Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me.

After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.

I was never much of a kid person. I mean, I thought they were cute to look at, but I didn't want them in my house.

If you've got kids you know you've only got one prayer: "Let my kids outlive me." That's the bottom of everything.

I still wanna know who to sue to get my store fixed. (Bubba) I’m a turnip. Sue the rich kid who started it. (Nick)

An editor who is a mentor, advisor, and psychiatrist. Don't kid yourself-a good editor will make your book better.

My husband is very supportive and is there for the kids, especially when I'm in projects such as The Color Purple.

I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.

If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them

Jill, we became parents so we could tell our kids what to do. Otherwise we're just the tallest people living here.

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

I did not plan to have such a career in the fashion world. All that I wanted, was to have ten kids and raise them!

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

I grew up playing 'Mortal Kombat' as a kid. I was always a fan of the video game. Saw the movies as a kid as well.

Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good.

I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.

With parents, that's the only way sometimes that they can get across to their kids is by giving them an ultimatum.

I'm always telling my kids to be themselves and let their personalities show in other ways than with their mouths.

I think that kids aren't even exploring the option of sports anymore, and they don't even know what they could do.

I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can. I never was like that as a kid.

I want to see my kids for dinner, I want to put them down at night, I want to see their soccer games after school.

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

That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.

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

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint. I was obsessed with the Beatles as a kid.

I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.

We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.

Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we’re depriving them of happiness as adults?

I played guitar when I was a kid, a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician.

We've had several cats. I had a cat when I was a kid. My Aunt had lots of cats and I got lots of calls about cats.

As I get older every year, I'm eating better. As a kid, who can turn down chips and candy? But I'm getting better.

It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.

If those kids had been carrying guns they would have gunned down this one gunman... Don't pray. Learn to use guns.

The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as the court

Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.

I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.

I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

I'm seeing too many geeky, nerdy kids get addicted to video games and they're going nowhere. It's making me crazy.

I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.

Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives.

Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.

I started in this industry [television] as a kid doing commercials. Ever since I was introduced to it, I loved it.

I was always into film, but theater was my entry point. I always felt like film didn't make sense to me, as a kid.

When I was a little kid, I realized that if you say any word over and over fast enough, it loses all it's meaning.

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