K Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with K. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Kids draw masterpieces - they're the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if they just had the right tools. It's important at that age to set up something, and then maybe afterwards you can go study your violin for 500 hours a week. But at least in the beginning you know about the options.”
“Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.”
“Kids eh? Little treasures, I love 'em... couldn't eat a whole one though.”
“Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.”
“Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.”
“Kids esteem themselves when they have accomplished something worth esteeming.”
Source: The Great Possum-Squashing and Beer Storm of 1962: Reflections on the Remains of My Country
“Kids everywhere need to feel safe, hopeful, connected and appreciated.”
“Kids flourish if we get them to school every day.”
“Kids from small families grow about an inch taller than those from large families. This is true regardless of income and social class, because a body can't grow well while fighting off nine siblings' cold viruses.”
Source: The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life from on High
“Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.”
“Kids get caught up in technical & electronic things like games & videos when all we had were magazines.”
“Kids get influenced by other kids.”
“Kids get very animated when it comes to food and it's nice to see how they react.”
“Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.”
“Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.”
“Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.”
“Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.”
“Kids had made fun of him in elementary school because his father wanted him to be literate, not just functionally literate, or 'iconerate,' the new term for those who went through life using only symbols and key words for written communication.”
Source: Changeling
“Kids, hallowed be thy youth. Enjoy it while it lasts.”
“Kids hate anyone who is different.”
“Kids have *_____ never* taken guidance from their parents. If you could travel back in time and observe the original primate family in the original tree, you would see the primate parents yelling at the primate teenager for sitting around and sulking all day instead of hunting for grubs and berries like dad primate. Then you'd see the primate teenager stomp up to his branch and slam the leaves.”
“Kids have awkward moments.”
“Kids have been a great clarifier - incredibly rewarding.”
“Kids have little computer bodies with disks that store information. They remember who had to do the dishes the last time you had spaghetti, who lost the knob off the TV set six years ago, who got punished for teasing the dog when he wasn't teasing the dog and who had to wear girls boots the last time it snowed.”
“Kids have moved from, "I have a feeling, I want to make a call," to "I'd like to have a feeling, I need to send a text." In other words, there's a continual need for validation. They're constituting a thought or feeling by sending it out for votes. That's really not where you want to be emotionally.”
“Kids have no idea when they're drinking soda what they're really drinking, and a lot of them are stunned when they learn that drinking a Big Gulp is like taking a big jar of sugar and just pouring it down. There are 50 teaspoons of sugar in a 64-ounce Big Gulp.”
“Kids have parents. Let the parents be responsible for the kids.”
“Kids have to be taught to hate.”
“Kids have to be tough to survive on the streets of Kathmandu, where older gang members often beat and rob them. They face cold winters, hunger, homelessness, and unsympathetic police. But under each hardened shell there is still a child.”
“Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.”
“Kids haven't changed - you have.”
“Kids having access to your credit cards is a dangerous thing!”
“Kids, hindi masama ang magbasa ng comics, pero 'wag kalimutang mag-aral...”
Source: Tonio Tikbalang: Vol. 1
“Kids. I lowered my phone. Closed my eyes. Planted my feet and started the slow breathing my VA counselor had taught me.
One... I'd been doing well. Exercising. Eating healthy. Two... maybe drinking too much. Okay, definitely drinking too much. But... three... nothing worse. Not even cigarettes. Going to every brutal therapy session and doing as I was told... four... with the faith that eventually it would make things better instead of worse.
Five. I opened my eyes. “We're still good,” I whispered.
Say it till it’s true.”
Source: Dead Stop
“Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.”
“Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and it's something tourists like to say a lot because they've never been around so many mountains and moose before.”
“Kids in America today are overweight and lazy, and it's their parents fault for letting it happen.”
Source: Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander
“Kids in aprons appeared, putting tureens of vegetable soup on the tables and plates of boiled eggs, potatoes and lentils, bowls of endive-and-radish salad, small rounds of cheese and loaves of brown bread, all looking quite delicious, in Zoe's opinion.”
Source: The Glass Puzzle
“Kids in different countries know my movies by heart because they've seen them so many times. And wonderful returns never stop.”
“Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!”
“Kids in North Lawndale need not be confused about their prospects: Cook County's Juvenile Temporary Detention Center sits directly adjacent to the neighborhood.”
Source: Un conto ancora aperto
“Kids in tje East had also grown up with a genuine sense of fear that the world might actually come to an end during their lifetime. That it probably would in fact. For some this fueled nihilistic feelings - one reason Toster from Die Anderen, for instance, never got deeply political was because he stopped giving a shit.”
Source: Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
“Kids in Washington every year have the big Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. The kids found 300 Easter eggs. They also found about 10,000 missing Hillary emails.”
“Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.”
“Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales have dropped dramatically, too. I think 90% of the books are bought only by 5% of the US population.”
“Kids keep getting wiser younger, which is dangerous, and adults need to stop taking themselves too seriously.”
“Kids kill a show! It's, like, a fun concept when the character is pregnant, but then if a show runs for a while, I'm sorry, but it gets annoying when it starts to talk. You get a child actor in there, and unless that child actor is freakin' awesome, it's going to be annoying.”
“Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.”
“Kids know nothing about racism. They're taught that by adults.”
“Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic. It says, "Nobody cares and you have to look out for yourself and if you don't, you'll die." These two things work against each other. I think most kids are very frightened of their parents, and that's what all fairy tales reflect: Parents will fail you and you'll be left on your own. But, of course, everything comes out right in the end and the parents take you back.”