Children Quotes · Page 188

I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity.

— James A. Michener

“A child should never go to bed, they only wake up a day older.”

— J. M. Barrie

The best thing a father can do for his daughter is to love her mother.

— Anonymous

Most of my best friends had children in their early 40s.

— Faith Salie

“...kids always know what's going on, even before you know yourself sometimes.”

— Cecelia Ahern

Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

— Carrie Fisher

The idea that a child doesn't have the opportunity to be a child is devastating.

— Blake Lively

“No mother loves all her children the same, not even the Mother Above.”

— George R.R. Martin

“I hope my prayers reach you. My imperfect children... The imperfect imitation sun... continues to love you all... now and forever.”

— Kaori Yuki

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw…

— Anthony Bourdain

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

— Richard Whately

I had always wanted to name a daughter Hailey, after Halley's comet from Once in a Lifetime.

— Nancy Grace

My grandmother went to church, but my mother had been inundated with church and decided that when she had children, she would…

— Gloria Gaynor

You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies.

— Jane Fonda

Either you have a sense of humor about [being a former child star], or you're in rehab. There's not a lot of…

— Wil Wheaton

“Kids need to learn that you need to feel bad sometimes. We learn through experience, and we learn especially through bad experiences.”

— Jean M. Twenge

Do you really think we'll ever--" "I do," he said with certainty, not letting me finish. He leaned over and kissed my…

— Diana Gabaldon

I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good…

— Rosalind Wiseman

“A constantly criticized child can loose as much confidence and self-esteem as one who remembers being humiliated on one particular, horrifying day.…

— Brian L. Weiss

I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the…

— J. C. Watts

My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all…

— Patricia Schroeder

“Then there are families for whom education was not the focus at all. Instead children were expected to go into the family…

— Valerie Young

“Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing now, or will experience…

— Gary Shteyngart

“She knew that by the morning she would be suffering from arse-ache. She smiled, remembering how, as a child, this was what…

— Graham Higson

“The spirits of children are remote and wise...”

— Frances Cornford

The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm going to lead by example, and when kids have a question I'll answer it.

— Chipper Jones

Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see.

— Jonathan Kozol

I grew up in Northumberland, a happy child in a loving, hard-working family.

— Robson Green

Here's to the kids who are so good at hiding how they feel they do it without thinking.

— Anonymous

The greatest privilege of childhood is to live totally in the present.

— Anonymous

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I never get lonely; even as a child, I didn't.

— Diana Rigg

I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.

— Mario Balotelli

I had a bit of a strange childhood, to be honest.

— James Arthur

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

— Quentin Crisp

A mother holds her children's hands for a short while, But their hearts forever...

— Melchor Lim

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.

— Confucius

There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know.

— Jack Scalia

I'm so grateful that I have you as a daughter.

— Anonymous