Kids Quotes - Page 40

• When I was a kid, some of the guys would try to get me to hate white people for what they've been doing to Negroes, and for a while I tried real hard. But every time I got to hating them, some white guy would come along and mess the whole thing up.

  Thelonious Monk

  Hate, Real, White

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• We have two kids, my wife and myself.

  Thelonious Monk

  Two, Wife, My Wife

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• Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books.

  Maurice Sendak

  Book, Marketing, Grownups

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• Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts I'd been illustrating featured any black kids-except for token blacks in the background. My book would have him there simply because he should have been there all along. Years before I had cut from a magazine a strip of photos of a little black boy. I often put them on my studio walls before I'd begun to illustrate children's books. I just loved looking at him. This was the child who would be the hero of my book.

  Ezra Jack Keats

  Children, Wall, Book

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• My goal with The Adventures of Captain Underpants was to invent a style which was almost identical to that of a picture book - in a novel format. So I wrote incredibly short chapters and tried to fill each page with more pictures than words. I wanted to create a book that kids who don't like to read would want to read.

  Dav Pilkey

  Book, Adventure, Goal

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• I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Garden, Naked, Want

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• Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.

  Philip Larkin

  Men, Hands, Misery

  High Windows (1974) "This Be The Verse"

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• I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.

  Paul Watson

  Bird, Going Out, Should

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• A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right

  John Dos Passos

  Men, Feels Right, Feels

  John Dos Passos (2013). “The 42nd Parallel”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To all the kids out there: Follow your dream. Believe in your dream. Because dreams do come true.

  Rickey Henderson

  Dream, Believe, Follow Your Dreams

  Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Speech, delivered 26 July 2009, Cooperstown, OH

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• We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.

  Prince William

  Family, Thinking, Firsts

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• Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

  David Blaine

  Mother, Growing Up, Brooklyn

  Interview with Adam Kimmel, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.

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• As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive.

  David Blaine

  People, Miracle, Underwater

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

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• The letter from Dan Gilbert, the booing of the Cleveland fans, the jerseys being burned -- seeing all that was hard for them. My emotions were more mixed. It was easy to say, 'OK, I don't want to deal with these people ever again.' But then you think about the other side. What if I were a kid who looked up to an athlete, and that athlete made me want to do better in my own life, and then he left? How would I react? I've met with Dan, face-to-face, man-to-man. We've talked it out. Everybody makes mistakes. I've made mistakes as well. Who am I to hold a grudge?

  LeBron James

  Mistake, Athlete, Thinking

  "LeBron James leaves Miami Heat to rejoin Cleveland Cavaliers" by Martin Pengelly, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2014.

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• Before anyone ever cared where I would play basketball, I was a kid from Northeast Ohio. It’s where I walked. It’s where I ran. It’s where I cried. It’s where I bled. It holds a special place in my heart.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Heart, Ohio

  "Return of the native son: LeBron James, 'a kid from Northeast Ohio,' is finally coming home", www.foxnews.com. July 11, 2014.

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• Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

  Robert Ballard

  Friendship, Ocean, Sea

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• When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.

  Terry Brooks

  Imagination, Entertainment, Rely

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• [Fatherhood] is everything.... The hardest job in the world, the most rewarding job in the world.... We put in long days. And to go home and have dinner with your kids, and have to discipline one of them who's out of line, and still have the energy for that is.... I can't explain the fulfillment of that, but it is everything.

  Brad Pitt

  Jobs, Dad, Home

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• To insure the continuity of philanthropy, we must instill in kids the values and attitudes that will enable them to see charity as a vital part of their lives.

  Mary Leonard

  Attitude, Charity, Philanthropy

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• I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

  Jane Elliott

  Christmas, Mom, Easter

  "Jane Elliot Dishes Her Role as General Hospital's Queen of Mean". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. May 15, 2012.

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• I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Christmas, Stories, Want

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• Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you’re going to go on about genetics, you might as well say the kid will grow up to be an angel. After all, his father was really big in Heaven in the old days. Saying he’ll grow up to be a demon just because his dad became one is like saying a mouse with its tail cut off will give birth to tailless mice. No. Upbringing is everything. Take it from me.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dad, Growing Up, Father

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• Nobody cares that you're smart and nobody cares that your kids don't have bruises.

  Jim Jefferies

  Smart, Drinking, Bruises

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• ... it's simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting.

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, Fighting, Rights

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• The craft Emmys are kind of the kids table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.

  Hank Azaria

  Thanksgiving, Dance, Crafts

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