Children Quotes · Page 110

Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful.

— Charles Osgood

“Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“As common as unplanned sex. As uncommon as a planned child.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

— Dinah Sheridan

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

— Georg Buchner

Children must master the language of things before they master the language of words.

— Friedrich Frobel

“Behind me on the road through the wasteland lies the corpse of an imprisoned child.”

— James Broughton

We must demand that blacks work, stop making babies out of wedlock, and raise their children.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get…

— Norton Juster

I've got a three-year-old daughter. To picture her being a dancer, I'd absolutely love that. I'm in absolute awe of what they…

— Kelvin Fletcher

I respect the Kennedy family. I respect their service. They do a tremendous amount of good. You don't blame the children for…

— Bernard Goldberg

I'm a real mellow guy, for the most part - yeah, no, not with Kobe. By far my favorite player of all…

— Spencer Dinwiddie

It's also a terrible kind of sentiment [ reality TV] for children and for people. It makes people feel like they all…

— Chelsea Handler

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends…

— Cecelia Ahern

“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time…

— Anonymous

I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending…

— David Swanson

“I am reminded that the children we birth do not belong to us. They belong to God. We are simply the vessel…

— Nancy B. Brewer

So long as we insist upon defining our identities only in terms of our work, so long as we try to blind…

— Danielle Crittenden

My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in…

— Natalie Babbitt

“Violence especially against women and children is a abomination that must cease and desist! Humanity will never find world peace as long…

— Timothy Pina

Though not a remarkably precocious child in other respects, she seemed to have very clear and correct views on almost every subject…

— Martha Finley

“I was almost seventeen when the spell of my childhood was broken. There was no sudden jolt, no immediate awakening and no…

— Judith Kinghorn

Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.

— Gretchen Wilson

The eyes of childhood are magnifying lenses.

— Edward Teller

Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there.

— Thom Yorke

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.

— Andrei Voznesensky

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.

— Jane Austen

Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.

— Jacqueline Carey

I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

— George Bernard Shaw

With my charity Big Dreams For Kids, I believe the more you give, the more you receive.

— Flo Rida

Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.

— Naomie Harris

Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance.

— Stephen D. Krashen

You learn that, when your children are all right, everything is right in the world.

— Anonymous

Children should be allowed to be children and not be sold.

— Sandra Bullock

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

— Walter Scott

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

— Herbert Hoover

Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.

— George Orwell