Raising Good Kids Quotes

#1. My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family.

Jeff Foxworthy

#2. In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.

Nicanor Parra

#3. A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

Chanakya

#4. You want to know the secret to raising good kids?"
"What's that? asked Thomas.
"High expectations."
Thomas laughed. "Alright, well what's the secret to a happy marriage?"
Clyde smiled back, but his face started to fall, and he chose his words carefully. " ... Low expectations.

Chris Nicolaisen

#5. A 'good' father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a 'good' father who is also a 'brave' father will let the children without cultivate the child within.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.

Michael Phelps

#7. In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

Wilson Mizner

#8. I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.

Tori Amos

#9. The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do well. Your job as parent is to bring out this quality and cherish it until the day your kids leave home, and then some.

Marlene Targ Brill

#10. Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.

William Damon

#11. A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.

Julianna Margulies

#12. I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

Otis Rush

#13. Diary of a Brave Ender Dragon The

Roger Rice

#14. I didn't raise you I be good and weak. I raised you to be powerful and happy.

Shannon Hale

#15. Will turned around slowly, wiping blood from his face.
"You're glaring at me," he said to Magnus. "You look like Church before he bites someone.

Cassandra Clare

#16. As an actress, I'm constantly watching different shows and films and am always gathering information and inspiration for characters and techniques to make my performances the best they can be.

Rachel G. Fox

#17. Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can.

Kelli Williams

#18. Some Albanians who have worn a veil say it creates a kind of freedom by giving them anonymity and symbolic invulnerability when outside the home.

Antonia Young

#19. Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.

Heraclitus

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

Glennon Melton

#21. We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy.

Jeffrey Sachs

#22. Youth, youth- something savage- something pedantic. For example there is Mr. Masefield, there is Mr. Bennett. Stuff them into the flame of Marlowe and burn them to cinders. Let not a shred remain. Don't palter with the second rate. Detest your own age. Build a better one.

Virginia Woolf

#23. It's a question of discipline ... When you finish washing and dressing each morning, you must carefully wash and dress your planet.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#24. The women of this family leaned towards extremes.

Jane Urquhart

#25. I think of kids. It makes me feel selfish, to be so wary of having a family. Never mind do I have a job or not. I'll have a job soon, a good one. That's not it. I'm in awe of raising, basically, someone so tiny and soft.

Don DeLillo