Nolan Bushnell Quotes

As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.

All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.

I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.

McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.

I could never dream of being cool.

In my 30s, it wasn't cool to like Pauly Shore movies. It was cool to like them when they came out, then it wasn't cool.

I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.

It is often said that fathers can often find it hard to talk about their own feelings so there's no wonder they struggle to speak to their son or daughter about the topic.

There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.

Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most searing memory consists of an offhand comment in the car on the way to second grade that the parent cannot even dimly recall.

If you're a parent, the five worst words you can say to your children are, "When I was your age ..." You were never their age. You were older in the womb.

When I started wearing makeup, my parents..... were like, 'You're absolutely not wearing it out of the house.' At first, I thought they were not happy with me wearing it, but later on, I realized it was out of fear of me getting bullied and ridiculed in school.

Other players do not rib me for being the coach's son. They rib me more for living at home with my mum and dad.

I am the youngest of three boys, and I was super-informed by what the older ones were into.

You don't realise how cool your culture is until you get out of that phase of trying to fit in.

Now that I'm a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.

Even if your parents don't have Alzheimer's or aren't in a wheelchair, your parents get old - if you're lucky to have parents who live for a long time. It's a challenge, and it's difficult and lovely and touching and awful and ghastly and real.

Different cultures produce a different 'cool.' And your perception of 'cool' changes depending on where you are.

Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.

The Clique: The only thing harder then getting in is staying in.

Parenthood is an amazing opportunity to be able to ruin someone from scratch.

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.

The first boy was always the hardest.