Children Quotes · Page 175

“When you truly love a child, any child, your whole perspective in life changes.”

— Christopher Woodring

“We're all latchkey kids a threshold from peace.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

We just want kids to come to our concert and forget about everything.

— Joel Madden

“A True Daughter of the Darkness…You Are A Rare Fine”

— Ravin Tija Maurice

“Life is not how we lead it. It is how children are born to lead it.”

— Raheel Farooq

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

— Dolly Parton

Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.

— Mark Vonnegut

People like to make children into little grown-ups.

— Mara Wilson

Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship…

— Cate Blanchett

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

— Plato

My wife and I didn't raise our kids to be anything except what each one ultimately wants to do.

— Oliver Luck

Their are so many people and kids that don't believe in themselves all I have to say just believe in yourself and…

— Anonymous

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

— Maria Montessori

“No child, still less a foetus, has ever mastered the art of small talk, or would ever want to. It’s an adult…

— Ian McEwan

“As children we learned our shadow is a darkness we never totally shake until we lie down, pull the shades, draw the…

— BJ Ward

Dear Mother In Law don't teach me how to handle my children. I am living with one of yours and he needs…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a…

— George William Curtis

The problem is that the way [President] Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit…

— Barack Obama

“I don't know how these couples do it, spend hours each night tucking their kids in, reading them books about misguided kittens…

— David Sedaris

Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

“Normally I don't approve of children staying up late,' he said finally, 'unless they are reading a very good book, seeing a…

— Lemony Snicket

It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been…

— Gloria Steinem

I grew up looking at the Grammys. It was a childhood infatuation with these people walking around with gold statues. I felt…

— The-Dream

I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother…

— Eva Zeisel

I think the children of Hollywood are more influential than the parents.

— James Bobin

Good water, we need water, and maybe somebody's daughter.

— The Who

You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.

— Swami Vivekananda

When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

— George Herbert

I didn't start cooking until I was thirty-two. Until then, I just ate. - Julia Child

— Kathleen Flinn

“He who dies with the most toys...dies a child.”

— James Rozoff

Oh God," I said. "I'm Zmey's daughter. Zmey junior. Zmeyette, even.

— Richelle Mead

There is only one perfect child in the world and every mother has it.

— Ritu Ghatourey

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

— Jacques Barzun

My children teach me to slow down and enjoy life.

— Gena Lee Nolin

“She hasn't a humble bone in her body, nor has she need for one. –Said of a daughter.”

— Tony Taylor

As children of a sovereign God, we are never victims of our circumstances.

— Charles Stanley

Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?'

— Mo Ibrahim

Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

— Nicolas Chamfort

“The foundations of your childhood, they stay with you.”

— Cassandra Clare

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

— Anonymous