Children Quotes · Page 510

“In Jacksonville, there are more childrenless children than fatherless children. Barely. But that’s one bad thing that’s actually a good thing.”

— Jarod Kintz

A woman plays many roles in her life. She is a daughter, a wife and a mother. Every woman obviously wants to…

— Anne Nwakama

Everything here is edible; even I'm edible. But that, dear children, is cannibalism, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.

— Johnny Depp

One [expert] said, 'Always have a baby sitter who is acquainted with your children.' If they were acquainted with my children, they…

— Phyllis Diller

There are so many instances where kids who have talent and intellect have to navigate the world of low expectations and resources.…

— Rick Famuyiwa

“Ψ Very young children often accept the paranormal as “normal” until we squeeze it out them. Ψ”

— Doug Dillon

There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

“The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.”

— Richard Llewellyn

“So Oz finally became home; the imagined world became the actual world, as it does for us all, because the truth is…

— Salman Rushdie

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury…

— E. B. White

My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped…

— Lorrie Moore

“And yes, women do it too – of course they do. The difference is that they haven’t been encouraged since childhood to…

— Robert Webb

In high school, I got into a speech class run by a nun who used to put on plays. She put me…

— Ed O'Neill

In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial…

— Walt Mossberg

“Lucy, a girl's name for Lucifer. That my mother would have found me devil-like did not surprise me, for I often thought…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“Nadine recruited one third of her daughters, sons and grandbabies into her religion. But not me I wasn’t going to fall for…

— Earl Johnson

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Is faith so cheap, my child? Faith is the last word. If one has faith, the goal is practically reached.

— Sarada Devi

“You stay home and raise daughters, who grow up and get jobs and then feel pity for you, their stay-at-home mothers.”

— Noah Hawley

This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave…

— Kinky Friedman

My father said, 'Let's raise our child in a paradise instead of a parking lot,' and that's what they did.

— Cree Summer

“Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it,”

— Gillian Flynn

Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.

— Murray Leinster

“The first of Sam and Rosie’s children was born on the twenty-fifth of March, a date that Sam noted.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Compared to the complexity of understanding grief, reading Foucault or Blanchot is like perusing a children’s picture book.”

— Rabih Alameddine

Educate yourself on what's going on around the world where children are dying. Educate yourself on what's going on in Africa.

— Sam Childers

When I was a kid, I wanted to be older but now all I want is to go back to my childhood.

— Anmol Andore

People don't think that leaving children alone is dangerous and therefore immoral. They think it is immoral and therefore dangerous.

— Kim Brooks

I will never regret being there for my children, watching them, making sure they'll be okay. But I might regret not being…

— Elizabeth Smart

“Truth was such a tricky thing when it came to children. When was it good medicine and when was it poison”

— Jane Roper

When you feel like you've done nothing right and every things going wrong just look into the faces of your children and…

— Nishan Panwar

Children who open their lunchboxes and find mothers' handwritten notes telling them how amazingly bright they are tend to falter when they…

— George Will

I think the U.S. needs a better safety net... If you're a single mum or even a dual-parent working family, what do…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Isn't it interesting how Christians are not afraid to teach their children about evolution?

— Ken Ham

I think that cakes should have touches of candy bar in order for it really to hit all those childhood notes on…

— Alex Guarnaschelli

Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for…

— Louise Slaughter

Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast - you do have a different type of childhood, that…

— Anonymous

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

— Don DeLillo

“I might PUNCH you instead and trust that you won’t punch me back because of my endearing smallness. It would be like…

— Laini Taylor

I want to have a go at presenting. As a child I was always filming my own TV shows with my sister,…

— Saara Aalto