Don’t force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It’s the child’s desire to play that matters, not the parent’s desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

I love the routine. I love getting up in the morning and getting breakfast and packing lunches and doing the school run. Those things are really important to me. Because I think that those small but key moments are crucial for a kid.

I’m not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one’s skin color or one’s gender, I think it should be done based on one’s need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.

I’m nice with damn kids, man. Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids and I can get into the mind of a kid.

Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two’s is the most important thing. Kids get heavy. Quite literally. They’re heavy to lift up when they’re throwing tantrums.

My brother and I used to laugh and say, ‘Normal kids went to day care, and we went to the gym.’

College kids seem to look younger with every passing year. It’s one of the hazards of growing older.

I don’t have any tattoos but I’ve thought about getting Ernie, from Bert and Ernie, on my earlobe. He made a big impression on me as a kid. And I have pretty big earlobes.

Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are?

We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.

People see me now and ask if I’m still running. I may look like I am, but I’m really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.

I think kids abandon stories all the time. They start stories and get frustrated or get a different, better idea. I think that it is more worthwhile to stick with a story and revise it and try to finish it than abandon ship. Revisions, for any writer, are the name of the game.

I loved fairy tales as a kid. I’ve always been drawn to fantasy. They’re always exciting. There’s never a dull moment. I just love the embellishments and the magical stuff. It’s such fun to work with and to re-imagine your own way.

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is ‘The X Factor.’

That thing, ‘You must stay together for the kids’, is out of fashion but is right. It’s not arguing parents that children don’t like, it is having one parent.

The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids – and sometimes more than half.

I recently enrolled at an elementary school and they accepted me. I am finally going to get revenge on those kids that beat me up as a boy, assuming they are still attending.

I would rather die then let my kids eat cup a soup

I see fat kids on the street all the time and I give them free radiohead t-shirts with bullseyes on them. Later when I see them wearing the t-shirts I shoot at them with bb guns while riding a very large dog and singing kicking squealing gucci little piggy over and over.

Personally, I’d be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.

As kids, we have all handled shot guns. From there on, there is no transition. It stays in the toy box. The idea is to get the transition and bridge the gap between the toy box and the shooting range.

When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.

Sport is an important part of the development of kids, and hence, it should be made a part of their curriculum.

‘Motorcycle Diaries’ had the best costumes – that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It’s all for the kids.

I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

We’re very happy in Munich. I have my kids here. Everything is perfect

I don’t care about having a legacy, I don’t care about being remembered. The most important thing to me is, while we’re here, while we’re having fun, while we’re sleeping, breathng oxygen, living life, falling in love, having pain and having joy…what can we do with our voice to make things easier, to help someone to make it better for our kids.

I’m not making movies for kids or family audiences.

I love my family and I love my kids, but when the moments come, it’s not as though you can just substitute your own life with what you’re doing on film. You have to go to some other place where it’s bigger than your own life.

We want our music to reach everybody, so we’re using the Internet. Every kid today is online, and we want to make sure our songs reach every one of them.

Pakistan tries mentally challenged girl of blasphemy against the Holy Book. India arrests kids for posts on Facebook. Morbid competition?

Europe were kind of the first ones to embrace my music; the kids from around the way would come out to my shows and really enjoy it

When kids are 15 or 16, they should be playing more sports. I played football, basketball, cricket… Name any sport, and I played it.

I Try To Tell All The – Not Even The Kids, Even People Older Than Me – To Just Be Themselves. Don’t Wear What I Wear ’Cause I Wear It; Wear What You Like

I Try To Tell All The – Not Even The Kids, Even People Older Than Me – To Just Be Themselves. Don’t Wear What I Wear ’Cause I Wear It; Wear What You Like

That’s the beauty of what you want to achieve as an artist – seeing things in a different way. Kids are constantly saying things that are funny and surprising and their observations are just… you know, they’re like little artists themselves

Adults forget that kids are their own best censors

I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I’ve toured with were kids who consumed as much hip-hop as they could. I didn’t do that until I started rapping.

I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I’ve been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

It was stupid not to let MacArthur finish off those rice eaters. Push ’em back.

You tell a kid he doesn’t like to read, and he’ll believe you.

Work travel for me, which is – I hate to say it – more enjoyable now that I have kids.

My kids that’s their backyard. I think when they’re adults, their memories will be mostly of spending time at beach, the exploration, the freedom that you have. You take care of your house that you live in and we make our bed and we clean our cars and we do all that stuff, but yet we neglect sort of the place that really provides us with the greatest form of sustainability, which is the ocean.

That isn’t to say that Hawaii’s better. On the mainland, everyone seems to be trying to get somewhere. Kids are taught to shoot for the moon, to believe in their ability to do anything, to follow their passions. In Hawaii, you’re stuck in the middle of the Pacific, and it can be difficult to see how you’re going to follow your passion from there.

My three best friends get me through everything: I need cute jeans, my kids are driving me crazy, I’m throwing a party, whatever. They keep me dialed in.

Even if I’m gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito.

If i wouldn’t have done comedy, I would have been a teacher. I was really good when I took an exploratory teaching class in high school, at getting kids’ attention, and delivering lesson plans. Though my principal even told me that this was what I was meant to do. And that being a big-mouth comedian was a waste of time.

Kids, man, they’re way too honest. They’re like mini-alcoholics.

On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.

The majority of actor kids are really competitive. But Gabby Sidibe on The Big C has been a big help to me. Her career went from zero to a hundred in about one second, so shes warned me what to expect.

The censors don’t bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can’t understand them. They think it’s all kids’ stuff. They’d die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.

I really want to make a big mark in athletics, to be a legend and be a good example to kids.

I will teach the kids how to think in a positive way.

I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.

No coach who is coaching kids should ever curse a kid.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

I’ve longed for kids since I was very, very young.

Ownership, that’s what you give your kids. That’s your legacy.

We sing for these kids who don’t have a thing.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God’s sake, not a television personality.

I have always told myself, “Do your duty and disappear.” As far as legacy goes, I want my kids to work for themselves. I feel a legacy should be earned and not given.

The best thing about it is you’re showing kids that no matter where you grow up, what race you are, that you can achieve your dream.

I’d love to have a family one day. Having kids is the meaning of life and I can’t wait to be a mom.

I just want to tell you college kids that I know sometimes it gets discouraging because you see people around your age making money on Instagram. Don’t get discouraged. Just see it as my wealth and my richness is on layaway

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

My kids used to do things to aggravate me, too. I’d take them to a game, and they’d want to come home with a different player.

They have Easter egg hunts in Philadelphia, and if the kids don’t find the eggs, they get booed.

I think it’s really important for this great state of baseball to reach out to people of all walks of life to make sure that the sport is inclusive. The best way to do it is to convince little kids how to—the beauty of playing baseball.

If your kid needs a role model and you ain’t it, you’re both fucked.

As a kid I was creative.

I remember as a kid, I was improvising and making little trophies out of different materials and going in front of the mirror, lifting the trophies and saying ‘Nole was the champion

Nothing wrong with being from the hood, but I’d rather my kids be visitors than residents.

I want the same thing I’ve wanted since I was 7 years old. I want to be No. 1.

I know kids cuss…I tell my kids, ‘Don’t do it in earshot of any adults, or you’re in trouble.

I just want to keep making movies that hopefully makes some kids smile.

If you get a chance, whenever you’re traveling, do go to the local boutique comic book shop and don’t buy your comics online ’cause those guys are going to go extinct, in a minute here, and we want to be able to have those experiences with our kids.

The most meaningful movies I can make are the ones where parents can share them with their children and children can look forward to sharing them with their parents, a ritual if you will, where they get to spend time together and the kids are smiling.

You can post your money if you take care of your family and put your n*gg*s in a position to win and make sure your kids took good care of you gotta be an opp or somebody wit me hit ya h*e if you hate on me.

Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That’s why my public focus is primarily adults.

Rapping is my dream, but my kids make me happy.

I grew up without a father, so I have to be on point for my kids.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

The side of fairytales I don’t like is that they always have happy endings, that there’s just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that’s what I try to teach my kids.

To kids, I’ve always been more than just some big tough black guy. I train to be tough I box and do karate but underneath all that toughness is a tender man.

Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you’re automatically a role model … I have no problem being a role model. I love it. I have kids looking up to me and hopefully I inspire these kids to do good things.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.

We’re all just kids who grew up way too fast.

Encourage & support your kids because “Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Had to sacrifice my life just for my mom and kids

I don’t know if you’ve ever been skiing, but if you go to the slope you’ll see all these kids fearlessly zooming by. It’s only when we get older that fear creeps in. But for me, it just never has. And when it comes to racing, it’s always about who is willing to go further, who is willing to take that extra step. I’m willing to take any amount of pain to win. I’m hungry like you.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.