Children Quotes · Page 215

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

— Joan Rivers

Every time I visit Brisbane, I think, 'This is my childhood.'

— Michael Connelly

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

— Michael Morpurgo

I have a very open line of communication with both my children.

— Gloria Estefan

“Children only have one shot at their childhood, make the most of it.”

— Asa Don Brown

Lord that she might be safe. She and my children.

— Diana Gabaldon

If you raise your daughter as a diamond, she will become a glass as a wife.

— Vikrant Parsai

Now you have kids that say, 'I wanna be Torii Hunter one day.' Man, I love that.

— Torii Hunter

But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.

— Isaac Watts

“Dear Daughter, Do not seek help from anyone who cannot wait to see you on the brink of despair.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

I'd say I did a lot of what I did with songs like 'At My Best' was because of the influence of…

— Machine Gun Kelly

[On sister Kim's pregnancy] The new year, we've got another child coming, so that's great. Kim's never had a baby, so it's…

— Rob Kardashian

Although I started writing children's books before I had kids, my approach changed after I became a dad.

— Tom Fletcher

Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked.

— Anna Quindlen

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the…

— Anonymous

Dads, is it too bold to hope that our children might have some small portion of the feeling for us that the…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

I'd got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don't mention…

— Denise Van Outen

“To the end of her life, to the last dream of old age, Syeira would always remember these two wild smells-the Arva…

— Jamieson Findlay

For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we…

— Carl Sagan

In childhood period we always wanted to grow fast but now while we are big, we realize that broken pencils and incomplete…

— Unkown

“THE SENTIMENTALIZATION OF CHILDHOOD has produced a great many paradoxes. The most curious, however, may be that children have acquired more and…

— Jennifer Senior

“I knew there was something holding me here. It wasn't paprikash. Or nostalgia for my meager childhood... ...Somewhere in me a nearly…

— Andrei Codrescu

If in the past, you didn't cry out when thousands of protesters were killed and injured by Turkey, Egypt and Libya, when…

— Hillel Neuer

“I never saw so much expression in an inanimate thing before, and we all know how much expression they have! I used…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Sometimes I would like to be a child again, and other times a woman made of snow.”

— Deirdre Sullivan

Hurts of childhood live on; in one form or other they are there to the end.

— Susan Glaspell

“From childhood you have know the Holy Scriptures. – 2 Timothy 3:15”

— Robert J. Morgan

You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.

— Lucille Clifton

I want my daughter to see a strong woman who goes after what she wants.

— Giada De Laurentiis

I've always felt that kids are really smart.

— Michelle Trachtenberg

Today's consumerism has changed things. I think children are much less creative now.

— Giovanna Cau

I have been exposed to the Afghan culture since childhood.

— Mukul Dev

Having kids makes you think about the world differently.

— Tony Fadell

Kids with low self esteem think this everyday

— Anonymous

I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.

— Nadia Giosia

An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.

— Gaston Bachelard

“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.”

— Roger Lewin

You want to do everything you can so your child has every tool to succeed.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

“Mothers show their daughters how to become strong, fathers make them”

— Rafia Shujaat

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

— Mencius