Kids Quotes
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"I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage."
"I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair."
"I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves."
"The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children."
"The way I wrestle five-year-olds makes me think if I were ever attacked by a pack of midgets, I’d be OK."
"You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn eighteen. Some people grow up sooner, many grow up later. Some never really do. But just remember that some people in this world are older versions of those same kids we cry for."
"If your kid needs a role model and you ain't it, you're both fucked."
"When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them."
"Is your Happy Meal full of dancing? Put a box around it and sell it to kids. They could use the exercise."
"What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?"
"I asked if she wanted kids. She said her clock is ticking. I said, That’s because I set it five minutes ahead when you weren’t looking."
"Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God."
"I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal."
"After soul searching, I found myself. Then I found myself giving of myself to a charity that finds missing children. It's great to be found."
"Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect."
"Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place."
"Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!"
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
"In today's classroom everybody wins a trophy, even the one kid who actually won. Soon it will be, let's punish that kid for making the other kids feel like losers."
"There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about."
"when we were kidslaying around the lawnon ourbellieswe often talkedabouthowwe'd like todieandwe allagreed on thesamething;we'd alllike to diefucking(althoughnone of ushaddone anyfucking)and nowthatwe are hardlykidsany longerwe think moreabouthownot todieandalthoughwe'rereadymost ofuswouldprefer todo italoneunder thesheetsnowthatmost ofushave fuckedour livesaway."
"We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins."
"I want to have a bunch of kids so I can open a factory and have free labor. Beat that, China!"
"I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road."
"Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be."
"I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley."
"A child’s imaginary playmate just might actually be there."
"Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects. Be patient. Just as there are ugly ducklings that turn into beautiful swans, there are rebellious kids and slow learners that turn into serious innovators and hardcore intellectuals."
"Righteous judges, righteous judges!- (after Lou Engle's sermon)"
"Do you like kids?Only with barbecue sauce."
"Adults are just making things up as they go along. And when they’re scared, adults have no more answers than us kids"
"You have the power to make your dreams come true so reach for them and don't accept anything less."
"How many of us have lately taken the time out to look at the sky; marvel at the clouds; smell the flowers; or smelt the fresh scent of rain; bought a stranger a cup of tea or coffee; given our time to help another; or just taken time out to sit and watch people rush hither and tither; said "I love you"; smiled at a complete stranger; joined in with kids from the street to play a game?Sadly, I would have to say....not many.It's sad...."
"We use Halloween to scare the kids and bankers to scare the adults."
"Orfanages r fule of little misstakes, just like my Englich."
"Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness."
"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."
"To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell."
"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."
"The most important key to bettering yourself - is just that "yourself" - (g swiss)"
"Families are so beautiful. Wherever we may be, looking at kids and happy families make us feel like home."
"There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated."
"If we throw blankets over our children's dreams, we darken their world and extinguish their desire to live."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how not to be killed"
"For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human beings, because they—unlike all companies—have the means of reproduction."
"Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors."
"Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used as nothing but a conspicuous means to a secret end called the evasion of abortion."
"Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent."
"Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience."
"Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age."
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