Children Quotes · Page 559

He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were…

— Alice Sebold

“Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.”

— Madeline Levine

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

— Bono

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

When you have children, you start to play with them and you mirror yourself. You see your parents in yourself. It's all…

— Jeppe Hein

“I got taken in by my uncle Frankie, know to his friends as Butcher Franchetti and to his enemies as 'Oh God…

— Garth Ennis

“Inevitably, our children come to see us as we are. Not as we wish we were, or even as we should be.”

— Michael Perry

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I…

— Kate DiCamillo

Unfortunately, some parents simply don't love their children. Probably they don't even love themselves. That may be the heart of their problem.…

— David Viscott

“This was the common criminal pursuit of all contemporary humankind. Give my child an Ikea desk and twelve hours a day of…

— Dave Eggers

It shouldn't be just the rich and the powerful that send their children to schools where there is armed security. Parents shouldn't…

— Wayne LaPierre

Well, when Eleanor Roosevelt's mother dies, she goes to live with her Grandmother Hall. And her Grandmother Hall is in mourning. She's…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

I want to judge the nannies that's around my child. I don't want to pay for a nanny that I never met,…

— Future

“So, Strand looked at me, and he said, 'You should write about all this someday.' And I said, 'You mean about all…

— Mark Leyner

Contrary to what some parents might believe or hope for, children are not born a blank slate. Rather, they come into the…

— Jane Brody

“Do whatever you gotta do. Go fuck that girl six ways from Sunday.” Danny laughed, trying to keep his hand steady as…

— Priscilla Glenn

“that childhood said to have been mine the difficulty of believing in it the feeling rather of having been born octogenarian at…

— Samuel Beckett

Those who are able to afford to live in a neighborhood with 'good schools' will do so, knowing that a good education…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

“He seemed convinced that children's questions were much more important than those of an adult. He preferred smart questions to smart answers.”

— Yoko Ogawa

There was no drive because I wanted to become a great designer... I had two small children and a mother, and we…

— Pauline Trigere

“He who hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprise.”

— Louis L'Amour

My entire life, I was told I was an old soul. I never really connected with other children when I was growing…

— Aimee Osbourne

“Children are not born with their hearts hardened in this fashion, not even Irish-Catholic children. They have to be taught by professionals.”

— Joe Queenan

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop,…

— Greta Gerwig

I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud…

— Jacqueline Wilson

Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

— Morgan Brittany

“And to all the doctors and people who said there was no hope for children with progeria and they don’t live long…

— Kerry Okines

I would not hesitate for a nanosecond to step in front of a bullet, to do anything to give my life for…

— Elizabeth Vargas

May we learn to say “thank you” to God and to one another. We teach children to do it, and then we…

— Pope Francis

I get a lot of people who will either write to me or come up in public and say, "My daughter, son,…

— Atticus Shaffer

I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in…

— Lewis Carroll

Children won't just love to read. Children learn what they live, parents are responsible for instilling that in them.

— Anonymous

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I think back to my childhood, and I remember running around as a kid. We were all running around then. It wasn't…

— Chris Cornell

I had a really intense flying dream most of my childhood into my teens. I would go out at night and fly…

— Dee Dee Ramone

I do care what my daughter thinks and what the future generation of whoever is down the line will think.

— Lee Isaac Chung

“By raising a child we should also help raise our children's generation, not just raise him or her alone.”

— Chart Korbjitti

I've seen a range of children's personalities, so it's easier to write about them without patronising them, I think.

— Sarah Pinborough

“Love between man and woman is unstable, but the beautiful love that springs from companionship of children and parents lasts until the…

— R.L. Alsaker

“Stretch out your hand to Him like a little child to his father so that He may lead you on.”

— St. Francis de Sales