Kids Quotes - Page 30

• For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out.

  Chris Daughtry

  Trying, Want, Way

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• I watched the Olympics as a kid. It would be fun to try to win a medal. If I could swap Olympic gold for a US PGA Championship? I'd take the Major every time.

  Luke Donald

  Fun, Winning, Trying

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• I was really careful in making monsters faint rather than die. I think that young people playing games have an abnormal concept about dying. They start to lose and say, ‘I’m dying.’ It’s not right for kids to think about a concept of death that way. They need to treat death with more respect.

  Satoshi Tajiri

  Thinking, Games, People

  "The Ultimate Game Freak". The TIME Magazine Interview, content.time.com. November 22, 1999.

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• Be present in your work because kids live in the moment, so as soon as you're not in the present, you're not being authentic.

  Kadir Nelson

  Live In The Moment, Moments, Being Authentic

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• I always feel like an idiot every time I fly first class because I’m a kid. And I just sit there, and everyone’s got their newspapers and they’re on the computer, and I’m like, 'Can I get a coloring book, please? Can I get some crayons?'

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Book, Class

  "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon", 2012.

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• It's good to give some of the kids a chance for playing time and some confidence. It doesn't do any good to leave starters out there just to beat a team by 60-70 points.

  Sylvia Hatchell

  Team, Giving, Chance

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• I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things.

  Antonio Banderas

  Thinking, People, Saws

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• In terms of my profession, I'm passionate about financial literacy. I want to live in a financially literate society. I want kids to understand the importance of savings and investing. I want to try to replicate the great savers who came out of the Depression, the best savers the country has ever seen. It's crucial that people understand the importance of financial literacy, because it's actually life saving.

  Mellody Hobson

  Country, People, Trying

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• Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I'm not an actor who can just play the kid.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Character, Play, Yes I Can

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Growing Up, Crazy, Hollywood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Marine, Actresses, Environmentalist

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• Since I was a kid, I've been telling everyone about the rain forest and how it's being destroyed.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Rain, Forests, Destroyed

  "25 Hottest Stars Under 25", Teen People Magazine, 2002.

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• Sometimes I feel like the kid left out - the weirdo with the silver hair that no one likes to talk to.

  Emilia Clarke

  Hair, Likes, Sometimes

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• In the future, artists will get record deals because they have fans-not the other way around...The only memento 'kids these days' want is a selfie. It's part of the new currency, which seems to be 'how many followers you have on Instagram'.

  Taylor Swift

  Artist, Records, Want

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• In sixth grade, some kid was being inappropriate with a girl. I said he better stop. Next thing were fighting. Then were at the principals office. I got just as much punishment as he did, even though I felt I did the right thing.

  Woody Harrelson

  Girl, Fighting, Punishment

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• Going to regular public high school and working and auditioning was really, really tough. I never really fit in and hit the stride that all the other kids were on. Instead of going out and hanging out with my friends at that age, I remember being in my bedroom and putting on like a Christina Aguilera tape and just like belting. And seeing if I could hit every single note just like her.

  Naya Rivera

  School, Age, Like Her

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• I was obsessed with fairytales, and I was a very, very inquisitive kid, and I would ask my mom all kinds of questions. It all kind of formed a story in my head, and I really wanted to be a published author when I was 10, but I had a hard time writing a novel when I was 10. So I decided to wait until I was little bit older and then get it done.

  Chris Colfer

  Mom, Writing, Hard Times

  "Chris Colfer Shipping 'Bits Of My Soul' With His Novel". Interview with Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. July 16, 2012.

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• My life is an awkward visit from the kid's table while awaiting a History Channel special.

  Chris Colfer

  Awkward, Special, Tables

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• If you have kids and stuff what kind of dad do I wanna be for my kids, and what kind of mom do I want them to have

  David Archuleta

  Mom, Dad, Want

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• As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.

  Chris Daughtry

  Art, Next, Vans

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

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• My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and smile.

  Jennifer Garner

  Smile, Mother, Sunset

  "What Makes a Good Man? A Conversation With Mark Shriver". Interview with Mark K. Shriver, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.

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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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• But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.

  Tim McGraw

  Sports, Children, Growing Up

  "Flicka (2006)". Interview with David Bruce, www.hollywoodjesus.com. May 28, 2005.

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• I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Mom, New York, Cities

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• Kids are like buckets of disease that live in your house.

  Louis C. K.

  Thinking, Laughing, House

  "25 Hilarious Quotes About Parenting From Louis C.K." by Caroline Bologna, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2017.

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