Children Quotes · Page 120

The purest and ever lasting love is mothers love to her childrens.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

“as a child there was either books or pain. i chose books. -how i became a writer”

— Nayyirah Waheed

“Fear gripped me as my children and I arrived at the Ukraine-Moldova border crossing.”

— Kim De Blecourt

Kids - black kids - are forced to grow up too soon.

— Russell Hornsby

Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.

— Elie Wiesel

Perhaps that is what it means to be a father-to teach your child to live without you.

— Nicole Krauss

My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.

— W. P. Kinsella

The difference between a child's toy and an adult toy is: location, location, location.

— Demetri Martin

“This world is not a playground where children at play are pampered by friendly nannies.”

— Wendelin Wiedeking

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who…

— Pablo Neruda

Parents of all income levels deserve options for child care while they work so they can be free of the worry that…

— Stephanie Land

The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

— Erik Erikson

As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.

— Allen Toussaint

I always joke that they're all like my children, so I love them all, but I would be lying if I didn't…

— Diane Nelson

“I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old.”

— Mimsy Sadofsky

“Poorer children grow up with more stress and more disruption, and these disadvantages produce effects on the brain. Researchers often use dull…

— David Brooks

I don't see how a woman in documentary photography could have children. I think it's a very difficult thing to do to…

— Mary Ellen Mark

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could…

— Vivienne Westwood

I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has…

— Frances Harper

All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to…

— Diane Setterfield

“AUGUST 12 • Everyone suddenly burst out singing. — Siegfried Sassoon The child within us wants to come out and play. The…

— Anonymous

Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear…

— Anonymous

“Isaiah 1:16–17 says, “Stop doing wrong, learn to do right!” To learn how to keep my cart from ending up in the…

— Beth Moore

The daughter of a good mother will be the mother of a good daughter.

— Vikrant Parsai

“As a scientist in the know, I am legally required to protect the next generation.”

— Steven Magee

A handsome period of my childhood was spent at our house in Tollygunge.

— Prosenjit Chatterjee

Kids get very animated when it comes to food and it's nice to see how they react.

— Tom Aikens

The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality.

— Maria Montessori

If I want my children to learn what bomba and plena is, I will teach them.

— Luis Guzman

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

— Pindar

If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

— Aimee Mullins

The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.

— Meg Wolitzer

“It's not that I was an outright nitwit of a child.”

— Augusten Burroughs

I've never been part of anything so great as those three kids.

— Al Roker

“I'd rather be a 'THINKER' - Two Healthy Incomes No Kids Early Retirement!”

— Kaye D. Walters

“You can not lead a child to a place of healing if you do not know the way yourself.”

— Karyn Purvis

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

— Celine Dion

Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.

— Uncle Kracker

But we're open to adopting any children that come to our door.

— Jen Lilley