Kids Quotes

• The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

  Fred Astaire

  Inspirational, Jobs, Athlete

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

  Adam Sandler

  Growing Up, Thinking, Mind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know, but I think kids just want to be listened to, so I want to make sure I do that.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Thinking, Want, Knows

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• I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspiring, Funny Inspirational, Children

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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  Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

  Benjamin Spock

  Positive, Family, Trust

  The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

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  Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

  Robert Fulghum

  Marriage, Mother, Children

  "Reflections for Tending the Sacred Garden". Book by Bonita Jean Zimmer (p. 182), April 2003.

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• Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.83, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Your children need your presence more than your presents.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspirational, Birthday, Family

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

  Dorothy Nolte

  Children, Parenting, Criticism

  "Children Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Values". Book by Dorothy Nolte and Rachel Harris, January 5, 1998.

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

  Frederick Douglass

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.

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• That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Children, Growing Up

  "Walt Disney World: Then, Now, & Forever". Book by Jeff Kurtti, October 7, 2008.

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• The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Preparation

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• If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

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• Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.

  Glennon Melton

  Children, Inspiration, Parenting

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• Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

  James A. Baldwin

  Family, Education, Wisdom

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"

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• My boy is a mean kid. I came home the other day and saw him taping worms to the sidewalk, he sits there and watches the birds get hernias. Well, only last Christmas I gave him a B-B gun and he gave me a sweatshirt with a bulls-eye on the back. I told my kids, "Someday, you'll have kids of your own." One of them said, "So will you."

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Home, Mean, Eye

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• Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.

  Henry Rollins

  Support, Parent, Needs

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• All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

  Michio Kaku

  Children, Deep Thought, Society

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• Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Children, Believe, Parenting

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• You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Patience, Baby, Funny Inspirational

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• Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

  Tim Allen

  Friendship, Teamwork, Mom

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Family, Inspiring, Children

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• If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

  Haim Ginott

  Children, Nice, Self Esteem

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• Be somebody for your kids to look up to.

  Webbie

  Looks, Look Up

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• And it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Children, God Love

  "The Old Curiosity Shop".

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