Kids Quotes

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Our parents are waging a genocidal war against their own kids. The economy has no use or need for youth. Everything is already built. Our existence is a crime.

We were supposed to grow old together, Dolores. Have kids. Take walks under old trees. I wanted to watch the lines etch themselves into your flesh and know when each and every one of them appeared. Die together.

Kids aren't supposed to have to figure out how to be happy. They just are.

I never had a girl
Looking any better than you did
And all the kids at school
They were wishing they were me that night.

It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.

To raise positive kids, we as parents must identify the qualities necessary for success, convince our children that they have the potential for success, and show them how to stake their claims in life.

Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.

The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard.... Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.

Jennifer Weiner

[Learning difficulties are a cover for] rich parents with dumb kids... That's why 'Pinch' Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, is alleged to have dyslexia — because he's retarded.

Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks.

Love, marriage and kids are fine, but I wouldn't give up an hour of comedy for them.

I often thought this country might end up being a great country for my grandkids. Now I believe it can be a great one for my kids.

In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy white time. Brown was like the skinny or fat kids left over after the team captains chose sides. "You take the rest" — my cue to wander away to the sidelines, to wander away.

Richard Rodriguez

I never thought I'd be an action star, but now they're going to make little Xena action figures for kids. I still want to be a fine actress one day; it's just a matter of putting in the time and passion.

Teachers were both blamed for everything that went wrong with kids and turned to for their every salvation. This dual role of scapegoat and savior was downright messianic but even Jesus was probably paid better.

The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.

It took me a while to realize that these stories, while ofthen used with children, are not at all children's stories. I think the devil has tricked us into thinking so much of biblical theology is a story fit for kids. How did we come to think the story of Noah's ark is appropriate for children? Can you imagine a children's book aboud Noah's ark complete with paintings of people gasping in gallons of water, mothers grasping their children while their bodies go flying down white-rapid rivers, the children's tiny heads being bashed against rocks or hung up in fallen trees? I don't think a children's book like that would sell many copies.

I had told the story of Reindeer Moon (1987) to my kids when they were little, and they loved it. Years later I was talking to a very good friend of mine about it, and she said, 'If you don't write it, it will never be written.' That was true, and I knew it, so I quit my job, moved to New Hampshire, and started writing.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Candidly, I don't see the point of teaching those apes philosophy. They're all at the wrong age. Their habit-patterns, their methods of thinking, are already laid down. They're horribly conservative, not that they'd admit it. The only people who can understand philosophy are mature adults or kids like Emma and Scotty.

Harold, the young kids out there are not going to be willing to go to the barricades in defense of lowered transaction costs.

Murray Rothbard

The Rumsfeld-Cheney axis has self-destructed right in front of our eyes, along with the once-proud Perle-Wolfowitz bund that is turning to wax. They somehow managed to blow it all, like a gang of kids on a looting spree, between January and July, or even less. It is genuinely incredible. The U.S. Treasury is empty, we are losing that stupid, fraudulent chickencrap War in Iraq, and every country in the world except a handful of Corrupt Brits despises us. We are losers, and that is the one unforgiveable sin in America.

Hunter S. Thompson

To exclude kids in formal education from science is bad for everybody.

You know, I couldn't go out into the high street without a bunch of kids following me. I felt like the Pied Piper.

William Hartnell

Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.

I grew up as a tomboy. I was always barefoot, running races with the guys on the block, climbing trees, and beating kids up.