Children Quotes · Page 300

My daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted.

— Nia Vardalos

Children have an uncanny memory for what parents say, but don't do.

— Wes Fesler

Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

— Aristotle

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

— Nicolas Roeg

Sometimes kids used to give me a hard time. But they're on my side.

— Emmanuel Lewis

The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

— Alain de Botton

As a child, I did not dream of being a rapper.

— Too Short

“She was a thin, sickly, bony child, like an eft, with fine hair like sunlit smoke.”

— A.S. Byatt

I had never a thought of training to be a ballerina. I was a normal child. I never dreamed of the tutu.

— Sylvie Guillem

What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.

— Barbara Delinsky

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not…

— Alan Dundes

Stats are stats but if you want to be sure you're going to have, say, three children with no problems, you should…

— Mary Nightingale

Studies have shown that children are less likely to wake up to a horn than the sound of a mother's voice.

— Tony Fadell

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children,…

— Elizabeth Edwards

Once Bob commits to something, it's almost like a child. He doesn't want anybody else to take care of it, even if…

— Ann Reinking

My morning ritual is to get up and feed the dogs, take my daughter to school, and come home.

— Richard Dean Anderson

One of the monstrous things that slavery in this country caused was the breakup of families. I mean, physical labor, horrible; beatings,…

— Toni Morrison

A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime.…

— Oscar Wilde

“Here they found themselves year after year- a group of busy, youngish women who had eased their cars impatiently through the archaic…

— Alice Munro

Most black families went from the South to the city. My family went from the South to the city to the suburbs…

— Yance Ford

The mother, the father and the child have to come into a sacred relationship. The mother must see the father and the…

— Drunvalo Melchizedek

It's so archaic. It's just, like, bizarre to me. I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children are going…

— Scarlett Johansson

The work of charity: water, in providing access to clean and safe water, can transform a community. It helps decrease the spread…

— Cedella Marley

One of the things I want ... all the kids here to remember, is that these [Major League Soccer] stars were not…

— Michelle Obama

The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.

— Salmon P. Chase

“If you ask the great city, ‘Who is this person?,’ she will answer, ‘He is my child.”

— Victor Hugo

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

— Andy Williams

When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.

— Gagan Narang

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

— Jonathan Ames

“Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.”

— Leo Rosten

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

— John F. Kennedy

telling the truth about children's lives is radical.

— Lucille Clifton

How many innocent people and children suffer in the world! Lord, grant us your peace!

— Pope Francis

Damn, the kids sleeping right now. Thats what you get for talking sh*t.

— The Situation

The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,unobscured by the dust of history.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.

— Martha Beck

I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.

— Chris Van Allsburg

“Live so when your children think of fairness and integrity they think of you.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.

— Melissa Etheridge

“Claims White House 'Complicit' In Child Sex Trafficking The Huffington Post”

— Anonymous