“Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'” ThinkingWellsKindChildrenGuyParentInterestLosesFiveBrotherPressureLoadEldest Author:Chris O'Dowd
“I'd got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don't mention your age, don't mention that you want a child - because they would just run out the door.” ThinkingWantChildrenWould BeRunningAgeGuyDoors Author:Denise Van Outen
“When a man does not live with his children and does not get along with the mother of his children, his fatherhood becomes essentially untenable, regardless of how he feels, how hard he tries, or whether he is a good guy. Almost by definition, he has become de-fathered.” MenFeelsTryingChildrenDoeHardMotherGuyDefinitionsFatherhoodGood Guy Author:David Blankenhorn
“I think that there's a particular type of person who goes into children's theater, and then goes into theater in high school. There was something about the guys I knew in theater, we were all very vulnerable. You could tell that at some point we were made fun of.” ThinkingChildrenPersonsMadeSchoolGuyFunParticularTypeHigh SchoolTheaterVulnerable Author:Craig Brewer
“I think all kids are curious. They're drawn to the bad guy and they're drawn to things that are dark. It's not just simply a desire to be wicked. I think there are things that frighten us in life and, especially children, they want to understand and take it on or understand it so it frightens them less.” ThinkingWantChildrenKidsDesireGuyDarkCuriousWickedBad Guys Author:Angelina Jolie
“I'm not a hero or a superstar. I'm an everyday guy. I feel happy when children approach me. I feel that something good is happening in life when little kids recognise me.” FeelsChildrenLittlesKidsGuyHeroApproachHappeningsEverydayLittle KidRecogniseSuperstar Author:Boman Irani
“All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.” KnowsMenYearsChildrenGuyActingResponsibilityWindBaseballNosesFiftyTaking ResponsibilityCapsShortsOld GuysConscriptionBaseball CapsFifty Year Olds Author:Chrissie Hynde
“Most liberal-minded folk would like to think that since they are not hostile to people of a different race, racism is a disease of the uneducated, unenlightened and socially backward - football hooligans, British National Party supporters, policemen. You could call this the Bad Guy Theory. But the Bad Guy Theory does not explain why Indian-heritage children do nearly twice as well as Pakistani-heritage children at GCSE.” PeopleThinkingWellsChildrenDoeDifferentGuyPartyRaceFootballTheoryDiseaseRacismFolksBritishIndianHeritageSupporterHostileBad GuysPolicemenUneducatedDifferent Races Author:Trevor Phillips
“The idea of my kids being spoiled, I go to sleep thinking about it. I wake up thinking about. I'm trying to do the right thing. With the amount of money I have, it's difficult to raise children the way I was raised. But I took away the west and north wing of the house for those guys. So, they're not allowed in there.” ThinkingWayTryingChildrenIdeasKidsGuyHouseDifficultSleepAmountWake UpRaisesWingsWestRaisedRight ThingGoing To SleepSpoiledBeing Spoiled Author:Adam Sandler
“One day my dad said, "If you guys ever stop singing, I'll drop you like a hot potato." That's what he said. It hurt me. You don't say that to children and I never forgot it.” IfsChildrenSaidGuyHurtDadOne DaySingingHotMy DadIt HurtsPotatoesHurt Me Author:Michael Jackson
“Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most important, influential men - from presidents to the coolest film characters - solve problems by killing people. ... We have taught our children in a thousand ways, sometimes with flag-waving and sometimes with a laugh track, that the bad guy deserves to die.” PeopleMenWayChildrenImportantSometimesCharacterProblemFilmGuyDiesNationsPresidentLaughingGrowing UpGrowingTaughtThousandBehaviorModelsAdultsDeserveMurderOur ChildrenKillingTrackAvailableSolveScalesFlagsBad GuysInfluentialFlag Waving Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“I don't want my kids to be like me, I don't want my daughter to date a guy like me. You know, for a guy like me success is to take care of my children to take care of their life and make 'em cushioned. I don't want them to be around people like me. You know, success for me would be that they never have the opportunity of being in the presence of someone like me.” PeopleKnowsWantChildrenWould BeCareKidsGuyOpportunityDaughterTake CareLike MeMy ChildrenEmsMy Daughter Author:Mike Tyson
“You know what we can be like: see a guy and think he's cute one minute, the next minute our brains have us married with kids, the following minute we see him having an extramarital affair. By the time someone says, 'I'd like you to meet Cecil,' we shout, 'You're late again with the child support!'” ThinkingKnowsChildrenKidsGuyNextBrainSupportMinutesLike YouLateMarriedAffairFollowingCuteOne Minute Author:Cynthia Heimel
“Even though I'm a family guy, there is something that feels really beautiful about eliminating all children from flying. So, children have to fly on child-only planes. And the pilots have to be children as well.” FeelsWellsChildrenBeautifulGuyFlyingPlanesPilotsEliminatingReally BeautifulFamily Guy Author:Jay R. Ferguson
“I can't even begin to describe how I miss him. He always supported me in everything I did. He was a very wise man and I realised at an early age I could learn a lot from him. He always gave me the right answer. But above all he was a very easy-going guy and all he wanted was to be my best friend. I'm an only child and so he shared everything with me. Of course he was very young to die and I was very young to lose a father. But there was nothing left unsaid between us.” MenChildrenI CanAgeWantedYoungGuyDiesCoursesFatherLeftEasyLosesAnswersWiseMissingMy Best FriendRealisedOnly ChildRight AnswersUnsaidVery WiseEasy Going Author:Dhani Harrison
“And even if we win, if we win, HAH! Even if we win! Even if we play so far above our heads that our noses bleed for a week to ten days; even if God in Heaven above comes down and points his hand at our side of the field; even if every man woman and child held hands together and prayed for us to win, it just wouldn't matter because all the really good looking girls would still go out with the guys from Mohawk because they've got all the money! It just doesn't matter if we win or we lose. IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER! It just doesn't matter! It just doesn't matter!” IfsMenChildrenStillsMatterPlayHandsTogetherGuyGirlWinningHeavenSidesLosesWeekFieldsTenDown AndEvery ManNosesLooking GoodMen WomenMeatballsHands TogetherMohawks Author:Bill Murray