Children Quotes · Page 620

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

— Michael Perry

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

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

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

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

— Samuel Beckett

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

“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

I think from my earliest childhood, I liked to tell stories, put on plays and write things. It's funny to think of…

— Zoe Kazan

“Brothers in one great family, children lose their common features only when they lose their innocence, which is the same everywhere. Then…

— François-René de Chateaubriand

When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I…

— Neil Gaiman

I tried Botox one time and was permanently surprised for a couple of months. It was not a cute look for me.…

— Julia Roberts

I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he…

— John Dewey

There are not too many places I can go without someone saying, 'Hey, can I take a picture of you with my…

— Anonymous

If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give…

— Tryon Edwards

“Good children do taste better, but there are so few of them. If you can be satisfied with naughty children, you will…

— David Demchuk

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

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

— Morgan Brittany

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

— Jacqueline Wilson

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

“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

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

— Aimee Osbourne

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

— Pope Francis

“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

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Sarah Pinborough

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

— Chart Korbjitti

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

— Lee Isaac Chung

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

— Chris Cornell

There are no bad boys. There is only bad environment, bad training, bad example, bad thinking.

— Edward J. Flanagan

When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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

— St. Francis de Sales

“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

I've never walked to an altar in my life. I gave my life to Christ in my bedroom as a child.

— Sheila Walsh