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Kids Quotes


"I think having eight kids evens things out a bit. You learn about the world; you learn about the world; you learn you've got to get along. We're all - if anything - very adjustable."


"As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school."


"I'm proud of my kids, they are doing what they want to do."


"We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids."



"Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents."


"I think it's the great thing about having kids. They have interests that you might not have, and it opens your horizons."
Kids,



"Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear about it."



"On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me."


"Yeah, well that's the best thing about it, I think, is knowing kids and kids getting mental when they know you're in it. Any kid you meet and anyone I know tells the kid you're in it and they get short of breath."
Kids,


"Nobody got Punk'd and he was still in his season for that show when we were filming. So the kids were very aware that it was filming and that was his show and they were very much on the lookout for that."


"Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest."


"I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to New Kids on the Block."


"Kids - in a really good way - can talk about their differences without the baggage that adults have."


"My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything."


"We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed."


"Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them."



"I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble."


"But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated."


"We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up."



"Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either."
Kids,


"But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia."
Kids,


"I think I have enough tattoos for now. If I get any others, I'll probably do my kids initials."


"Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us."


"The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe."
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