Children Quotes · Page 172

“No children. No books. Few friends. She seemed to know what she was doing.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm.

— Jasmine Guinness

Remember that your children are not your own, but are lent to you by the Creator.

— Native American Proverb

A parent can give a child no greater gift than beautiful manners.

— Hakim

I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve.

— Marcia Gay Harden

“You can only be as happy as your saddest child.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

— Andre Gide

You can't raise a child to believe the opposite of what you do.

— Cassandra Clare

A high-quality childhood education program has long lasting benefits on our society as a whole.

— Kay Ivey

At childhood we cry loudly to get what we like but now when we grown up , we cry silently to forget…

— Anonymous

Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Being a parent means having an understanding and respecting your child's views and opinions.

— Anonymous

Kids are capable of handling a lot more than you think if you are willing to commit some time.

— David Hartman

Three things you can't recover: Words said in anger. A tear from a hurt friend. A child's pride after angry words have…

— Nishan Panwar

“Mosquitos prefer to bite children rather than adults - and prefer blondes to brunettes! No-one knows why.”

— Jack Goldstein

“The most powerful way to keep your children from being attracted by the offers of camaraderie from the wicked is to make…

— Tedd Tripp

I just happen to believe that what's at stake in the early child's development is so vital and so important, and I…

— Michael Leunig

I think the people in your life are the people that - when you can make other people happy and you can…

— Chelsea Handler

Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a generation…

— Jim Butcher

The European problem is that it assumes that the minute a woman has a child, the mother identity subsumes the professional identity.…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

One of the things for me, as a biographer, that is so significant is for Eleanor Roosevelt - the child who never…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

“Demands unknown before are continually being made upon the Christian: it is the ever fresh rousing and calling, asking and sending of…

— George MacDonald

“I’m telling you, Dena, when you live long enough to see your children begin to look at you with different eyes, and…

— Fannie Flagg

The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at home. Mothers…

— Avram Noam Chomsky

My music is best understood by children and animals.

— Igor Stravinsky

Protect her like a daughter, love her like a wife, and respect her like a mother.

— Anonymous

“Memories can be tricky, especially those from childhood.”

— Karen Dionne

I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.

— Arundhati Roy

No book about Soviet sacrifice was as strong as the women's stories I heard as a child.

— Svetlana Alexievich

A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

— Kailash Satyarthi

I had water phobia since childhood without any reason as such.

— Roop Durgapal

Kids do better, frankly [when the economy is strong]. Jobs make great years for kids.

— Edward Zigler

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

— Alice Walker

Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.

— Hansika Motwani

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I fucked your daughter. Go ahead and fix my goddamned house.”

— Erika Swyler

I won Wimbledon when I was 19 and again after I had a child.

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

“You must feed them, Anne, else they eat their toys.”

— Susan Kaye

My mother would do anything for her children. And that's how I am too.

— Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

Being a child of God means confidence, but it never means complacency.

— Kevin DeYoung