Children Quotes · Page 587

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

— Roger Ascham

Deadbeat dads should be right up there with child molesters and there should be a website on then to where they have…

— Geraldine Holt

Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior…

— Dwight Henry

The government must not interfere with the rights of loving parents to raise their children in accordance with their own values.

— Leslyn Lewis

I wish it were true that every child had access to an education that helped them reach their full potential.

— Naomi Alderman

“One thing you can say about daughters and mothers—like it or not, they know the truth about each other.”

— Deb Caletti

It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate. Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes…

— Frederick Leboyer

The act of choosing whether or not to have a child is often an act of love, and always an act of…

— Merle Hoffman

[On deciding not to have children:] Yes, there is a little sadness ... But there's also a little sadness around the fact…

— Henriette Mantel

The very sight of a teapot puts a smile on the face of most people. One cannot help but think of more…

— Barbara Roberts

I personally would rather raise my child in New York. It seems like it would be easier to make sure she or…

— Jeremy Sisto

“I have worked with that ancient, fragmented, and incomplete narrative, with its barbarians, dragons, sunken cities, reeds and memory marks, twin-bladed warrior…

— Samuel R. Delany

Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act…

— George Bernard Shaw

I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education…

— George J. Mitchell

Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety,…

— Plutarch

I try to shield my children as far as possible from the public glare. I want them to have a normal childhood…

— Karisma Kapoor

Parents are supposed to instill a sense of right and wrong in their children and then keep up the due diligence necessary…

— LZ Granderson

I think that it's our responsibility to create a world in which girls can grow up and not have to limit their…

— Zooey Deschanel

I had serious psoriasis as a child - it's strange that I make my living off my looks after years of looking…

— Alek Wek

All parents all over the world want their children to lead a better life than themselves, but they need to believe that…

— Shukla Bose

I find that 'Taare Zameen Par' is one of the most beautiful movies ever made about the inner world of a child.

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

We're dealing with problems that kids today have now and that is a scary thing because kids nowadays, obviously, it's no-holds-barred. I'm…

— Jessica Stroup

All women scientists should marry, rear children, cook, and clean in order to achieve fulfillment, to be a complete woman.

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

— Phyllis Diller

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

— Michel de Montaigne

If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him…

— Robert Altman

Urban women don't breed in their twenties. Shortly after, I became a mother too, which is why I was probably so child…

— Uma Thurman

The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

There is a difference between being a bad child and being a wild child. Anybody can be wild, but to be bad…

— Nir Hod

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were…

— Mitch Albom

I like to go from film to film, meeting new people and playing new roles. Because actors are like children: They want…

— Udo Kier

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

— Fran Lebowitz

It is my job to make sure that these kids who are talented get every chance they can and not to be…

— Paula Abdul

If you talk to any cop, however hardened, and say, "Has anything that's ever bothered you", they'll tell you about the death…

— Peter James

“Although people all over the world pray in different ways, it is to each heart the most precious light.”

— Alexis York Lumbard

“We picked our noses as children in front of people without shame. Now we just do it in secret as adults.”

— Quinn Loftis

“Bastard children were born from lust and lies, men said; their nature was wanton and treacherous." — Jon Snow”

— George R.R. Martin

Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

— Joan Crawford

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job…

— Bill Hicks

I haven't done the milestoney things - getting married, buying a house, having children.

— Eve Best