Children Quotes · Page 115

“One of the worst things about burying a child is the stress of wondering.”

— Leslie A. Gordon

Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child.

— Wes Fesler

Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.

— Caroline Pratt

I too have daughters, and it saddens me that people think of daughters as a burden.

— Milkha Singh

The maester smiled...Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can…die as I please.

— Anonymous

The person that inspired me throughout most of my childhood was Angela Bassett.

— Teyonah Parris

So many of these former child actors and actresses seem to go off the rails.

— Sarah Harding

Even as a child, I told my whole family how to improve their looks.

— Jil Sander

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

— Kathleen Turner

Symbolic racism is hurtful and it is especially hurtful to Black children who get called Black Pete in school and grow up…

— Roger Ross Williams

Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.

— Elizabeth Bishop

We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.

— Maria Montessori

Our children are the living messages we send to a future we will ever see... Will we rob them of their destiny?…

— Elijah Cummings

I have a dream! Someday I'll show my children a map. I will tell them, 'Mommy was here and here and there…

— Katy Tur

I know that from my own experience, after I had my daughter Kelly, I felt great. I just wanted to get back…

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation…

— Alison Gopnik

We talk about God as though he was like a somebody. We ask him to bless our nation, or save our Queen,…

— Karen Armstrong

“For the first time in my life I begin to understand how a parent might hit a child ..it’s because you can…

— Jodi Picoult

High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to…

— Samuel Johnson

“The children you don’t especially need, you have always with you, like the poor. But the bright ones get away from you.…

— Willa Cather

I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and…

— Frederick Douglass

Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an…

— Gary Bauer

My daughter is the biggest gift; I've said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about…

— Geri Halliwell

My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination,…

— John Lewis

Most parents don’t know really their children.

— Otto Frank

He gambled all his life, he's got 27 children, yet he's never had a wife.

— Bob Dylan

I was, like, a really embarrassing, precocious child.

— Hailey Gates

Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

— Gary Ackerman

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

— Jack Prelutsky

There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.

— Anonymous

It's sad when marriages don't work out but having no children made separating easier.

— Rahul Roy

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

— Robert Benchley

“...But the child's sob in silence curses deeper / Than the strong man in his wrath.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I'm a weirdo and an only child. That comes together to create one-woman shows.

— Amanda Seales

“Children are barometers of the chaos that exists within their lives.”

— Asa Don Brown

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

— Anthony Horowitz

.my mom did not gave birth to a child.. she gave birth to a LEGEND.

— Megz

I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England.

— Theresa May

I am the eldest child; it's lonely at the top.

— Claire Denis

Being a mother means your wants come last and your child's needs comes first.

— Anonymous