Top 1200 Books For Kids Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

You are going to be what you put in your body, so I try to teach that to my kids, and the kids around me.

Kids can and are a blessing. But plenty of people without kids live and die just as happy.

Kids experience hormonal changes from birth, I'm trying to be as woke as I can with my kids.

Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.

I never helped my kids. I was working too hard. My kids had to be responsible for themselves.

My kids motivate me to keep moving forward. My kids are my everything.

Kids do better, frankly [when the economy is strong]. Jobs make great years for kids.

Unless you have kids, you actually have no idea what kids are watching on TV these days.

The kids that are making the ghetto stuff I can't even reach are the ones that are inspiring me to play music for the other kids in the city they don't even know about. If I don't get those kids making music, there won't be an original kid DJing like me in five to 10 years.

I went to a high school that didn't have many people in it. There were, like, 60 people in my senior class. There was a group of cool kids and a group of really dorky kids, and I was probably the coolest of the really dorky kids.

Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.

My kids are nothing like I remember black kids being when I was a kid.

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.

The ability to talk to kids and reach kids is a gift I've been given, and I may as well use it.

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

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

I was educated in a deeply kind of un-politically-correct way. I went to St. John's College which is this kind of Great Books school which is equally popular with hardcore conservatives who want their kids to read the Great White Men canon and sort of free-thinking liberals like my parents.

I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.

While other kids were into New Kids on the Block, I was into Harold Lloyd and Stan Laurel.

In a perfect world, I'd like to start running comics for kids - by kids.

Tokyo is unbelievable. They have loads for kids, and the range of activities they can propose for young kids is incredible.

Aside from accidentally by my kids, like wrestling around with my kids, no one has ever punched me in the face.

Dealing with kids, you're always going to have to deal with something. I mean, they're kids.

I don't have kids. That's why I leave it in the dumper or in the mouth, because I hate kids.

We are teaching kids to fail. We need to teach our kids to succeed.

Kids - black kids - are forced to grow up too soon.

A lot of preachers' kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

I'm so grateful for St. Jude. It's warm and welcoming and magical, and kids can be kids.

If kids really made all the parents better, there wouldn't be crazy kids in the world.

I'm too young to have kids, but I really want to be a mom. I don't know if it's a Latin thing, but I love kids.

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.

It's time for fathers to war for their kids more than the culture wars for your kids.

You don't need Little League. You don't even need nine kids. Four is plenty-a pitcher, a batter, and a couple of shaggers. You can play ball all day long. My kids used to try to get me out there, but I'd just say, "Go play with your brothers." If kids want to do something, they'll do it. They don't need adults to do it for them.

The kids competed for a full 32 minutes. We want the kids to compete on every possession.

It's relatively easy to adopt kids if you're not trying to get kids that look exactly like you.

I am just trying to live for my kids. It is all about my kids now. I love them endlessly.

It's the bullies who are afraid, are the ones that do all the fighting. It's not the secure kids that get out there and fight. It's the insecure kids.

I think it's important that we as athletes do whatever we can to help kids, primarily helping kids of color.

I want my kids to understand that when family needs something, I'm there. And, on a different note, all three of my kids are adopted.

I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It's exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.

When it comes to the video channels and the programs, the radio stations, the music is geared towards kids, and it's made by kids.

When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.

I have always been good with kids, as I used to teach drama to kids.

Have kids; have a lot of kids. Start early and keep having them.

I used to beat up kids and bite kids and do stuff all the time.

I have a squash casserole that everybody, even my kids, love. I won't tell my kids how to make it.

I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, 'If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we'll talk.' All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket.

When parents have college savings accounts for their kids, their kids show higher social and cognitive performance.

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

The best you can do is set your kids on the right track; staying on it without falling is up to the kids.

I think kids in Europe have developed a deeper knowledge of music and of black music in particular. You go to Europe, and these kids know about all this obscure funk and soul that kids over here wouldn't know. I think it's getting better in the States, though, with the age of the Internet.

My kids used to see me crying and depressed all the time, and that can affect kids as well.

My kids still think that, you know, other kids' parents are cooler than I am.

A lot of people say when you have kids, you slow down. I want my kids to see me race.

I put it on myself to be a role model for all Australian kids, especially indigenous kids.

I do think kids should be kids. You have the rest of your life to be an adult.

In Italy, there's the need to help our kids have kids, not to have new slaves to replace the children we're not having.

I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.

I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.