Children Quotes · Page 770

Because I didn't get a lot of encouragement in my childhood doesn't mean I have to be a failure now.

— Anonymous

“As I tell my children, 'If you are going to do something, do your best while you're doing it.”

— Michelle Moore

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have…

— Elizabeth Bowen

You know, you know, obviously, if my daughter's happy, you know, then I don't have any problem.

— Priscilla Presley

“Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi?”

— Lionel Shriver

I'm providing myself to my children. I'm loving them unconditionally, accepting them unconditionally.

— Nadya Suleman

I was a happy woman before I was married with children in my life, and had many great challenges.

— Asher Keddie

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

— Gustav Stresemann

None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time, not even when we try to understand…

— Anonymous

It hurts me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car, you can't do this. A car…

— Pope Francis

When children's children shall talk of War as a madness that may not be; When we thank our God for our grief…

— Robert W. Service

“No, I don’t actually want children,” I said. “I love taking care of the kids at school, but I don’t plan on…

— Callie Hart

“There were police everywhere, bustling back and forth, murmuring in the barely audible whisper used only by cops and children. There are…

— Seanan McGuire

“In the foundations of law, or mathematics, or science, or art, or child rearing,… [the] issues constitute a polarity extending from the…

— Silvan Tomkins

I'm a writer. I should be allowed to speak about my writing at times. And I'm really excited to speak about that.…

— Joseph Boyden

Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to…

— Aldous Huxley

“That's why we get the chance to spoil our grandchildren, because by doing that we're apologizing to our children.”

— Fredrik Backman

“We are bent on weakening bonds in the name of growth and independance,then spend out adulthoods wondering why we have trouble getting…

— Elizabeth Hormann

Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become…

— Michael Leunig

I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Do you know who taught the eagles to find their prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their…

— William Tyndale

I hope one of my fans has one of your kids shot: and blames it on acid, prozac, and slipknot.

— Immortal Technique

Women would rather go to their daughter's piano recital than stay all night at work, working on a proposal, because they're less…

— Gavin McInnes

I did some really bad plays at a children's theater in Kentucky where I'm from and went from there.

— Miles Heizer

My parents played the Bee Gees; Earth, Wind & Fire; Michael Jackson. The best pop music to infiltrate a child's mind.

— Borns

So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why.

— Paul G. Tremblay

I'm very privileged to have great parents, caring parents, parents that dedicate a lot of their time and energy to their children,…

— P.K. Subban

The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when…

— Anthony de Mello

“I can take care of myself, but I can’t take care of myself and a child. I’ve decided to give myself up…

— Jarod Kintz

“I am happy the leaves are growing large so quickly. Soon they will hide the neighbor and her screaming child.”

— Lydia Davis

If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them…

— Tori Amos

As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just…

— Augusten Burroughs

Lies beautifully wrapped in hypocrisy and denial to assuage a guilty conscience screaming like a spoiled child.

— Anonymous

Shout out to all the mothers who had to raise a child without a father, I watched my mom do it and…

— Anonymous

“The carriage lurches back and forth as the vehicle – the bastard child of a spider, a H. G. Wells war machine…

— Hannu Rajaniemi

“My parents’ marriage, begun with a pregnancy that produced a stillborn child, was itself stillborn—a union formed with expectation and promise that…

— Bridgett M. Davis

The punishment of being eldest son in family I endured, I wouldnever want my daughter to suffer like me.

— Mak_786

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Politics is the only realm where adults, ironically, vote to become immature children and elect their parents.”

— Mohammed Zaki Ansari

Night is a curious child, wandering Between earth and sky, creeping In windows and doors, daubing The entire neighborhood With purple paint.

— Frank Marshall Davis