Children Quotes · Page 595

Since I was four, I can't remember wanting to do anything except entertain. And I got some lucky breaks. My daughter Victoria…

— Tony Blackburn

I was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way I convinced myself I wasn't wanted anywhere…

— Lucy Davis

I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still…

— John Ruskin

My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their…

— Diane Duane

As you think about what you'll pass on to your children or grandchildren,don't forget the example of your faith in Jesus.It's the…

— Mariane Corbito

“Repetition is the proof of sincerity. Saying what you mean is important. It's a turning point.”

— Avi

My kids don't like chocolate. My husband doesn't like chocolate, so I get it all to myself.

— Ayesha Curry

While shooting for 'Kaatru Veliyidai,' I was living my childhood dream of working with my favourite director. It was surreal and thrilling…

— Aditi Rao Hydari

He's convinced most human adults do not know how to play anymore and that playing is one of the best ways to…

— William Wharton

In your short stay in Atlanta, I'm sure you saw that there was great competition between Martin's [Luther King] father and John…

— Ella Baker

We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children's children. There has…

— Abdallah II

Why are all these dolls falling out of the sky? Was there a father? Or have the planets cut holes in their…

— Anne Sexton

Bad parents think it's everyone else's fault and responsibility when little Joey or Jane turns out to be a societal nightmare. Good…

— Anonymous

It's necessary to readjust and then try again. And then readjust and try again. Fathers have to do that with sons and…

— James Spader

Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all…

— Albert Einstein

“Well, you get out of bed, you eat your grits, say hey to your neighbor, you give extra love to her children,…

— Karen White

HIV-positive people can lose custody of their children, lose their housing, and face intimate partner violence.

— Sean Strub

I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.

— Cory Booker

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

— George W. Bush

I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom. And I've so loved my freedom.

— Helen Mirren

Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One…

— Richard Henry Stoddard

I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is…

— Isadora Duncan

Im driizy drake to my old bitches, voodoo child to my new hoes. I miss this and I want it back, so…

— Drake

“But a mother sees her child’s shortcomings, even if she doesn’t admit to them very often.”

— Mary Campisi

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a…

— Melinda Gates

There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.

— Richard Louv

Being a celebrity, you can remain a child for ever, almost. You get away with more; you can get too pampered and…

— Geri Halliwell

“Yes. Childhood is the most dangerous place of all. If we had to live there forever, we wouldn't last very long.”

— Robert Goolrick

Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort…

— William Butler Yeats

Unless we get children playing tennis, we'll lose the talented ones with good athletic ability and hand-eye coordination to football and other…

— Tim Henman

I think that there's a lot of anxiety out there in people wanting their children to be part of the mainstream, to…

— Ron Suskind

In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in…

— Alice Meynell

If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.

— Maurice Sendak

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

— Nick Bostrom

I am devoted to my two children, who are far and away more important to me than anything.

— Marcia Clark

DADDY isn't defined as the man who makes the child, but the man who loves the baby through anything! any fool can…

— Nishan Panwar

The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.

— Maria Montessori

Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.

— Vincent Cassel

When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them - my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as…

— Vera Farmiga