Best kids & streets Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects.”

Kids Education Streets Projects Stuck Scholar Carter

Author:Big Pun

“My nana was always a widow as long as I was alive; my grandfather died before I was born. All the women on my street - there were four houses in a row with all old women who lived alone who were widowed. They all had kids, but they were all widowed. My mom didn't put me in preschool; I didn't know that was a thing. I just hung out with these women all day.”

Knows Long Kids House Born Four Alive Streets Mom Died My Mom Grandfather Hung My Grandfather Widows Old Woman Father Died Preschool Widowed Grandfather Died

Author:Jen Kirkman

“Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.”

Character Kids Guy Girl Streets Adventure Hero My Favorite Princess Odds Rats Unbelievable Animation Really Cool Robins Genies Lead Characters Disney Animation

Author:Zachary Levi

“Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.”

Kids Today Streets Hero Tomorrow Criminals Yesterday Wander Wandering Around

Author:Bernard Marcus

“I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.”

Shows Kids Earth Mother Music Streets Honest Dad Kissing Daughter My Friends Being Honest My Daughter Buzz

Author:Ace Frehley

“I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.”

Kids School Form Social Grows Tree Streets Security Taught Garden Fruit Parks Nuts Roof Social Security Fruit Trees Edibles

Author:Jackie French

“I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn't play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team.”

Years Play Kids Games Team Streets College Son Picks Decided Let Me Parks My Son Hockey Backup Lacrosse Goalies Hockey Team Riverside

Author:John Katzman

“Inspiration thing is important, to teach the kids that JFK is not an airport, RFK's not a stadium, Martin Luther King ain't a street”

Important Inspiration Kids Teach Streets Kings Airports Luther Stadiums

Author:Kinky Friedman

“Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew.”

Thinking Has Beens Home Kids Causes Streets Youth Circumstances Homeless Homelessness

Author:Jewel

“Life in a shelter or on the streets puts homeless kids and youth at a higher risk for physical and sexual assault and abuse, physical illness, including HIV/AIDS”

Kids Risk Streets Youth Higher Abuse Including Illness Aids Shelter Homeless Assault Hiv Sexual Assault Hiv Aids

Author:Jewel

“Out on the street, you never know what you're getting, and suddenly two days later you're beating yourself in the head with a tennis racket, wearing a towel, quoting Poe. You don't want that for your kid. You really don't want that.”

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Author:Johnny Depp

“Living on the street as a kid changed the way I looked at everything. It was a different time and while it had its dangers, it was nothing like it would be today. It was the Summer of Love and there was a real sense of community among us. We were hippies who looked out for each other instead of trying to rip each other off. We only had to watch out for the police who liked to roust us just on general principles, and the kids who came in from the suburbs to do a little hippie-bashing.”

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Author:Charles de Lint

“Since I was a kid, I could make up stories, I could make up funny jokes and I could always do it. When I'm walking down the street or having dinner, ideas will hit me, and I write them down on matchbooks or napkins and throw them in the draw.”

Writing Ideas Stories Kids Streets Walking Draws Jokes Dinner Napkins Funny Jokes

Author:Woody Allen

“Minnesota is a state of public-spirited and polite people, where you can get a good cappucino and eat Thai food and find any book you want and yet live on a quiet tree-lined street with a backyard and send your kids to public school. When a state this good hits the jackpot, it can only be an inspiration to everybody.”

People Want Book States Inspiration Kids School Tree Streets Quiet Polite Public School Backyards Spirited Minnesota Thai Jackpot Thai Food

Author:Garrison Keillor

“The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.”

Made Kids Faces Secret Records Alive Streets Rocks Band Machines Paid Guitar Debt Hungry Contact Rock N Roll Flash Unseen Blades Hustle Hunted

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I'm a poor kid from the streets. What I've been able to achieve has really just been through hard work and not letting anyone tell me that I couldn't do something. I always try to encourage people to just pursue your dreams.”

People Trying Hard Dream Kids Able Poor Streets Achieve Hard Work Pursue Your Dreams Pursue Your Dreams

Author:Dave Bautista

“The street kid in me says, "Grab the money and run - who cares who it's from! Don't think about whatever you have to do for it or when you have to do it!”

Thinking Care Running Kids Streets Who Cares

Book:Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski

Source: Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski

“I remember when you could always rely on those little street kids to pop a few people for the latest Nikes," Vice-President John said. "Now people get mugged for Reeboks, for Adidas - for generics, for Christ's sake.”

People Littles Said Kids Remember President Christ Streets Sake Vices Pops Rely Remember When Vice President Nike Adidas

Book:Jennifer Government

Source: Jennifer Government

“I like singing in the street, so if you saw a little Indian kid walking on the street singing loudly, that was probably me.”

Ifs Littles Kids Saws Streets Walking Singing Indian

Author:Sanjaya Malakar

“The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation.”

Kids Beautiful Water Environment Sea Streets Amount Concern Rivers Fishes Corners Boat Lakes Fishing Salt Recreation Street Corners Salt Water Pinball

Author:Rex Hunt

“Success to me is self-determined, the life I live today, to come from a kid strung out on angel dust, homeless, at some points sleeping in the street. No money, not knowing where the next meal was coming from. No sex, no relationships, people that didn't love me, didn't care about me, to where I am today... that's successful. When I signed my record deal I always wanted to be respected by my peers for my ability and my skill level.”

“The benefits kids get from watching "Sesame Street" can be as powerful as the ones children get from preschool.”

Children Kids Powerful Streets Benefits Preschool Sesame Street

Author:Julie Roginsky

“Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. Its like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but its almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.”

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Author:Laura Ramsey

“As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.”

Kids Share Streets Football Nfl Vacant

Author:Barry Sanders

“When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming number of widows and orphans and people who had been physically and emotionally damaged; every 10-year-old kid on the street knew how to dismantle a Kalashnikov in under a minute. I would flip through math textbooks intended for third grade, fourth grade, and they would include word problems such as, "If you have 100 grenades and 20 mujahideen, how many grenades per mujahideen do you get?" War has infiltrated every facet of life.”

“Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped by the mom down the street, or in the magazine we're reading. The competition isn't just over who's a good mother--it's over who's the best. We compete with each other; we compete with ourselves. The best mothers always put their kids' needs before their own, period.”

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Author:Susan J. Douglas

“As a kid, I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest.”

Kind Kids Stuff Watches Streets Honest Horror Adults Being Honest Nightmare Halloween Nightmare On Elm Street

Author:Corey Feldman

“I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood - we played kick-the-can and ring-a-levio.”

Real Kids Streets Grew Grew Up Rings Kicks Neighborhood Stoops Slums Tenements

Author:Bonnie Bedelia

“Take personal responsibility. A lot of people go, 'Well, I'll get a dog because I have a kid and a kid needs a dog.' And it doesn't work out for that dog and the dog is on the street.”

People Needs Wells Kids Responsibility Streets Dog Work Out Personal Responsibility

Author:Betty White

“I was obsessed with movies when I was younger. During the summer, I would go by myself to a theater down the street from my house. I saw every comedy or science fiction movie that came out. My kids love going to the movies, but 3D scares them.”

Kids House Fiction Saws Comedy Streets Summer Theater Science Fiction Obsessed Scare Kids Love Science Fiction Movie

Author:Allen Covert

“Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.”

Kids Mother Father Stuff Teach Streets Crime Serious Protect Criminals Gang Hardened

Author:Steven Seagal

“Whats the biggest commercial for aggression, sexuality and materialism? What gets pumped into these kids heads? Taking someone elses girl, which is so laissez-faire in hip-hop, will get you killed in the streets, but it doesnt seem to be an issue when you hear it on the radio.”

Seems Kids Girl Issues Streets Hip Hop Radio Sexuality Hips Hops Materialism Aggression Laissez Faire Fiasco

Author:Lupe Fiasco

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