Children Quotes · Page 166

I was quite a clever child, I don't know what happened later on.

— June Brown

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

— Richard Scarry

Intellectual and emotional curiosity is what I hope I've taught my children.

— Tony Robinson

Your parents put a curse on you - Someday your kids are going to act just like you.

— Bill Cosby

Children share with geniuses an open, inquiring, uninhibited quality of mind.

— Chauncey Guy Suits

I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.

— Richard Thompson

My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.

— Tony Goldwyn

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

— George Eliot

“Little children, never be disobedient to those who are wiser than you for disobedience was the beginning of all the miseries and…

— Yei Theodora Ozaki

“children with calm efficiency, escorting them safely into the keep.  When all were accounted for, she took refuge there as well. Ian…

— Glynnis Campbell

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and…

— Jean Piaget

When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot…

— Michelle Monaghan

“I'm not involved in shame. Morals are learned in childhood, and I didn't have any such holiday called childhood.”

— Gregory Maguire

If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him…

— Alice Miller

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

— Jodi Picoult

I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had…

— Frederick Lenz

“A person is loved for the risk he or she takes for someone else, be it a mother, a father, a child,…

— Buket Uzuner

My daughters are beautiful, I am one proud papa. I am also a grandpa now...check THAT out, a grandfather, strange how life…

— Steven Tyler

Johnny Walker and I were very close. My house is just next to his, we were neighbours. Some time back, he came…

— Johnny Lever

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me…

— Dee Dee Myers

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and…

— David Walliams

“It had been a marvelous childhood. Damn near perfect. If he was not leading the life he'd anticipated, if he sometimes lay…

— Julia Quinn

My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four…

— Nick Cassavetes

There once was a miller with a daughter as lovely as a grape. He told the king that she could spin gold…

— Anne Sexton

A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

— Laura Schlessinger

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

— Goh Chok Tong

“Be confident because you are a child of God. Be humble because everyone else is, too.”

— Melton S Davis

When my children look and ask about what I do, they know I'm the boss.

— Damon Dash

I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood.

— Daryl Sabara

Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.

— Jeb Bush

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

— Sherman Alexie

Right from my childhood I have been attracted by guns.

— Abhinav Bindra

You know who really gives kids a bad name? Posh and Becks.

— Stewart Francis

“What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?”

— Homer

As a parent you know you want to provide safe, healthy environments for your children.

— Stephanie Land

It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.

— Vaughn Monroe

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

— Marva Collins

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

— George Eliot

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

— Sigmund Freud