Browsing Topic Best Kids Quotes

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

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

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Don’t let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.

In fairness, you know, I’m a big believer in if your kid makes noise in the restaurant you should remove the child immediately.

There’s so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I’ve got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father – and how come that’s not as newsworthy?

When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.

The number of people who have either gotten married or had kids or started dating or just made great friends over Instagram is countless. I think we’re the only platform that continues to be successful in bringing people together in real life for these real relationships.

I’ve got kids and that’s important. It’s funny, you think that there’s an expiration date on them and there just isn’t.

We have a lot of kids who don’t know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.

I abhor ‘baby talk.’ I speak to kids like I would any other person, and they seem to respond to it.

I don’t care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what’s not right is from experience.

I see myself as mom first. I’m so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart around me and at least I wake up with my kids and I’m happy.

My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.

Actions speak louder than words, and it’s no more true than with your kids.

I felt bad for that world that we have given a generation of kids.

If we expect kids to be losers they will be losers; if we expect them to be winners they will be winners. They rise, or fall, to the level of the expectations of those around them, especially their parents and their teachers.

When NASA dreams big America dreams big. People…kids say, ‘I want to do that when I grow up’. Because you want to do what’s visible to you.

When there’s a good fit between skills and expectations, there’s what we call compatibility, and we would expect a good outcome. When there’s a poor fit between expectations and the capacity of the kid, there is incompatibility, and that’s when we see people exhibit challenging behavior.

You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

I’m an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

I would like black kids to be completely empowered, to know that they are beautiful in their blackness, but in order to do that, I don’t have to make white kids feel bad for being white. So somehow, this is a conversation that has gone in the wrong direction.

I am going to do my best to try to create a country in which children are not living in poverty, in which kids can go to college, in which old people have health care. Will I succeed? I can’t guarantee you that, but I can tell you that from a human point of view it is better to show up than to give up.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in which over 50% of young African American kids are unemployed. It is estimated that a black baby born today has a one in four chance of ending up in the criminal justice system.

The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.

How do we say, why do you keep voting for people who are giving more tax breaks to billionaires, who are going to send your jobs abroad, not going to let you form a union, not going to allow your kids to go to college? Why do you keep voting for these guys?

Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house, we have books, we go to plays, we talk. Our focus is art and painting and dress-up and singing. It’s what we love. So I think you can see how artists in some way raise other artists.

I’m always satisfied with going to soup kitchens or homeless shelters. A big one for me is children’s hospitals. I love spending time with kids, rooting for them, making them laugh. Any small act of kindness is just as important as a donation. So volunteer. Go out there and see how you can make a difference and help someone.

It doesn’t take courage to drink too much and be wild or jump around. That doesn’t take any kind of boldness, just riding a motorcycle or whatever the idea of being tough is. Tough is having four kids. Tough is committing to life and being disciplined.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.