Children Quote by Glenn Beck

We are raising a generation of kids where everyone gets a trophy. But in real life, everyone don't get a trophy.

— Killer Mike

My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the Nobel committee…

— Leon M. Lederman

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a…

— Willard Libby

“What has become of the world, when children are looked upon by their parents as trophies to be won?”

— Donald Allen Kirch

What is the point of competing for a trophy if everyone gets a trophy?

— Glenn Beck

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a…

— Joshua Waitzkin

“Participation awards are for children and a leader should never accept one.”

— Donavan Nelson Butler

Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal that says…

— Anthony Browne

If you are teaching your child to be content with a participation award, then you already failed at life.

— Tommaso Ciampa

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

— Herbert Simon

I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases.

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell