Top 40 Quotes About Kids (2024 Update)

1. “Kid, you’ll move mountains.”

— Dr. Seuss

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2. “Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.”

— Barack Obama

3. “Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.”

— Fred Rogers

4. “For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Also featured in: Knowledge Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

5. “In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with the child. Somebody’s got to be crazy about that kid. That’s number one. First, last and always.”

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

Also featured in: Crazy Quotes

6. “Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.”

— Ezra Taft Benson

Also featured in: Communication Quotes, Humility Quotes

7. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes

8. “Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Also featured in: Book Quotes

9. “Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”

— Henry David Thoreau

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10. “Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don’t know how lucky you are.”

— Rick Riordan

11. “I realize that I’m black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and that’s everybody’s wish. I try to be a role model for black kids, white kids, yellow kids, green kids. This is what I felt was good about my personality.”

— Michael Jordan

12. “Maybe I’m just a kid in love.”

— Shawn Mendes

13. “It all begins with forgiveness, because to heal the world, we first have to heal ourselves. And to heal the kids, we first have to heal the child within, each and every one of us.”

— Michael Jackson

Also featured in: Quotes About Children

14. “To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games. Nothing like saving the world.”

— Elon Musk

15. “Kid, if You Need Booze or Drugs to Enjoy Your Life to the Fullest, You’re Doing It Wrong.”

— Robin Williams

16. “I’d love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change. And that’s the way it is.”

— Tupac Shakur

17. “You’re not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It’s simple. It’s your right.”

— Haruki Murakami

18. “Sales people should take lessons from their kids. What does the word ‘no’ mean to a child? Almost nothing.”

— Jim Rohn

19. “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”

— Anne Frank

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20. “It’s all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.”

— Michael Douglas

21. “When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids.”

— John Lennon

22. “I’m a little fatigued of adults saying we’ve got to worry about the kids. And these are the same adults that don’t know science and are running things and wielding resources and legislation.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

23. “I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better.”

— Yogi Berra

24. “I’m a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I’m just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.”

— Andrew Stanton

25. “We’ve got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage... You’ve got to take enough time to get kids deeply involved in something so they can think about it in lots of different ways and apply it.”

— Howard Gardner

Also featured in: School Quotes

26. “There was Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, an aloof superstar who had everything and needed no one. And Michael Jackson, the shy kid under the mask, who lacked even a single real friend.”

— Michael Jackson

Also featured in: Real Quotes

27. “Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids.”

— Clint Eastwood

28. “Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it’s all good.”

— Kobe Bryant

29. “Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.”

— Stephen King

30. “Sport for me is about inspiring kids. Here’s the rules, here’s the play area, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. This is all about teaching kids how to approach life. If we’re not playing sport to benefit kids, I’m not really sure why we play sport.”

— Russell Crowe

31. “The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he’s a criminal instead of a scholar. It’s business.”

— Henry Rollins

32. “Got a wife and kid in Baltimore Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back. Like a river that don’t know where it’s flowing, I took a wrong turn and I just kept going.”

— Bruce Springsteen

33. “If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.”

— James Cromwell

Also featured in: Quotes About Veganism

34. “I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.”

— Bernard Manning

Also featured in: Christmas Quotes

35. “When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.”

— Dolly Parton

36. “I’m doing this for the kid who truly leads a ‘thug life’ and thinks it’s HOPELESS.”

— Tupac Shakur

37. “You’ve always got to remember, rock and roll’s never been about giving up. For me, for a lot of kids, it was a totally positive force... not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never – never – a bout surrender.”

— Bruce Springsteen

38. “You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse’s ass – Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

39. “I’m trying not to be a kid all the time, but it’s hard.”

— Jaromir Jagr

40. “Usually the kids are portrayed as very one-dimensional. Like these mindless animals that just have three things on their minds: getting laid, getting drunk, and driving real fast over Mulholland Drive.”

— Molly Ringwald