“I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.” FirstsBookDifferentKidsMarriedHappeningsThings HappenDifferent Things Author:Jennifer Weiner
“I think kids have got to learn how to work with what's happening, work with social, work with everything. To complain about how things aren't the way they used to be.” ThinkingWayKidsUsedSocialHappeningsComplainingUsed To BeSocial Work Author:Diplo
“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
“My mom wanted me to apply to Princeton, cause she just I guess since I was a kid had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, and it was not happening.” DreamKidsWantedCausesMomHappeningsMy MomPrinceton Author:Tina Fey
“The action stuff takes a long time but when you're there and you're doing it and you go into that take and you run and everything is blowing up around you and you're diving onto something it's actually incredibly thrilling and you feel like a kid again. Like a kid, who used to play and pretend all those things would happen and now they're actually happening.” FeelsLongPlayHappensRunningKidsActionUsedStuffLong TimeHappeningsThrillingDivingBlowing Up Author:Stanley Tucci
“Miracles are happening every day. I do think that's true. If you can take the time to look. It took me a while to learn that, though some children know it instinctively and they do have wonder when they are kids. But the trouble is, as we grow older, we lose it.” IfsThinkingKnowsLooksChildrenKidsGrowsLosesWonderTroubleHappeningsMiracle Author:Julie Andrews
“Because of what I experienced when I was a kid, I want kids to have that kind of an epiphany moment, that little jolt, that little spark that they see when Dusty ['Planes'] flies higher than he has before. That scene where he flies straight up, and he's starting to get dizzy, and then finally it comes together. We forget as adults. We get jaded and we think that's kids' stuff, but for a kid who doesn't know about anything technical or how a movie is made, they're just going to see this and hear this beautiful score and see this dynamic, fantastical thing happening in front of them.” ThinkingKnowsWantKindLittlesMadeMomentsKidsTogetherBeautifulStuffForgetFrontsHigherSceneHappeningsAdultsStartingThings HappenPlanesScoreSparksEpiphanyDizzyJadedStraight Up Author:Dane Cook
“How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English -- or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.” IfsWorldWayFeelsWritingChildrenKidsTodayAmericaValuesSpeakFeltParentClassStudentsLike YouTaxesHappeningsThirdsOur ChildrenDollarsInvestmentYour ChildrenGradesZeroClassroomThird WorldAttendingKindergartenAmerican EducationTax DollarsInvestment In Education Author:Frosty Wooldridge
“I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.” KidsSchoolHappeningsLonelyThings Happen Author:Anthony Hopkins
“He has an awareness of what's happening around him on the edge of the box which is better than most players. As a kid he always had a knack of arriving in the penalty area just at the right time, but he's proving just as effective from outside the box because he's using his experience in the right way. It doesn't matter who I am thinking about bringing into my midfield, Paul Scholes will be included, as he would in any side in the world.” ThinkingWorldWayMatterKidsSidesPlayerAwarenessProveHappeningsAreasEdgesBoxesWho I AmPenaltiesRight WayRight TimeArrivingKnackOutside The BoxScholesPaul Scholes Author:Alex Ferguson
“I found myself with a wife and kids, and some of my friends weren't around as much. They weren't calling as much, and I didn't quite know what it was. Someone said, "Yeah, I recently lost one of my closest friends. He got his finger stuck in a wedding ring." And I thought, "Oh, that's what's happening! We're all going off and making our own families."” KnowsSaidKidsFoundLostWifeCallingHappeningsMy FriendsYeahFingersRingsStuckClosestClosest FriendsLost OnesWedding Ring Author:Scott Foley
“Everybody wants to be a professional baseball player and, sure, as a kid, I wanted to do that. But once I got cut from my high school team, I figured there wasn't much chance of that ever happening. I'm still in awe of it.” WantStillsKidsWantedSchoolChanceCuttingPlayerTeamHappeningsHigh SchoolBaseballAweBaseball Player Author:Mark Buehrle
“As I became a filmmaker and realized that I had a voice, who better to speak for than kids that are bullied? It's such a place where you feel like nobody is listening and you can't communicate what's happening.” FeelsKidsSpeakVoiceListeningHappeningsCommunicateFilmmakerBullied Author:Lee Hirsch
“I'm always struck by how innately curious kids are about the world around us and how engaged and sensitive they are to what is happening .. and how many kids do want to be engaged and do what to make a difference.” WorldWantKidsDifferencesHappeningsCuriousSensitiveEngagedMaking A Difference Author:Chelsea Clinton
“You can sit down with your child and prompt him to show you something - perhaps how to play a game [on the computer]. By learning a game, you're getting close to the kid and gaining insight into ways of learning. The kid can see this happening and feels respected, so it fosters the relationship between you and the kid.” WayFeelsChildrenPlayShowsKidsGamesComputerHappeningsOur ChildrenInsightYour ChildrenPrompts Author:Seymour Papert
“Educators who have said, "We don't like that, so we'll continue to teach as if it's not happening," are just aggravating the gap between what happens in schools and what happens in the real world. Because of their personalities, or for cultural reasons, some kids might better express themselves through moving images and sound.” IfsWorldSaidRealReasonMightHappensKidsSchoolMovingSoundTeachPersonalityHappeningsGapsReal WorldEducatorAggravating Author:Seymour Papert
“As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.” PeopleWorldWayCountrySeemsKidsIndividualViewsGroupsHappeningsConcernedExcitedOur CountryBetter PlacePessimisticPlaces In The World Author:Steve Jobs
“These weren't college kids on acid. They were preachers, and bankers, and farmers, and the salt of American society subscribing to ideas that now seem so wild to us. These people had the most radical visions of what the future could be. And this was happening in an era we don't typically associate with sexual experimentation, or communism, or things like that.” PeopleIdeasSeemsKidsVisionCollegeHappeningsRadicalCommunismErasFarmersSaltPreacherAssociatesBankersAcidExperimentationAmerican Society Author:Christine Jennings
“I had to call in because I do believe, I know of cases, it is happening that some of these kids that weren't born here but they've lived here all their lives, they are being deported. And I also know of cases where the kids are born here, they're American citizens, they're put in foster homes and their parents are deported, and their parents are begging to get their kids back. That actually is happening.” KnowsBelieveHomeKidsParentBornCasesCitizensHappeningsBeggingAmerican Citizens Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I'm a parent. I have kids, and what's happening with our waters, and our oceans, and what's happening with deforestation, and all these things that human beings are having negative impacts on at this time, are concerning to me. I wanted to do whatever I could to be a part of the solution and not just be a part of the problem.” HumansProblemKidsWantedParentWaterHuman BeingsOceanSolutionsHappeningsNegativeImpactDeforestation Author:Don Cheadle
“I'm ashamed of what has happened to Canada. And I'm not leaving a $1.5 trillion deficit to my kids. No chance in hell is that happening.” KidsChanceHellHappenedHappeningsLeavingAshamedCanadaDeficit Author:Kevin O'Leary
“Almost 40% of all young adults are living with their parents. This is a 75-year high in America. Forty percent of young adults are living with their parents. I see stuff like this, and I think it's a good thing I didn't become a parent, because if that were happening to me, you wouldn't want to be my kid.” IfsThinkingWantYearsKidsAmericaYoungStuffParentHappeningsPercentAdultsGood ThingsYoung AdultForty Author:Rush Limbaugh
“My parents were kids when I was born. My mother was 16. My father was 17, and they got married in high school. And they split a few years later. When they split was when all that was happening also, and he - they were just coming into themselves. But they remained friends.” YearsKidsSchoolMotherFatherParentBornMarriedHappeningsHigh SchoolSplits Author:Mahershala Ali
“The thing about kids is that they don't have the broader perspective of what's happening on a national level. Anything that's going wrong in their world, they somehow assume is unique to them and they're somehow to blame. It turns into an issue of shame.” WorldKidsTurnsLevelsIssuesPerspectiveUniqueHappeningsShameBlameAssuming Author:Lori Silverbush
“The thing I see happening is that there's a real compression between generations. There used to be about 20 years difference (in technology use). Now you talk to 15-year-old kids and their 9-year-old brother or sister is using stuff that they don't understand.” YearsRealUseKidsUsedStuffDifferencesTechnologyGenerationsBrotherHappeningsUsed To BeCompression Author:Paul Saffo
“[The White House staff] start bringing in their kids, who you think should be babies and now are in second grade or something, and you've watched them grow up. So I think what ends up happening is you end up maintaining those networks and those contacts, but the concentrated interactions and experience that you have here, I don't think, I don't expect you can duplicate anyplace else.” ThinkingShouldEndsKidsHouseGrowsWhiteGrowing UpBabyHappeningsContactGradesWhite HouseInteractionStaffMaintainingDuplicate Author:Barack Obama
“I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.” PeopleThinkingI CanHardCareKidsCryEmotionalHappeningsDon't CareI Don't CareTragicBad Things Author:Mike Tyson