Children Quotes · Page 766

I've learned... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.

— Andy Rooney

I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.

— John Lydon

Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

— Eric Hoffer

I can't imagine that my children would have fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health care.

— Cecile Richards

“My uncle knows you won’t move against him while he holds the child,’ said Laurent. And then, calmly, steadily, ‘So we get…

— C.S. Pacat

I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.

— Elie Wiesel

I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of…

— Jodi Picoult

“compulsion to direct the attention of others is one of the first cognitive traits that emerge during childhood development that is truly…

— Svante Pääbo

I feel comfortable singing in the great cathedrals of the world because I spent so much time as a child singing in…

— Jessye Norman

What could ever be a sufficient reason for excusing in any way the direct murder of the innocent? This is precisely what…

— Pope Pius XI

“Now that Olive was grown, I didn't know what to do with myself. You could build your life around one single thing,…

— Michael Lee West

They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved in what to…

— Dorothy H Cohen

“And one day I got it. I lifted my head from the child's chest I was listening to and realized, with a…

— Sarah Blake

Raising children is like a hit and run. You've been hit, you can't flag the person down, you're wounded and you don't…

— George Newbern

I think there is a lot to be said for the respect that our parents had for children, and for my brothers…

— Rory Kennedy

I first got interested in music as a toddler by my childhood babysitter, Rosetta Atkins. She taught me how to sing by…

— Wendy Starland

“…the challenge in following childrens' conversational twists is the leading cause of brain-cell loss in mothers.”

— Candice Speare

My husband and I believe that if you treat a child well and nurture his talent and physical ability, in a healthy…

— Dominique Moceanu

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

— Michael Morpurgo

Do not look for signs. Do not look for experiences. Do not be so complicated. Become like a child. See everything with…

— Robert Adams

A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and…

— Joan Rivers

I don't think parents always know where their children are going or what they are doing, what they are up to.

— Nicholas Hoult

“In a real sense, all of us are “the parents” of all young children - because we help shape the culture and…

— Sydney J. Harris

When I was a child, I acted like child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

— Shane Smith

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will…

— Frank Pittman

The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot…

— Henri Matisse

When we call on God, he bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little…

— Elizabeth Charles

“As a child, I was afraid of the dark and the monsters on the outside. As a man, I run away from…

— Anthony Liccione

“A mother made a deal with her daughter, "You teach me Snapchat. I will not bother you on Whatsapp.”

— Bhavik Sarkhedi

Just be loving. You also have to recognize that you need to take the focus off yourself and put it on your…

— Benjamin Bratt

“They always wanted to do it for the children. But they never do, turns out, and the children go home crying, not…

— Douglas Wilson

“People want to come home to the church of their childhood without having to leave their adult selves behind.”

— Gloria Steinem

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into…

— Albert Einstein

The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.

— Czeslaw Milosz

I don't know if I was funny as a child, though I always thought my parents really enjoyed listening to me sing.

— Pippa Evans

My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having…

— Paloma Faith

Before I had children, I was - everything about my life was devoted to "Saturday Night Live."

— Maya Rudolph

Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

— Amy Tan

“Soon we will not need people anymore, as everything will be done by automatons, including bringing up children.”

— Andrius B. Tapinas

How we treat our parents teaches our children how to treat us...and the circle of life continues.

— Jordan Blake Michiels