Children Quotes · Page 345

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

— Michael Levine

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.

— Jodie Foster

Loving fathers give their children a sense of their history.

— Jennifer Rothschild

Now I am just focusing on my daughter, my wife, religion, and training.

— Sonny Bill Williams

“Don’t you just love children? If they’re not disappointing you, they’re dead.”

— Shawn Wickersheim

“It’s gotta be any parent’s worst nightmare when they lose their child.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

At the end of the day, all I want to do is protect my kids.

— Keyshawn Johnson

I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates…

— Martin Yan

It is our solemn duty, our precious privilege-even our sacred opportunity-to welcome to our homes and to our hearts the children who…

— Thomas S. Monson

“Autonomy is something fundamental that your child needs. (Francoise Dolto said that by age six, a child should be able to do…

— Pamela Druckerman

As one of seven children, our family life was full of energy and fun - we all knew how to laugh and…

— Dick Strawbridge

“Had I a thousand daughters, by Heaven! I'd as soon have them taught the black art as their alphabet!”

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“I'll tell you a secret. A lot of times, parents are not the best at seeing their children clearly.”

— Celeste Ng

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

— Edward Hoagland

When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.

— Assata Shakur

“You were expected to believe in the State for the same reason you were expected to believe in God: fear. The bourgeoisie,…

— Elif Shafak

I feel that anybody who addresses himself to children has a responsibility, and that responsibility is to make available to children the…

— Frances Clarke Sayers

If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an…

— Jean Baudrillard

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death.I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father…

— Anonymous

“[With comedy and wanting to make people laugh,] when you're a child, all you want is ANY kind of laugh. You get…

— Jason Reitman

The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would…

— Fanny Kemble

If homosexuality is not caused by genetic factors...then that means it can be acquired... And if it can be acquired, shouldn't we…

— Scott Lively

All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch,…

— Elizabeth McCracken

“Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“Unlock a child's imagination through the power of words.”

— Kai Strand

I want to impart my dance, my music: I want to make an institute and teach children.

— Hema Malini

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood [p. 53]

— Richard Paul Evans

Raising children pushed me to walk the walk and practice life as I preach it.

— Candace Cameron

“Even children, Lady Linette said, must be allowed some time to conspire together.”

— Gail Carriger

You guys might be surprised but I am not Honey Boo Boo Child.

— Jodie Foster

Every book is different with it's own personality just like children.

— Cassandra Clare

She couldn't afford a car so she named her daughter Alexis (A Lexus).

— Kanye West

The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.

— William Gilmore Simms

It's not fair for little kids to feel bad about themselves for how they look.

— Paloma Elsesser

My childhood was very unconventional in a lot of ways.

— Taylor Russell

I'm not married and I don't have kids, and so I like to go to work.

— Justin Kirk

Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics.

— John Cheever

Adults forget that kids are their own best censors.

— Tim Burton

Hurtful words said to your children today, will stay in their memory forever.

— Anonymous