Quotes and Sayings About Kids
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I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal. If you don't find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.
-- Adam Duritz -
Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist.
-- Adam GopnikSource : "The Dragon's Egg" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. December 5, 2011.
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When I was kid, I remember playing 'Vogue' by Madonna over and over and over again. And ah, you know, something about the beat was really cool, and Madonna, visually, was on TV all the time and I thought she was just so beautiful.
-- Adam Lambert -
The kids that are different and out there and expressive and are bold with those choices, those are the people that grow up to be people we all want to hang out with, that become celebrities or become really successful in what they do because they believe in who they are.
-- Adam Lambert -
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I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.
-- Adam Levine -
I moved around a lot as a kid, and when you're always entering new places at that age, you kind of have to learn how to adapt yourself, and I felt a really powerful way to do that was to make people laugh.
-- Adam PallySource : "Mindy’s Pally". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2014.
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I think I'm playing grown up because I have kids now. But I don't feel grown up yet.
-- Adam Sandler -
When I was a kid you always heard about the Israeli army and you always heard about this tiny little country and how everyone around them wants them gone, and every time somebody comes after them they take care of business. And so as a Jewish kid you were proud of that.
-- Adam Sandler -
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When I was kid, yeah, my family, my parents wanted me to marry a Jewish girl because that was what they taught their children, and thought it would be an easier life for me to raise a Jewish kid. And I have a Jewish wife, I have a Jewish kid. They seem pretty happy about it.
-- Adam Sandler -
My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund.
-- Adam SandlerSource : "Adam Sandler and Friends Too Grown Up to LOL, But Not for Dropping Trou" by Heather Huntington, www.eonline.com. June 6, 2010.
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The idea of my kids being spoiled, I go to sleep thinking about it. I wake up thinking about. I'm trying to do the right thing. With the amount of money I have, it's difficult to raise children the way I was raised. But I took away the west and north wing of the house for those guys. So, they're not allowed in there.
-- Adam SandlerSource : "Exit interview with legendary Red Wing Nicklas Lidstrom". Interview with Mitch Albom, www.mitchalbom.com. June 21, 2012.
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The toughest part is that when your kid's upset, you're upset. You're rocked until they're not upset. Even when they're not upset, you're like, "I hope that doesn't happen, down the line." You're always nervous because you want your kid to be happy.
-- Adam Sandler -
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I don't know what the hell I'm doing; I like what I've been doing. I believe in what I've done in the past and I hope to make a movie that; I hope my kid enjoys the movies I've made and enjoys some of the movies in the future.
-- Adam Sandler -
I don't want my kid to hear any of the albums that I've made.
-- Adam Sandler -
I've got the kid. I feel a little more relief that I don't have to just think about myself too much.
-- Adam Sandler -
The difference when you have kids comes up when someone wants to meet you out after 9:30 at night. You consider that giant sacrifice. You're like, "Do I do this? Do I stay out until 10:30 and be angry, all of tomorrow?
-- Adam Sandler -
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When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I'm so happy I did a nice thing.
-- Adam SandlerSource : Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 21, 2008.
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When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.
-- Adam Sandler -
I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.
-- Adam Sandler -
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I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
-- Adam SavageSource : "A conversation with WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist DeLisha Milton-Jones". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.
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If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don't know what I'll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch.
-- Adele -
Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it.
-- Adora Svitak -
We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.
-- Adora Svitak -
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Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas, and to teach you something about what we know.
-- Adora Svitak -
The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.
-- Adora Svitak -
I would say that kids are great in many ways, because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to 'this costs too much' or 'that's impossible'.
-- Adora Svitak -
Basically, as a kid I grew up to a lot of good music, and part of my appreciation for music, from being a small child, was appreciating Jamaican music.
-- Adrian YoungSource : "No Doubt's Adrian Young gets irie with a reggae mix". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 2, 2012.
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I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.
-- Adriana Lima -
Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room. One person is all it takes to give a kid confidence.
-- Adriana Trigiani