Best Kids Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Where it gets clear for me about the privacy issue is with my kids because they didn’t choose this kind of life. I’m an incredibly open person, though – I’ll tell anyone anything.

This is the thing you dream about when you’re a kid, even before getting into the league.

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life’s A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you’ll move mountains.

Kids are without a doubt the most suspicious diners in the world. They will eat mud (raw or baked) rocks, paste, crayons, ball-point pens, moving goldfish, cigarette butts, and cat food. Try to coax a little beef stew into their mouths and they look at you like a puppy when you stand over him with the Sunday paper rolled up.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

The longer I live, the more I’m convinced the world is just one big high school, with the cool kids always targeting the uncool.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.

Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

If you put out 150 percent, then you can always expect 100 percent back. That’s what I was always told as a kid, and It’s worked for me so far!

I benefited from tremendous encouragement as a kid. So many people reached out to me, helped me, and believed in me even when I didn’t always believe in myself.

Sometimes guys just want the girl and want to drop the kids off anywhere they can. Guys it;s a package. You like a woman, she’s got kids, it’s a package. You can’t just go in one-sided. It’s pretty cool.

Honestly, I’d prefer to live with gay guys. They’re the cleanest, and they just take care of stuff. Because I’m always away, coming home to a clean house means a lot to me. Trust me, I’ve lived with a lot of roommates, and straight guys are just kids who don’t pick up after themselves.

Maybe we can change some kid’s life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer.

If you’re a kid who was not especially a star in your high school, I recommend going to a college in the middle of nowhere. I got all the attention I could ever have wanted.

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.

God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn’t that funny?