Children Quotes · Page 337

It's easier to be the granddaughter of an icon than her daughter.

— Ginevra Elkann

Humorists always sit at the children's table.

— Woody Allen

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

— Clint Eastwood

“At an age when most children love to play with toys, he played with weapons.”

— Nawab Shafath Ali Khan

Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.

— Erica Bauermeister

It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.

— Blair Underwood

Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.

— Sally Phillips

“Percy wasn’t sure he’d heard her right. Annabeth was the perfect demigod child.”

— Rick Riordan

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job…

— Bill Hicks

Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

— Joan Crawford

“Bastard children were born from lust and lies, men said; their nature was wanton and treacherous." — Jon Snow”

— George R.R. Martin

“Although people all over the world pray in different ways, it is to each heart the most precious light.”

— Alexis York Lumbard

“We picked our noses as children in front of people without shame. Now we just do it in secret as adults.”

— Quinn Loftis

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

— Fran Lebowitz

It is my job to make sure that these kids who are talented get every chance they can and not to be…

— Paula Abdul

If you talk to any cop, however hardened, and say, "Has anything that's ever bothered you", they'll tell you about the death…

— Peter James

Human enhancement is now being driven by military imperatives, at least in the US, because civilian society is more conservative in its…

— Jessa Gamble

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far.…

— Donny Osmond

I was painfully shy as a child; I was dyslexic. I had a single mother who's an immigrant. I just didn't believe…

— Kaya Scodelario

I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they…

— Marva Collins

“Parents have a moral obligation to share knowledge about their child when that information could significantly benefit or protect the actual child,…

— Amy Fenton Lee

“Hip-hop has always been controversial, and for good reason. When you watch a children's show and they've got a muppet rapping about…

— Jay-Z

From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and…

— Alexander Graham Bell

“Once, [Rabbi Chanoch] Teller was traveling with 16 of his [18] offspring ... while changing planes in Frankfurt, Teller noticed a German…

— Lynn Vincent

I wanted to be an actor since I was a child.

— Sanjay Mishra

I would want to teach my children someday that they should strive to be successful.

— Michael Grimm

“Why does a man want his children to be better than himself?”

— Milton Mayer

You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We're all God's children. We are all special people, and the Pope is no different.

— Igor Babailov

“Wisdom is justified by all her children. Luke 7:35”

— Anonymous

My kids mean more to me than anything I thought was important when I was younger.

— Dolores O'Riordan

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

— Rosamunde Pilcher

Cats ... are like four-legged poster children for OCD.

— Caroline Knapp

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

— James Thurber

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.

— Guy Debord

I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.

— Peter Ustinov

All my children are blessings. I love them to bits. They're my world.

— Ronan Keating

Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.

— Bob Harper

“The birth of a child is a joy to the parent and the world.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The child weeps for its good and the old man for his ill.

— Vikrant Parsai