Children Quotes · Page 210

I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt,

— Ann B. Davis

“Education is the second food a parent can give a child.”

— Uzoma Nnadi

Encourage kids to be creative without worrying about being perfect.

— Dav Pilkey

Policies on children and child care are the most effective investment for the future.

— Fumio Kishida

I didn't have children because I was passionate about having my career.

— Anita Dobson

“Do you like kids? Only with barbecue sauce.”

— Eileen Cook

I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence.

— Robin Williams

Only three types of people tell the truth: Kids, the drunk, and the angry.

— Elizabeth Reyes

“Shira turned and blew kisses toward her clients who had pressed their faces against the salon window like children in a candy…

— Terri Gillespie

A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children.

— Victor Hugo

It's interesting to think that my children know more about the process than many mature critics.

— William Monahan

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children…

— Tom Lantos

I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it…

— Joanne Harris

You know you're a mother when the smallest wimper from your child can wake you from a dead sleep.

— Linda Poindexter

“Then I said, “I covet truth; Beauty is unripe childhood’s cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want my daughter to grow up with some kind of ambition. I want her to work and to have that independence.

— Laila Rouass

“The goal of parenting is to create self-sufficient virtues in children. Applying external pressure and punishments tends to teach them fear-based compliance…

— Stefan Molyneux

As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative…

— John Burnside

What could you do better for your children and your children's children than to record the story of your life, your triumphs…

— Spencer W. Kimball

“While they suffered an irreparable loss, my children are still fortunate. Nothing will bring their father back, but our circumstances have softened…

— Sheryl Sandberg

It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic…

— Danielle Steel

I would want America to know our kids need us. Spend as much time with your kids as you can. Enjoy them.…

— Tony Dungy

Kids clearly help center you because you can't impress your kids. People are like, "Oh, are they so excited because you're Ironman?"…

— Don Cheadle

I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood,…

— Michael Gove

Traveling with children corresponds roughly to traveling third class in Bulgaria.

— Robert Benchley

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

God's children have a limitless supply of the fruit of the Spirit.

— Anonymous

The time I spend with my kids informs every fiber of who I am.

— Annette Bening

I am a lesbian. I am married to a woman. We have a child. We have a family.

— Lori Lightfoot

Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.

— John Milton

“There is no amount of love that is worth the life of a child.”

— Abdulazeez Henry Musa

I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.

— Robert Altman

As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots.

— Reggie Watts

My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.

— Tamara Mellon

We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

As the children get older and know what they want ... We all grew up at one point.

— Fetty Wap

“To every child who waited for a savior that never came.”

— J.B. Salsbury

“If you want your children to chase their dreams, show them how.”

— A. Sanders

I'd never hurt a woman or a child. It's just not in me.

— Richard Kuklinski

The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature.

— Phyllis McGinley