Children Quotes · Page 503

“Prayer and fasting is what every Christian needs because prayer empowers you while fasting humbles you to be a better child of…

— Gift Gugu Mona

There is no better time than right now to start your own "family tradition" of helping needy children.

— Debby Boone

My mindset at this stage, especially after having a daughter... it's just changed my whole outlook.

— Sonny Bill Williams

We must enter and take possession of the consciences of the children, of the consciences of the young, because they do belong,…

— Plutarco Elias Calles

“And then she grew uneasy and full of gloom and thought to herself that if the child were joy yet was it…

— Pearl S. Buck

Praise your child explicitly for how capable they are of learning rather than telling them how smart they are.

— Carol S. Dweck

I want to be there for my children. You want to make sure you're alive more than anything.

— Nick Cannon

“Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart,…

— Germany Kent

“I was glad to put the whole thing behind me, because I wanted every child, regardless of race, to be able to…

— Simone Biles

“She waited until he had left the kolba, before snickering and saying, "'The children of strangers get ice cream. What do you…

— Anonymous

Governments should encourage and facilitate the teaching of history, but one does not want them to be able to dictate, for political…

— Linda Colley

“What in life can love not penetrate? Mabel Hubbard, deaf since childhood, gave Alexander Bell a piano as a wedding gift and…

— Mitch Albom

“No, Geo—underneath all that, Nan really loves me. It’s just she wants me to see things her way. You know, she’s two…

— Christopher Isherwood

“Children and adolescents, being relatively new to life, are naturally creative because they haven't been brainwashed, so to speak, by the conventional…

— Thomas Armstrong

I was definitely a child of the '80s. Cable TV was new. I watched a ton of movies and a ton of…

— Paul G. Tremblay

The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from…

— Daniel Keyes

To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.

— Erma Bombeck

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

— Stanley Donen

I'm an ardent tennis player. I'm like an overenthusiastic child out there and I've damaged my back. It's not that it's crippling…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

— Gertrude Atherton

“Politics is the only realm where adults, ironically, vote to become immature children and elect their parents.”

— Mohammed Zaki Ansari

Night is a curious child, wandering Between earth and sky, creeping In windows and doors, daubing The entire neighborhood With purple paint.

— Frank Marshall Davis

The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life.

— Hillary Clinton

Some people have an inner child that speaks to them. I have an inner old man who just yells random [stuff] at…

— Rob Cantrell

Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small…

— Jane Kaczmarek

In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in…

— Kenny Marchant

“Nice people like them by children like him and raise them as pets. But he didn't want to be a pet today.”

— John Elder Robison

We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.

— John F. Kerry

I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's…

— Elizabeth Hurley

“Ain't it strange how innocent little creatures like children like the blood-thirstiest stories?”

— L.M. Montgomery

I was born in the late '50s, was a child of the '60s, then the '70s, then the '80s, then the '90s,…

— Jello Biafra

I hope one of my fans has one of your kids shot: and blames it on acid, prozac, and slipknot.

— Immortal Technique

My parents played the Bee Gees; Earth, Wind & Fire; Michael Jackson. The best pop music to infiltrate a child's mind.

— Borns

Women would rather go to their daughter's piano recital than stay all night at work, working on a proposal, because they're less…

— Gavin McInnes

I did some really bad plays at a children's theater in Kentucky where I'm from and went from there.

— Miles Heizer

Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become…

— Michael Leunig

“That's why we get the chance to spoil our grandchildren, because by doing that we're apologizing to our children.”

— Fredrik Backman

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

— Gustav Stresemann

“We are bent on weakening bonds in the name of growth and independance,then spend out adulthoods wondering why we have trouble getting…

— Elizabeth Hormann

Do you know who taught the eagles to find their prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their…

— William Tyndale