K Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with K. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents”
“Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving around. Who wants to do that? It's like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetson who's flying around space. If I'm a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy.”
“Kids today do nothing. They're so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All they do is shop and complain.”
“Kids today don't know that much about vinyl.”
“Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it”
“Kids today don't watch a black and white movie.”
“Kids today know way more than you think they do, with the Internet and 500 TV channels.”
“Kids today learn a lot about getting to the moon, but very little about getting to heaven.”
Source: Invasion of Other Gods
“Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young.
Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.”
“Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than signs, that words have magic, the power to be things, to point to themselves and materialize. With their back-formations, archaisms, their tendency to play the music in words--rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, repetition--children peel the skin from language. Words become incantatory. Open Sesame. Abracadabra. Perhaps a child will remember the word and will bring the walls tumbling down.”
“Kids want acceptance from their peers, but in two different, opposing ways: They want to be like everyone else and they want to be different from everyone else. So the question is: How do you reconcile these opposing longings?”
“Kids want to be grown ups, adults want to be young and careless again.
Single people desperately want a relationship, but those who are in one still complain almost all the time and wish for freedom.
The poor want money, the rich want more of it.
This means that changing your situation doesn’t prevent you from suffering, doesn’t make your desires go away.
So you need to change something on the inside.”
Source: This Moment
“Kids want to be grown-ups and grown-ups want to be kids.”
“Kids want to be professional footballers and I think they need to know what it takes to get there - you know, the dedication. People see footballers playing on a Saturday afternoon in front of the TV cameras, but from a Monday to Friday people don't really see what goes on.”
“Kids want to saute, to cut the pizza, to see how the ingredients come together. If you let them do the fun stuff, they'll develop skills and interests that will stay with them forever.”
“Kids who are good at traditional school—repeating rote concepts and facts on a test—can fall apart in a situation where that isn’t enough. Programming rewards the experimental, curious mind.”
“Kids who are in school just visit life sometimes, and then they have to stop to do homework or go to sleep early or get to school on time. They're constantly reminded they are preparing 'for real life,' while being isolated from it.”
Source: Sandra Dodd's Big Book of Unschooling
“Kids who are least impressive in my class are the ones who only listen to one kind of music. They only listen to country or only to rap or to gospel or anything. It's a sad thing. I try really hard to get them to go out and listen to things. It's amazing what you learn. ... I'm still trying to learn. It's not like I'm going to be a calypso singer. That's not going to happen, but I'm sure there's something in that, that I can learn from and apply to my own work.”
“Kids who are middle class, socioeconomically, are surrounded by mentors. They have coaches, teachers, they have family friends, their parents have friends. They might have opportunities, they might have jobs that allow them to experience things that kids in poverty often don't have. Sometimes they come from dysfunctional families. And when you come from a family where money's a real challenge, then it might not be a priority to get you into a summer internship.”
“Kids who don't like writing about books often don't enjoy reading them in the first place, and kids who hate reading inevitably end up being terrible writers.”
Source: やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。4
“Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.”
Source: Men of the Otherworld
“Kids who drink alcohol, fairly regularly before they're 14 have a 48% chance... of becoming alcoholics.”
“Kids who get called the worst names oftentimes find each other. That's how it was with us. Skeezie, Tookis and Addie Carle and Joe Bunch and me. We call ourselves the Gang of Five, but there are only four of us. We do it to keep people on their toes. Make 'em wonder. Or maybe we do it because we figure that there's one more kid out there who's going to need a gang to be part of. A misfit,like us.”
Source: The Misfits
“Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.”
“Kids who grew up in Naperville remember trading them in the first half of 1995, close to a year before the rest of the country had heard of them, and a few teachers had banned Beanies from their classrooms because they'd become a distraction.”
Source: The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
“Kids who, I hope, have a couple years left before they have to think about what they’ll be like at seventeen, eighteen, or nineteen, expected by parents and teachers and politicians and everyone else to have everything figured out—but on the authority figure of the day’s terms, not their own. If these kids are trans, queer, or people of colour, how many of their nights are already spent curled up and defeated on the couch?”
Source: Victory Lap
“Kids who learn early in life that they're capable of mastering activities that at first feel a little stressful grow up better able to handle stress of all kinds.”
Source: Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World
“Kids who participate in school meal programs get roughly half of their calories each day at school. ... This is an extraordinary responsibility. But it's also an opportunity. And it's why one of the single most important things we can do to fight childhood obesity is to make those meals at school as healthy and nutritious as possible.”
“Kids whose puberty begins too soon face not just psychological risks, but physical ones too, with an increased likelihood of cancer, as well as skeletal changes that could prevent them from attaining their full adult height.”
“Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest.”
“Kids will tease you for just about anything.”
“Kids will use their own system at the stage that they are, they're not (learning merely by) imitating you.”
“Kids win this'n'that every day. Thousands of them. One out of a hundred fights professionally. One out of a thousand's worth watchin', one out of a million's worth coffee and doughnuts.”
“Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.”
“Kids with roofs and hot food have better things to do than play survival of the thuggiest.”
Source: The Walled City
“Kids without dads are desperate and jealous. Those with dads can be uppity and sharp.”
Source: Finlater
“Kids won't watch older movies - they want to see what's hip right now.”
“Kids, you must seek to become the kind of people who plant shade trees for others to sit under.16”
Source: What He Must Be …If He Wants to Marry My Daughter
“Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.”
“Kids' lives are just as important and difficult as grown ups'.”
“Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.”
“Kids, everybody can get behind. It's a bipartisan thing. We care about our kids' health. But the truth is, it's very important for us to talk to parents, in particular mothers, because it's really our self-esteem, it's our initiative.”
“Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.”
Source: It: A Novel
“Kids, help your parents if they don't know how to use a smartphone.”
“Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go off on a tangent or if you give them extraneous information that doesn't serve the story. You really have to tell a tight story. You have to give them humor and suspense and believable characters. All those things that adults want too, but you have to be really on your game when you're writing for kids.”
“Kids, Madison Avenue is lying to you. Your parents are lying to you. The president is lying to you.”
“Kids, man, they're way too honest. They're like mini-alcoholics.”
“Kids, man. They'll be the ones to take mountain biking to the next level for us. You just watch”
“Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it’s just the opposite. After that, you’re either a liar or a fool or a villain.”
“Kids, they are always hurting themselves. It's like, "Quick, get me to casualty quick!" while your doing something important like sitting down picking your ear.”