Kids Quotes - Page 24

• I'm older and have a kid, I like success on my own, but I always enjoyed all my parts playing the fifth wheel. I mean, just loved it. There was such freedom in it and I still got to enjoy watching everyone work.

  Selma Blair

  Mean, Enjoy

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• If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.

  Linda Blair

  Travel, Children, Selfish

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• For toddlers I suggest leaving their mittens on year-round, indoors and out. That way they can't get into aspirin bottles, liquor cabinets, or boxes of kitchen matches.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Baby, Children

  P. J. O'Rourke (1987). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, Pocket

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• In the next 15 or 20 years, I hope I'll be the richest man in the world. That's one of my goals. I want to be a billionaire. I want to get to a position where generation on generation don't have to worry about nothing. I don't want family members from my kids to my son's kids to never have to worry. And I can't do that now just playing basketball.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Inspiration, Son

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• I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes

  George Carlin

  Mother, School, Home

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• It's a mystery of parenthood that your son can give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a stray, worm-riddled dog, share a piece of re-chewed gum from a kid with bronchitis and pick his nose and eat it on a regular basis, yet won't sit next to his sister because of 'Girl Germs'.

  Kathy Lette

  Girl, Dog, Morning

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• But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

  Coolio

  Travel, Growing Up, Being Real

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

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• I sold my first script when I was 21 - this kids' adventure movie that never got made. I just bought that one back, actually. I'm pretty psyched about it.

  Jason Segel

  Travel, Adventure, Scripts

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• I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

  Jim Dale

  Travel, Adventure, Stills

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Brother, Team

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• Every memory I have from when I was a kid involves basketball.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Memories

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• I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, College, Duke University

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, House, World

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• Because I want every kid to be viewed as a person rather than as a member of a certain race does not mean that I'm not black enough. . . . Do they want me to be positive just for black kids and negative for everybody else?

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Mean, Race

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• Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.

  Steve Kerr

  Basketball, Sports, Country

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• We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Streets, Hung

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• I figure if the kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job.

  Roseanne Barr

  Jobs, Parenting, The End Of The Day

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• When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts.

  Robert Breault

  Baby, Memories, Parent

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• Whenever your kids are out of control, you can take comfort from the thought that even God's omnipotence did not extend to His kids.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, God, Baby

  Bill Cosby (2002). “Bill Cosby on Fatherhood”, p.38, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Until I became a parent, I thought children just naturally knew how to catch a ball, that catching was an instinctive biological reflex that all children are born with, like knowing how to operate a remote control or getting high fevers in distant airports.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• Today's toys contain computer chips, so they can move and talk; this stimulates the mind of your child. Notice I say "your child." MY child just wants to eat the toys.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.84, Crown Archetype

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• I got so much food spit back in my face when my kids were small, I put windshield wipers on my glasses.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Erma Bombeck, Bil Keane (2011). “Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!”, p.119, Fawcett

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• For the first two years of a child's life, we spend every waking hour tryibg to get the child to communicate. Then we spend the rest of our lives trying to figure out how we can reverse the process.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Baby, Children

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• Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be called in at once.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.92, Jerome K. Jerome

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