Children Quotes · Page 160

“It was, said Walsh, “like trying to figure out what a child wants.”

— Michael Wolff

Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough.

— Fran Lebowitz

“I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.”

— J.D. Salinger

Parents know best for their children, not the government!

— Jim Bob Duggar

“Oh, my daughter, at times you have to fight, but preferably not with your fists.”

— Thanhha Lai

The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own

— David Allan Coe

And it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

— Charles Dickens

[Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from…

— Lionel Shriver

“When we’re all living in the space of the inner child, loving, honoring, respecting, and embracing its desires, we are at peace.”

— Kim Ha Campbell

It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint…

— Jenny Downham

Well, I've got two small children and this is a very important time for me to be around them.

— Treat Williams

U.P. is where I belong to, I was born in Meerut, so whenever I come here, I'm reminded of my childhood.

— Boney Kapoor

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

— David Rockefeller

Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

— Aeschylus

“Key, crown, child,” he muttered. “Well, fuck you, Patience. Three things must you kiss before I let you spook me for good.…

— Scott Lynch

Repentance grows as faith grows. Do not make any mistake about it; repentance is not a thing of days and weeks, a…

— Anonymous

My dwelling was small, and I could hardly entertain an echo in it; but it seemed larger for being a single apartment…

— Anonymous

I didn't just start with ...local city officials because I knew that they would understand the problem. I started with them because…

— Michelle Obama

Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. You can only mar it. The ages have been at work…

— Theodore Roosevelt

[Vladimir] Putin took a look at them [Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama] and said, I can push these guys around the world.…

— Rudy Giuliani

Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As…

— Mira Bartok

'm really proud of 'Sad, Sad World' because it manages to state a very complex paradox of an emotion that I experienced…

— Jamie Cullum

I don't work all the time. That's why I waited to have children until I was ready for that. I try to…

— Monica Bellucci

Being a parent and loosing a child must be the worst thing ever.

— Anonymous

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

— James Newman

I go from pretentious introvert to 5 year old child in seconds.

— Anonymous

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

— Andy Goldsworthy

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

— Maria Montessori

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

— John Dewey

I know our kids will be OK, as long as they listen more to their mother than to me!

— Michael Skolnik

It's an honor to have kids. It's a responsibility.

— Scottie Pippen

“Add children to the list of things I hate.”

— Lauren Morrill

“For many of us, the curtain has just come down on childhood.”

— Mitch Albom

I started horse-riding when I was a child and still try to go as often as I can.

— Neve McIntosh

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

— Angelina Jolie

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

— Victor Hugo

What a child digs for becomes his own possession,

— Charlotte Mason

I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.

— Robert M. Pirsig

“Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children.”

— Jane Austen