Children Quotes · Page 317

“As a scientist in the know, I am legally required to protect the next generation.”

— Steven Magee

The daughter of a good mother will be the mother of a good daughter.

— Vikrant Parsai

The difference between a child's toy and an adult toy is: location, location, location.

— Demetri Martin

Kids get very animated when it comes to food and it's nice to see how they react.

— Tom Aikens

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

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is…

— Russell Baker

God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna…

— Willie Aames

I never got to play as a child. All my spare time was spent working on my family's smallholding.

— Cornelia Parker

“You were a crushed and broken thing, like a butterfly crumpled in the hand of a child.”

— Pippa DaCosta

“Feed your child ideas of peace, harmony and compassion but at the same time give them courage to defend their identity and…

— Abhijit Naskar

What we love, we protect. This story will delight children and parents alike, who care for what they love.

— Zoe Weil

I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them.

— Elle Macpherson

I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on,…

— Mary Stewart

“Yet we need our elected representatives to remain connected to our everyday rhythms - of waking in the pale dawn to gently…

— Fleur Anderson

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that…

— Charles Lamb

“It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

“My dear Princess, if you could creep unseen about your City, peeping at will through the curtain-shielded windows, you would come to…

— Jerome K. Jerome

One of the reasons we experience so much difficulty with our gifts is that parents have thought their chief function in life…

— Elizabeth O'Connor

I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite…

— Malcolm McDowell

“You ignorant whelp. You dare to warn me away from her? I created her. Without my influence, Charlotte would be a bovine…

— Lisa Kleypas

“The love a parent had for a child, there is nothing else like it. No other love so consuming. No father-not even…

— Cassandra Clare

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

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

— Jen Lilley

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

— Uncle Kracker

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

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

— Alain de Botton

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

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

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

— Erica Bauermeister

“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

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

— Nicole Krauss

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

— Elie Wiesel