Children Quotes · Page 629

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

— Rebecca West

“Mutual defensiveness moves parents and children away from intersubjective experience and joint influence and into a desire to gain control of the…

— Daniel A. Hughes

The top tip for parenting, especially for newly married couples or people trying to have a baby: you should want to have…

— Reham Khan

If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.

— Harvey Milk

“I just completed a long car trip on a Sunday in August with two small children, which believe me is enough to…

— Lev Grossman

I am a member of the 'sandwich' generation, that group that must simultaneously care for elderly parents and support children.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt.

— Simon Van Booy

I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I…

— Neil Gaiman

Giving birth to my daughter was certainly memorable, like a slap in the face. I arrived at the hospital in total denial,…

— Angela Scanlon

Let us pause before the Child of Bethlehem. Let us allow our hearts to be touched, let us allow ourselves to be…

— Pope Francis

Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds…

— Andrew Weil

“But even after all this time, he'd stupidly held out hope, hadn't he? He'd clung to the memories of their time together…

— Madeline Sheehan

Even if one child falls in a borewell, the entire country gets worried; we must generate more awareness about hundreds of children…

— Narendra Modi

The madhouse is in a lot of places, not just a hospital, not just a palace, but also a pattern woven from…

— Anonymous

“He looked up; Donder and Blitzen looked up at their bad child; Prancer, Dasher, Dancer, Cupid, and Comet looked up at their…

— Amelia C. Houghton

“If you come anywhere near my daughter, I will see to it that you are taken apart piece by bloody piece. Do…

— Neal Shusterman

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the…

— Masiela Lusha

“Almost without exception, they are men who dreamed of athletic heroism as children; becoming umpires was their compromise with their own lack…

— Thomas Boswell

Towards the end, one of them [children in "The White Queen"] was older than I was in real life.

— Max Irons

“She’d once asked Father if he was disappointed his only child was a daughter, and he had looked her in the eye…

— Erin Beaty

. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

— Anonymous

A little child paddles a little boat, Drifting about, and picking white lotuses. He does not know how to hide his tracks,…

— Bai Juyi

“Maybe this was the job of a mother: to buy time for her child, no matter what. Even if it meant doing…

— Jodi Picoult

I used to do semi-classical dance as a child; I did not have a choreographer, but my mother gave me a cassette…

— Shamna Kasim

“If children instead of adults would have contolled the world, then the world would have become a better place.”

— Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what…

— Mark Haddon

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

— Rand Paul

There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.

— Terry Pratchett

That's a powerful way to love, when you accept your children, however they emerge, with all their peculiarities.

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

Discipline doesn't break a child's spirit half as often as the lack of it breaks a parent's heart

— Discipline

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

— Clarence Darrow

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to…

— Vin Diesel

In the light of trust, as it develops slowly over time, you will find that you are a privileged child of the…

— Deepak Chopra

I was born in 1985 and during my short journey in this life, I have seen more than enough to understand that…

— Mattias Konradsson

We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be…

— Enid Blyton

It's much more work for the mother of an autistic child to have a job, because working with an autistic child is…

— Temple Grandin

“Mr. Gibbons had the talent that many puppeteers have of speaking to children as though he believed they were intelligent and could…

— Jesse Ball

“Would the child you were yesterday admire the person you are today? If not, adjust for desired results.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

If you talk to any senior Army leaders, you'll find one, if not all, their children are in the Army.

— Mark Esper

I don't dislike children, I just don't particularly want to be around with them a lot. Problem is, neither do their parents.

— Bill Maher