Children Quotes · Page 576

I hate how much of your future is dependent on your adolescence. You never get to truly enjoy your childhood. You're forced…

— Anonymous

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost…

— Christopher Morley

India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If you look at communal experiments in general for any amount of time, you'll find a lot of horrors: raped children, sexual…

— Lauren Groff

“A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children.”

— Victor Hugo

If your child is being sneaky and not getting caught, you aren't doing you're job as a parent.

— Anonymous

I don't want the values of others being imposed on my children in my school, and I don't think that should be…

— Scott Morrison

“We can’t get away with anything with children. They are keen and attentive, and they will eventually grow up to tell the…

— Sarah Mae

If I had a child actor, I would wish for it to be in an Adam Sandler movie, because he just comes…

— Kate Beckinsale

The greatest mission of woman is to give life, earth-life, through honorable marriage, to the waiting spirits, our Father's spirit children who…

— Melvin J. Ballard

I do think that the birth of my daughter was sort of a rebirth for me. It made me look at life…

— Madonna Ciccone

I am deeply aware of the pain caused to any victim of child abuse, especially at the hands of a trustworthy person…

— David Hope

I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny…

— Jennifer Weiner

Somebody close to me once said, 'Oh, no man will ever accept your children.' And I just thought it was the most…

— Reese Witherspoon

I like to be with my children - not just quality time, but quantity time. I like to be there in the…

— Jane Kaczmarek

I sort of have a dark, twisted, offbeat way of writing, which I see coming up in my kids. It's funny, on…

— Nikki Sixx

“This is Huck Finn, a child of mine of shady reputation. Be good to him for his parent's sake.”

— Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens

I look down and see little kids in the audience and I'm like, "Oh man, I hope I'm not poisoning these kids!"

— DJ Quik

I think it's very important for children to understand that women work and that it's fulfilling, and it doesn't mean that they…

— Anna Wintour

O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the…

— Israel Zangwill

“This war that has taken so many sons has spared mine. This age that has burned so many daughters has not burned…

— Tahmima Anam

I never want to make the people dearest to me suffer: my parents, my brothers and my sister, my wife Cathryn, our…

— Gianluca Vialli

Having my daughter, I screamed for twenty-three hours straight. And that was just during conception.

— Joan Rivers

I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch…

— Mike Dirnt

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as…

— Bette Davis

“referring, for example, to the principle of fairness, out of which our whole concept of equity and justice is developed. Little children…

— Stephen R. Covey

Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?

— Harlan Coben

Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe…

— Susan Jacoby

With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off…

— Lisa Loeb

“I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books:…

— Mark Mathabane

With music, you can put sophisticated thoughts in a child's head - it gives you a whole new avenue to express ideas.

— James L. Brooks

For toddlers I suggest leaving their mittens on year-round, indoors and out. That way they can't get into aspirin bottles, liquor cabinets,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

There is a British assumption that you mustn't speak evil of anyone's garden because it is rude - it is like criticising…

— Monty Don

I realised that since I was a child I wanted to be an actress just to dress up in big fabrics and…

— Clemence Poesy

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

— Isaac Asimov

There's nothing funnier than getting a death threat via MySpace. Why don't you just write it in a children's birthday card.

— Doug Stanhope

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new…

— Erik Erikson

We all worry about what will happen to our children after our death. How many of us worry about what will happen…

— Sufyan

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

— Faye Dunaway

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

— Julius Charles Hare