“I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.” ThinkingWayLittlesDifferentKidsAbleWishGrowsBitsMy OwnGrowing UpOne ThingMysteryBirthLittle BitDifferent WaysFarmsExposure Author:Rachel McAdams
“I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.” LooksMeanPersonsSaidKidsMy OwnFiguresMirrorsSticksDumbJustifyMean Person Author:Uma Thurman
“Some of the best times I've spent in Colorado have been in the backcountry with my mom and siblings, and more recently, with my own kids. That is why I'm concerned to see today's kids spending more time browsing the Internet than exploring nature.” Has BeensKidsTodayMy OwnMomInternetConcernedMy MomSpendingMore TimeExploringSiblingBest TimesColoradoBrowsing Author:Mark Udall
“I’ve sometimes thought that it’s only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion in the face of their adolescent sneering.” I CanSometimesKidsFacesFeltMy OwnDevotionDesperate Author:Ayelet Waldman
“My own husband was divorced when we met, but without kids. I don't know what I would have done if he'd had them. I got the message very early on that the worst mistake a woman can make is marrying a man with children.” IfsKnowsMenChildrenDoneKidsMy OwnMistakeWorstMetsHusbandMessagesDivorcedMarrying Author:Ayelet Waldman
“I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.” WantKidsMotherMy OwnUps & Downs Author:JoBeth Williams
“I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person who cares about kids and who cares about truth and I am guided by my own instincts, and trust them.” ThinkingKnowsWritingPersonsBookCareKidsMy OwnPossibilityInstinctCensorshipWho CaresNew Books Author:Lois Lowry
“I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read my book. And I remember myself, we'd gone through a world war. My father was an army officer so I was aware of what was going on. But I wasn't bombarded with images of catastrophe like many kids are today.” WorldBookWarKidsAgeTodayRememberFatherMy OwnGoneArmyCompareWar Of The WorldsOfficersCatastropheGrandchildrenBombardedBombarded ByArmy Officers Author:Lois Lowry
“I work, and then I leave the office, and I'm with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visceral level, and I don't feel like I'm exorcising my own deep ideas about parenthood and about how my life will come into play in my work.” FeelsIdeasPlayKidsEnjoyMy OwnLevelsOfficeParenthoodVisceral Author:Ben Marcus
“I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian. I made card files. I had origin stories of all the characters, and cross-referenced when they appeared in other comic books. I was full on.” MadeBookCharacterStoriesKidsMy OwnHugeCrossesCardsComicComic BookFilesLibrarianCollectors Author:James Mangold
“Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.” WritingWellsLittlesBookFactsBigsKidsUsedLostMy OwnSpaceFansDrawsSeriesComicComic BookLittle Kid Author:Bill Mumy
“When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.” PeopleWorldWayTryingMightKidsAbleChurchMy OwnWifeMy WifeRealizationOutcomesChanging The WorldMy Own Life Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.” IfsKindSaidKidsWantedAsksHouseParentMy OwnThey Said Author:Janet Jackson
“I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That's three college funds.” WayTwoKidsThreeMy OwnStepsCollegeFund Author:Black Francis
“I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun... I continue to be an artist... for the freedom that an art career can bring. I don't need an alarm clock and I am my own boss.” NeedsArtKidsArtistFunMy OwnCareersProfessionClockBossAlarmsAlarm Clocks Author:Mark Kostabi
“I'm sure everyone feels sorry for the individual who has fallen by the wayside or who can't keep up in our competitive society, but my own compassion goes beyond that to those millions of unsung men and women, who get up every morning, send the kids to school, go to work, try to keep up the payments on their house, pay exorbitant taxes to make possible compassion for the less fortunate, and as a result have to sacrifice many of their own desires and dreams and hopes. Government owes them something better than always finding a new way to make them share the fruit of their toils with others.” MenWayFeelsTryingDreamGovernmentKidsSchoolDesireHouseIndividualMy OwnResultsPayCompassionMorningMillionsSacrificeShareTaxesFindingsMen And WomenFruitSorryGet UpFortunateFallenEvery MorningNew WaysToilPaymentSomething BetterLess Fortunate Author:Ronald Reagan
“It is pretty cool to have my own video game. As a kid, growing up, it was something I never even thought of. I thought about just trying to get the new game that was coming out, so that my buddies and I, we could all enjoy it together. When I was a kid, never once in my wildest dream - even when I turned pro- that was never something that I really thought about, having my own video game. Thanks to EA, it's a reality.” TryingDreamRealityKidsTogetherGamesEnjoyMy OwnGrowing UpGrowingVideoThanksComing OutBuddyKids Growing UpWildest Dreams Author:Tiger Woods
“I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way. I am so desperately worried about anybody saying, "She cut in line," or "She took our table," or "She doesn't do her own grocery shopping." It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. But it almost doesn't matter to a certain segment of the populace.” WayWellsMatterHardKidsWantedSchoolCertainWaitingLinesMy OwnCuttingTablesTradeWorriedDecentDaily LifeShoppingRespectfulGroceriesSubwayGrocery Shopping Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“I'm way more comfortable around kids than I am people my own age.” PeopleWayKidsAgeMy OwnComfortable Author:Scott Glenn
“I never wanted to do anything else but fight, when I was a kid. I never had any broader perspective of my own perspective. I didn't know anything about anything else. I just wanted to fight until I could fight no more, and then I wanted to own a bar and drink and tell war stories.” KnowsWarStoriesKidsWantedFightingMy OwnPerspectiveDrinkBarsWar Stories Author:Mike Tyson
“My upbringing was very un-Hollywood. I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch. I was never really smitten by the business in those days, never a fan type - just a basic kid watching TV. It wasn't like I was an insider. I was never really brought into the show business side of my father's life. I guess that's been a blessing and a downfall. But it's made my own work the initiation.” MadeShowsKidsFatherSidesBornMy OwnFansNew YorkTvsGrewTypeBlessingGrew UpHollywoodShow BusinessUpbringingDownfallInitiationInsidersWatching TvSmitten Author:Stephanie Zimbalist
“So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid with the stutter like a skipping record 'cause I know all of us are scratched, even if you can't hear it when we speak.” IfsKnowsInspirationalFirstsKidsPoetrySpeakCausesMy OwnRecordsTeamWorstWhat If Author:Andrea Gibson
“When I sent out a casual and nonscientific poll of my own to a wide cast of acquaintances, friends and colleagues, I was surprised, but not really, to learn that maybe 60 percent claimed a belief in a God of some sort, including people I would have bet were unregenerate skeptics. Others just shrugged. They don't think about this stuff. It doesn't matter to them. They can't know, they won't beat themselves up trying to know and for that matter they don't care if their kids believe or not.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsTryingBelieveMatterCareKidsBeliefStuffMy OwnAtheismBeatsPercentIncludingCastsDon't CarePositive AtheismWideColleaguesPollsAcquaintanceCasualSkeptic Author:Natalie Angier
“When people ask me what qualifies me to be a writer for children, I say I was once a child. But I was not only a child, I was, better still, a weird little kid, and though I would never choose to give my own children this particular preparation for life, there are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.” PeopleGivingChildrenLittlesStillsKidsAsksLiteratureMy OwnParticularPreparationAsk MeHelpfulLittle KidChildren's Literature Book:Read for Your Life #18 Source: Read for Your Life #18
“I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including my two grandchildren, my own kids (I had four) and especially myself as a child, because that person still lives inside me, too.” ChildrenPersonsStillsTwoBookCharacterKidsCoursesMy OwnConsciousnessKnownFourFilledIncludingGrandchildrenStill Life Author:Lois Lowry
“When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as a citizen, as - as a human being, to help others. Smoking is going to kill a billion people this century. I've put six hundred million dollars from my own money into trying to stop the tobacco companies from getting kids to smoke and convincing adults that it's not in their health.” PeopleThinkingTryingHumansHelpingCareKidsMy OwnHuman BeingsCompanyMillionsCenturyCitizensSixHundredAdultsDollarsBillionsHelping OthersObligationSmokeSmokingI CareConvincingMillion DollarsTobacco Author:Michael Bloomberg
“I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university. When I wanted to start acting again, I couldn't get a job, and that was really depressing. So, I realized, at that time, that I have to take responsibility for my own creativity.” WholeKidsWantedJobsActorsMy OwnActingResponsibilityCreativityUniversityI RealizedWhole LifeQuittingDepressingTaking ResponsibilityI QuitReally Depressing Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“I'm around my kids every day. I'm regular. We're a regular family. My wife cooks, she washes clothes, I read books, I pump my own gas, I get my own hair cut.” BookKidsMy OwnCuttingWifeHairClothesMy WifeCooksGasPumpsHair Cut Author:Tracy Morgan
“There are so many beautiful things that are a part of the world, and Ive always looked at life that way; Ive always tried to put on a smile and a brave front, not just for my kids but in my own life and all the difficulties that Ive gone through.” WorldWayKidsBeautifulMy OwnGoneFrontsDifficultyBraveBeautiful ThingsMy Own Life Author:Gloria Estefan