Good Quotes

The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.

~ Virginia Postrel

My guess is that good and bad parenting is spread fairly evenly across different social groups. But can you imagine Tony Blair lecturing the middle class on how to bring up their children? He is far more comfortable as a latter-day exponent of the Poor Law mentality.

~ Martin Jacques

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

~ Robert Winston

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

~ Rita Rudner

I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.

~ Matthew Perry

I think there are many ways to raise great kids. From what I can tell, Ayelet Waldman's kids are interesting, strong, and happy, and if that's the case, that's good parenting.

~ Amy Chua

I don't think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I'm pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.

~ W. Bruce Cameron

My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.

~ Dawn French

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

~ Roberto Benigni

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

~ Anthony Edwards

Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

~ Mel Carnahan

It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.

~ Brendon Urie

Good words cool more than cold water.

~ John Ray

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

~ Marc Newson

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

~ Prince

I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I'm a strong person and a strong individual. And that's what I take with me every day.

~ Johnny Weir

I think you have to be cool to be a good flirt, and I don't think I'm very cool.

~ Harry Styles

I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

~ Janet Jackson

Sometimes it's okay to give yourself a pat on the back and say, 'That was cool. That made me feel good.'

~ Sebastian Stan

I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy.

~ Hugh Jackman

I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do a film in German. I'm not quite fluent, but I can get there. And my accent's pretty good. I wouldn't feel too out of my element.

~ Kirsten Dunst

I love to hear a cool ambient sound at runway shows. It creates a good energy.

~ Theophilus London

When I have a good pair of shoes, I wear them over and over. Whether it's nice sneakers or a cool pair of combat boots, splurge on a pair you love that you can wear over and over with totally different outfits.

~ Bethany Mota

When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.

~ Aaron Neville

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

~ Bill Gates

If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.

~ Adam Garcia

We found out the Gemini spacesuit was, well, oxygen was flowing to keep me cool as well as to breathe, and it wasn't good enough. My visor got fogged.

~ Eugene Cernan

You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh.

~ Eric Stoltz

It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?

~ Zac Hanson

I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it.

~ Robert Downey

I think the whole thing, boy band, it's a little bit of a dirty word. They say it's not a good thing to be in a boy band. We want to change that. We want to make the boy band cool. It's not just about dancing and dressing the same.

~ Liam Payne

I always say, 'If it looks good on a T-shirt, it would probably be a pretty cool title or cool song.'

~ Cole Swindell

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do.

~ Elon Musk

I won't do things for money. I can't. So I'll hold out and say, in my mind, 'There's a really cool diner down the street from my house. They make really good pancakes; I'd be happy doing that.'

~ Brie Larson

I've always believed in good music over bad music. I believe in two sorts of musics. And the lines that separate us, I don't believe in that. That's for people who need to easily define what they're hearing. Me, I'm cool with everything and anything I'm hearing that's music. It comes under one definition for me.

~ Jay-Z

That's how I grew up - it wasn't cool to not have a good system.

~ Jimmy Iovine

Seeing young people caring about sound again and realizing that it's not cool to not have good sound, that means a lot.

~ Jimmy Iovine

My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that.

~ Ziggy Marley

A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.

~ Nancy Gibbs

A guy's biggest style mistake is definitely trying to look too cool. As long as you've got a good pair of jeans, a good pair of boots and a few good shirts, you're fine.

~ Luke Evans