Children Quotes · Page 1,282

“The Buddha grew up in a relatively well-to-do family. although there were some fucked up moments, his childhood was filled with lots…

— VD

“There is also the ceaseless outpouring of books on toilet training, separating one sibling's fist from another sibling's eye socket, expressing breast…

— Susan J. Douglas

All parents want to send their children to the best possible schools. But because a good school is a relative concept, a…

— Robert H. Frank

Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties…

— Katharine Weber

I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of…

— Twyla Tharp

I want to abolish tags like 'comeback' and 'retirement' that are used to define every married female actor. What is the big…

— Karisma Kapoor

I am a fan of movies and there is something about watching film that is burned into celluloid for all time that…

— Edward Zwick

I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even…

— Chris Bohjalian

There's no discounting the antagonism the average woman feels for the eldest daughter. The infuriating thing is that most mothers blame the…

— Mari Sandoz

I'm from a small town so, like, everyone's married with children or about to have children. So it's a little hard when…

— Kelly Clarkson

“You need to know that you are a real person, that this thing happening to you is not something you are making…

— Dorothy Allison

“Dear Sir I have arrived at this place from Zanzibar with 115 souls, men, women & children. We are now in a…

— Henry Morton Stanley

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things…

— Will Durant

So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the…

— Edith Hamilton

In life, I had to be prim and proper and poised - The King Daughter. But acting, I could be the zany,…

— Yolanda King

HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals…

— Alice Walker

Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged…

— Maria Montessori

I cracked a child prostitution ring - I'd worked with three vice cops every day for months, out on the street, in…

— Nancy Grace

Mom: Have you seen my daughters? guy: The really tall one and the short black one? MOM: Yeah!! thats them, where are…

— Amber Smith

I simply couldn’t conceive of how devastating it would be not to be able to hear my children’s voices. Not to be…

— Kate Winslet

It's something I passed on to my kids. They really love the earth because they've experienced it from the youngest age. They…

— Ed Begley, Jr

Your children are not the same. Not at all. Each one is unique. There are no "boiler plate" clauses that fit all…

— Bob Benson

To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Never trample on any soul though it may be lying in the veriest mire; for that last spark of self-respect is its…

— Charles Kingsley

And if you look at pictures of Eleanor between 1918 and 1921, she becomes anorexic. She really loses a tremendous amount of…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

Boom Bang a Bang was a huge part of me, maybe a part that I didnt relish, and there might be psychological…

— Lulu

“As much as childhood was the greatest thing that most of us have ever experienced, with it characterized by our care free…

— Njabulo P. Vilakazi

There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children.…

— Doris Lessing

“improv and child rearing are not so different. Both are jobs that people volunteer for and complain about endlessly, and they bore…

— Jen Kirkman

Whether it is fear of having fish pie or staying in someone's house or not being able to tell the time, all…

— Kate DiCamillo

Disney features, especially the early ones, were horror movies with cute critters: Greek tragedies with a hummable chorus. Forcing children to confront…

— Richard Corliss

“We began to call ourselves Maroneh, which meant "those who weep for Maro" in the common language we once spoke. We named…

— N.K. Jemisin

“Peter didn't answer. He pulled his legs up to his chest, wrapped his arms around them, and put his chin on his…

— Brom

AddictionsXD: *Watching* Finding Nemo, My childhood shows, The nightmare before christmas,*Listening* Bands, Metal, Deathcore, *Random* Pineapple juice, MUSIC, Zombies, Cutting, Coloring, Writing(Sometimes),…

— Jazzy

The angel has confided in me that he is going to ask the Lord if he can become Spider-Man. [...] The children…

— Christopher Moore

“But there are questions I asked myself as a child and that were never answered, they still echo mournfully: did the world…

— Clarice Lispector

Looking back I realize I was just a child and smile. Looking now at my reflection I realize I'm still a child…

— Irina

Having taken on the care of foster children, a mother forced her own daughter to beat them. According to her later account:…

— Julie Gregory

“Of course, I’ve told Jesus to suck it, too, which earned me a certain measure of notoriety, because you have to make…

— Kathy Griffin

I was fascinated by the lack of a word for a parent who has lost a child. We have no word in…

— Colum McCann