Children Quotes · Page 123

I'm proud of my kids, they are doing what they want to do.

— Keith Emerson

I want my kids to grow up in a world where everybody gets a fair shot.

— Mikie Sherrill

I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was.

— Guy Davenport

A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

— Daniel Keyes

Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.

— Patti Smith

I teach my children love and respect, they teach me how special I really am.

— Jasmina Siderovski

The toughest thing about raising kids is convincing them that you have seniority.

— Gene Brown

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

— Truman Capote

Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.

— Rudolf Steiner

I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their…

— Audrey Hepburn

“When I was a child, dreams of flying weren't about escaping from something. They were about having a bird's eye view.”

— Gia Sola

There was a substantial vinyl collection in my home, and my mom played piano. We, the children, were enrolled in piano lessons…

— Julie Payette

We believe that all men are the spirit children of God, created in his image. This concept is supported by the Holy…

— Hugh B. Brown

You have to know who your children are, know what they are capable of and what they want.

— Jill Zarin

Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.

— Nadya Suleman

Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives.

— Kenny Guinn

The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You know how it is to want something. Desire builds like a little house in your head and it sits there, half-constructed…

— Deb Olin Unferth

Well, I think having your kids see you role model behavior of dignity when it's hard, when you're upset, when you want…

— Rosalind Wiseman

The Tiger Rising is, again, about a motherless child. His name is Rob Horton. He is dealing with the death of his…

— Kate DiCamillo

Children are extremely perceptive and absorb what goes on around them long before they can talk or even comprehend language. They are…

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

Sometimes the most powerful way to teach our children to understand a doctrine is to teach in the context of what they…

— Cheryl A. Esplin

He talks about God, and loving God. he says that when we open to loving a person, whether that person is a…

— Melody Beattie

I remember, as a child, lying in my bed at night praying that I would wake up the next day and be…

— Sarah McBride

I took the stairs and felt like my childhood took the elevator.

— Drew Barrymore

I have children, so I'm constantly worrying about the world they are going to inherit.

— Dennis Haysbert

Children are not things to be molded, but people to be unfolded.

— Jess Lair

“I use Fiction to face Reality And write sweet Stories to avoid the bitter ones.”

— Talia

I never spend more than a week away from the children.

— Essie Davis

I love little kids, I hate little kids being used by cynical politicians, though.

— Steve Schmidt

But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did.

— Damon Wayans

My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.

— Yann Martel

Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.

— Lorraine Hansberry

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

— Richard Steele

I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world.

— Margaret Sanger

I understand how important it is for both parents to be in a child's life.

— Dakota Meyer

Hispanic children now make the largest group of children in poverty.

— Mario Diaz-Balart

Go carefully, child of mat, where no mercy can be had, and let your faith lead you on.

— Janet Morris

I think that the story of mothers and daughters is so universal.

— Tamlyn Tomita

My daughter had cancer in both eyes - and we could save just one.

— Willy Caballero