Kids Quotes

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.
Ron Taffel

Watch, Reach, Letting

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.
Erma Bombeck

Wrong, House, Call

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?
Charlie Sheen

Success, Failure, Try

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller

Before, While, Walk

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
Bill Cosby

Education, Good, Sex

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
Steve Jobs

Good, Country, Place

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
Richard Lamm

Time, Christmas, Government

It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.
Eminem

Stupid, Here, Baby

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
Bill Cosby

Parenting, Try, Matter

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
Jim Rohn

Laugh, Beginning, Sure

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
Bernard Manning

Christmas, Saying, Once

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Bill Gates

Teacher, Technology, Important

When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.
Johnny Depp

Drunk, Laugh, Old

It is nerve-wracking watching my kids' games.
Michael Jordan

Games, Watching

I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.
Jimi Hendrix

Put, Born, Naked

What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?
Marilyn Monroe

Good, Times, Three

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
Bill Cosby

Keep, Though, Loving

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.
Eminem

Age, Enough, Old

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'
Eminem

Positive, Learning, Problems

There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?
Will Smith

Father, Black, Friends

Kids need to remember that when you put something on Twitter, it's not like whispering to your friend, you've put it on a billboard that the whole world, including your own kids someday, can see.
Bill Cosby

Friend, Remember, Put

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Yogi Berra

School, Walk, Buy

I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.
Bill Cosby

Love, Person, Try

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
Walt Disney

Dead, Aim, Anyway

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.
Morgan Freeman

Moving, Someone, Down

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
Tim Allen

Friendship, Humor, Best

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.
Yogi Berra

Wonderful, House, Keeps

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.
Liam Neeson

Time, True, Joy

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
Erma Bombeck

Car, Place, Wait

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
Phyllis Diller

Bad, Thought, Cooking

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