Children Quotes · Page 159

“Fear gripped me as my children and I arrived at the Ukraine-Moldova border crossing.”

— Kim De Blecourt

“as a child there was either books or pain. i chose books. -how i became a writer”

— Nayyirah Waheed

My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.

— W. P. Kinsella

Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.

— Elie Wiesel

Perhaps that is what it means to be a father-to teach your child to live without you.

— Nicole Krauss

Kids - black kids - are forced to grow up too soon.

— Russell Hornsby

“Kids learn not so much from what they're taught as from what they do.”

— Stephanie S. Tolan

The purest and ever lasting love is mothers love to her childrens.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.

— Patsy Kensit

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I experienced Nazism as a child. Like many of my generation, I was motivated by the desire to prevent another war at…

— Helmut Kohl

In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its…

— Barbara Kingsolver

When I had my first child, I went back to Ireland to live with my mother. So, a typical day there was…

— Roisin Murphy

We're all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to…

— Richard Bach

Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her. -Proverbs 31:28

— Bible

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

— E. M. Forster

“Babe, how can you can be so blind when your eyes are wide open?  Even if he wasn’t the coolest kid I…

— Harper Sloan

A family is not built just by marrying a woman and producing children. Family is built with a timeless sacrifice which must…

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

“As he bent closer, he realized they were words -- words his wife had carved into the cave ice with the last…

— Holly Black

“In Coffeeville, Miss., at 6 p.m., there was a golden light and a child swinging in it, swinging from a big tree,…

— Joan Didion

Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother,…

— David Henry Hwang

“They have to be born, you know," the Third Rail says. "They don't come from nowhere! When a child sits in her…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Christopher Westcott slowly drank his pint of ale at the Bird and Baby, as locals liked to call the Eagle and Child,…

— Melanie Dobson

“No one ever tells attractive children how much they suck, and then the rest of us get stuck with insufferable, narcissistic adults…

— Samantha Irby

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.

— Ibn Khaldun

My father is an engineer, and my mother raised the three children.

— Yasmine Hamdan

Kids on the set tend to be a pain, and if they're not, their parents are.

— Timothy Olyphant

Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.

— Janice Dickinson

“She became a frame for the picture that was her son and daughter.”

— Erica Bauermeister

“The best way for children to learn grammar is by making them habitual readers.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

— Alain de Botton

I do want to be there for my kids all the time but I do have a job to do though.

— Derrick Favors

I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.

— Rachel Roy

“From the distance of America my German childhood glows with colors of bliss.”

— Claudia Poser

If your child is more important than your vision of your child, life becomes easier.

— Sandra Dodd

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

— Celine Dion

“You can not lead a child to a place of healing if you do not know the way yourself.”

— Karyn Purvis

I prefer software where kids build something and run into problems they have to solve.

— Seymour Papert

Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.

— Uncle Kracker

But we're open to adopting any children that come to our door.

— Jen Lilley