#other kids

I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#bed #breakfast #family #go #hour

You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town. ↗

— George Saunders

#ascendant #becoming #cloth #dresses #especially

I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is. ↗

— Drew Bledsoe

#early #early age #fork #game #i

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#early #even #go #i #kids

When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking. ↗

— Cat Cora

#big #cooking #eating #family #food

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#back #because #bit #bothered #classroom

Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live there and they have to show their face in town, and their kids play with other kids. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#because #companies #costs #face #few

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge. ↗

— Bernie Taupin

#ancient #ancient rome #bridge #could #eleven

My son, he is the reason I got involved. It's been a joy to be around him and teach him the stuff that I know, and to the other kids as well. When he started playing I wanted to be involved in his hockey career. It's a lot of fun for both of us. ↗

— Mario Lemeiux

#been #both #career #fun #got

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics. ↗

— Robert Moog

#beat #built #each #electronics #i