eat when your brain sends the signal that your stomach is full. ... All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering. If you can accept your natural body weight and not force it to beneath your body's natural, healthy weight, then you can live your life free of dieting, of restriction, of feeling guilty every time you eat a slice of your kid's birthday cake.

  Portia de Rossi

  Food, Body Weight, Order

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• He lifted his brows. "If I really thought it was the absolute best thing for our kids, you'd have had a battle on your hands. That was just a debate." "With chair-throwing." "Heated debate. Fights involve chair-breaking. Chair-throwing is just getting your attention.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Fighting, Hands, Battle

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• It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.

  Anne Lamott

  Cracks, Use, Violation

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• That's you, right?' he asks me. 'Yeah.' 'Cute. Not that I, uh, think little kids are cute. Just that you were cute. I mean, you can see how you turned out to be so...oh.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Cute, Mean, Thinking

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• [about being a father] I don't really remember what it was like before. Whatever I had going on, it was bullshit. It wasn't important. It's kind of a nice thing about being a dad. My identity is really about them now, and what I can do for them, so it sort of takes the pressure off of your own life. What am I going to do, who am I? Who cares, you've got to get your kids to school. So I like it that way.

  Louis C. K.

  Dad, Nice, School

  "Louis C.K. is more upset by people being mean to Tracy Morgan than homophobia". Interview with Slate, www.slate.com. June 17, 2011.

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• When I was a kid I used to get fun out of my horrors.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Fun, Crazy, Mad

  Eugene O'Neill (2014). “The First Man”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• The Republican candidates are talking about ways to transition this program and it is a monstrous lie. It is a ponzi scheme to tell our kids that are 25 or 30 years old today, you're paying into a program that's going to be there. Anybody that's for the status quo with Social Security today is involved with a monstrous lie to our kids, and it's not right.

  Rick Perry

  Crazy, Lying, Talking

  The Republican presidential Debate at the Reagan Library, Simi Valley, California, www.nytimes.com. September 7, 2011.

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• There was a kid that had five brothers and sisters, and the family was missing for like five days. I was watching TV, they [found each other] and now they're in San Antonio. So I bought them a little apartment in San Antonio. But I'm doing stuff like that all over.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Brother, Missing

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• Working with all of these kids is great. It doesn't get any better than this, to come down and inspire kids who want to play the game of basketball and put smiles on their faces.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Games, Play

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• In the next 15 or 20 years, I hope I'll be the richest man in the world. That's one of my goals. I want to be a billionaire. I want to get to a position where generation on generation don't have to worry about nothing. I don't want family members from my kids to my son's kids to never have to worry. And I can't do that now just playing basketball.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Inspiration, Son

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• Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you're automatically a role model ... I have no problem being a role model. I love it. I have kids looking up to me and hopefully I inspire these kids to do good things.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Inspiration, Athlete

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