Nobody's born rotten. You just don't have bad kids. It's not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad.

The USA won't be competitive or fair if we don't help more families give their kids the best possible start in life.

When I was a kid, I had this idea that I would have a beard when I got older. I thought it'd be nice to rub my chin.

Kids need to see that Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. And they need to know it can happen to them.

Well, we tell our kids things like 'don't gossip' and then an hour later they hear us on the phone. Stuff like that.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

People don't write about kids; you have to give them a lot of freedom, and that causes anarchy and that causes farce.

I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.

I'm just a kid in a candy store right now, trying to have fun. I'm getting a chance to show my ability and my talent.

Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?

As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.

People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street.

I spent a lot of time bowling as a kid, mostly because I grew up in bowling alleys. They were kind of my playgrounds.

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better.

I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.

I was always taught as a kid if you do something, do it right. If not, go do something else. For me, soccer was life.

Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all.

Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

Ever since I was a little kid, when I was racing motocross and stuff, it's been a dream to ride for Red Bull someday.

My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be just like your dad.

I'm a goner, a kid who stays up half the night trying to figure out the horror of the world and trying to survive it.

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?

Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.

I'm very happy that being gay and married and having kids has become such an accepted piece of the fabric of America.

In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.

I saw...a kid on a leash. You seen these people? Kid on a leash? How horrible. Put him in the pound where he belongs.

Aiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless.

Being a father is the greatest achievement and the most important thing about me. I have two great kids, no question.

My credit card company calls me if it looks like I've bought too many hoodies and cargo pants for my kid at Old Navy.

When Lady Gaga says I am her inspiration, you reach kids between 12 and 18. Now I am like a brand - jeans, Coca-Cola.

I'd ice-skated before, because I'm Canadian and that's what you do as a kid, but I'd never, ever been on quad skates.

The older you get, the more you learn to see what you've been taught to see. When you're a kid, you see what's there.

I think acting is totally conducive to being a little kid, because kids are less inhibited and use their imagination.

When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.

Kobe [Bryant] had the biggest contract for a high school kid. He was the first one to get more than a million a year.

I liked you better when you were this timid little kid. What happened?” “I started living with you guys.” “Oh, right.

...why were you happier when you were a kid? Because you didn't know anything. The more you know, the sadder you get.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner - that's way harder than what I have to do.

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

I have my own charity organization in Berlin called Ruckenwind, which supports kids from - ya - not ideal backgrounds.

I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.

And the truth is, I’d felt kind of a thrill about wearing Jason’s Big Boy pants. I was a sick kid, even way back then.

Shapeshifter parenting motto—if your kid slit somebody's throat, always have a backup plan to make the body disappear.

The traditional rules for having children are long gone. Some days I feel like the harder choice is to not have a kid.

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