Children Quotes · Page 259

My children know I would never call anyone to give my son or daughter a break.

— Mithun Chakraborty

I make no apologies for informing parents of the expanded universal child care benefit.

— Pierre Poilievre

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

— Kingsley Amis

A lot of kids are growing up and only trying to play one position.

— Cordarrelle Patterson

I want to be an inspiration to lots and lots of children.

— Alphonso Davies

I was pregnant with my first child and so gloriously happy. I felt fecund and powerful.

— Dervla Kirwan

“Daughters," he told her as they dug. "Nothing better than a good daughter.”

— Joyce Maynard

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.

— Arthur Helps

I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in…

— Karen Thompson Walker

The children are being conditioned to think that the purpose of life is to get a good job. You get paid but…

— Satish Kumar

“To know you are a beloved child of God protects you from thinking of prayer as a ladder to God or an…

— Michael Reeves

I am living proof that youth possess a unique capacity to grow and change - that the child who seems hopeless today…

— Alan K. Simpson

When I was six years old, a children's agent moved in next door to us, sent me out on a commercial audition,…

— Eve Plumb

Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child.…

— Stephen King

During your life, you always have different players that you like. When I was a child, because my dad liked the 'Dream…

— Santi Cazorla

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The need to assure that every child has the opportunity afforded by good teachers is urgent. As urgent as the need to…

— Lowell Milken

In life, you are struck by the importance of presence, of the small moments of meaning, the miracle of your child's breath,…

— Sherry Turkle

“I can’t remember any of us Sheeran kids ever having a toy of our own. One Christmas we got a pair of…

— Charles Brandt

My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown…

— Dorothy Allison

“Had I ever spent the day in our neighborhood public high school as an invisible woman while my children were still enrolled…

— Jeanne Ray

I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the…

— Philip K. Dick

Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influencewhich flowers…

— Henry David Thoreau

Pro-choice and pro-life activists live in different worlds, and the scope of their lives, as both adults and children, fortifies them in…

— Kristin Luker

When you give a child the opportunity to learn, they always give back.

— Craig Kielburger

I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.

— Neal Cassady

Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.

— Anonymous

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.

— Peter Gallagher

Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

— Salman Rushdie

Kids today know way more than you think they do, with the Internet and 500 TV channels.

— Rodney Carrington

“Raising The Kids …Running the Family Is A Combined Effort of Both Dad & Mom!”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.

— Patricia Wentworth

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.

— Gail Godwin

I miss being a little kid with no stress, no worries, or cares in the world.

— ChOupiz

I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.

— Ai Weiwei

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

— Anonymous

Mother and daughter like spoons in a drawer.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“He can feel them, reaching out for the child, groping their way to its purity…”

— J. Valor

“My child is my greatest pleasure...fulfilling my days with immense pleasure...”

— Mallika Tripathi

Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.

— Anonymous