Quotes of: American-kids Keyword

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.

Ralph Bakshi

I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.

Harlan Coben

In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it's the parents who need to be taught a ...

Amy Chua

Teachers who complain 'These kids have no work ethic' couldn't be farther off the mark. The problem is not that these kids lack a work ethic; the problem is that some of them see no connection between a work ethic and school. None of them would think...

Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher

Patton: Men, all this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admir...

Patton

As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.

Dennis Farina

Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.

Toni Braxton

This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.

Jennifer Granholm

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying.

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

I want to have and adopt. I always have; ever since I was 18, I wanted a baby, and I wanted to have and adopt because there are a lot of kids. I want to adopt an American baby though, you know what I mean, no offense. Just because there are so many k...

Queen Latifah

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of ...

Joel Kinnaman

At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I...

Pat Gillick

After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers' Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the...

Bill Dedman

When I ask French parents what they most want for their children, they say things like "to feel comfortable in their own skin" and "to find their path in the world." They want their kids to develop their own tastes and opinions. In fact, French paren...

Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.

Being Japanese American: A JA Sourcebook for Nikkei, Hapa . . . and Their Friends

Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a ...

Barry Sanders

When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was a lot of patriotism in the comics. They were called things like 'All-American Comics' or 'Star-Spangled Comics' or things like that. I decided to do ...

Harvey Pekar

I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?

Rachel Griffiths

I'm not a salsa singer who wants to sing in English, and I'm not this American kid who wants to sing Spanish.

Marc Anthony

'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

Rob Sheffield

I'd love them to have adorable little American accents, but I do want to bring my kids up in Australia; it's such a good lifestyle.

Margot Robbie