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 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 bas...

We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that. - Louie Anderson Smacking his arm lightly, she leaned back. "And Adam is way nicer than his brother." "A rabid hyena is nicer than Andrew," he retorted. "When we were kids, he locked me in an old chest once. Left me there for hours. - Jennifer L Armentrout I know Andy Roddick's probably tired about me talking about how many times I beat him when we were kids. - Drew Brees Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age. - Joel Coen Her eyes always bothered me when we were kids. They still do. They make mine ache trying to see where they end. - Cath Crowley When we were kids, Mama used to ask, "If Zeb wanted to jump off the roof, would you do it, too?" And as it turned out, the answer was yes. - Molly Harper The most sophis...

My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York. Am I a troubled kid? Yeah. You could say that. - Rick Riordan I was frightened by the optimism of adults, their stupid trust in science to treat a troubled heart. Afraid of their obsession with believing they have to treat troubled kids. I just wanted them to leave me alone, so how come they didn't get it? But that's the way it always is. - Natsuo Kirino

How am I going to explain to my kids one day that I can't buy them a happy meal because the toy will make them fat? - Carroll Bryant That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it. - Taylor Dayne I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game. - Neil Diamond I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends. - Jodie Foster I have so many things that I say to my kids, I just drive them crazy. - Michael J Fox I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it ...

I looked at the rap community like street kids wanting their own brand. But now I look at that period with the rappers in the 90s as a trend of the moment. What it taught me was never to follow a trend, because trends move on. - Tommy Hilfiger The counterculture has nothing to do with Dolce & Gabbana having a 'Hippy Summer' or something. Street kids, and kids who want to live in any sort of counter-cultural experience other than what's being presented by the mainstream media or political climate, or 'normal' cultural climate, are never going to look like that. - Chris Robinson

They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing. - Terry Gilliam I usually have a couple of projects going on that are different. A 'Sin City' while I'm doing a 'Spy Kids' at the same time. I need different things going on. - Robert Rodriguez

Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. - Ed Asner My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family. - Jeff Foxworthy I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa. - Sammy Hagar This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary. - Patricia Heaton Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids. - Marge Piercy

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 Ba...

Number eight, the silver one, belongs to Artemis. She vowed to be a maiden forever. So of course, no kids. The cabin is, you know, honorary. If she didn't have one, she'd be mad. - Rick Riordan I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids. - Mindy Kaling I've got no mother, no wife, no kids. I had, but my mother's dead, and I lost my wife and my kids when I had my trouble. Women are bitches. It's hard for a chap to live without any affection in his life. - W Somerset Maugham The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes. - Rita Moreno No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys. - Burt Ward...

I wish there were two of me and 48-hour days so I could get everything done. But for me, I have to not try and think that everything has to be 100% perfect all the time and leave room for error. As long as my kids feel loved and a priority, everything really is secondary. - Jessica Alba I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe. - Jodi Picoult I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms. - Jodi Picoult I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother. - Kirstie Alley If I had free time to go to Los Angeles to shoot a movie, I wou...