Quotes about kid
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“It turns out that teaching is one of those things like raising a kid or working out—sometimes amazing, often difficult and painful, but, in hindsight, amazing.”

Cory Doctorow (1971) Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author

Source: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014), p. 129

Pain

“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police-forces and fire-forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory — and hire someone to protect against this — because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless — keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”

Elizabeth Warren (1949) 28th United States Senator from Massachusetts

"Address in Andover, Massachusetts" (August 2011)
2011

God, Education, Idea, Parting

“I spent a lot of my life afraid as a kid, even throughout high school.”

Steven Crowder (1987) American actor

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-unmaking-of-a-conservative-pundit

Life, School

“When I was a kid, my mother told me about the time my sister got lost at the circus in New York in Madison Square Garden. ... She said out of the throng of people, suddenly after looking for a long time, she said a cop just appeared and he was holding my sister's hand — she was a little girl. My mother never forgot that picture in her mind. We never see those stories about each other. And I think the writer who wants us to have a better life must take on the responsibility of showing us those kinds of stories.”

James McBride (writer) (1957) American journalist

On writing stories that are considered unseen in "James McBride's Advice For New Writers: 'A Simple Story Is The Best Story'" https://www.npr.org/2020/02/29/810052791/james-mcbrides-advice-for-new-writers-a-simple-story-is-the-best-story in NPR (2020 Feb 29)

Life, People, Girl, Thinking

“Usually, I was aware that other kids were bullying me, except occasionally when some girls in junior high… pretended to flirt with me and for a while. I did not understand they were making fun of me.”

Jonathan Mitchell (1955) American writer and activist

The Debate Over an Autism Cure Turns Hostile

Making love, Girl, Understanding

“Who else is there to write for, as far as I’m concerned. I’d rather go ahead and tap into these kids, who still are malleable, but who also have insight into things that we don’t know, with vision that we no longer have; who have imaginations that have already been zapped from us.”

Jason Reynolds (1983) author of young adult novels

As quoted in [McKenzie, Joi-Marie, Why Author Jason Reynolds Writes For The Youngest Generation, https://www.essence.com/entertainment/author-jason-reynolds/, Essence, 10 March 2020, February 12, 2020]

Imagination

“The truths are universal: Every kid knows fear. Every kid knows family and friendship. Loss, love, laughter. Everything else is just detail.”

Jason Reynolds (1983) author of young adult novels

As quoted in[Rockey Fleming, Alexandra, Meet the Inspiring Author Who Writes Books He Wanted to Read Growing Up: 'Every Kid Knows Fear', https://people.com/human-interest/jason-reynolds-author-long-way-down/, People, 10 March 2020, October 24, 2017]

Love, Friendship, Truth, Fear

“We are not kids, we are adults. I hope you are old enough to understand that life is full of ups and downs.”

Darko Miličić (1985) Serbian basketball player

As quoted in "Darko Responds To Carmelo About '03 Draft: 'Not Necessary To Ridicule'" https://971theticket.radio.com/articles/news/darko-responds-to-carmelo-not-necessary-to-ridicule (31 March 2020), 97.1 The Ticket 2020s

Life, Hope, Understanding

“I thought as a kid that talent was God-given, but it’s not. God gives you talent and you should use that talent with the real meaning of that word. I was stubborn. Maybe being young had something to do with it.”

Darko Miličić (1985) Serbian basketball player

As quoted in "Storyline: Whatever Happened to Darko Milicic" https://hoopshype.com/storyline/whatever-happened-to-darko-milicic/ (21 March 2016), HoopsHype 2010s

God

“I wish you love - and happiness
I guess I wish - you all the best
I wish you don't - do like I do
And never fall in love with someone like you
Cause if you fell - just like I did
You'd probably walk around the block like a little kid
But kids don't know - they can only guess...”

John Prine (1946–2020) American country singer/songwriter

"All the Best"
Song lyrics, The Missing Years (1991)

Love, Happiness, Making love

“Very commonly substances are criminalized because they're associated with what's called the dangerous classes, you know, poor people, or working people.… Actually, the peak of marijuana use was as I said, in the seventies, but that was rich kids, so you don't throw them in jail. And then it got seriously criminalized, you know, you really throw people in jail for it, when it was poor people.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

Dialogue with trade unionists, February 2, 1999 https://web.archive.org/web/20051226071614/http://zpedia.org/Chomsky_on_pot Quotes 1990s, 1995–1999

People, Marijuana

“A very poor kid came up to me after a talk and said 'I want to go blow up a factory.' I asked how old he was and he said 17. I said 'have you ever had sex?' He said 'no.' I said 'just remember if you get caught you aren't going to have sex for twenty years at least.'”

Derrick Jensen (1960) American environmentalist

That's not saying that one person having sex is worth the salmon. I'm not saying it's a reason not to act, I'm saying don't be stupid.

Interview with The A Word Magazine, March-April 2005.

Sex

“Workers must control the workplace: If workers made the decisions, do you really think they would vote to outsource their own jobs to China? Of course not. Would workers vote to pollute their own air and water and poison their own kids just to make an extra nickel in profit? Of course not.”

Richard D. Wolff (1942) American economist

Global Capitalism Monthly Update (12 March 2014)

Making love, Thinking, Decision, Water

“When I was a kid I wanted to become a manga creator, but over time I realized video games are special due to how the player has direct control of the action. So, that became very appealing.”

Kenichiro Takaki (1976) Japanese video game producer

"Interview: Senran Kagura Producer Kenichiro Takaki Talks Sexuality, Violence in Games, and Peach Beach Splash" https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2017/07/13/senran-kagura-interview-peach-beach-splash-kenichiro-takaki/, PlayStationLifeStyle.net (13 July 2017).

Game, Time

“The press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. ... There is obviously a cultural gap. The act of breaking into a computer system has to have the same social stigma as breaking into a neighbor's house. It should not matter that the neighbor's door is unlocked.”

Ken Thompson (1943) American computer scientist, creator of the Unix operating system

"Reflections on Trusting Trust" http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/360000/358210/reflections.pdf, 1983 Turing Award Lecture, Communications of the ACM 27 (8), August 1984, pp. 761-763.

Making love, Housing

““Transgender” is a fashionable mental disorder being presented to kids as a legitimate medical condition. Shameful.”

Pat Condell (1949) Stand-up comedian, writer, and Internet personality

twitter.com (29 October 2015) https://twitter.com/patcondell/status/659665407536705536 2015

Fashion

“In a way, you'd say my life is a convex combination of English and mathematics. ... And not only that, I want my kids to be that way: use left brain, right brain at the same time – you got a lot more done. That was part of the bargain.”

Donald Ervin Knuth (1938) American computer scientist

AI Podcast, December 30, 2019, Algorithms, Complexity, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BdBfsXbST8,

Life, Way, Mathematics, Time

“I loved being scared as a kid. I loved the darker side of humanity. That was in my brain, even from a very early age. I was always thinking, “What could be the scariest outcome of this situation?””

Gillian Flynn (1971) American author and critic

My cousins and I were kind of raised in a pack together—all girls. They always wanted to be princesses. I always wanted to be a witch. Or a killer. My head just went in that direction. Maybe because my father was a film professor, I developed a taste for Alfred Hitchcock. Films like Psycho scared me just the right amount. They didn’t haunt my dreams in a terrible way. I like that sensation of being scared. I’ve always been one of those people who wants to know what’s underneath the rock, what’s down the corner, what’s down the blind alley. On processing fear as a child in “GILLIAN FLYNN BRINGS HER MID-WESTERN NOIR TO A BOIL” https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/gillian-flynn-brings-her-mid-western-noir-to-a-boil-in-widows in Interview (2018 Nov 12)

Love, Age, Making love, Thinking

“People are conditioned to seeing Latinos in a certain light including our own people, and that's a problem. Kids need to see something that they can aspire to…Hollywood doesn't always go to Latinos for heroes and it’s sad because we have them…We don't see our people save the day.”

Esai Morales (1962) American actor

On Hollywood’s portrayal of Latinos in “Esai Morales On Latinos, Hollywood and Trump” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/esai-morales-latinos-hollywood-trump-n426866 in NBC News (2015 Sep 17)

People, Sadness, Problem, Light

“…When I was a kid, I didn’t know what I was going to do. Even when I started playing music, I had no idea that I would get to this point in my professional life…”

Pete Escovedo (1935) Mexican-American jazz musician and percussionist

On whether Escovedo knew he had staying power as a musician in “Pete Escovedo: Rhythms of Life” https://jazztimes.com/features/interviews/pete-escovedo-rhythms/ in Jazz Times (2017 Nov 23)

Life, Music, Idea

“It is Hindu philosophy that the more you give, the more you get. When I was a child, we used to visit the blind, the handicapped and schools where kids were without parents. It is about taking care of other individuals and to cherish what you have, you must take care of them.”

Bhanu Choudhrie (1978)

"Millionaire Interview: Bhanu Choudhrie" https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/article-1690283/Millionaire-Interview-Bhanu-Choudhrie.html, This is Money (2010)

School, Parent

“I have always loved playing around with words. I didn’t know it was called poetry. I was just an innocent kid messing around with words when an adult said ‘You’re a poet, be published or be damned’.”

Benjamin Zephaniah (1958) English poet and author

On the realization that he was a poet in “Interview with Benjamin Zephaniah” https://www.writersandartists.co.uk/writers/advice/37/a-writers-toolkit/interviews-with-authors/interview-with-benjamin-zephaniah in Writers & Artists

Love, Making love

“One critic called me one of the most magnificent resources Canada has allowed to escape to the United States. Because I was born and raised in Vancouver and lived up there until I was 17. My kids sons Bruce and Michael are, of course, American citizens. But not me. I defiantly refuse to change.”

Yvonne De Carlo (1922–2007) Canadian-American actress, dancer, and singer

As quoted in "A girl no longer, but . . . De Carlo's a beauty still" (1975)

Change

“Reality to me is a home, my kids, best friends and only then a career and the limelight. I never thought like Marilyn Monroe that I was washed up when I was 35.”

Yvonne De Carlo (1922–2007) Canadian-American actress, dancer, and singer

Source: As quoted in "A girl no longer, but . . . De Carlo's a beauty still" (1975)

Home, Reality

“I guess I should have written two books of my life, one for the adults and another for the kids.”

Babe Ruth (1895–1948) American baseball player

Speaking shortly before his death, as quoted in "Sports of the Times: Down Memory Lane with the Babe" by Arthur Daley, The New York Times ((August 18, 1948), p. 32

Life, Books

“I worked with kids at risk to help them get back in school and stay out of trouble.”

Mónica Esmeralda León (1991) actress

WGN Chicago 2016: Chicagoland’s own Latino film studio making its mark in cinema http://wgntv.com/2016/10/12/chicagolands-own-latino-film-studio-making-its-mark-in-cinema/

School, Help

“Please, don’t talk to me about ‘Pure Awareness’ or ‘Dwelling in the Absolute’.
I want to see how you treat your partner,
your kids, your parents, your precious body.”

Jeff Foster (1980) Spiritual teacher

Source: https://www.facebook.com/LifeWithoutACentre/posts/1523252961105640

“If you’re a parent, you want to teach your kids to be kind, you want to teach them to care about other people and you want to teach them not to discriminate for no reason.”

Daniel Chong (animator) (1978) American artist

We Bare Bears Creator Daniel Chong On Life Lessons And The Future Of Bears https://geekculture.co/geek-interview-we-bare-bears-creator-daniel-chong-on-life-lessons-and-the-future-of-bears/ (August 24, 2020)

People, Parent

“Kids are kids. No matter what year it is, no matter what language they speak or culture they’re in. There is something deeply universal about being a teenager, and I try to capture that universality in the things that I write.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Universe

“Playing with dad is like being on a roller coaster—kids are excited because they feel safe.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 142

Feeling

“Ichthyology, the study of fishes. It looks like a big, boring word, but it's actually quite exciting, because ichthyology is the only "ology" with "YOLO" in it. Now, to the cool kids in the audience, you already know, YOLO stands for "you only live once," and because I only have one life, I'm going to spend it doing what I always dreamt of doing: seeing the hidden wonders of the world and discovering new species. And that's what I get to do.”

Prosanta Chakrabarty (1978) American ichthyologist

Source: Clues to prehistoric times, found in blind cavefish https://www.ted.com/talks/prosanta_chakrabarty_clues_to_prehistoric_times_found_in_blind_cavefish (February 2016)

Life, World, Fish, Study

“In the United States, such collusion with the destroyers of human life on Planet Earth is written all over their actions. It’s beyond evident in the appointment of former oil and gas lobbyists and fellow travelers to positions of power... We are, of course, talking about nothing short of the ultimate crime, but on any given day of our lives, you’d hardly notice that it was underway. Even for an old man like me, it’s a terrifying thing to watch humanity make a decision, however inchoate, to essentially commit suicide. In effect, there is now a suicide watch on Planet Earth. Let’s hope the kids can make a difference.”

Tom Engelhardt (1944) American writer

Suicide Watch on Planet Earth, CounterPunch, https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/04/26/suicide-watch-on-planet-earth/(26 April 2019)

Life, Making love, Hope, Travel

“People made fun of me, the little kid who was making rock'n'roll records. But I knew. I would try to tell all the groups, we're doing something very important. Trust me. And it was very hard because these people didn't have that sense of destiny. They didn't know they were producing art that would change the world. I knew.”

Phil Spector (1939–2021) American record producer, songwriter

People, World, Making love, Art

“We were writing little symphonies for the kids.”

Phil Spector (1939–2021) American record producer, songwriter

Pop Chronicles Interviews #107 - Phil Spector, Part 3 https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1752029/m1/, August 1, 1968.

“…I found the world of nonprofits funny to begin with just because having worked there, you see that people are so altruistic and they're so benevolent and they're pretty selfless and you're working generally for a great cause.But the atmosphere within the work environment can be oddly competitive. People want the credit. Sometimes they don't listen to the people they're trying to help. And for me, this white guilt is so prevalent at this nonprofit. And they're so - they treat the kids as this pity party. And for me, I would hate to work in an environment like this, but it's ripe for comedy.”

Issa Rae (1985) American actress and writer

On including the world of nonprofits in Insecure in “'Awkward' And 'Insecure' Get To The Root Of Writer Issa Rae's Humor” https://www.npr.org/2018/09/03/643673530/awkward-and-insecure-get-to-the-root-of-writer-issa-raes-humor] in NPR (2018 Sep 3)

Hate, People, World, Help

“There’s never been an act done since the beginning, from a kid stealing candy to a dictator committing genocide, that the person doing it didn’t think he was fully justified. That’s a mental trick called rationalizing, and it’s done the human race more harm than anything else you can name.”

Leigh Brackett book The Long Tomorrow

Source: The Long Tomorrow (1955), Chapter 14

Thinking, Personality

“I've been through two hurricanes; I was in Hurricane Carla as a kid in Houston, and I was really excited during hurricane time, because you're out there on the Gulf and it's dangerous, and I was like, "This is cool!"”

Ron White (1956) American comedian

Till shit started hitting our house, then I was like, "FUCK THIS!"
They Call Me Tater Salad

Time

“Just remember: I was a kid who loved the same things you do. I had no special powers or abilities. Just able to dream big and figure out the steps that needed to be taken to realize those dreams.”

Jeff Gomez American writer

Jeff Gomez - Creator of Hot Wheels Highway 35 Universe - Ask Me Anything https://www.reddit.com/r/Acceleracers/comments/8ybyoh/jeff_gomez_creator_of_hot_wheels_highway_35/ (July 12, 2018)

Love, Making love, Dreams

“I was always determined to find just the right book for that one child who maybe was a reluctant reader. I knew there was a book to turn him on to reading. I just had to find it. I do have a special place in my heart for kids who maybe have trouble reading or who just don't want to for various reasons. It's always my goal to write books that will somehow entice them to want to read.”

Debbie Dadey (1959) American children's writer

Children's author Debbie Dadey visiting downtown library to sign books, brainstorm. https://lancasteronline.com/features/entertainment/children-s-author-debbie-dadey-visiting-downtown-library-to-sign/article_bf6e4607-f0ba-5e73-a88f-64c9cb876bb2.html (July 29, 2013)

Books, Reading, Heart

“We've all grown up with the idea that gunning a man down is just fun and games. All of us, as kids, played cops and robbers, with toy pistols or pointing a finger at somebody and saying, "Bang, Bang. You're dead!"”

Sam Peckinpah (1925–1984) American film director and screenwriter

Both the movies and television have perpetuated the idea that shooting a man is clean and quick and simple, and when he falls down there is only a small hole, or a blood-stain, to show how he died. Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn't just fun and games maybe we'll get somewhere about violence on the screen in the first place. [...] No, I don't like violence. In fact, when I look at the film myself, I find it unbearable. I don't think I'll be able to see it again for five years. Responding, circa July 1969, to the question, "Why did you make this film?", posed by a film critic for Reader's Digest; as quoted in "Looking Sideways: Photographic Violence Won't Stop Violence" https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=78219633 by Whitney Bolton, Fort-Myers News-Press (July 23, 1969), p. 4

Game, Idea, Dead

“In the hood, even if you're not a hardcore criminal, crime is in your life in some way or another. There are degrees of it. It's everyone from the mom buying some food that fell off the back of a truck to feed her family, all the way up to the gangs selling military-grade weapons and hardware. The hood made me realize that crime succeeds because crime does the one thing the government doesn't do: crime cares. Crime is grassroots. Crime looks for the young kids who need support and a lifting hand. Crime offers internship programs and summer jobs and opportunities for advancement. Crime gets involved in the community. Crime doesn't discriminate.”

Trevor Noah book Born a Crime

page 209
Born a Crime

Life, Family, Food, Way

“My parents, in their 40s, moved to a different country, started a business, bought a house, didn't speak the language, raised two kids - it's kind of amazing.”

Jamie Chung (1983) American actress

As quoted in "Jamie Chung is finally over her fear of commitment" in New York Post (14 April 2015) https://nypost.com/2015/04/14/once-reluctant-bride-jamie-chung-is-ready-to-walk-down-the-aisle/

Business, Parent, Housing, Country

“I think a lot of times in our adult lives, we either block out or straight-up forget about the challenges of being a kid. We know it's all going to work out, but when you're a kid in that moment, it feels like the whole world is coming down on you. I'm going to try to look back and remember that when my kids get in those situations.”

Pierre Bouvier (1979) Canadian musician

Pierre Bouvier of Simple Plan https://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/pierre-bouvier-of-simple-plan (February 6, 2020)

World, Feeling, Thinking, Time

“Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.”

Thuy Trang (1973–2001) Vietnamese actress (1973-2001)

Reality

“I grew up watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and used to dream that I would grow up to be just like her. In a way, Teen Wolf has a lot of those kinds of characters. We're just kids by day, and yet we're trying to fight demons and werewolves and bad people and save people that we love.”

Arden Cho (1985) Korean-American actress and singer

As quoted in "Arden Cho Talks Teen Wolf, Her Audition Process, Her Favorite Scene and Episode This Season, and More" in Collider (3 March 2014) https://collider.com/arden-cho-teen-wolf-interview/

Love, People, Dreams, Way

“My kids don't watch my movies. They are not interested. They do not want to perceive mom as such.”

Chulpan Khamatova (1975) Russian actress

As quoted in "Правила жизни Чулпан Хаматовой" in Esquire https://esquire.ru/rules/6929-chulpan-khamatova/#part0

Moms

“Kids listen to kids. If you have a platform, why not use it to speak about things that can help other people?”

Lilia Buckingham (2003) American actress, author and dancer

Article https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/a25320496/brat-youtube/ in Seventeen (27 November 2018)

People, Help

“When I was a kid, I honestly never thought about race. I didn't see differences.”

Lana Condor (1997) Vietnamese-American actress

As quoted in "The Real Love Story in To All the Boys I've Loved Before Is Between Lana Condor and Jenny Han" in Glamour (24 August 2018) https://www.glamour.com/story/the-real-love-story-in-to-all-the-boys-ive-loved-before

“I got offended on behalf of my imaginary kids. [...] My children are not gonna be playing out on grass. They will be up in their rooms playing violent video games and catfishing pedophiles.”

John Mulaney (1982) American actor and comedian

The Comeback Kid (2015)

Children, Game, Grass

“God gave me this talent of being an actor, and I’m not going to waste it. That’s just who I am. I love working, and with five kids and a fantastic wife, I want to make sure I’m taking care of everyone. That’s what my dad did, and that’s what I’m going to do.”

Neal McDonough (1966) American actor

Neal McDonough Admits Putting God And His Family First Has Been ‘Hard’ On His Career (Exclusive) https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/neal-mcdonough-admits-putting-god-and-his-family-first-was-hard-on-his-career-exclusive/ (January 5, 2019)

Love, God

“And my God, Ramón was just a little five-year-old kid like the rest of us.”

Victor Villaseñor (1940) American writer

Burro Genius: A Memoir (2004)

God

“As the only black kid in my primary school playground, animals had become my friends. By 15 I was vegan, although I didn't give up honey until 16. For a while my mother thought it was just "a rasta phase."”

Benjamin Zephaniah (1958) English poet and author

… I can honestly say I've not been tempted to give up veganism in 27 years. I sometimes smell a chip shop and like the smell but then feel guilty because fish might be part of it. But I'll go home and make vegan chips. After all these years, my favourite food is my mother's butter bean stew with whole potatoes, yam and dasheen. I don't think I've ever made a meal for her, to be honest. I think she would consider it a failing of her motherhood and say "Boy, get out the kitchen." "Interview: Benjamin Zephaniah" by John Hind, TheGuardian.com (18 July 2010) https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/18/benjamin-zephaniah-life-on-a-plate

School, Animals

“I’m probably more laid-back in a lot of ways. I was very type-A as a kid, and I wanted to be the best at everything. Now I’ve definitely learned that this is not the best [quality] to have. You need to be able to screw up and learn from it.”

Mary Elizabeth Winstead (1984) American actress and singer

Interview with Glamour Magazine (26 April 2017)

Way, Learning

“I'm just a simple kid from south St. louis. I remember looking out the veranda of where the holy father lives and thinking how in the world did I get here? By the grace of God.”

Edward M. Rice (1960) Catholic bishop

Bishop Edward Rice talks about meeting Pope Benedict XVI https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/bishop-edward-rice-talks-about-meeting-pope-benedict-xvi/63-308754502 (February 27, 2013)

God, World, Thinking

“Having been a tubercular kid with a malformed physique, I have a dread of any situation where the shedding of garments might be required. I can't even swim.”

John Cooper Clarke (1951) English performance poet

Source: I Wanna Be Yours (2020), p. 172.

“You mean the kids wearing the MAGA hats? That’s a rather Nazi take you’ve offered there. MAGA hats = Nazis. Nazis deserve to be punched.”

Meredith Heron Canadian interior designer

4:50PM https://twitter.com/meredithheron/status/1087150421506969600 and 4:59PM https://twitter.com/meredithheron/status/1087152737245163521 on 20 January 2019 MAGA hats = Make America Great Again hats (Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2020)

“I like to participate in these kinds of things, so hopefully, we can change one life to motivate a kid to stimulate them to study in science and engineering.”

Charles Duke (1935) American engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut

Apollo Astronaut Shares Recollections 45 Years After Moon Landing (Exclusive Interview) https://www.space.com/37115-charlie-duke-apollo-16-exclusive-interview.html (June 7, 2017)

Life, Motivation, Study, Science

“I pity parents who feel comfortable to feed a thousand chicken but can't feed two kids because one isn't theirs”

Edykasawuli7

Feeling, Parent

“If we give it to our kids they are going to waste it. It’s best to invest it in our villages and our students. Eventually, they can do the same thing.”

Vinod Gupta (1946) American businessman

Business Opportunities, Vinod Gupta Lifelong Philanthropist, Nicolas, Smith, January 29, 2020 https://www.business-opportunities.biz/2020/01/29/vinod-gupta-lifelong-philanthropist/,

“If every day you play the board game Risk
You've probably never taken a risk
In your life / And Monopoly has far
From a stranglehold on the board game market
A little kid died from suffocation
When he choked on a game piece from Operation”

Bo Burnham (1990) American comedian, musician, and actor

IRONIC
Words Words Words (2010)

Life, Game

“When I see a kid I see a dog.”

Dilma Rousseff (1947) 36th President of Brazil

Eternal

Dogs

“I don’t think it’s right to keep secrets from parents about challenges their kids are going through.”

Jason Kenney (1968) Canadian politician and 18th Premier of Alberta

On whether schools should automatically notify parents if a student joins a Gay-Straight Alliance club https://calgaryherald.com/news/politics/kenney-parents-should-be-told-if-child-joins-gay-straight-alliance (29 March 2017) 2010s

Secret, Thinking, Parent

“Don’t kid yourself, knowing too much is a capital offense. In politics it always has been.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Friday

Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 31 (p. 327)
Context: Don’t kid yourself, Friday; knowing too much is a capital offense. In politics it always has been.

“As a first-generation immigrant, I want to make the soil richer. My kid will grow up in a free world without fear and will be thinking like an ordinary American. I envy him very much.”

Rebel Pepper (1973) Chinese political cartoonist

"Chinese political cartoonist Rebel Pepper finds more artistic freedom in the US" in The World https://theworld.org/stories/2018-07-02/chinese-political-cartoonist-rebel-pepper-finds-more-artistic-freedom-us (2 July 2018)

World, Fear, Thinking, Envy

“The thing is, kids love scary stories. They love dramatic stories. They love that kind of stuff. It’s one of the reasons why I write books now. I’m able to write the kind of stuff I like, whereas in TV I can’t do that anymore.”

D.J. MacHale (1955) American television director and producer

Source: Rejection, Scares, and Ryan Gosling: Looking Back at Nickelodeon’s “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2014/10/interview-are-you-afraid-of-the-dark-dj-machale (October 30, 2014)

Love, Books

“Don’t kid yourself into believing that’s why we lost. It’s not. I’ll tell you openly. I'm not wrong.”

Dan Crenshaw (1984) U.S. Representative from Texas

Source: 12 August 2021 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/going-viral-rep-dan-crenshaw-tells-supporters-dont-kid-2020-election-absolutely-not-stolen-election-video-rinoreveal/

“For many kids, politics feel very distant. This might be the first time it hits home for a lot of kids.”

Eitan Bernath (2002) American entertainer and chef

Source: "TikTok Ban? Creators and Fans Are Big Mad" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/style/tiktok-ban-threat-trump.html, The New York Times (2 August 2020).

Feeling, Home, Distant, Time

“People who have children have the best work-avoidance excuses in the world. If you don't have kids, get some immediately. The playgrounds are full of them.”

Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer

Source: Books, Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel (2002)

Children, People, World

“From a cinema major’s perspective, philosophically, theoretically it’s easier for people to imprint on that character what they think they’re feeling. I don’t know why, but it seems easier for kids to identify with someone like Ferb, or Perry, when they say nothing.”

Jeff "Swampy" Marsh (1960) American television director, writer, producer, storyboard artist and actor

Source: Phineas & Ferb's Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh on Their Platypus Super-Spy Perry https://www.mtv.com/news/2625269/phineas-ferbs-dan-povenmire-and-jeff-swampy-marsh/ (30 May 2012)

People, Feeling, Thinking

“Some kids can play the piano or kick a football; I could just impersonate everyone.”

Tracey Ullman (1959) English-born actress, comedian, singer, dancer, screenwriter, producer, director, author and businesswoman

Quoted on a 2003 episode of The View.

Football

“I was inspired to become an astronaut after watching the Apollo 11 moon landing as an eight-year-old kid. We need to get kids interested in space and in science and math in general.”

Leroy Chiao (1960) American astronaut and engineer

Source: Leroy Chiao (2021) cited in " Bringing Space Down to Earth With Toilets and Toys https://www.space.com/5513-bringing-space-earth-toilets-toys.html" on Space.com, 14 June 2008.

Science

“It’ll be over my dead body that I’ll have to get a shot, I will not do that. I won’t do it, and they better not touch my kids either.”

Sarah Palin (1964) American politician

2021

Dead

“I can’t wait until the baby is old enough to play pretend. That was my favorite thing to do as a kid, and I suppose I never stopped.”

Andrea Brooks (1989) Canadian actor

Source: 'When Calls the Heart' Star Andrea Brooks Opens Up About Her Pregnancy Journey (Exclusive) https://www.etonline.com/when-calls-the-heart-star-andrea-brooks-opens-up-about-her-pregnancy-journey-exclusive-128970 (July 20, 2019)

Waiting, Baby

“I'm not sure I was very good as a kid. It was a craft that I learned. However, I was very enthusiastic as a child and you get better over the years!”

Ryan Gage (1983) English actor

Source: Ryan Gage On His Blossoming Career and Exciting New Projects! https://www.iconvsicon.com/2014/11/28/on-the-rise-ryan-gage-on-his-blossoming-career-and-exciting-new-projects/ (2014)

Learning

“The secret of American schooling is that it doesn't teach the way children learn, and it isn't supposed to; school was engineered to serve a concealed command economy and a deliberately re-stratified social order. It wasn't made for the benefit of kids and families as those individuals and institutions would define their own needs. School is the first impression children get of organized society; like most first impressions, it is the lasting one. Life according to school is dull and stupid, only consumption promises relief: Coke, Big Macs, fashion jeans, that's where real meaning is found, that is the classroom's lesson, however indirectly delivered.”

John Taylor Gatto book The Underground History of American Education

Source: The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling (2001), pp. 105-106

Life, Children, Secret, Stupidity

“Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even. The habits taught in large-scale organizations are deadly.”

John Taylor Gatto book Dumbing Us Down

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992), p. 68

Children, Way, Communication, Learning

“I’ve taught public school for 26 years but I just can’t do it anymore. For years I asked the local school board and superintendent to let me teach a curriculum that doesn’t hurt kids, but they had other fish to fry. So I’m going to quit, I think. I’ve come slowly to understand what it is I really teach: A curriculum of confusion, class position, arbitrary justice, vulgarity, rudeness, disrespect for privacy, indifference to quality, and utter dependency. I teach how to fit into a world I don’t want to live in.”

John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018) American teacher, book author

Source: "I Quit, I Think" (1991)

World, School, Justice, Understanding

“Don’t kid yourself: The pain and scars from that day run deep.
I said it many times and it’s no more true or real than when we think about the events of January 6th: We are in a battle for the soul of America. A battle that, by the grace of God and the goodness and gracious — and greatness of this nation, we will win.
Believe me, I know how difficult democracy is. And I’m crystal clear about the threats America faces. But I also know that our darkest days can lead to light and hope.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

Source: 2022, Remarks to Mark One Year Since The January 6th Deadly Assault On The U.S. Capitol (2022)

God, Pain, Hope, Democracy

“I'da flipped every mattress, every rock and desert cactus.
Owned a collection of maps and followed my kids to the edge of the atlas. If someone ever moved 'em from me.”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"Headlights"
2010s, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013)

“I would say in compound sense of what little I know is it’s definitely darker in tone, and in terms of advice for taking kids of a certain age, it’s going to be prohibitive for certain people of a certain age because it is scary.”

Benedict Cumberbatch (1976) English actor and film producer

"Benedict Cumberbatch: ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is genuinely scary’" in Esquire Middle East https://www.esquireme.com/culture/interviews/benedict-cumberbatch-doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness-is-genuinely-scary

People, Age, Sense

“Absolute Evil exists. As kids we geriatrics learned all about it, and no damn social worker had better come along and blame “evil” on “conditions.””

Jack Cady (1932–2004) American writer

Evil is a force in the universe, a force using any weakness it finds to do its dirt; and with Evil, Hell is just a sideline.
Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 134

Learning, Evil

“Kids, you better listen to the folks than me. It's not for children.”

Goran Bare (1965) Croatian rock musician, singer

About turbo folk music
Original: (hr) Djeco, bolje slušajte narodnjake, nego mene. Nije to za djecu.

Children

“To the youngsters of today, I say believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity. Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.”

Walt Disney (1901–1966) American film producer and businessman

Year unknown, published in 2001, The Quotable Walt Disney (2001)

World, Future

“The desire to be perfect. Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona—to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.”

Mila Kunis (1983) American actress

"Mila Kunis on Life With Ashton and Making Babies: “There’s Nothing We Don’t Know About Each Other"" in Glamour https://www.glamour.com/story/mila-kunis-on-life-with-ashton-and-making-babies (6 July 2016)

Women, Way, Perfection

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