Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.
- Jodi Picoult
In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
- Tori Amos
Divorce isn't just the person, it's everything that goes with it - your kids, the adjustment, everything.
- Peter Andre
But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it.
- David Axelrod
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
- Bill Ayers
American families be warned, if the White House doesn't send your jobs overseas, they'll send your kids.
- Joe Baca
I always thought I would have boys, but as a father, when your kids are born and they're healthy and happy, that's the most important thing.
- Rob Mariano
I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.
- Charles Barkley
Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
- Roseanne Barr
If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.
- Mario Batali
Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.
- Mario Batali
You have been given a second chance to start your life over. You can't throw this opportunity away. If you do you will be a colossal fool. If you get the chance to do something and don't do it then you'll simply live with regret. That's a worse situation than trying something daring and maybe not succeeding. At least you tried. Isn't that what you want to show your kids?
- Lorena Bathey
We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.
- Annette Bening
Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it.
- Shelley Berkley
My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.
- Leslie Bibb
I don't know if watching Chaz Bono will turn your kids into transsexuals, but I'm pretty sure that letting them watch Keith Ablow will turn them into assholes
- Lewis Black
And why is Saint Paula a Saint? She dumps her four kids at a convent. She runs off to Hajira with Saint Jerome. How is that a saint?
You've got shitty mothers all over America who would love to dump their kids and travel.
- Amy Bloom
Insanity is hereditary. You can catch it from your kids.
- Erma Bombeck
There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.
- Pierce Brosnan
It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.
- Nicholas Sparks
There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead.
You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.
- Chuck Palahniuk
We talk so much about leaving a better planet to our kids, that we forget to leave better kids to our planet.
- Gerry Burnie
Not all gay men send me penis pictures. But no straight men do. And to date, no woman has sent me a picture of her vaginal canal. 'I know it's a little stretched out, but I've had four kids. What do you expect? LOL.
- Augusten Burroughs
Yeah. I do. I think that we have to continue to expand the areas in which we want our kids to be literate. And social media's going to be a part of their lives. And why not? Why not give them a sense of what the rules of the road are?
- Levar Burton
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
- Red Buttons
That's a good question. I don't really remember what it was like before. Whatever I had going on, it was bullshit. It wasn't important. It's kind of a nice thing about being a dad. My identity is really about them now, and what I can do for them, so it sort of takes the pressure off of your own life. What am I going to do, who am I? Who cares, you've got to get your kids to school. So I like it that way.
- Louis C K
You don't love Buck. If you did, you'd have four kids by now. Wouldn't you? Now wouldn't you? A woman like you..
- Erskine Caldwell
Our first priority is our kids.
- Kirk Cameron
You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that.
- Eric Cantor
If you read to your kids, you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent-time.
- Orson Scott Card
Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.
- Rosanne Cash
We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.
- Neil Cavuto
That was the tricky part. You poured inordinate amounts of time and attention and affection into your kids, but the result was indirect. You didn't point out a cat to your one-year-old and then watch him, minutes later, say 'Cat.' Instead, you pointed out a hundred cats to your one-year-old and then, one day, watched him point to a cat and say 'Mama.
- Katherine Center
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
- Bill Cosby
I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.
- Stephen King
Has it ever occurred to you," he said abruptly, "that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?"
I shook my head.
Tell you what I think," he said, "I think that part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.
- Stephen King
Fire has impacted every part of our lives - without fire, there would be no shopping, right? - that's how the Internet will intrude on our lives, particularly our kids' lives.
- Jay Chiat
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.
- Tom Clancy
I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your kids by the time you're 12 or it's all over. Please.
- Jill Clayburgh
We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules.
- Nick Clegg
First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.
- Hillary Clinton
There is a real opportunity right now as parents and grandparents to come up with a plan that leaves our kids with something better than we have; that is, an opportunity to own, build, and grow a nest egg of their own.
- Norm Coleman
I don't watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of it isn't the kind of thing you can feel comfortable with watching with your kids. And I still feel that way even though, now, my kids are in their 30s.
- Tim Conway
How do you choose between your kids and your parents? I feel like we're all just a bunch of vikings, moving around so we can pillage and burn, make a better living.
Some choose their kids, some their parents, and some both. Some people just choose themselves,
- Joe Coomer
We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We don't buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time.
- Cat Cora
Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain.
- Cat Cora
It's not easy to kill; it's not supposed to be. If it is, then there's something wrong with you. But sometimes good people have to do unpleasant things just so we can come home at night to our kids.
- Skip Coryell
Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact that you see your kids across the table not as they are but as they once were, about three nanoseconds ago.
- Neil Degrasse Tyson
Our kids are in their twenties now, which is a wonderful time.
- Jeff Daniels
Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.
- Mitch Daniels
Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.
- Tony Danza
John F. Kennedy asked us what we could do for America. This Democratic Party asks what can government give you. Don't worry about paying the bill, it's on your kids and grandkids.
- Artur Davis
Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.
- Hope Davis
Your kids pissing you off is an inborn instinct. It's nature's way of getting you to kick them out when they turn 18!
Okaaay.
- Dakota Dawn
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
- Phyllis Diller
I'm the youngest of six children; both of my sisters are housewives and they each have four kids.
- Roma Downey
The single most important thing we can do today to ensure a strong, successful future for Wisconsin is invest in our kids early - because what we do now will determine what kind of state Wisconsin will be 10, 20, even 50 years from now.
- Jim Doyle
You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect.
- Tony Dungy
If you're a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.
- Keith Emerson
I think it's important to recall... what you remember your grandmother making, where you're from and the foods you enjoyed as a child yourself, and pass that information off to your kids.
- Tyler Florence
If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities?
- Harold Ford
I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it.
- Luis Fortuno
Everything I've ever gotten in life is largely due to the fact that I was born in this country, America, at this time with these opportunities for its citizens. It is the primary obligation of our generation to turn over a similar America to our kids.
- Thomas Friedman
It's never too early to involve your kids in giving back. And the more hands-on the experiences are, the better.
- Soleil Moon Frye
This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.
- Barack Obama
I want you to be my wife. There's no one else I want to spend the rest of my life with. We can live out here, you, me, our kids, and Bo. But I get it now, Anna. My decisions affect you, too. So now you have one of your own to make. Will you marry me?
- Tracey Garvis Graves
I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
- Melinda Gates
We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids.
- Maurice Gibb
Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?
- Ryan Giggs
I hope that they enjoy the movie. Don't be critical. Don't expect to get the same feelings you got when you watched the series when you were 10 years old. Let your kids see it and experience it on their own.
- Mark Goddard
Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids' toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees.
- Jennifer M Granholm
A meal that can be packed and frozen and thawed is nothing you should desire--much less teach your kids to want.
- Mireille Guiliano
Expose them {your kids} to the widest variety of vegetables and fruits, showing them how good things can be in season. Tasteless fruits and vegetables won't win them over for life.
- Mireille Guiliano
In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.
- Renny Harlin
The hardest thing about being a parent is watching your kids make mistakes. Our instinct is to protect you. But you're right, Deenie. Sometimes we have to step aside and let you make them anyway. The best we can do is be there when you mess up.
- Lisi Harrison
Under the disguise amulet, Jenks looked very different with black hair and a darker complexion. He had his new aviator jacket on over the T-shirt he had bought in the previous store, making him a sexy, leggy, hunk o' pixy ass in jeans. No wonder he had fifty-four kids and Matalina smiled like Mona Lisa.
- Kim Harrison
Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar, who would kill me in my sleep while apologizing for it.
- Kim Harrison
Sure, he had a wife and fifty-four kids, but he looked like a college freshman. A yummy college freshman majoring in Oh-my-god-I-gotta-get-me-some-of-that.
- Kim Harrison
I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.
- Gregory Harrison
Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
- Jim Harrison
Hart and Hope," I muttered. "If you're going to name your kids like that, of course they're going to think they live in a comic book.
- Alyxandra Harvey
It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
- Patricia Heaton
I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.
- Jimi Hendrix
Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.
- Hulk Hogan
We are not programmed to bury our kids.
- Eric Holder
I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.
- Mark Hoppus
He would read up on parenting, if he thought it would help, but his errors always seemed too basic for the manuals. "Always tell your kids they have siblings..." He couldn't imagine any child-raising guru taking the trouble to write that down. Maybe there was a gap in the market.
- Nick Hornby
There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.
- Arianna Huffington
Before we have children, we think most of the parents sitting in sacrament meeting ought to "do something about their kids." Once we have kids, we think everyone ought to be a lot more understanding about what we're trying to survive during the meeting. And once our kids are grown, we think, "I never let my kids get away with that." We really all need to chill out.
- Dean Hughes
One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?
- Mark Hyman
Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.
- Lebron James
If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
- Bruce Jenner
As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
- Steve Jobs
When I think of the Middle Ages I think of castles, Catholicism, and taking your kids to soccer practice.
- Jarod Kintz
I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again.' I can't bring my mom back, but I can have children.
- Mindy Kaling
I definitely want kids and I want four kids, for sure. But I need to find a husband first!
- Kim Kardashian
Why didn't I go in? I'm such a chicken. I'm such an idiot. I should have kissed her. I've blown it. I should just go and knock on her door and just kiss her. It would be romantic. It would be something we could someday tell our kids. I'm gonna do that right now.
[drives away]
- Charlie Kaufman
I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.
- Guy Kawasaki
Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.
- Joan Rivers
If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.
- Maynard James Keenan
Our communities face many challenges, from keeping our kids safe in public, to the war on terrorism. But few have such immediate consequences as we face from methamphetamine.
- Mark Kennedy
We must continue to work hard on the federal level, to make sure that our local law enforcement and communities have the tools and resources they need to fight this war against methamphetamine, and keep our kids safe.
- Mark Kennedy
But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really YOURS, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. What I mean is, everything you get is really just on loan. Does that make sense?"
Sure,"I said. "Like library books. Sooner or later they've all got to go back into the nightdrop.
- Barbara Kingsolver
We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.
- Lenny Kravitz
It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have.
- Alan Ladd
It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.
- Anne Lamott
I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.
- K D Lang
You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.
- Martin Lawrence
When we grow up," she said, "we'll have amazing families. Our dens will be better than this. Your kids and my kids will play together in a humongous room with every kind of toy and game."
"Except I won't have kids," Dan said. "I'll come over myself and play..
- Peter Lerangis
If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.
- John Lithgow
Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else.
- Michael Madsen
Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.
- Michelle Malkin
This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.
- Marilyn Manson
The real question isn't whether you love your kids or not, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.
- Stephanie Martson
The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.
- Marlee Matlin
Parenting in the age of mobile communication really does allow us to be there for our kids in a way never before possible.
- Susan Maushart
I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?
- Jenny Mccarthy
When I think of the future, I think of my 15 year old son Connor and my 12 year old daughter Meghan. I worry about their future because your kids are as important to you as mine are to me. And I am unwilling to leave our children with so much debt.
- Kevin Mccarthy
My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.
- Reba Mcentire
Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed to. It's so important.
- Danica Mckellar
We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.
- Bode Miller
What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
- Walter F Mondale
We cannot allow our kids not to have an educational opportunity.
- Gwen Moore
I just want to tell you what it's like not to have Planned Parenthood... you have to give your kids Ramen noodles at the end of the month to fill up their little bellies so they won't cry. You have to give them mayonnaise sandwiches. They get very few fruits and vegetables because they're expensive.
- Gwen Moore
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
- Christopher Morley
When your kids accomplish something it means much more than anything you've done.
- Greg Mortenson
I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.
- Alonzo Mourning
We got babies raising babies, and its important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to make sure that our kids are steered in the right direction.
- Alonzo Mourning
I think there's no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It's like inventing something, but it's invisible, you know? It's weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that's the joy. It's like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they're your kids.
- Jason Mraz
When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.
- Graham Nash
So when I look at spending more dollars, I look at the fact, do I really want my kids and your kids and everybody else's kids in this country to have to pay that bill?
- Kristi Noem
I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.
- Deborah Norville
It's a different experience to be with your kids when your spouse isn't around.
- Jerry Oconnell
Nature will get rights as soon as it gets duties. The minute we see birds, trees, bugs, squirrels picking up litter, giving money to charity, and keeping an eye on our kids at the park, we'll let them vote.
- P J Orourke
As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.
- Michelle Obama
We're all bombarded with so many dietary messages that it's hard to find time to sort through all this information, but we do have time to take a look at our kids' plates.
- Michelle Obama
Sometimes, it's just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It's exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.
- Michelle Obama
Ultimately this issue is on us. We're the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.
- Michelle Obama
We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.
- Michelle Obama
And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.
- Gary Oldman
Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.
- Jamie Oliver
Do your kids a favor - don't have any.
- Robert Orben
I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.
- Joel Osteen
You learn to understand it, but if you step back, you do think it is either strange or unfair. But I know that if you don't score, play well or win, you are wrong to have a helicopter and fly home each week to see your kids. You are wrong to have a business outside of football.
- Michael J Owen
Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first.
- Gwyneth Paltrow
I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families.
- Tony Parsons
Give yourself permission to dream. Fuel your kids' dreams too. Once in a while, that might even mean letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
- Randy Pausch
Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.
- Randy Pausch
Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.
- Michelle Pfeiffer
LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight.
- Ryan Phillippe
Always remember your kid's name. Always remember where you put your kid. Don't let your kid drive until their feet can reach the pedals. Use the right size diapers... for yourself. And, when in doubt, make funny faces.
- Amy Poehler
I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.
- Sydney Pollack
So I delegate a lot and I make my family come first, my husband and our kids.
- Kelly Preston
You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.
- Anna Quindlen
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
- Anna Quindlen
Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
- Usher Raymond
Keeping our kids engaged and in school must become a national priority.
- Cedric Richmond
We consider all our animals to be our kids.
- Eric Roberts
When Courtney's mother and I first separated I tried to be Disney Dad, showering her with gifts, trips and then I snapped out of it. You don't have to try to impress your kids. If they're not getting what they need from you, they will let you know.
- Al Roker
Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.
- Mitt Romney
Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.
- Mitt Romney
You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.
- Marshall B Rosenberg
I had this whole plan when I graduated high school: I was going to go to college, date a few guys, and then meet THE guy at the end of my freshman year, maybe at the beginning of my sophomore year. We'd be engaged by graduation and married the next year. And then, after some traveling, we'd start our family. Four kids, three years apart. I wanted to be done by the time I was 35.
- Rainbow Rowell
I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to survive, but help them enjoy their lives.
- Susan Sarandon
Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?
- Susan Sarandon
That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person in the world should theoretically be loved as much as I love my daughters.
- George Saunders
They'd rather see Scooby Doo or Spongebob than Daddy talking about the latest Wall Street Journal editorial. You do what you have to do to get your kids ready for school.
- Joe Scarborough
I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.
- Curt Schilling
The only animals that we test on are the two of us and our kids.
- Connie Sellecca
So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about.
- Cindy Sheehan
When Renee and I talked about it years later, we agreed on one point: We were insane. Renee always said, "If any of our kids want to get married when they're twenty-five, we'll have to lock them in the attic." We were just kids, and everybody who came to the wedding party was guilty of shameful if not criminal negligence-- look at the shiny pretty toaster, isn't it cute to see the babies playing with it in the bathtub? Jesus, people!
- Rob Sheffield
I wonder if I wouldn't have been more moved if my own mother had taken me in her arms and said, 'I like you'. I wonder if just enjoying your kids company isn't more important.
- Lionel Shriver
In truth we are bigger, greedier versions of the same eating, shitting, rutting ruck, hell-bent on disguising from somebody, if only from a three-year-old, that pretty much all we do is eat and shit and rut. The secret is there is no secret. that is what we really wish to keep fom our kids, and it's suppression is the true collusion of adulthood..
- Lionel Shriver
I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is. I got the chutzpa or whatever you want to say to believe that if I write a really good about it, it's going to make a difference.
- Bruce Springsteen
I just saved your fucking life, Mom...It's like, if you--people of a certain age--would make some effort to just stay in touch with sort of basic, modern-day events, then your kids wouldn't have to take these drastic measures.
- Neal Stephenson
I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.
- Meryl Streep
Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.
- Bob Taft
It's always just a great thing to see your kids connecting and you see the different stages.
- Christine Taylor
What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?
- Kathleen Turner
CBS started to confiscate our packages and mail as a safety procedure. A lot of packages that people send for the holidays and to our kids we can't open. A lot of times they are from overseas. It's very upsetting at times.
- Hunter Tylo
I don't really know them, but I know this: they're just like your kids were. Or are. Sweet, trusting, good in ways we adults hardly even remember. We have to look out for them. Not because of the tattoos, or in spite of them, but because they're kids and we're supposed to look out for kids.
- Sabrina Vourvoulias
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
- Tom Waits
You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.
- Ethel Waters
You know, you've got to be careful with how you educate your kids in rock'n'roll fashion.
- Scott Weiland
There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.
- Arabella Weir
When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.
- Joe Wilson
Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
- Tiger Woods
As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Jodi Picoult
In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
- Tori Amos
Divorce isn't just the person, it's everything that goes with it - your kids, the adjustment, everything.
- Peter Andre
But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it.
- David Axelrod
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
- Bill Ayers
American families be warned, if the White House doesn't send your jobs overseas, they'll send your kids.
- Joe Baca
I always thought I would have boys, but as a father, when your kids are born and they're healthy and happy, that's the most important thing.
- Rob Mariano
I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.
- Charles Barkley
Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
- Roseanne Barr
If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.
- Mario Batali
Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.
- Mario Batali
You have been given a second chance to start your life over. You can't throw this opportunity away. If you do you will be a colossal fool. If you get the chance to do something and don't do it then you'll simply live with regret. That's a worse situation than trying something daring and maybe not succeeding. At least you tried. Isn't that what you want to show your kids?
- Lorena Bathey
We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.
- Annette Bening
Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it.
- Shelley Berkley
My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.
- Leslie Bibb
I don't know if watching Chaz Bono will turn your kids into transsexuals, but I'm pretty sure that letting them watch Keith Ablow will turn them into assholes
- Lewis Black
And why is Saint Paula a Saint? She dumps her four kids at a convent. She runs off to Hajira with Saint Jerome. How is that a saint?
You've got shitty mothers all over America who would love to dump their kids and travel.
- Amy Bloom
Insanity is hereditary. You can catch it from your kids.
- Erma Bombeck
There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.
- Pierce Brosnan
It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.
- Nicholas Sparks
There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead.
You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.
- Chuck Palahniuk
We talk so much about leaving a better planet to our kids, that we forget to leave better kids to our planet.
- Gerry Burnie
Not all gay men send me penis pictures. But no straight men do. And to date, no woman has sent me a picture of her vaginal canal. 'I know it's a little stretched out, but I've had four kids. What do you expect? LOL.
- Augusten Burroughs
Yeah. I do. I think that we have to continue to expand the areas in which we want our kids to be literate. And social media's going to be a part of their lives. And why not? Why not give them a sense of what the rules of the road are?
- Levar Burton
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
- Red Buttons
That's a good question. I don't really remember what it was like before. Whatever I had going on, it was bullshit. It wasn't important. It's kind of a nice thing about being a dad. My identity is really about them now, and what I can do for them, so it sort of takes the pressure off of your own life. What am I going to do, who am I? Who cares, you've got to get your kids to school. So I like it that way.
- Louis C K
You don't love Buck. If you did, you'd have four kids by now. Wouldn't you? Now wouldn't you? A woman like you..
- Erskine Caldwell
Our first priority is our kids.
- Kirk Cameron
You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that.
- Eric Cantor
If you read to your kids, you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent-time.
- Orson Scott Card
Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.
- Rosanne Cash
We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.
- Neil Cavuto
That was the tricky part. You poured inordinate amounts of time and attention and affection into your kids, but the result was indirect. You didn't point out a cat to your one-year-old and then watch him, minutes later, say 'Cat.' Instead, you pointed out a hundred cats to your one-year-old and then, one day, watched him point to a cat and say 'Mama.
- Katherine Center
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
- Bill Cosby
I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.
- Stephen King
Has it ever occurred to you," he said abruptly, "that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?"
I shook my head.
Tell you what I think," he said, "I think that part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.
- Stephen King
Fire has impacted every part of our lives - without fire, there would be no shopping, right? - that's how the Internet will intrude on our lives, particularly our kids' lives.
- Jay Chiat
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.
- Tom Clancy
I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your kids by the time you're 12 or it's all over. Please.
- Jill Clayburgh
We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules.
- Nick Clegg
First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.
- Hillary Clinton
There is a real opportunity right now as parents and grandparents to come up with a plan that leaves our kids with something better than we have; that is, an opportunity to own, build, and grow a nest egg of their own.
- Norm Coleman
I don't watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of it isn't the kind of thing you can feel comfortable with watching with your kids. And I still feel that way even though, now, my kids are in their 30s.
- Tim Conway
How do you choose between your kids and your parents? I feel like we're all just a bunch of vikings, moving around so we can pillage and burn, make a better living.
Some choose their kids, some their parents, and some both. Some people just choose themselves,
- Joe Coomer
We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We don't buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time.
- Cat Cora
Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain.
- Cat Cora
It's not easy to kill; it's not supposed to be. If it is, then there's something wrong with you. But sometimes good people have to do unpleasant things just so we can come home at night to our kids.
- Skip Coryell
Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact that you see your kids across the table not as they are but as they once were, about three nanoseconds ago.
- Neil Degrasse Tyson
Our kids are in their twenties now, which is a wonderful time.
- Jeff Daniels
Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.
- Mitch Daniels
Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.
- Tony Danza
John F. Kennedy asked us what we could do for America. This Democratic Party asks what can government give you. Don't worry about paying the bill, it's on your kids and grandkids.
- Artur Davis
Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.
- Hope Davis
Your kids pissing you off is an inborn instinct. It's nature's way of getting you to kick them out when they turn 18!
Okaaay.
- Dakota Dawn
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
- Phyllis Diller
I'm the youngest of six children; both of my sisters are housewives and they each have four kids.
- Roma Downey
The single most important thing we can do today to ensure a strong, successful future for Wisconsin is invest in our kids early - because what we do now will determine what kind of state Wisconsin will be 10, 20, even 50 years from now.
- Jim Doyle
You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect.
- Tony Dungy
If you're a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.
- Keith Emerson
I think it's important to recall... what you remember your grandmother making, where you're from and the foods you enjoyed as a child yourself, and pass that information off to your kids.
- Tyler Florence
If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities?
- Harold Ford
I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it.
- Luis Fortuno
Everything I've ever gotten in life is largely due to the fact that I was born in this country, America, at this time with these opportunities for its citizens. It is the primary obligation of our generation to turn over a similar America to our kids.
- Thomas Friedman
It's never too early to involve your kids in giving back. And the more hands-on the experiences are, the better.
- Soleil Moon Frye
This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.
- Barack Obama
I want you to be my wife. There's no one else I want to spend the rest of my life with. We can live out here, you, me, our kids, and Bo. But I get it now, Anna. My decisions affect you, too. So now you have one of your own to make. Will you marry me?
- Tracey Garvis Graves
I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
- Melinda Gates
We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids.
- Maurice Gibb
Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?
- Ryan Giggs
I hope that they enjoy the movie. Don't be critical. Don't expect to get the same feelings you got when you watched the series when you were 10 years old. Let your kids see it and experience it on their own.
- Mark Goddard
Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids' toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees.
- Jennifer M Granholm
A meal that can be packed and frozen and thawed is nothing you should desire--much less teach your kids to want.
- Mireille Guiliano
Expose them {your kids} to the widest variety of vegetables and fruits, showing them how good things can be in season. Tasteless fruits and vegetables won't win them over for life.
- Mireille Guiliano
In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.
- Renny Harlin
The hardest thing about being a parent is watching your kids make mistakes. Our instinct is to protect you. But you're right, Deenie. Sometimes we have to step aside and let you make them anyway. The best we can do is be there when you mess up.
- Lisi Harrison
Under the disguise amulet, Jenks looked very different with black hair and a darker complexion. He had his new aviator jacket on over the T-shirt he had bought in the previous store, making him a sexy, leggy, hunk o' pixy ass in jeans. No wonder he had fifty-four kids and Matalina smiled like Mona Lisa.
- Kim Harrison
Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar, who would kill me in my sleep while apologizing for it.
- Kim Harrison
Sure, he had a wife and fifty-four kids, but he looked like a college freshman. A yummy college freshman majoring in Oh-my-god-I-gotta-get-me-some-of-that.
- Kim Harrison
I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.
- Gregory Harrison
Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
- Jim Harrison
Hart and Hope," I muttered. "If you're going to name your kids like that, of course they're going to think they live in a comic book.
- Alyxandra Harvey
It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
- Patricia Heaton
I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.
- Jimi Hendrix
Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.
- Hulk Hogan
We are not programmed to bury our kids.
- Eric Holder
I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.
- Mark Hoppus
He would read up on parenting, if he thought it would help, but his errors always seemed too basic for the manuals. "Always tell your kids they have siblings..." He couldn't imagine any child-raising guru taking the trouble to write that down. Maybe there was a gap in the market.
- Nick Hornby
There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.
- Arianna Huffington
Before we have children, we think most of the parents sitting in sacrament meeting ought to "do something about their kids." Once we have kids, we think everyone ought to be a lot more understanding about what we're trying to survive during the meeting. And once our kids are grown, we think, "I never let my kids get away with that." We really all need to chill out.
- Dean Hughes
One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?
- Mark Hyman
Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.
- Lebron James
If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
- Bruce Jenner
As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
- Steve Jobs
When I think of the Middle Ages I think of castles, Catholicism, and taking your kids to soccer practice.
- Jarod Kintz
I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again.' I can't bring my mom back, but I can have children.
- Mindy Kaling
I definitely want kids and I want four kids, for sure. But I need to find a husband first!
- Kim Kardashian
Why didn't I go in? I'm such a chicken. I'm such an idiot. I should have kissed her. I've blown it. I should just go and knock on her door and just kiss her. It would be romantic. It would be something we could someday tell our kids. I'm gonna do that right now.
[drives away]
- Charlie Kaufman
I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.
- Guy Kawasaki
Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.
- Joan Rivers
If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.
- Maynard James Keenan
Our communities face many challenges, from keeping our kids safe in public, to the war on terrorism. But few have such immediate consequences as we face from methamphetamine.
- Mark Kennedy
We must continue to work hard on the federal level, to make sure that our local law enforcement and communities have the tools and resources they need to fight this war against methamphetamine, and keep our kids safe.
- Mark Kennedy
But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really YOURS, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. What I mean is, everything you get is really just on loan. Does that make sense?"
Sure,"I said. "Like library books. Sooner or later they've all got to go back into the nightdrop.
- Barbara Kingsolver
We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.
- Lenny Kravitz
It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have.
- Alan Ladd
It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.
- Anne Lamott
I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.
- K D Lang
You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.
- Martin Lawrence
When we grow up," she said, "we'll have amazing families. Our dens will be better than this. Your kids and my kids will play together in a humongous room with every kind of toy and game."
"Except I won't have kids," Dan said. "I'll come over myself and play..
- Peter Lerangis
If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.
- John Lithgow
Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else.
- Michael Madsen
Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.
- Michelle Malkin
This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.
- Marilyn Manson
The real question isn't whether you love your kids or not, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.
- Stephanie Martson
The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.
- Marlee Matlin
Parenting in the age of mobile communication really does allow us to be there for our kids in a way never before possible.
- Susan Maushart
I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?
- Jenny Mccarthy
When I think of the future, I think of my 15 year old son Connor and my 12 year old daughter Meghan. I worry about their future because your kids are as important to you as mine are to me. And I am unwilling to leave our children with so much debt.
- Kevin Mccarthy
My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.
- Reba Mcentire
Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed to. It's so important.
- Danica Mckellar
We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.
- Bode Miller
What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
- Walter F Mondale
We cannot allow our kids not to have an educational opportunity.
- Gwen Moore
I just want to tell you what it's like not to have Planned Parenthood... you have to give your kids Ramen noodles at the end of the month to fill up their little bellies so they won't cry. You have to give them mayonnaise sandwiches. They get very few fruits and vegetables because they're expensive.
- Gwen Moore
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
- Christopher Morley
When your kids accomplish something it means much more than anything you've done.
- Greg Mortenson
I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.
- Alonzo Mourning
We got babies raising babies, and its important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to make sure that our kids are steered in the right direction.
- Alonzo Mourning
I think there's no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It's like inventing something, but it's invisible, you know? It's weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that's the joy. It's like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they're your kids.
- Jason Mraz
When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.
- Graham Nash
So when I look at spending more dollars, I look at the fact, do I really want my kids and your kids and everybody else's kids in this country to have to pay that bill?
- Kristi Noem
I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.
- Deborah Norville
It's a different experience to be with your kids when your spouse isn't around.
- Jerry Oconnell
Nature will get rights as soon as it gets duties. The minute we see birds, trees, bugs, squirrels picking up litter, giving money to charity, and keeping an eye on our kids at the park, we'll let them vote.
- P J Orourke
As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.
- Michelle Obama
We're all bombarded with so many dietary messages that it's hard to find time to sort through all this information, but we do have time to take a look at our kids' plates.
- Michelle Obama
Sometimes, it's just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It's exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.
- Michelle Obama
Ultimately this issue is on us. We're the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.
- Michelle Obama
We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.
- Michelle Obama
And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.
- Gary Oldman
Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.
- Jamie Oliver
Do your kids a favor - don't have any.
- Robert Orben
I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.
- Joel Osteen
You learn to understand it, but if you step back, you do think it is either strange or unfair. But I know that if you don't score, play well or win, you are wrong to have a helicopter and fly home each week to see your kids. You are wrong to have a business outside of football.
- Michael J Owen
Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first.
- Gwyneth Paltrow
I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families.
- Tony Parsons
Give yourself permission to dream. Fuel your kids' dreams too. Once in a while, that might even mean letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
- Randy Pausch
Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.
- Randy Pausch
Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.
- Michelle Pfeiffer
LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight.
- Ryan Phillippe
Always remember your kid's name. Always remember where you put your kid. Don't let your kid drive until their feet can reach the pedals. Use the right size diapers... for yourself. And, when in doubt, make funny faces.
- Amy Poehler
I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.
- Sydney Pollack
So I delegate a lot and I make my family come first, my husband and our kids.
- Kelly Preston
You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.
- Anna Quindlen
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
- Anna Quindlen
Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
- Usher Raymond
Keeping our kids engaged and in school must become a national priority.
- Cedric Richmond
We consider all our animals to be our kids.
- Eric Roberts
When Courtney's mother and I first separated I tried to be Disney Dad, showering her with gifts, trips and then I snapped out of it. You don't have to try to impress your kids. If they're not getting what they need from you, they will let you know.
- Al Roker
Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.
- Mitt Romney
Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.
- Mitt Romney
You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.
- Marshall B Rosenberg
I had this whole plan when I graduated high school: I was going to go to college, date a few guys, and then meet THE guy at the end of my freshman year, maybe at the beginning of my sophomore year. We'd be engaged by graduation and married the next year. And then, after some traveling, we'd start our family. Four kids, three years apart. I wanted to be done by the time I was 35.
- Rainbow Rowell
I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to survive, but help them enjoy their lives.
- Susan Sarandon
Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?
- Susan Sarandon
That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person in the world should theoretically be loved as much as I love my daughters.
- George Saunders
They'd rather see Scooby Doo or Spongebob than Daddy talking about the latest Wall Street Journal editorial. You do what you have to do to get your kids ready for school.
- Joe Scarborough
I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.
- Curt Schilling
The only animals that we test on are the two of us and our kids.
- Connie Sellecca
So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about.
- Cindy Sheehan
When Renee and I talked about it years later, we agreed on one point: We were insane. Renee always said, "If any of our kids want to get married when they're twenty-five, we'll have to lock them in the attic." We were just kids, and everybody who came to the wedding party was guilty of shameful if not criminal negligence-- look at the shiny pretty toaster, isn't it cute to see the babies playing with it in the bathtub? Jesus, people!
- Rob Sheffield
I wonder if I wouldn't have been more moved if my own mother had taken me in her arms and said, 'I like you'. I wonder if just enjoying your kids company isn't more important.
- Lionel Shriver
In truth we are bigger, greedier versions of the same eating, shitting, rutting ruck, hell-bent on disguising from somebody, if only from a three-year-old, that pretty much all we do is eat and shit and rut. The secret is there is no secret. that is what we really wish to keep fom our kids, and it's suppression is the true collusion of adulthood..
- Lionel Shriver
I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is. I got the chutzpa or whatever you want to say to believe that if I write a really good about it, it's going to make a difference.
- Bruce Springsteen
I just saved your fucking life, Mom...It's like, if you--people of a certain age--would make some effort to just stay in touch with sort of basic, modern-day events, then your kids wouldn't have to take these drastic measures.
- Neal Stephenson
I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.
- Meryl Streep
Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.
- Bob Taft
It's always just a great thing to see your kids connecting and you see the different stages.
- Christine Taylor
What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?
- Kathleen Turner
CBS started to confiscate our packages and mail as a safety procedure. A lot of packages that people send for the holidays and to our kids we can't open. A lot of times they are from overseas. It's very upsetting at times.
- Hunter Tylo
I don't really know them, but I know this: they're just like your kids were. Or are. Sweet, trusting, good in ways we adults hardly even remember. We have to look out for them. Not because of the tattoos, or in spite of them, but because they're kids and we're supposed to look out for kids.
- Sabrina Vourvoulias
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
- Tom Waits
You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.
- Ethel Waters
You know, you've got to be careful with how you educate your kids in rock'n'roll fashion.
- Scott Weiland
There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.
- Arabella Weir
When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.
- Joe Wilson
Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
- Tiger Woods
As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
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