Children Quotes · Page 787

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

— Katharine Whitehorn

“... in the world, it will be women, mostly colored and poor. women will have to bury children, and support themselves through grief.”

— Suheir Hammad

It is important for children to understand that some of the disappointment their parents feel for them is often really the parents'…

— David Viscott

The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it…

— Rachel Cusk

Our child will not be raised in tissue paper! We don't even want her to hear the word princess.

— Juliana of the Netherlands

Kids today are so intelligent and computer savvy, so pairing an interactive computer world with something cuddly seems like a natural fit.

— Ty Warner

When you combine a Texas woman in a competition setting with her child, she gets very serious.

— Alyssa Edwards

A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

— Sylvia Plath

You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash,…

— Jodi Picoult

There's now, for the first time, a huge gulf between the artefacts of our everyday life and what even a single expert,…

— Martin Rees

The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

My imagination was really hyperactive as a child and animated. I had those elements, but as you live and go through the…

— Wes Bentley

So, what we do in Love Dare for Parents is walk through the principles that help you win the hearts of your…

— Alex Kendrick

“Ritual abuse is highly organised and, obviously, secretive. It is often linked with other major crimes such as child pornography, child prostitution,…

— Laurie Matthew

The biggest thing this has in common with almost all of our records is the dualities are still there. We kind of…

— Patterson Hood

Tina Fey, a performer and head writer for 'Saturday Night Live,' has deftly adapted Rosalind Wiseman's nonfiction dissection of teenage girl societal…

— Elvis Mitchell

I have always been drawn to child-related causes. I find that people listen to me more when I advocate for children now…

— Jennifer Garner

You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even…

— Robert Jordan

Demographers affirm that choosing to have a second child is already a potential choice in favour of a third.

— Vladimir Putin

And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to…

— Jean Webster

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ.

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

Even if abortion were made easy or painless for everyone, it wouldn't change the bottom-line problem that abortion kills children.

— Randy Alcorn

Every parent pursues the best possible opportunities for their child while climbing over obstacles and limitations each day. So in a way,…

— Andrew Yang

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

— Francine Pascal

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

— J. B. Priestley

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

— Simon Callow

There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your…

— Naomie Harris

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

— Cesare Pavese

Children are not their parents property, but when your parents treat you like property, it is attachment, not love

— Anonymous

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better…

— Albert Einstein

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much…

— Laura Miller

Daughters hate their mothers; I think it's the law of nature. But you know what? Then they come back.

— Camille

The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of…

— Amy Bloom

I struggle with staying clean every day, and what really keeps me from doing something stupid is my daughter.

— Joshua Mohr

[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with…

— Joan Crawford

Children of polygamists besides being equally as bright and brighter intellectually, are much more healthy and strong.

— George Q. Cannon

It's a dilemma for every modern parent - how to keep children safe on social media without monitoring their every post.

— Michael Portillo

“Every time we replace anger with empathy and caring, we help a child become better prepared to make wise decisions.”

— Jim Fay

On 'Voice Kids' we were always so conscious to really take care of the kids and their families throughout the process. But…

— Emma Willis