More than anything I want to be fit so I don't get out of breath when I play football with the kids.
The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle.
I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts
Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.
When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.
I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.
Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.
Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.
In schools, many kids are asked, "What is your plan?," but many aren't even thinking that far ahead.
Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.
You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.
Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.
I have two kids in diapers and a cat whose litter box I clean out. I deal with an awful lot of crap.
How do you say no when a little kid is asking you for ice cream? I know I can't say no to it myself.
People tell me what to do every single day. They think I'm boring. I'm Disney kid. So, there's that.
I find ways to make things affordable. If the kids want the looks, they can be able to go afford it.
You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.
I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.
I think it's necessary to let kids get bored once in a while-that's house they learn to be creative.
Never have one kid in the room with you, and avoid situations that would look suspect to a passerby.
It's the easiest way to stay in the game: By helping the younger kids, they're gonna preach for you.
I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.
Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.
I'm tired of leaving my wife at home with no nanny and no cook to take care of four kids by herself.
I was always talking about peace and love, even when I was a kid. That's how I grew up in my family.
Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.
What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.
I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.
The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.
I think with the kids I get to be a little more fun and goofy, which is kinda how I am all the time.
We've shot with babies and kids and it was tough. It's not easy. It looks tangential, but it is not.
I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state.
We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.
Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.