“I really don't understand how parents can talk about gay couples' PDA as a problem or a transgender teen's suicide and not the fact that too many of our kids are being murdered in the schools and on the streets.” FactsProblemKidsSchoolParentStreetsCoupleGaySuicideTransgenderGay CouplesPda Author:Steven Petrow
“Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all. And writers - not just literary writers, but popular writers as well - breathe air into English and keep it lively by making it their own, not by adhering to some style manual that gets handed out to college Freshmen in a composition class.” WellsMadeKidsRoomsClassAirStreetsStyleCollegeCornersBreathePhrasesCompositionLivelyManualsFreshmanDialectSlangStreet CornersCollege Freshmen Author:Donna Tartt
“I like this idea of generation after generation helping children on the streets, kids who have run away fleeing violence. I like the whole idea of opening arms for children who have nowhere else to go, sleeping by dumpsters.” ChildrenIdeasWholeHelpingRunningKidsSleepViolenceGenerationsStreetsArmsOpeningRunning AwayFleeingDumpstersHelping Children Author:Laura Bush
“I spent the first few years of my life in a smallish community in Queens. Back in those early days, kids could roam the streets with relatively little supervision and one place I visited frequently was the local library. This particular branch was little more than a storefront but to me it was an alternative universe where I could explore my interests and receive kind, informative answers to my questions from the wonderful librarians.” YearsFirstsKindLittlesKidsUniverseInterestCommunityAnswersWonderfulStreetsParticularLibraryLocalsAlternativesQueensBranchesLibrarianSupervisionInformative Author:Jonathan Kellerman
“My environmentalism reared its head around the age of ten when I inexplicably become obsessed with littering. For some reason I considered it my personal responsibility to pick up litter wherever I found it and yell at anyone I saw contributing to the problem (much to the horror of my mother). I was a ten-year-old on a mission to clean up the streets! But it was years later when I became a mother myself that concern for my kids' future really ignited my passion and set me on my course. Once I started reading and educating myself, there was no turning back.” YearsReasonProblemKidsAgeMotherPassionCoursesReadingFoundResponsibilitySawsStreetsHorrorTenPicksConcernCleanMissionsObsessedMy PassionPersonal ResponsibilityEnvironmentalismContributingNo Turning BackLittering Author:Laurie David
“I was a little kid who used to fight a lot in the street-and get beat up.” LittlesKidsUsedFightingStreetsBeatsLittle Kid Author:Oscar De La Hoya
“My father always told me that to be successful at anything, whether it was baseball or tiddlywinks, you have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to do more than the kid down the street if you want to be better than he is.” IfsWantKidsFatherPaySuccessfulStreetsWillingBaseballBeing SuccessfulPay The Price Author:Lance Berkman
“Kids need somewhere to go, so they're not bored on the street.” NeedsKidsStreetsBored Author:Leona Lewis
“I started in the P.A. world and craft service and storyboard artist, with the eye on the prize of directing. When I was directing second unit on Babel, I ended up casting most of the unknown parts. In these weird circles, I was this guy who found these kids on the streets.” WorldEyeKidsArtistGuyFoundStreetsCirclesCraftsPrizeUnitsThis GuyCastingBabelEye On The Prize Author:Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
“There's a ruthlessness to the city now that wasn't there before. I was in Dublin a few months ago, when we were shooting Breakfast on Pluto, and if I saw one kid throwing up on the street, I must have seen a hundred of them.” IfsKidsCitiesSawsStreetsMonthsHundredShootingBreakfastThrowingDublinRuthlessnessPlutoThrowing Up Author:Liam Neeson
“The way I look it is hard to look like a normal person. You know, in the streets when I was a kid, people always said I looked strange, and it made me feel unhappy.” PeopleKnowsWayFeelsLooksPersonsMadeSaidHardKidsStreetsStrangeNormalUnhappy Author:Klaus Nomi
“I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I had to record.” PlayKidsWantedRecordsStreetsFootballBaseballParksPlaying Baseball Author:Michael Jackson
“I've gotten to hang out with Elmo, I'm the Fairy Shoeperson on 'Sesame Street'. So hopefully our kids will get to see and hear me as much as they're able.” KidsAbleStreetsHopefullyFairyHanging OutSesame StreetElmo Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“That's America for you - a red herring culture, always scared of the wrong things. The fact is, there are a lot of creepy middle-aged men out there lusting for your kids. They work for MTV, the pharmaceutical industry, McDonald's, Marlboro and K Street.” MenFactsKidsAmericaCultureStreetsMiddleIndustryRedScaredLustWrong ThingsCreepyMcdonaldsMiddle AgedMtvPharmaceuticalPharmaceutical IndustryHerringRed Herrings Author:Bill Maher
“When people show me pictures of their kids, it's okay. But when I give them a picture of me, to show to their kids, I'm weird. What kind of one way street is that?” PeopleWayGivingKindShowsKidsStreetsOkayOne WayShow Me Author:Demetri Martin
“We have to invest in our kids, we have to invest in our communities, we have to create jobs. We have to make certain that kids are not dropping out of school and hanging out on street corners.” KidsSchoolJobsCertainCommunityStreetsCornersHanging OutDroppingOur CommunityStreet CornersDropping OutDropping Out Of School Author:Bernie Sanders
“I was always really shy. That's why being in front of cameras like this is uncomfortable. I found that when I was a kid, I would hide behind playing pretend. That's when I would come out of my shell. I would dress up as an old man or something and go out onto the street with my mom. I would come out of my shell that way. So I ended up stumbling into acting. It was the one thing that I found a passion for.” MenWayKidsPassionFoundActingBehindsOne ThingStreetsFrontsMomCamerasDressesMy MomUncomfortableShyOld ManShellsStumbling Author:Austin Butler
“I feel very positive about Newark's future, but I know we need a lot of help. I think that starts with the education of our kids and making the streets safer.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsFeelsHelpingKidsStreetsVery PositiveNewark Author:Queen Latifah
“I think the new school is dope. Artists like Kid Cudi, The Cool Kids, Drake and Wale can come out of middle class homes and be on tracks with people like Jay-Z, who's from the hood and the street.” PeopleThinkingHomeKidsSchoolArtistClassStreetsMiddleTrackMiddle ClassHoodDopeWalesCool Kid Author:SonReal
“With acting, you see some of the kids are literally just off the street, untrained, and they are great. And others are off the street, untrained, and kind of horrible.” KindKidsActingStreetsHorrible Author:Patton Oswalt
“I remember when I met Picabo Street, you know, how in awe I was of her and how much she inspired me, and I really hope to be that for young kids.” KnowsKidsRememberYoungKnow HowStreetsMetsInspiredAweRemember When Author:Lindsey Vonn
“The boarded-up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets - loud congregations of teenage boys, teenage girls feeding potato chips to crying toddlers, the discarded wrappers tumbling down the block - all of it whispered painful truths.” HomeKidsGirlChurchBoysStreetsCryAgingPainfulBlockLoudTeenageFeedingChipsPotatoesCongregationDiscardedToddlerTeenage GirlTumblingPotato ChipsPainful TruthTumbling Down Book:Dreams From My Father Source: Dreams From My Father
“I tried the line out on some people on the street, like, "What do you think of this: 'the art of family life is to not take it personally'?" And they would laugh. But you know, everybody's got something going on in their families, and then once you have kids, that of course exponentially rises.” PeopleThinkingKnowsArtKidsLife IsCoursesLinesLaughingStreetsFamily Life Author:Mary Kay Zuravleff
“I had begun what I thought might be a career in social work. I was married and deeply involved in the anti-war movement. I thought I'd go about saving the world one person at a time. I worked with kids, teenagers mostly, in neighborhood centers, on the streets, and eventually in a drop-in center.” WorldPersonsWarMightKidsSocialCareersStreetsMovementInvolvedMarriedSavingTeenagerNeighborhoodAnti WarSocial WorkSave The WorldAnti War Movement Author:John Dufresne
“Kid gets caught with marijuana, that kid has a police record. A Wall Street executive destroys the economy, $5 billion settlement with the government, no criminal record. That is what power is about. That is what corruption is about. And that is what has to change in the United States of America.” StatesGovernmentKidsAmericaUnitedUnited StatesEconomyRecordsStreetsWallPoliceCaughtCorruptionCriminalsBillionsExecutivesMarijuanaUnited States Of AmericaSettlement Author:Bernie Sanders
“I come from making money in the streets. The streets all I know. All my family is still in the streets. So, it's going to be hard to pull me right back into that. When I ain't doing no shows four days out of the week, I may be in my hood or at my grandma's house in the hood. But yes, I got a kid. I got to get more serious about the music so he don't get dragged into that life.” KnowsMayStillsHardShowsKidsHouseFourWeekStreetsSeriousMy FamilyMaking MoneyGrandmaHoodMy GrandmaGrandma's House Author:Shy Glizzy
“I was a street kid, basically. But really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and needs, and I've always found my way through it in different ways.” WayNeedsDifferentRealProblemBigsKidsFoundCitiesStreetsComplexesMonstersMy WayDifferent WaysMexicoReal ProblemsMexico City Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu