Kids famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.
-- Albert Einstein -
Now kids, don't believe everything you find on the Internet just because it showed up first in your Google search results.
-- Albert Einstein -
I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the ***** ballgame.
-- Albert Ellis -
By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
-- Albert Ellis -
If it weren't for Jesus, I would not be where I am today and my life would be without purpose. I've heard kids say they want to be just like me when they grow up. They should know I want to be just like Jesus.
-- Albert Pujols -
In my heart and mind, I know I can hit anybody. I'm always relaxed. It's hard to explain. It's like playing with my kids. It feels natural.
-- Albert Pujols -
The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences if kids or adults don't perform, as long as the discussion is not about education and student outcomes, then we're playing a game as to who has the power.
-- Albert Shanker -
When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers films and westerns and stuff like that. Thats where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.
-- Alden Ehrenreich -
I'd do anything to have more kids. But that's probably not gonna happen now.
-- Alec Baldwin -
You know, I have a kid on my own, and I know how busy it is, the first weeks and the first month.
-- Alessandra Ambrosio -
A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they're trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that's beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they've spent years just hanging out with adults and they don't even have a sense of what it's like to grow up with kids their own age.
-- Alessandro Nivola -
I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.
-- Alessandro Nivola -
I don't think I've changed very much. I think I'm the same kid that I was when I got here. When I came here all I wanted to do was win games. I wanted to play baseball for LSU and be the ultimate team player. That's all I want to do. If we don't end up being the last team to win the game at the end of the year then I won't be happy. That's all I'm worried about this year.
-- Alex Bregman -
I'm a Pele fan from way back when I was a kid, and then there was always this thing later about Pele and Maradona. I was young and impressionable as a kid but it was always Pele for me.
-- Alex Ferguson -
Anyone else feel like that? Like your life's a big act. Like you're trying to be a man when you're just a scared kid, trying to keep under control when you really want to scream, cry, or maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you're breathing underwater and you have to stop because you're gulping in too much fluid.
-- Alex Flinn -
I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.
-- Alex Flinn -
Therapy is about every kids nightmare when people are telling you that you need to get help but all you really want is a hug.
-- Alex Gaskarth -
I Am Number Four is an action-packed adventure entwined with a romantic story. I play the role of John Smith. John wants to be a normal kid, but he is from a different planet and he has been given this destiny of becoming a warrior.
-- Alex Pettyfer -
Hide your kids, hide your wife, don't change the channel, this is monday night raw and The Miz is the WWE champion.
-- Alex Riley -
Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, "Yeah, songwritin' man," looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off.
-- Alex Turner -
Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in.
-- Alexa Vega -
My mom sent me to regular high school because she wanted me to have that experience and not say that I missed out, but I didn't like it at all. I'm more comfortable in the world that I'm in, I grew up in it so when I get around normal kids in regular high school I don't know what to do. I feel more secure in an adult environment.
-- Alexa Vega -
I really don't get nervous when I perform -it's more of an exciting feeling than anything else. But put me in a classroom with kids my age and have me take a test and yeah, I'll be nervous!
-- Alexa Vega -
There always has to be someone to take the punches. That's how it works. It isn't fair, it isn't right, but that kid licking slop off the floor over there means that we get to eat in peace.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith -
Let me know if you're going to do something stupid, kid, 'cause I'll ditch you like that.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith -
You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.
-- Alexander Lebed -
Ever since I've been a little kid I've always wanted superpowers, which is the coolest thing in the world.
-- Alexander Ludwig -
I have a lot of respect for Ovechkin as a player. I like his enthusiasm. I know the kid has a zest for life and a joy for the game.
-- Alexander Ovechkin -
Olympics are probably the most important thing for Russians than any other athletes in the whole world. Since I was a little kid and since everybody was a little kid, their dream was playing in Olympic Games, especially if we have a chance to represent our country in Sochi, it's unbelievable and it's going to be a great thing.
-- Alexander Ovechkin -
My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pictures of me where I'm this little preppy kid with a sweater tied around my neck.
-- Alexander Wang -
You know, when you go to high school or, you know, when kids are younger and there's not an understanding of differences. But I built up a very strong, thick skin.
-- Alexander Wang -
I hope the two of you will descend from your love bubble long enough to learn something today," he sniped cuttingly and the other kids snickered. Embarrassed, I ducked my head to avoid eye contact with them. "It's all right, sir," Xavier replied. "The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
They were never scared of the kids who might die, or the empty spaces they would leave behind. They were afraid of us-the ones who lived.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.
-- Alexandra Patsavas -
When I talk to people, their concern is, how are you going to create jobs? How are you going to help turn this economy around? How are we going to make sure that when my kids get out of high school or college there will be some job there? Those are the concerns that are on their minds.
-- Alexi Giannoulias -
I made a gym, it's the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I'm sure at least one will win a gold medal.
-- Alexis Arguello -
Later in July I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best.
-- Alexis Arguello -
The best part of being an angel investor is seeing these kids coming up with companies that get way more traffic than Reddit had when we sold it. I think, 'Are you kidding me? They're just kids, and they've done so much.
-- Alexis Ohanian -
Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her position of authority, I’m convinced all over again that moving away from consequences and rewards isn’t just realistic - it’s the best way to help kids grow into good learners and good people.
-- Alfie Kohn -
How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.
-- Alfie Kohn -
The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies and accepted assumptions, whereas the latter figures out how to change whatever gets in the way of doing right by kids. 'But we've always...', 'But the parents will never...', 'But we can't be the only school in the area to...' - all such protestations are unpersuasive to great educators. If research and common sense argue for doing things differently, then the question isn't whether to change course but how to make it happen.
-- Alfie Kohn -
As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. And my own passion was that I wanted to be a film director. I realized that being an astronaut was not going to be an option, so I said, "Well, I'm going to be a director and do films in space."
-- Alfonso Cuaron -
When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.
-- Alfonso Cuaron -
A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid.
-- Alfonso Cuaron -
Kids can be harsh, especially when they get jealous.
-- Alia Shawkat -
Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.
-- Alice Eve -
Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.
-- Alice Walker -
Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.
-- Alice Waters -
It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it.
-- Alice Waters -
I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.
-- Alison Bechdel -
I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.
-- Alison Gopnik -
I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids.
-- Alison Moyet -
I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I'm making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it's always for them.
-- Alison Sweeney -
I love fresh vegetables and we always include them in our meals. I don't force my kids to eat asparagus, but they do eat peas, broccoli, and carrots.
-- Alison Sweeney -
I've actually suffered from allergies my entire life. My mom had allergies, so I was aware of what an issue they can be. Many people allow their allergies to affect their lives. As a mom with two kids and two jobs, I just can't let allergies slow me down. It's a day to day thing that can really be remedied by finding the right medication.
-- Alison Sweeney -
We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.
-- Alison Sweeney -
The new one actually reads, but only to pass judgment. This is the way kids learn today. Someone told them how you feel is more important than what you know, and so they think accusations are ideas. This is political correction run amok.
-- Allegra Goodman -
I was obsessed with movies when I was younger. During the summer, I would go by myself to a theater down the street from my house. I saw every comedy or science fiction movie that came out. My kids love going to the movies, but 3D scares them.
-- Allen Covert -
I love IMDb. I love that people all over the country get that into it. When I was a kid, you literally had to go to the theater and stare at the poster to see who the hell was involved.
-- Allen Covert -
When I was a little kid I used to go on the playground and say: today I will shoot like Bird, pass like Magic, jump like Mike, be quick like Zeke. I am thankful to them, since without seeing them do things they did, I wouldn't be in the NBA.
-- Allen Iverson -
I see kids today trying to do the things I did, and it makes me feel like I've come a long way.
-- Allen Iverson -
This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.
-- Allen Iverson -
The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society.
-- Allen Newell -
When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.
-- Allison Pearson -
The kids kept walking, moving through the Henley's halls like a tide, but when Kat turned to leave, she walked in the opposite directions. She wasn't an ordinary kid, after all. Katarina Bishop followed no one.
-- Ally Carter -
You should stop and listen to yourselves sometimes. 'We're practically adults, let us run wild.' 'We're only kids, leave us alone.'...You can't have it both ways.
-- Ally Carter -
You know, I'm really bad on the computer. I'm really lame, man. I read and hang out with my kids. I've turned into a five year old.
-- Ally Walker -
I think that kids aren't even exploring the option of sports anymore, and they don't even know what they could do.
-- Allyson Felix -
I majored in elementary education, and I have a passion for kids.
-- Allyson Felix -
For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.
-- Alma Guillermoprieto -
We've got babies raising babies, and it's important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to make sure that our kids are steered in the right direction.
-- Alonzo Mourning -
I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.
-- Alonzo Mourning -
I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me.
-- Alonzo Mourning -
Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice.
-- Alton Brown -
You're free to join us, but only if you promise not to stare at the new kid." Miles laughs. "Staring is very rude. Didn't anyone ever tell you that?
-- Alyson Noel -
I've grown up with kids watching me and as they're growing up, I'm growing up.
-- Amanda Bynes -
I think you have to embrace being a role model because you are in the public eye, and whether you like it or not, people are going to be affected by you positively or negatively, ... Public-wise, I really wouldnt do anything that would be detrimental to anybody else or to myself. And to a certain extent, I try to watch out and try not to do anything that would be bad for kids to see.
-- Amanda Bynes -
Some people still see me as a kid, but I'm a 23-year-old woman now.
-- Amanda Bynes -
I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.
-- Amanda Palmer -
I like taking a path into new country, and I always take the darker path. Not because it's dark, but because there's a secret there that you can share when you get out. That's what I liked as a kid. That's how I approach my work. With a face like mine, it's lucky I have a heart that likes that.
-- Amanda Plummer -
We gauge risk literally hundreds of times per day, usually well and often subconsciously. We start assessing risk before the disaster even happens. We are doing is right now. We decide where to live and what kind of insurance to buy, just like we process all kinds of everyday risks: we wear bike helmets, or not. We buckle our seatbelts, smoke cigarettes, and let our kids stay out until midnight. Or not.
-- Amanda Ripley -
Oh yeah, I think about kids all the time. I feel like the next person I commit to, that's going to be the guy who I'm going to have kids with. That's in my crazy female brain. So that's why I'm like, 'I can't commit.'
-- Amanda Seyfried -
Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when I grew up. Then I realized I really just like stories.
-- Amber Benson -
I think specifically because of the character that I played, people are very connected to her. I used to get letters from young gay and lesbian and trans-gendered kids saying, 'I didn't kill myself because of Buffy'.
-- Amber Benson -
I am a kid. I'll always be a girl at heart.
-- Amber Valletta -
Kids not only understand [a dark story] but appreciate it … Because in the real world there's fear, and dark things happen no matter how young you are. People lose parents, people lose friends … There's darkness in the world. So I think when kids are talked to in that way, they appreciate it. They're not being given some candy-coated, 'Oh, this is a world where there are no stakes.' I think that actually insults their intelligence.
-- America Ferrera -
I mean, I grew up in the Valley. All my friends were white Jewish kids. So the Latino kids thought I was this white girl.
-- America Ferrera -
I'm one of seven kids. That'll keep your ego in check.
-- Amy Adams -
I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.
-- Amy Adams -
The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, "Hey fatty-lose some weight." By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around the issue, talking in terms of "health" and never ever mentioning the f-word, and their kids still end up in therapy for eating disorders and negative self image.
-- Amy Chua -
Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.
-- Amy Chua -
A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them 'feel bad.' But, hey, if they've done something wrong, they should feel bad. Kids with a sense of responsibility, not entitlement, who know when to experience gratitude and humility, will be better at navigating the social shoals of college.
-- Amy Chua -
Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything.
-- Amy Chua -
I think there are many ways to raise great kids. From what I can tell, Ayelet Waldman's kids are interesting, strong, and happy, and if that's the case, that's good parenting.
-- Amy Chua -
I do think that maybe, even subconsciously, a lot of parents in the West are wondering, have we gone too far in the direction of coddling and protecting - you know, you see kids, sometimes that seem very rude and disrespectful. And the more important thing is they don't seem that happy.
-- Amy Chua -
When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.
-- Amy Chua -
Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.
-- Amy Chua -
The Chinese model calls for giving your kids very little choice - and I've come to see that you can go too far with that. On the other hand, I also believe that Western parents sometimes give their young kids too much choice.
-- Amy Chua -
Some parents let their kids sleep at other people's houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God knows what else. But if you say you have to get all A's and practice the violin for two hours, then they consider that abusive. That upsets me.
-- Amy Chua -
Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.
-- Amy Chua