Happy Kid Quotes

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

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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

Children make you want to start life over.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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