Children Quotes · Page 727

The born-again gospel promises joy and peace of mind, but it does so by prolonging childhood.

— Robert M. Price

Remember when you were a child & getting the straw in your Capri Sun was the biggest struggle.

— Anonymous

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my…

— Paul Giamatti

My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.

— Louise Bourgeois

We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.

— Amilcar Cabral

I feel like someone who I wouldn't let my own daughter fuck, and I also feel like someone who, if I was…

— Marilyn Manson

“And although there were countless single dads who were raising daughters, no one could deny that there were milestones that a girl…

— Lisa Kleypas

Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childhood. I remember my dad playing some stellar…

— Daniel Breaker

I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able…

— Tamron Hall

“Teaching children is important for adults as well as children. As we tell children the stories of the faith, talk with them…

— Catherine Stonehouse

The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support…

— Martin Luther

The people who are on the front lines every day in hospitals, nurses, the people who are running clinics, the people who…

— Eve Ensler

For me, the greatest source of frustration was trying to work with a willful child when there was something else I wanted…

— Carolyn Hax

One may not be able to fulfill a fatherly role with one's own child, but on the other hand, and this goes…

— Mamoru Hosoda

I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love…

— Blanche Lincoln

Creativity is one of the most important brain functions in developing youth. It is the ultimate road to invention. I believe it…

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

Having to delete songs for making room in your iPod is like having to kill some of your children because you can't…

— Anonymous

One of the most striking things one finds about the child under 7-8 is his extreme assurance on all subjects.

— Jean Piaget

I can't stay out on the road and do all the stuff for days and days and days and leave my children…

— Sara Evans

As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world.…

— Jostein Gaarder

Teach your kids emotional intelligence. Help them become more evolved than you are. Explain that, for instance, not everyone will like them.

— Pamela Druckerman

Kids can relate to having some scary person living near their house. They can relate to, 'Hey, don't go near that house.'…

— Fred Willard

A man can only grow to a certain point when alone; to grow further you need some "irrational shocks", like a wife…

— Varg Vikernes

“God put the wiggle in children and our job as parent-educators is to work with it, not take it out of them.”

— Pamela Read Von Gohren

“The dominant view was that children were essentially defective adults. They were defined by the things they didn’t know and couldn’t do.”

— Alison Gopnik

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

— R. D. Laing

Children's books deal in idealized worlds, so they're a document of how our notion of ideal worlds has changed over time.

— Rumaan Alam

“They also learned that the very best way to start a marriage was with a good laugh. Particularly when the children start…

— Fannie Flagg

“there is no crueler or more inappropriate present to give a child than estrogen and a big pair of tits.”

— Caitlin Moran

“A ‘white’ kid that asks too many questions is called *curious.* A ‘black’ kid that asks too many questions is called *forward.*”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of…

— W. H. Auden

What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children…

— Mother Teresa

I tell the children I want everyone to love the life that they're in, to be who they are... and make it…

— Margaret Trudeau

God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's…

— Dikembe Mutombo

There's a few kids out there who like singing to my songs. They're, like, five, six, seven years old.

— Alice Merton

When you have kids you sometimes have to do things you don't want to but every single thing I do is for…

— Robert Snodgrass

Through [my children] patience, they're showing me how much they support what's going on, because I'm having to do a lot of…

— Erykah Badu

Sustenance for the infant and child is more than alimentary nourishment. The child needs love, security, narcissistic supplies -- however one may…

— Alexander Lowen

I want my children to have a normal life and not face racism and their children's children.

— Patrick van Aanholt

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what…

— Brené Brown