Quotes about kids

I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.

Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.

I'm happy to be at home with the kids, in my flannel pajamas; that's a treat.

There's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best.

We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my three-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.

I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

The world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately they talk to the heart.

Lovers are like kids they don’t stop until they get what they want.

I enjoyed the side bars with fun facts and notable sources for where to get more help. Merrin’s such a fun writer I’d love to see her invite kids into her kitchen for cooking classes. She’d be perfect in the classroom and would entice children to try new foods. It’s the adults that might need fooling.

Watch the littlest kids carefully the biggest messages for the grown-ups are hidden there!

As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job the retired pray for grandchildren.

What if the actual sin was that despite the fact of knowing how cruel and unfair this world is we still bring children to life?

I’m just happy to have experienced life to have had a beautiful son and to have loved.

Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.

We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wedding.

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.

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If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol that's part of society.

I'm not going to have a husband anyway," said Laura. "I'm going to live by myself in the garage.

Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out.

Patience is a virtue, just like parenting. We aren't born as parents, we learn how to be patent through our kids. From those lessons comes the wisdom to be patient!

The big guys who ran things didn't want you thinking or feeling. It slowed down production. They wanted you scared and working so you wouldn't bump up against the truth--life could be fun. Yup, they wanted you scared. They wanted you grim. They wanted you madly cranking out Barbie dolls or Post Toasties or Xerox, or they wanted you overworked and underpaid at teaching so you could at least feel smart, and they wanted you to keep having kids so you'd have to keep working at whatever job you were

In addition, when a neighborhood's crime victims are portrayed as victims-sympathetically and without blame, as humans rather than as statistics-people living in other parts of the city are more inclined to support social services for the area, which in turn can reduce the crime rate.

I hope each and everyone of you reach for the stars and land among the clouds. You have one life one body take care of it, own it. live it and love it. Live your life to the fullest without being reckless.

Making a beautiful, happy home is not about what we don't have or what we want to buy. It's all about what we do have, and how incredibly precious it all is. It's about how we spend the days we're given with this family of ours, and making the home we share a place our kids will love to describe to our grandchildren. It's about making our kids' memories delightful.

My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.

Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.

Don't be happy at me.

Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.

I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.

I think that time might be different for young people. The minutes longer, stronger, more vibrant.

Sometimes there were kids who were simply born to be thirty, or fifty, or seventy; I could see their unfinished teenaged faces overlaid with the transparencies of their aged selves and had to resist telling them so - that the maturity that wanted was going to happen, that someday they would look as completed as they felt, in their fleeting, truest moments.

It's hard, omigod remember? Being a kid.

Good boy" can be canceled out the next day by "bad boy." "You're a smart girl" by "What a stupid thing to do!" "Careful" by "Careless" . . . and so on.But you can't take away the time he shoveled the whole walkway even though his arms were tired and his toes were frozen. Or the time he made the baby laugh with his goofy faces when the babysitter couldn't get her to stop crying, or found his mom's reading glasses, or figured out how to make the alarm on the cell phone stop going off when no one e

When kids are unhappy, we don’t have to prop them up with frantic praise. It’s more helpful to say, "Ugh, you are not happy with the way that bicycle came out. It doesn't look like what you see in your head. It's not easy to draw a bike. It's hard to put something from real life onto a flat piece of paper and get it to look right.

Instead of, "Excellent work." Try, "I see you circled every single picture that begins with the letter B."Instead of, "Good job following directions."Try, "You found your spot in the circle as soon as you heard 'circle time.

Astrid had gone to look at the burn zone. Doing the right thing.Kids had yelled at her. Demanded to know why she had let it happen. Demanded to know where Sam was. Deluged her with complaints and worries and crazy theories until she had retreated.She’d hidden out after that. She’d refused to answer the door when kids knocked. She had not gone to her office. It would be the same there.But through the day it had eaten at her. This feeling of uselessness. A feeling of uselessness made so much worse

Mother Mary wants to draft two more kids,” Astrid told Sam.“Okay. Approved.”“Dahra says we’re running low on kids’ Tylenol and kids’ Advil, she wants to make sure it’s okay to start giving them split adult pills.”Sam spread his hands in a helpless gesture. “What?”“We’re running low on kid pills, Dahra wants to split adult pills.”Sam rocked back in the leather chair designed for a grown man. “Okay. Whatever. Approved.” He took a sip of water from a bottle. The wrapper on the bottle said “Dasani”

Yeah, let’s get John here. That way we can stall for a while longer. We can keep on doing nothing for just a little while longer.”Albert said, “Take it easy, Howard.”“Take it easy?” Howard jumped to his feet. “Yeah? Where were you last night, Albert? Huh? Because I didn’t see you out there on the street listening to kids screaming, seeing kids running around hurt and scared and choking, and Edilio and Orc struggling, and Dekka hacking up her lungs and Jack crying and…“You know who couldn’t even

It’s not easy to kill; it’s not supposed to be. If it is, then there’s something wrong with you. But sometimes good people have to do unpleasant things just so we can come home at night to our kids.

It was the world-without-adults daydream. In my dream I'd never quite figured out where the adults went but we kids were free to roam, to help ourselves to anything we wanted. We'd pick up a Merc from a showroom when we wanted wheels, and when it ran out of petrol we'd get another one. We'd change cars the way I change socks. We'd sleep in different mansions every night, going to new houses instead of putting new sheets on the beds. Life would be one long party.Yes, that had been the dream.

We're celebrating our freedom. We're celebrating our ability to be kids when everything is trying to take that away from us. It's a choice, Ty. We can do whatever we want.

You have been given a second chance to start your life over. You can't throw this opportunity away. If you do you will be a colossal fool. If you get the chance to do something and don't do it then you'll simply live with regret. That's a worse situation than trying something daring and maybe not succeeding. At least you tried. Isn't that what you want to show your kids?

I had my freedom, and I had my comfortable life, but I couldn't accept the fact that the politicians were making it increasingly difficult for my kids and millions of others to achieve their dreams as I had achieved mine. So, in 2012, I ran for president.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.

I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.

The Cool Kids are Chicago. Me being from Michigan is a part of that dynamic.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Kids are fat because of lack of parenting.

If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that's cool. But if they're not actually having social responsibility, and they're kind of hiding behind it, that's kind of useless, or even worse.

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

It's really hard to figure out what they need to know. And that's parenting, in general. It's hard to figure out what would benefit your kids and what would just make them needlessly frightened.

I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.

Both of my kids have my sense of humor - they're definitely entertaining.

I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I'm making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it's always for them.

To all the kids out there: Follow your dream. Believe in your dream. Because dreams do come true.

We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.

I'm a good dad I spend a lot of time with my kids.

Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.

I truly love Australia I miss Aussie kids and their attitude!

Many filmmakers portray teenagers as immoral and ignorant, with pursuits that are pretty base... But I haven't found that to be the case. I listen to kids. I respect them... Some of them are as bright as any of the adults I've met.

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

Restaurants are like kids. You hope you understand their innate gifts, and then you let them realize their aspirations.

We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.

I hope that I'll be able to have kids with a mate. But I don't know if that's in the plan.

Everything I achieve affects my family as well, and suddenly, my kids' dad became the most famous man in the country for a couple of weeks.

The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.

Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I'm going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

It's so important for kids to get involved with sports in general at a young age.

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports.

Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the mentality behind playing team sports and playing for one another and playing with friends.

My dad is the reason I actually started watching wrestling. My dad was never big into sports; we were all big into sports as kids, and he'd go to our Little League games or whatever and not really know what was going on, because he didn't know about sports, but he knew about wrestling.

I think that kids aren't even exploring the option of sports anymore, and they don't even know what they could do.

If you gave kids peas that didn't look like peas and said they were a space shuttle, they're much more apt to eat them because it's now playtime.

Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood computers.

Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.

Teach your kids by modeling what you claim to believe.

I can only be me.

Kids can be more creative and smarter if parents ddidn’t want them to be first & best.