Kids Quotes · Page 104

Maybe that is why kids like Dumbledore: because he is funny rather than a miserable old sod with a long white beard.

— Michael Gambon

Environment does shape you. My environment, in a pit family, in a pit village, with nine kids in total.

— Dennis Skinner

Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.

— Betty Hill

If kids aren't allowed to experience monotony and tedium, it's unlikely they will value the times they are entertained.

— Ulrika Jonsson

I go to the Korean spa when the kids go to bed. It's like I turn my brain off.

— Amanda de Cadenet

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

— Margaret Spellings

Theres no mystery-the EMU Club is a hit! This is a fun, funny adventure that kids will love to read.

— Lincoln Peirce

I rode many bikes and motorcycles. My brother was in an accident when he was a kid and my mom forbade us…

— John Travolta

I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group…

— Bailey Chase

Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who…

— Ray Bradbury

America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away -…

— Andrew Garfield

Spatial intelligence is virtually left out of formal education. In kindergarten we give children blocks and sand with which to build. Then…

— Ann Lewin-Benham

The boys and girls in the clique. The awful names that they stick. You're never gonna fit in much kid, but it…

— Gerard Way

I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because…

— Joan Baez

I want to feel I have the energy I will need as an older mother having a younger baby. It's really important…

— Trinny Woodall

The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods.

— Matthew Desmond

When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.

— Robert Knepper

What Disneyland was to my kids at age 10, that's kind of what Chicago is for economists.

— Austan Goolsbee

“Our kids will always be our children but they will not always be kids.”

— Jodi Livon

I'm very happy that being gay and married and having kids has become such an accepted piece of the fabric of America.

— Amy B. Harris

I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote…

— Billy Collins

I wanted to retire at 55. Now at 61 with two young kids, I want to spend a bit of time with them.

— Neil Warnock

“I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!”

— Melissa Etheridge

I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what it's like to really adore something.

— Todd Lowe

Communicating w/kids, its a 2 way street, sometimes they just need us to be there for them & listen.

— Kevin Heath

I grew up in my mom's third grade classroom and always helping her, and I also got a passion for kids that…

— Allyson Felix

I felt bad for that world that we have given a generation of kids.

— Garrison Keillor

You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have.

— Jim Rohn

I've worked too hard all my life to have my kids control my life.

— Steve Schirripa

My kids are my priority, then my husband, then my life, then work.

— Helen Skelton

The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for…

— Rachel Kushner

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to…

— Trent Reznor

I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.

— Anonymous

For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.

— Erma Bombeck

My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110% and don't give up!

— Vanessa Hudgens

Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun shining.

— Darrell Issa

My kids motivate me to keep moving forward. My kids are my everything.

— Dwyane Wade

We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.

— Bruce Jenner

You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

— Tina Fey

When I was a kid, I always wanted to go to Europe, to go to Africa, to go traveling.

— Valerie June