K Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with K. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Kids ought to have two bicycles, one to ride and one to rent.”
“Kids out there now have learning issues. Having mental issues. And everybody is looking towards what drug to give them, but is anyone looking at the food that the children are eating? What you're eating has a big impact.”
“Kids over cash,
Women over semen.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated.”
Source: Kissing the Beehive
“Kids pick up and absorb a lot more than you think they do. I try to do what I think is right, and I try to lead by example.”
“Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?”
“Kids play make-believe all the time, so they tend to be better at using their imaginations than adults.”
“Kids play pretend. I think that kids can be the best actors.”
“Kids put life into perspective. I never have a bad day. Life happens and you get bad news sometime, or things don't go your way at work - for me that might mean I lose a game or not play well - but that doesn't affect my mood from day to day. I love going home and seeing the smiles on my daughters' faces being happy to see me, and that makes everything all right.”
“Kids raised on a culture of “We’re not going to keep score in the game because we don’t want anybody to lose.” Or just ignoring race to a fault. You can’t say “the black kid over there.” No, it’s “the guy with the red shoes.” You can’t even be offensive on your way to being inoffensive.”
“Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.”
“Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.”
“Kids really need love from two parents. It doesn't matter if it's a mom and a mom, or a dad and a dad.”
“Kids seem to get me when I play colleges - they like it because I go after them. They'll come up after and say I am like their dads, only funny.”
“Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing.”
“Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.”
“Kids should be taught about sex, sex hygiene and contraceptive methods starting in the sixth grade, and whenever they want to try it, they should be allowed to go at it without supervision or restriction -in their parents' bedroom, on the grass in a park, in a motel; it doesn't matter, as long as the setting is private and pleasant. If we did all this, our kids would grow up into happier, healthier human beings. But we won't, of course. It would make too much sense.”
“Kids should feel afraid of 'Doctor Who.' All the adults I've talked to remember fondly being afraid when they were kids. That's part of the reason they remember it and love it. And if you're afraid in a controlled way, you sort of appreciate fear in some respect.”
“Kids should go to college, but they should go to the best school they can afford to get through with minimal or no debt. That might mean going to a community college or an inexpensive local state school. Whatever it takes.”
“Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League.”
Source: Ya Gotta Believe!: My Roller-Coaster Life as a Screwball Pitcher and Part-Time Father, and My Hope-Filled Fight Against Brain Cancer
“Kids should read whatever they want to read. So I'm hoping that just like 15-year-olds read "Summer Sisters," I'm hoping that they'll read this.”
“Kids should speak to each other. They're horrid to each other online, they bully each other - they should shut up and stop it. The problem with social media is there is too much freedom. It's too much, too young.”
“Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.”
“Kids shouting and skidding in the playground with no idea what future Hells awaited them: boring jobs and ruinous mortgages and bad marriages and hair loss and hip replacements and lonely cups of coffee in an empty house and a colostomy bag at the hospital.”
Source: The Goldfinch
“Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds.”
“Kids still like to laugh, kids still like the joy of learning. When you have a cool science experiment, I don't care where you're from. When you have that aha moment, whether you're in China or Kenya, that kid's eyes are gonna open up. So I really try to focus more on what we have in common than what differs us.”
“Kids store 10.000 songs on the home computer, after having pricked them on the Net. The company, of the deputies, the senators find that virtuous! However, it is a moral problem: you will not fly, learns one with our children. Moreover, these plunders via the Net are carried out in the anonymat.”
“Kids suffering, with no opportunities for lack of having their basic human needs [met], like food, health, and education, but at the same time, [it] motivates me to keep fighting for them, for the ones less fortunate.”
“Kids take up all available time - it's the basic law of parenthood. No matter how much time you give them, whether you work from eight to eight or are around the house all the time, you'll still feel you haven't been there enough for them.”
“Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back'!”
“Kids take you outside your comfort level because you ask yourself, 'How do I answer that question for them?' You think back to your childhood, and it's like: I don't want to give them that, I want to give them this. My life is my children.”
“Kids talk to me and say they want to do musicals again because they've studied the tapes of the old films. We didn't have that. We thought once we had made it, even on film, it was gone except for the archives.”
“Kids tell me all the time, "I don't know how you do it, but that's us in the book." That's the kind of response you want, and I can't sacrifice it for the sake of somebody worried about censorship. You have to find a way to be truthful and honest.”
“Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.”
“Kids tend to forget their roots. But roots are always the first to carry you back home.”
Source: Monday's Not Coming
“Kids tend to look up to sports figures and entertainers, probably more than they should, but I've tried to use that in a positive way.”
“Kids that are allegedly better students are in an elitist class in first and second grade and then they go to their high schools, they go to their universities and the normal dumb shits like me are down at the bottom. These people go to elitist schools and they replicate their elitist thoughts in the corporations.”
“Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.”
“Kids these days don't know as much about music as they think they do”
“KIDS. They know a BRIBE when they see one. They want a PARENT, not a PAY-OFF. They don’t care if you’re Jack-King-Rodeo or Mister-You-Own-New-York. All they understand is time spent WITH YOU or WITHOUT YOU. It’s that SIMPLE.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.”
“Kids think the world is about them, so if you forgot to put the right flavor yogurt in their lunch, and they have too much homework when they come home, they're like, "You know I hate peach!" There's a part of me that's like, "I'm so sorry. I could have shown my love more."”
“Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
“Kids today are born into an era where gender identity ideology threatens to take away their right to mature naturally through puberty and into adulthood without damaging and altering their healthy bodies.”
Source: The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology
“Kids today are doing really hard work. Years ago they were involved in anti-apartheid protests. Now there's the whole Occupy movement. Kids are studying to work with handicapped children and so many other things.”
“Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far ... They don't have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes.”
“Kids today are much more independant than their parents were. We're really into getting jobs and we mature sexually much earlier than a generation ago. Or, at least, we are involved in sex earlier.”
“Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.”
“Kids today are sold so much, by corporations and media and commercials and advertising and music videos, that I do. A lot of times, they retain that stuff and wear it, and that's the concept of a hipster. It's about owning it and redefining it, on your own level. It's a way of retaining control and meaning, in a world where you're being told to think in a certain way.”