Kids Quotes - Page 12

• We've never had nannies. We've had great grandparents, great support from family, and the kids have been on every set: they've seen me play Gollum, King Kong, Captain Haddock, the lot. They totally get it, and they want to go into the business. Ruby, my daughter, is very keen to become an actress.

  Andy Serkis

  Daughter, Mother, Kings

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• When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.

  Geena Davis

  Daughter, Mother, Believe

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• Yeah, I definitely wanted to do a kids' movie because I have a kid. I want to do things that my daughter can see soon - when she is old enough to know what a movie is.

  David Arquette

  Daughter, Mother, Want

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• Nothing reassures parents more than surrounding their kids with the kind of guys who have a lot of weapons and nothing to do on weekdays.

  Stephen Colbert

  Gun, Parent, Guy

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• One of the things my dad kept instilling in me was the joy of the game. He made it fun for me. A lot of the time I see kids that don't enjoy being out there and that's a shame; you're supposed to enjoy the game.

  Tiger Woods

  Fun, Dad, Golf

  "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, cnn.com. December 23, 2001.

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• Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm.

  Gottfried Keller

  Grandma, Gossip, Long

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• Kids haven't changed - you have.

  John Kapelos

  Aging, Changed, Havens

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• Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Years, Aging

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• If you want to know how many prison cells to build, look at the number of third graders who can't read.

  Mary Landrieu

  Cells, Numbers, Library

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• Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.

  William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

  Children, Praise, Your Children

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• When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age I live by the word.

  Horace Dyer

  Teenager, Power, Authority

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• When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.'

  Jan Hutchins

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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• First off, do everything they can to give their kids the opportunities to play sports; asthma is not a deterrent to playing sports.

  Dominique Wilkins

  Basketball, Sports, Opportunity

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• You have to teach now - tell a kid how to box out, tell him how to pass, teach him footwork. Players don't understand that anymore.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Player, Boxes

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• I went to a high school reunion a couple years ago and realized that the kids who were the most unusual in high school are the ones who are the most interesting now and the ones who were popular are dull and boring.

  Anderson Cooper

  Couple, School, Years

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• I was the naughty kid that the teachers liked. I bullied a kid in the 1st year when I was in the 2nd, who then hit puberty like a plane crash and grew into a gorilla who bullied me when he was in the 4th year and I was in the 5th. That's Karma.

  Simon Pegg

  Karma, Teacher, Naughty

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• It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Jobs, Motivation

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• It was a tough school. The kids on the debating team took steroids!

  Milton Berle

  Education, Team, Teaching

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• I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.

  Sophia Bush

  Funny, Sibling, Home

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• My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Mom, Sibling, Six

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

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• I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with.

  Anjelica Huston

  Niece, Two, Years

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• The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I've helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them.

  Reba McEntire

  Niece, Son, Challenges

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• The brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. While some kids carried roast beef sandwiches, others had peanut butter. I have no way of knowing if all of those brown bags contained 'nutritionally adequate diets.' But I do know that those brown bags and those lunch pails symbolized parental love and responsibility.

  Charles Mathias

  Love, Responsibility, Lunch

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• Don't mess with my kids again. I will look past it once because I do believe its my fault. But if you touch my kids one more time, then you'll be in danger too.

  Fabian

  Drama, Believe, Past

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• She is sloppy, careless, and have many flaws here and there, but she is so honest and innocent like she's still a kid.

  Um Ki-joon

  Drama, Here And There, Honest

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