Children Quotes · Page 423

No. It is said that the Nephilim are the children of men and angels. All that this angelic heritage has given to…

— Cassandra Clare

“As he got older, Billy suspected, he would, Dicaprio-like, simply become like an increasingly wizened child.”

— China Miéville

I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation…

— Madame de Stael

I support children's charities; I just don't want them around me. It's not very admirable, but it's the truth.

— Miriam Margolyes

There is nothing your child is going to learn right now at the age of 10 that is going to make or…

— Jo Frost

To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is…

— Ray Bradbury

I consider parenting skills, those skills that help children: (1) develop clear and important goals; and (2) figure out flexible and persistent…

— Timothy Carey

“Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back, but so they will kiss their children, and their children's children.”

— Noah ben Shea

My dad constantly tells me I should calm down, but I feel so sad when I see places I've known since I…

— Zawe Ashton

When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean…

— Liya Kebede

“We love Christmas presents but not Christ; Easter baskets but not crosses. We want to tell our friends with cancer that we…

— Heather Choate Davis

The military ain't there for the people's protection, They're just there to protect an investment. That's why people get arrested, electrocuted, molested,…

— Immortal Technique

“If you really want space on public transport you should carry some pornography from the 1970s and a pair of children's safety…

— Robin Ince

“Art thou like me, child of my darkest heart? And dost thou think my untamed thoughts and speak my vast language?” “Yea,…

— Kahlil Gibran

We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that…

— John Steinbeck

I didn't really know I wanted to act when I was a child. I have a lot of interests, and I really…

— Jordan Bridges

Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so the rest of the world can't poke enough holes to drain it…

— Anonymous

As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.

— Ewan McGregor

I enjoy watching children interact with the world, the way they engage their environment without any filters, learned models, or cynicism.

— Keith Murray

Through the 'It's About Ability' campaign and with parents and other members of society, we have created a social family for children…

— Igor Luksic

My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.

— Billy Corgan

Beneath the Sugar Sky' is an homage to the portal fantasies of my childhood: it is the portal running in reverse.

— Seanan McGuire

It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often.

— Mitch Albom

I'm not casting judgement...i'm just telling how I see it, mow when 5 people clamim to be your babydaddy…you're a hoe.

— DL Hughley

I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event

— Anatoly Karpov

“Your original wonder must be recaptured; just like a child like sense of wonder, where nothing is known and everything becomes a…

— Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

I'm destiny's child. I've enjoyed every minute of my life, all the twists and turns. They have made me who I am.

— Vijayashanti

“Is there a moment for every parent when you realize that your child has outgrown your knowledge of them? A moment when…

— Rosamund Luton

We also want to make sure Penn State becomes a national leader in this whole area of child abuse prevention and treatment.

— Rodney Erickson

My approach to acting now is so different -- I'm fearless because I have nothing to lose. Before [children] my identity was…

— Jessica Alba

I made a pact with my three-year-old thumb-sucking daughter that if she stopped sucking her thumb, I would stop sucking my pipe.

— Walter Mischel

Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth,…

— Jim C. Hines

They say, once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.

— Kristi Yamaguchi

I've always wanted to have kids - I think it's something that every human should experience.

— Artem Chigvintsev

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

I was such a bizarre conundrum of everything that makes you worry about a child. I was a bad student. I got…

— Sharon Needles

“He came out of nothingness, took form, was loved, was always bound to return to nothingness.”

— George Saunders

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I know it’s supposed to take a village to raise our children, but why does ours have so many village idiots?”

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense…

— Daniel Goleman