Children Quotes · Page 525

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly…

— Rene Cassin

Children go through things. They go through fads, mistakes, phases, and adults are supposed to guide them.

— Will Cain

I've always loved reading, and as a child I used to try desperately to write books like the ones I read.

— Tom Fletcher

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.

— Milla Jovovich

“Then you know that my portrayal was dead-on. He breaks into homes and asks children to eat him. He's obviously not a…

— Janet Evanovich

“Wasn’t it hard that you did so much for children and loved them so deeply and they seemed so indifferent to you…

— Maeve Binchy

Every parent pursues the best possible opportunities for their child while climbing over obstacles and limitations each day. So in a way,…

— Andrew Yang

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

— Francine Pascal

God loves all of his children, even if they are gay, lesbian, bisexual, etc.. it doesnt matter if they are being themselves,…

— Dyllan

I was my parent's first child, Joanna Catherine Going, named for my great-great grandmother Catherine, and my father's maternal aunt Johanna Burke,…

— Joanna Going

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in…

— H. L. Mencken

In The Lost Message of Jesus I claim that penal substitution is tantamount to 'child abuse - a vengeful Father punishing his…

— Steve Chalke

For a man to be a man, did he have to be a soldier, or at least prepare himself for war? For…

— Carol Gilligan

We need to empower women: provide them with work for their own income, and teach them to become independent of men so…

— Waris Dirie

A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a…

— Henry Clay Trumbull

“Belief is not subject to the will. Men think as they must. Children do not, and cannot, believe exactly as they were…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

— Simon Callow

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

— J. B. Priestley

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ.

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

Even if abortion were made easy or painless for everyone, it wouldn't change the bottom-line problem that abortion kills children.

— Randy Alcorn

The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of…

— Amy Bloom

[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with…

— Joan Crawford

I struggle with staying clean every day, and what really keeps me from doing something stupid is my daughter.

— Joshua Mohr

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better…

— Albert Einstein

There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your…

— Naomie Harris

Children are not their parents property, but when your parents treat you like property, it is attachment, not love

— Anonymous

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

— Cesare Pavese

Daughters hate their mothers; I think it's the law of nature. But you know what? Then they come back.

— Camille

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much…

— Laura Miller

“Possibilities are a mysterious beauty. They tease us to explore while our inner child cheers because an adventure is waiting.”

— Jeanne McElvaney

That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity.

— Joe Nichols

It is important for children to understand that some of the disappointment their parents feel for them is often really the parents'…

— David Viscott

“... in the world, it will be women, mostly colored and poor. women will have to bury children, and support themselves through grief.”

— Suheir Hammad

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

— Katharine Whitehorn

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

— Nikki Giovanni

There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.

— Astrid Lindgren

I was very worried about my mother, growing up - a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about…

— Angelina Jolie

Your children are the most precious gift, prime example of perfection, and clearly an accurate definition of pure; unconditional love.

— Joseph Mercado

When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking…

— Toni Morrison