Kids Quotes - Page 2

• I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspiring, Funny Inspirational, Children

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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• I would want America to know our kids need us. Spend as much time with your kids as you can. Enjoy them. Be with them. Hug your children; You never know when it will be the last time.

  Tony Dungy

  Children, Athlete, America

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• I have always been inspired by the dream of America-families in the country, weathered trucks and farmhouses; sailing off the coast of Maine; following dirt roads in an old wood-paneled station wagon; a convertible filled with young college kids sporting crew cuts and sweatshirts and frayed sneakers.

  Ralph Lauren

  Dream, Country, Fashion

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• The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Children, Answers, Modern

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• So if you're not Artemis Fowl, then who are you?" The boy extended a dripping hand straight up. "My name is Orion. I am so pleased to meet you at last. I am, of course, your servant." Holly shook the proferred hand, thinking that manners were lovely, but she really needed someone cunning and ruthless right now, and this kid didn't appear to be very cunning.

  Eoin Colfer

  Thinking, Boys, Names

  Eoin Colfer (2010). “Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex”, p.87, Penguin UK

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• it's weird how much people change. for example, when i was a kid i loved all of these things..and over time all of them just fell away, one after another, replaced by friends and IMing and cell phones and boys and clothes. it's kind of sad, if you think about it. like there's no continuity in people at all. like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a "young adult," and after that you're a totally different person. maybe even a less happy person. maybe even a worse one.

  Lauren Oliver

  Thinking, Boys, Clothes

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• What's the woman doing there?" he asked. "Covering a scratch on the hood. She was cheaper than a new paint job." He flipped through a few more pages of barely dressed women and classic cars. "Nick used to have magazines like this when we were kids. But without the cars." He rotated a photo sideways. "Or the bathing suits.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Jobs, Car, Covering

  Kelley Armstrong (2012). “Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings”, p.457, Vintage Canada

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• My platform's called Don't Even Think About It. I go to schools and I say, 'Whatever bad thing it is you're thinking of doing, don't even think about it. 'Cause I can see into your soul, and I will hide in your closet and come for you in the night, and the last sound you ever hear will be my sharp teeth popping through the flesh of my gums, ready to eat you.' Their eyes get all big. It's awesome. I love little kids, man. They're the cutest

  Libba Bray

  Eye, School, Men

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• A shame really, because putting the right book in the right kid’s hands is kind of like giving that kid superpowers.

  Cecil Castellucci

  Book, Hands, Giving

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• Shapeshifter parenting motto—if your kid slit somebody's throat, always have a backup plan to make the body disappear.

  Ilona Andrews

  Body, Motto, Disappear

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• The kid was so handsome, he almost looked unreal.

  Ilona Andrews

  Handsome, Unreal

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.90, Penguin

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• 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

  Mean, Licking, Working It

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.65, Faber & Faber

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• Let me know if you're going to do something stupid, kid, 'cause I'll ditch you like that.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Stupid, Causes, Let Me

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• It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner.

  Ben Berger

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

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• The way I see it,” she began, “your mother’s devoted her whole life to you kids.” She said “you kids” in precisely the same tone I would have used for “you infestation of cockroaches

  Jennifer Weiner

  Mother, Cockroaches, Way

  Jennifer Weiner (2002). “Good in Bed”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight's last gleaming. Amen and Awomen.

  George Carlin

  Art, Prayer, Father

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• Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it’s bad, you’ve never been so miserable, but when it’s good you’ve never been so high.

  Dan Savage

  Addiction, Littles, Miserable

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• The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

  Jackie Chan

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• 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

  Independent, Leader, Needs

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  Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

  Robert Fulghum

  Marriage, Mother, Children

  "Reflections for Tending the Sacred Garden". Book by Bonita Jean Zimmer (p. 182), April 2003.

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• The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

  Fred Astaire

  Inspirational, Jobs, Athlete

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.

  Rachel Zoe

  Party, Pretentious, Deals

  "The Graduate: Rachel Zoe" by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 13, 2012.

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  Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

  Benjamin Spock

  Positive, Family, Trust

  The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

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• Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.83, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

  Dorothy Nolte

  Children, Parenting, Criticism

  "Children Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Values". Book by Dorothy Nolte and Rachel Harris, January 5, 1998.

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