Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ani Difranco

My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to engage in my society politically, having the kid around sort of makes me check in with myself. I think you're all busy trying to fix the world, but what about yourself?

Amy Klobuchar

Times change, and right now what people need is, they need to be able to send their kids to college, they need to able to buy a house.

Amy Klobuchar

So many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old. Well, that's just not going to happen.

Amy Ray

The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation where kids are expected to be honest but are judged and alienated from their community because of it should not escape us.

Amy Poehler

Most of the women in your life will outlast the men in your life. The Saturday Night Live ladies - Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Tina - and I text pictures of our kids back and forth all the time. It keeps us connected. As my nanny used to say, the older you get, the more important it is to know people that knew you when.

Amy Poehler

Always remember your kid's name,

Ally Carter

So you just...left?' Zach huffed. 'All the cool kids are doing it.

Allen Klein

Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything.

Alison Sweeney

I love fresh vegetables and we always include them in our meals. I don't force my kids to eat asparagus, but they do eat peas, broccoli, and carrots.

Alison Sweeney

Especially with me working in the entertainment industry, I think my kids are aware of weight and fat much earlier than other kids. It was important to me from the beginning to make sure they understand things like why too much sugar is bad for you, etc.

Alison Sweeney

I have encouraged my kids to eat well from day one. I add flavor - herbs and spices - to everything because I don't want them getting used to starchy, bland food.

Alison Pill

I think it's just different to get married for a woman than it is for a man. The amount of work to overcome certain gender roles in the partnership - just the expectation of housework, kid-work, whatever it is.

Alison Gopnik

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

Anthony Jeselnik

Tom Cruise's pre-nup lets him keep his money, the kids and Katie Holmes.

Anthony Jeselnik

I could see myself adopting a kid someday. But, obviously, I'd prefer it to be aborted.

Anthony Jeselnik

I don't ever want to have kids of my own. But I do want a lot of kids.

Anthony Jeselnik

Yesterday I accidentally hit a little kid with my car. It wasn't serious — nobody saw me.

Anthony Jeselnik

About a month ago some kids in my neighborhood were playing hide-and-go-seek and one of them ended up in an abandoned refrigerator. It's all anybody talked about for weeks. I said, 'Who cares? How many kids you know get to die a winner?

Ann Brashares

He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not?

Ann Brashares

Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and quite a few piercings glinting in sunlight. They had invited her to sit with them while they all finished up their lunches before film seminar. Tibby knew that they had invited her largely because she had a ring in her nose. This bugged her almost as much as when people excluded her because she had a ring in her nose.

Ann Coulter

If those kids had been carrying guns they would have gunned down this one gunman. ... Don't pray. Learn to use guns.

Andy Dick

When I was a kid, I was afraid of other kids.

Andy Andrews

We're not trying to raise good kids. We're trying to raise kids who become great adults. That's a very different thing. We all know parents who had kids that when they turned 18 left the house and went nuts.

Andy Andrews

Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.

Andrea Corr

Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.

Ana Tijoux

My kid is seven years old and is learning to read and conjugate, but I don't agree with that kind of education because I feel that the concepts are not contextualized... it's interesting to try to make my kid a reflective boy, rather than just a repetitive boy, even if he doesn't agree with me.

Ana Tijoux

It's very important, once you are a parent, that you educate your kid day by day.

Ana Beatriz Barros

I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato.

Kimora Lee Simmons

I'm not one of those Hollywood moms where my kid is three weeks old and I'm a size zero. I'm a real woman and I'm a working woman and a working mom.

John Walters

We know that if we can prevent kids from trying drugs in their teenage years, we dramatically reduce the likelihood that they will go on to have problems later in life.

Lauren Myracle

Kids need to see their world reflected back to them.

Lauren Myracle

Give your kid some credit for being smart - just because they read about something doesn't mean they will do it.

Jennifer Lopez

I think a lot about teaching my kids to work hard.