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" Quotes and Sayings About kids

It's strange because you - your life goes so swiftly. You look up one day you're a teenager, the next day you're a grandfather and you want to decide, 'I sure hope my kids don't make the same mistakes.'

Strange Life Swiftly Teenager
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If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can't go wrong. That's what I tell my kids, anyway.

Maintain Integrity Go wrong
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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Kids idea Hard life One phone
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People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.

Act Culture Justifies Kids
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Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it's people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

Accomplishment Acknowledged Always Being
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When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits - you know, like we just don't give a damn.

Always Call Damn Everybody
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For our first date, I made Ryan Hamburger Helper, which is basically what I grew up on. I make my own version of it now, with macaroni and cheese and hamburger meat. And the kids - it's their favorite dinner.

Basically Cheese Date Dinner
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I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.
Fast ICan Kids Kitchen
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I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

Bigger Child Church Feel
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I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

Back Care Caretakers Dogs
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That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.

Balance Daughter Decision Decision-Making
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Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.

Am Feel Growing GrowingUp
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I would love to have more kids. Kids are the best part of my day. I don't wake up to make movies. I wake up to hang out with my family.

Best BestPart Day Family
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It's hard having kids. It's hard having a job. It's hard having a relationship - for anybody.

Anybody Hard Having Job
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I think, like every working parent, I sometimes feel that there are not enough hours in the day. But overall, I'm very fortunate that my job has a lot of flexibility. I spend a lot of time with the kids, just around the house.

Around Day Enough Every
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I worry about my kids growing up and how the world might hurt them. But at the same time, I absolutely do not worry about them growing up - because they have great values and a great sense of self.

About Absolutely Because Great
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Realizing you're not anything special to the kids is always a great sort of reminder that you're just a regular person. A regular, embarrassing old mom.

Always Anything Embarrassing Great
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You want your kids to be developing at the right level, and everyone says, 'They'll be fine, they'll get there.' But you get concerned. You just want to make sure there's nothing else.

Concerned Developing Else Everyone
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I've always, like, wanted two kids that were both girls, and my wife was like, 'Why?' I'm like, 'Because I've been around boy so much my entire life that I want to be surrounded by, you know, girls.'

Always Around Because Been
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My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.

Alive Ask Close Daddy
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I have talked to Debbie Hammond quite a bit, Jim Hammond's wife, his widow. I've seen their kids. And last time we played Dallas, a lot of them came over. It's hard for them to come see the show. It's still hard.

Bit Came Come Dallas
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The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I've helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them.

Biggest BiggestChallenge Challenge Enough
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I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.'

Better Father First Great
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I feel happy to terrify kids.

Feel Happy IFeel Kids
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I've had a life of all kinds of experiences - most of them good. And I've got eight kids and a wife that puts up with everything I do and keeps me out of trouble.

Eight Everything Experiences Good
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I met Quincy Jones in Seattle. We were kids together... liked each other when we met and have been close ever since. He wasn't writing when we met - in fact, I more or less started him off to write; voicing, harmony, and stuff like that.

Been Close Each Ever
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I am grateful every morning I wake up. I've a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other.

Am Big Big Family Each
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I used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely think my kids are now. For starters, they're writing better songs than I was at their age.

Age Behind Best Better
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

Cause Culture Job Keep
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.

Adult BeReal Buy Detail
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Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

Always Down Just Kids
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My kids love me. I'm blessed.

Blessed Kids Love LoveMe
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This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.

Culture Kids Raising Surprised
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I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.

Age Been Calendar Days
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To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

Again Anything Become Even
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Do your kids a favor - don't have any.

Any Favor Kids Your
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I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active.

Thrilled Stress Kids Active
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I get concerned when I see kids on their phones. They don't read enough anymore, anything longer than a tweet.

Anymore Anything Concerned Enough
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When I think about it, I do start to worry about this whole social media thing. It does make me uncomfortable; kids should be out, living their lives, getting out and enjoying themselves.

About Does Enjoying Getting
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I know how much parents love buying clothes for their kids and how they want to give them something new in the closet.

Buying Closet Clothes Give
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Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus on; it's not something that gets funded a lot, and it's exactly for that reason that we are losing mothers all the time, and we have kids with no mothers.

Ages Been Childbirth Dying
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I'm Christian. Growing up in Ethiopia, it's half-Christian and half-Muslim. You grow up with Muslim kids. I'm very much aware of their religion.

Aware Christian Ethiopia Grow
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I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.

Because Calm Deliberately Down
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When the other kids started calling me nicknames, I knew everything was all right. I have a pretty big mouth, so they hit on that and began calling me Gatemouth or Satchelmouth, and that Satchelmouth has stuck to me all my life, except that now it's been made into 'Satchmo' - 'Satchmo' Armstrong.

All My Life Armstrong Been Began
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Packing lunches and going over menus is a great way to make small changes in the way your kids eat.

Changes Eat Going Great
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Very early on in life, I decided the hell with it: material things weren't for me. Christmas would come, and other kids would have all these presents, and it wouldn't bother me a bit.

Bit Bother Christmas Come
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We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we’re too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.

Be dreaming Kids Having dreams Sophisticated
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I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me. That's what I told my kids.

Being Beneath Earth Every
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But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

Behavior Come Conception Far
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I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

Demands Disproportion Fault I Think
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