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.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

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

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

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.

I don’t teach kids to be number 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be number 1; that’s not it. You don’t have to be number 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That’s all you can do, anyway.

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.

No kid should be getting three or four hours of homework a night. There’s no breathing time, there’s no family time, there are just extracurriculars and homework and then go to bed.

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 was over self-medicating back when I was a kid and didn’t know it.

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.

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.

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.

Kids do say the darndest things

If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

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

I don’t want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don’t even know if I could handle a dog right now. I’m so not ready. Someday I’ll be a mom but not until I’m in my 30s.

The Christmas season reminds us that a demonstration of religion is always much better than a definition of it…especially in front of the kids.Perhaps the best Yuletide decorations are to be wreathed in smiles and wrapped in hugs.The miracle of Christmas is that a baby can be so decisive.It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty founder was a child himself.

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.

My daughter Meredith Moon from my second wife has a band that does Appalachian music, with five-strong banjo, clawhammer style. I may have to direct her somewhere. Meredith was my middle name. I would have to direct her because I am always directing something. She’s in the musician’s union and she is only 21. Your kids surprise you.

I didn’t want to teach my kid how to read, so I used to read to him at night and close the book at the most interesting part. He said, What happened then, daddy? I said, If you learn to read, you can find out. I’m too tired to read. I’ll read to you tomorrow. So, he had a need to want to learn how to read. Don’t teach children how to read. Don’t teach them mathematics. Give them a reason to want it. In school, they’re working ass-backwards.

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.

[Kids] don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

We are lending money we don’t have to kids who can’t pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That’s nuts.

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.