Happy Kid Quotes

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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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• 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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• The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

  Harry S. Truman

  Funny, Leadership, Witty

  Television interview by Edward R. Murrow, CBS, 27 May 1955

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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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

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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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• What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

  P. D. James

  Children, Parenting, Giving

  P. D. James (2011). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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• Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

  Sam Levenson

  Funny, Mothers Day, Hilarious

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• Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

  Lin Yutang

  Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting

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  Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  God, Hope, Children

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.14, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move.

  Magnus

  Moving, Kids, Two

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• Children make you want to start life over.

  Muhammad Ali

  Baby, Children, Silly

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• Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Children, Book

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• Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

  Dorothy Parker

  Wise, Kids, Lovely

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Collected poems: Not so deep as a well”

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• My mom said, "What I want is a happy kid, not a rich kid. That's what I root for." She saw how much joy I got from playing music, and those years were leaner than lean!

  Vince Gill

  Mom, Kids, Roots

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote poems.

  Billy Collins

  Character, Kids, Fake

  "Poet Billy Collins discusses humor, authenticity and ‘Aimless Love’". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2013.

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• I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.

  Al Pacino

  Baseball, Kids, Player

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Smooth sailing is what I hope for. No, I'm okay with no big ups, no big downs, it's all right. Just go full steam ahead, all things well and good, yeah. I mean as a family man, all you want is, as a dad, pure happiness for your kids, that's a universal parent thing. Yeah, that's it, that's my dream, happy kids.

  Johnny Depp

  Dream, Dad, Mean

  "Johnny Depp Interview, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid.

  William Levy

  Mother, Dad, Kids

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• I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

  Rick Springfield

  Kids, Years, Teenage Years

  "American TV Icon: Rick Springfield". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. December 27, 2007.

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• When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails I let it go off the rails.

  Stuart Rose

  Kids, Let It Go, Twenties

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• While I didn't have everything that I wanted, I was still a happy kid.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Kids, Wanted, Stills

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• I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

  Angelina Jolie

  Kids, Would Be, World

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• Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word and look, Swift and shallow as a brook. Be as cool and quick to go As a drop of April snow; Be as delicate and gay As a cherry flower in May. Lady, lady, never speak Of the tears that burn your cheek- She will never win him, whose Words had shown she feared to lose. Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

  Dorothy Parker

  Wise, Flower, Heart

  Dorothy Parker, “The Lady's Reward”

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• I seem to have come out of the womb with existential angst and wasn't a happy kid, so I've been on a lifelong search trying to discover how to live the best life possible. I committed my life to doing what I could to experience greater happiness, which ultimately led me to write a book on the subject called Happy for No Reason.

  Marci Shimoff

  Book, Writing, Kids

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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