“I really enjoy making sure the kids get a healthy dinner, a good bath and several books... I really like to try and end the day with some quality time with my kids. If not, I feel guilty.” IfsFeelsTryingBookEndsKidsEnjoyQualityHealthyDinnerGuiltyBathsQuality Time Author:Norah O'Donnell
“And you know, the people who hate kids and don't want kids always end up having 50 of them.” PeopleKnowsWantEndsKidsHate Author:Megan Fox
“Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.” ThinkingNeedsWritingEndsKidsAdultsPreaching Author:Jerry Spinelli
“I was the sort of kid who spent a Sunday afternoon prying little trees out of the foundation of his parents' house. I should have given in to the inevitable truth that this was the sort of person I would become, in the end, but I kept fighting it.” ShouldLittlesPersonsEndsKidsFightingHouseGivenParentTreeShould HaveFoundationInevitableSundayAfternoonSunday Afternoons Book:The Round House: A Novel Source: The Round House: A Novel
“I figure there are enough self-opinionated assholes trying to get their ugly little faces in front of you as it is. You ask a lot of kids today what they want to be when they grow up, and they say, 'I want to be famous.' You ask them, 'For what reason?' and they don't know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong - in the future, so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for 15 minutes.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantTryingLittlesEndsSelfReasonEnoughCareKidsTodayFacesAsksGrowsGrowing UpMinutesFrontsFiguresOne DayUglyOpinionatedWarhol Author:Banksy
“As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.” IfsWantKindDoeEndsHappensKidsAwfulBully Author:Jordan Peele
“When you're a kid, you have no power. You're physically small and weak, and adults are constantly telling you what to do. So it's incredibly compelling to imagine yourself not only as someone to whom exciting things happen but as someone who is more than those around you. The problem is that then you begin to grow up and realize you're just a lowly muggle. … Is it possible that all of us, weaned on these stories, end up inevitably disappointed with mundane life as it actually exists?” EndsStoriesProblemHappensKidsGrowsRealizingGrowing UpImagineAdultsWeakExcitingThings HappenDisappointedCompellingMundaneExciting ThingsMugglesMundane Life Author:Paul Waldman
“Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too.” IfsEndsFactsWould BeKidsJobsFallActingCareersAdviceHollywoodDryFall BackFickleDry Up Author:Matthew Lawrence
“I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you always got shown the door. Same with The Wizard Of Oz and The Phantom Tollbooth. You get kicked out of your magic land. It's like, "By the way, here's your next surprise: You get to go home!" And the kids are all like, "Yay, we get to go home!" I never bought that. Did anybody buy that?” WayBookEndsHomeKidsNextFantasyDoorsMagicLandSurpriseHatedWizardsPhantomsNarniaFantasy BooksPhantom TollboothYay Author:Lev Grossman
“I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.” IfsEndsMightKidsRaceGoneCoupleSelf ConfidenceWinnerStubbornDrains Author:Truman Capote
“I was a big TV kid.When I was a kid, I would go home at 3:00 and watch TV straight through to the end of Letterman at 1:30 in the morning.I was obsessed with comics.And I would watch Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno and study them as if it was Tolstoy.” IfsEndsHomeBigsKidsWatchesMorningStudyTvsObsessedJerryLetterman Author:Judd Apatow
“My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.” EndsKidsDemocracyAuthorityEducatedCritiqueDisrespectFarce Author:Abbie Hoffman
“My mum did encourage me, perhaps most of all by never discouraging me from anything I wanted to do. If you tell kids not to, they're going to do it in the end anyway. I'd finished all that staying-out-all-night-drinking bit when everybody else came to it. Probably why I don't like alcohol today. I had it all by the age of 10.” IfsEndsKidsAgeTodayWantedNightBitsDrinkingFinishedAlcoholStayingMumAll NightDiscouraging Author:George Harrison
“If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the US, realise they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value. It will be a difficult century, and ugly, but I don't think that in the end people are so stupid as to kill themselves off.” PeopleIfsThinkingMayLittlesWarEndsWould BeKidsTogetherValuesNationsDifficultEconomyCenturyStupidPositionParticularAmountMassUglyLandscapeRealisingProsperousRestoration Author:Kim Stanley Robinson
“There's been nothing proven that violence in video games has an impact. As a parent though, and I'm a parent for a 20-year-old, for a 16-year-old and for a 10-year-old, and so, you know, I make choices everyday for my kids as to what games I think is appropriate for them to play. And, you know, in the end it's up to the parents, it's up to the gamers themselves working with their parents, if they're under 21, to make the smartest choice for the games they play.” IfsThinkingKnowsYearsEndsPlayKidsChoicesGamesParentViolenceImpactEverydayVideoAppropriateProvenGamer Author:Reggie Fils-Aime
“We should allow them to be who they are, because then we end up with healthy kids.” ShouldEndsKidsHealthyHealthy Kids Author:Geena Rocero