Children Quotes · Page 241

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

— Plato

A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.

— Laura Schlessinger

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

— Anonymous

“Educate every child to have a good head, good heart and kind spirit.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“It is not natural to withhold love from a child.”

— Roberta Rich

I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once.

— John Hartford

Exposing children to nature, especially at an early age, keeps them grounded.

— Roshni Nadar

Too many mothers have lost their children, for thousands of different reasons.

— Debbie Reynolds

“Christians are famous for telling people to be "child-like" and yet one of the greatest qualities of a child (the never ending…

— D.R. Silva

Children die every day because millions of us tell ourselves that caring is just as good as doing.

— David Wong

“Leah" Olivia says quietly, "if you point at me again I'm going to break that manicured finger right off your hand. Now…

— Tarryn Fisher

A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in…

— Neal A. Maxwell

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

— Edith Sitwell

“If a deadly snake slithering around in a pre-school bit a child, would you box it up for a month as punishment,…

— Edward M. Wolfe

“I realized that Sandra and I had been getting social mileage out of our children’s good behavior, and, in our eyes, this…

— Stephen R. Covey

Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts…

— Ezra Jack Keats

So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle…

— George Orwell

Productive collaborations between family and school, therefore, will demand that parents and teachers recognize the critical importance of each other's participation in…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

School doesn't teach you the three most important things in the world: how to have relationships, how to raise children and, most…

— Clive Stafford Smith

The people themselves begin to clamour for an education which shall qualify their children for life rather than for earning a living.…

— Charlotte Mason

“As long as you're around, your life is too. So just as you shower love and affection and attention on the husbands,…

— Cecelia Ahern

We won't win every battle. We won't save every child. But together we can be the standard bearers of human dignity by…

— Joia Mukherjee

A lot of times I play the villain or the comic relief, and I get to kind of play the comic relief…

— Missi Pyle

“Let's hope your lion has some brains, otherwise your child will be a dimwit.”

— Ilona Andrews

“To be the best possible role model to your child, is close to godliness”

— Thabiso Monkoe

I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.

— Alber Elbaz

My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.

— Malik Jackson

My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.

— Elena Roger

I don't have children, but we all want to protect whatever we love in life.

— Shirley Henderson

I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.

— Anne Rice

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

— Julia Cameron

“Ruby nodded, knowing the bond of having a daughter would always keep them in contact.”

— Caroline Mitchell

I want to have daughter, and if I do, I want to make sure she learns ballet.

— G-Dragon

Beautiful eyes are those that show the beautiful thoughts that burn below.

— Ellen Palmer Allerton

“Olive had great courage. Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.”

— steinbeck, John

I feel like the best kids shows aren't just for kids.

— Alex Hirsch

“Down the steps, ...over the corpses, ...careers the pram with the child.”

— Sergei Eisenstein

I've done all sorts of children's things before, but none as big as 'Harry Potter.'

— John Hurt

“Children need fairy tales because they can see only black and white.”

— Teresa Jordan