Children Quotes · Page 603

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

— Jeff Smisek

Nick's mother and I were attentive, probably overly attentive - part of the first wave of parents obsessed with our children in…

— David Sheff

“There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. —Victor Hugo”

— John Pfeiffer

Do you think pandas know they're Chinese and they're taking the one child policy a bit too seriously?

— Jim Jefferies

I'm just excited to give the kids what they want, keep on turning the looks and slaying the day.

— Aquaria

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things…

— Talib Kweli

My mom said I was not going to be an idle child, so I had things to do every day after school.

— Chandra Wilson

“As a child, my own mother told me the human heart spun on an axis smaller than a dime. Like her father,…

— Miranda Mellis

“For my grandchildren . . . and all children—this book is written with hopes of the time to come, when no child…

— Carlos P. Romulo

“all her mother’s pains and benefits . . .’” She faltered, and I continued the Shakespeare for her. “‘To laughter and contempt, that she may…

— Craig Johnson

When I was a kid, my daily routine was playing make-believe, and I kind of created these stories throughout the day. And…

— Nina Arianda

I think it is important to parents that their children get not only a good education and play for a top athletic…

— Randall Cunningham

We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given…

— Susan Cain

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy…

— Mitt Romney

“Some scientists were conducting an experiment, he said, trying to gauge the impact of abuse on children. Ducks, like people, develop bonds…

— Rachel Reiland

A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world.

— Abraham Maslow

All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason…

— James Anthony Froude

“We all know the true nature of the human soul, because we have all looked into the eyes of children, and saw…

— Bryant McGill

My characters are like my children in a way. I create them, and then I worry about them forevermore.

— Elizabeth Berg

'Petrushka' was not conceived as a children's ballet, even though it involves puppets. We're on the outer limits of what's child-appropriate here.

— John de Lancie

Teach your children early not to pass the blame or make excuses, but to take responsibility for their actions.

— Eric Greitens

“Now, children, watch closely. Hold your breath. Listen. And I will show you the components of calamity.”

— Jay Kristoff

“Every child saved with my help is the justification of my existence on this Earth, and not a title to glory.”

— Irena Sendler

America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders.

— Pierce Brosnan

I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.

— Norah Jones

“Oh it don't make no kind of sense. Big ol' ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child. But he…

— Fannie Flagg

the most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves.

— Ruth Simmons

I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems.

— Beverly Cleary

“When we play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.”

— Anonymous

“As the researchers noted, single people are more willing to live in mixed neighborhoods, but people with children seek homogeneity.84”

— Jared Taylor

A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.

— John Dewey

Being told to cut off and walk away from a child - I cannot imagine it. I think I'd rather die.

— Kate Winslet

“The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls. (translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)”

— Heraclitus

Young children were always so important to me. Adults should treat children with more respect. We should put more monies in our…

— Steve Wozniak

I like to come home after an event and show my daughter what I was wearing, because I know she really appreciates…

— Mandira Bedi

I spent so long and so much of my childhood holding myself back for fear of what people would think. I'm trying…

— Troye Sivan

We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.

— Hanna Rosin

I see kids today trying to do the things I did, and it makes me feel like I've come a long way.

— Allen Iverson