Children Quotes · Page 214

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

— A. S. Byatt

God is faithful even when his children are not.

— Max Lucado

“Every time you resist temptation you are winning for your children.”

— Joel Osteen

No parent should have their child die before he or she does.

— Phil Knight

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

— Aristophanes

“If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.”

— Cassandra Clare

“Your kids are little. Both their bodies and their brains are still growing. No”

— Thomas W. Phelan

If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.

— Phyllis McGinley

The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults…

— Bertrand Russell

“In 2800 BC, an Assyrian stone tablet lamented that “our earth is degenerate in these latter days . . . children no longer obey their parents.”

— Bradley R.E. Wright

“Better not to have anything. Not even love. If you got attached to something, it only got taken away. Child or adult.…

— Barbara Elsborg

Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

— August Strindberg

People wanted to make products based on our child's name, and you don't want anybody trying to benefit off your baby's name.

— Jay-Z

I always strive to set an example for my kids to work hard and develop a strong sense of work ethic.

— Natalya Neidhart

When I was doing 'The Prime Gig' with Vince, we played around so much that the director separated us like children!

— Romany Malco

I'm a great believer in telling my children about turning my life around and I work a lot with younger teenagers when…

— Gino D'Acampo

“I’m 30, and his daughter is 18. He said I was too old for her. So I asked him if I was…

— Jarod Kintz

We need to repent of our willing cooperation in our money-centered culture, which is depleting the natural resources that God designed for…

— Paul Brand

I started as a child, in this PBS series 'Voyage of the Mimi,' which led to driving down to New York for…

— Ben Affleck

I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But…

— BeBe Winans

“Each child has a spark of genius waiting to be discovered, ignited, and fed. And the goal of schools shouldn’t be to…

— Clark Aldrich

I heard the bells from the future churches, the children playing and laughing in the schoolyards [...] and here was an almond…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

This same formula by which Buddhists so anti-rationalistically and anti-banausically describe the "relation" between soul and body also applies to the relation…

— Kenny Smith

The darkness will over come the light,Our sins will over come us,Our inner demons will cover the inner child that hides in…

— Jasmine Laura

Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.

— John Locke

I think they look upon me as an old child, because I'm so little.

— Estelle Getty

What thing, in honor, had my father lost, That need to be revived and breathed in me?

— William Shakespeare

I've made my kids strong-willed and strong-minded where they know music from reality.

— Boosie

I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters.

— Aleksandar Hemon

I'm puttin' pressure on you kids like I'm a soccer mom.

— Vinnie Paz

“If you are really doing all this for your kids, then why are you so mean to them?”

— Dmitry Dyatlov

We have set up our home to be designed for taking care of children.

— Jim Bob Duggar

I miss being a child, the biggest conflict was always picking which crayon to use.

— Ali Schlachter

“There’s greatness in smallness. Just look into the eyes of a child.”

— Dean Henryson

My daughter gave me a whole new perspective.

— Amanda de Cadenet

That awkward moment when you see a 10 year old child with a better phone than yours.

— Anonymous

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree...

— Elizabeth George Speare

I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child.

— Rabindranath Tagore

But now I have a child, and it's the best thing in the world.

— Bridget Moynahan

Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.

— Maya Angelou