• Categories
  • Kids Quotes   200
  • [A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the last time this Congress raised the minimum wage, 19 states have chosen to bump theirs even higher. Tonight, let's declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Kids Quotes , Two Quotes
  • We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Creativity Quotes , Kids Quotes
  • It may be something that future generations are more open to, but I am pretty confident that for the foreseeable future, using the argument of nondiscrimination, and "Let's get it right for the kids who are here right now," and giving them the best chance possible, is going to be a more persuasive argument.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Kids Quotes , Giving Quotes
  • I became a writer through drawing first and then a comic book obsession - Marvel Comics, in particular. I invented a world of superheroes starting in third grade with my classmate, Wai-Kwan Wong. In a classroom of forty kids, let's just say there was a lot of undirected time. But this was good because I was a dreamy boy.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Ross Quotes , Book Quotes , Kids Quotes
  • As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Weed Quotes , Kids Quotes
  • When you live from freelance check to freelance check, your mind is always on "What's the next piece I'm going to write, or draw, that'll pay this month's rent?" And so going out to play ball with my kids was a low priority.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Al Jaffee Quotes , Writing Quotes , Kids Quotes
  • If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is to make sure that the society as a whole does right by people who are poor, are working class, are aspiring to a better life for their kids.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Kids Quotes , Class Quotes
  • If you can look back and say, "The economy's better. Our security's better. The environment's better. Our kids' education is better," if you can say that you've made things better, then considering all the challenges out there, you should feel good. But I'm the first to acknowledge that I did not crack the code in terms of reducing this partisan fever.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Kids Quotes , Feel Good Quotes
  • Basically, I am a night owl. My wife is an early bird, so she goes to bed around 9:30, and my kids are in bed about 8. So, if I am home, I will usually start writing about 9:30 and go till about 12:30 or 1:30, depending on what my energy level is.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Kids Quotes , Home Quotes