Top 1200 Raising Kids Quotes & Sayings

Running a ball club is like raising kids who fall out of trees.

Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.

If you want to be an architect of change by raising great kids, God bless. If you want to do it by raising money for your kid's school, great. If you want to build a garden - whatever it is. Women like myself - they're complicated, and they have a lot of different interests and qualities within them.

One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

I’m not raising my kids to survive the world. I’m raising them to change it.

The toughest thing about raising kids is convincing them that you have seniority.

It's also important, particularly for privileged kids, to involve them in charitable activities. It's a way of raising consciousness for your kids so they don't get totally sucked into the materialism and celebrity culture.

We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.

The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

We never knew we'd have kids playing pro football or going to Super Bowls. That wasn't ever a part of our plan in raising kids, so we really feel blessed.

We can all admit this - women do it better when it comes to planning and shot calling, running households, raising kids.

As a mom raising two kids on my own, my life requires a certain kind of constant juggling that is hard to keep on track.

I try to be really conscious. I don't want to ever look back and regret not raising my kids and not being around.

Liberalism is probably the root of most of the problems they face in life, including raising their kids, including educating their kids, practically every walk of life, because everything today's political.

More than we care about their "success," vocation, or financial status, our hearts will be encouraged when our kids are faithful followers of Christ, and our hearts will be distressed when our kids appear to reject the Christian faith. So, the most important thing is transferring our kids' allegiance from us to Christ, raising faithful disciples who seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.

Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.

My mom is the most amazing woman ever. She grew up a single mom raising five kids, and she's always told me to follow my dreams. One thing I've learned about her is she sacrificed her whole life for me to focus on my dream, and I cannot wait to do that for my kids.

I think old school TV shows helped in raising your kids and helped in the way things should be done. Now you just see kids disrespecting their parents, you see kids cursing and all kind of things that shouldn't be done.

I didn't always handle the stress of raising my kids on little money well.

It’s funny – my married friends tell me all the time, 'What you have is so much easier.' When you’re doing it on your own, you don't have to [argue over] how you're raising the kids.

The kids get a vote. That's very important when it comes to raising kids. And always keep the bigger picture in mind.

I think I'm much more afraid of making a mistake in raising my daughters than I would be with any work that I do, as an actor. It's a much higher scale of fear, raising kids.

There has been, for some reason (or more likely an unfortunate accumulation of reasons) a trend over the past several decades for parents to do the work of parenting in the isolation of their own homes - and not only that, this trend has overlapped with the other trend of much deeper parent involvement in raising kids. That you also represent trend No. 3, more people raising kids solo, has only exacerbated a close-to-no-win situation.

I know some African-Americans, they happen to be conservative, they're successful. They, of course, have raised their kids, and kids can't escape in school the history of slavery and all of the horrible things that happened in the past. But they weren't raised that way, and they are not raising their kids to be imprisoned by that. They're raising them to be the best they can be today, to take advantage of the opportunity that exists today.

When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble.

Some men dont want to be responsible fathers. Its easier to say Lets just turn the kids over to the state. Women end up bearing the entire load, raising kids alone without a husband to share the parenting.

Some men don't want to be responsible fathers. It's easier to say 'Let's just turn the kids over to the state.' Women end up bearing the entire load, raising kids alone without a husband to share the parenting.

I have no issue with raising minimum wage, but then the customer can't say to us, 'Why are you raising your prices?'

Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't.

Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work most people will do, not everyone is cut out for parenthood. And, as many a childless teacher has proved, raising kids is not the only important contribution a person can make to their future.

...make dads the godly leaders [of the family] with the women in submission, raising kids for the glory of God.

I have made a lot of mistakes raising the four Jenner kids.

I'm raising kids who are going to scrutinize people inside and out.

I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone.

If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much.

The new upper class devotes incredible amounts of effort to raising their kids but that also includes incredible amounts of effort in getting their kids into the right preschool in some elite communities which I think is going a little bit too far.

I'm raising three children. I'm teaching my kids what it means, the Golden Rule, to treat people like you want to be treated.

Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks.

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

Don’t get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother’s responsibility. It’s a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope.

As far as I'm concerned, raising the bar or encouraging kids in large numbers to be interested in science, I can't think of anything I'd rather see happen.

Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.

Teaching is a truly noble profession. It's sad the amount of responsibility that teachers have today. They're not only teaching kids: they're raising kids, policing kids - and they don't make a lot of money.

My two boys were the same ages as the kids in the show. In real life or in between the breaks I was raising two kids off camera who were not unlike the two kids who were being paid to be my kids.

Raising kids these days is hard. I'm the second to last child in my family. I think it's tough; I have two kids, I see them and I feel like I see things in them; they awaken the inner child in you.

Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little.

We accept the need to train extensively to fly a plane; but think instinct should be enough for marrying and raising kids.

You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.

One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school.

I get so much out of being married and raising my kids - that's really important to me.

My daily life is mostly spent with my three kids and raising them.

I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.

We live in a very modern age and the dynamic of raising kids and being a professional are intersecting a lot more - especially for women.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you're in, you're gonna worry about raising kids. But it's champagne problems, too. There are people who can't feed their kids.

Some of these kids are spending more time with the coaches than they are with their parents. The coach is supposed to be raising these kids, not belittling them and talking to them like the world is coming to an end.

Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work.

My biggest goal in life will be achieved when I have a family, when I have my own kids that I can raise myself and bring up based on what I know. I always think it's the wildest idea - raising a whole, entire human is insane to me, and I've always wanted kids.

My kids see feminism in action every day, and leading by imperfect example is how I'm raising them.