Children Quotes · Page 798

“I was the first comic in world history, so they told me, to pick fights with children.”

— W C Fields

I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than…

— Stephen Chbosky

I don't want any memorials or a grave which my children would have to look after or feel guilty about. I don't…

— Naseeruddin Shah

I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or…

— Graham Norton

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to…

— Sigmund Freud

Oh, gosh, I have always been a huge fan of horror since I was a child. I know this is going to…

— Lydia Hearst

“I think that's why they have so many religious freaks in the airports...they even keep the flowers behind the counter. 'Go, go…

— Paula Poundstone

“Cheer up, my dear," said Rose, leaning affectionately on her husband's arm; "it is altogether addition and not subtraction; you have not…

— Martha Finley

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves…

— Patricia Sun

“If he tries this,” she says, “then half the people in the world will be against it.” He had only thought, and…

— Hilary Mantel

Prayer is spiritual communication between man and God, a two-way relationship in which man should not only talk to God but also…

— Billy Graham

“Fabian had succeeded. She caught his eye and the two of them shared a look; it was the kind of look children…

— Michelle Harrison

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after…

— Richard Holloway

I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many…

— Joan D. Chittister

There's nothing a well-regulated child hates somuch as regularity. I believe areally healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammarif only he might…

— Lewis Carroll

The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I'd like to think I've overcome. I was not a person that was supposed to survive New York City, that was ever…

— Shawn Colvin

I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are…

— Joan Didion

I never get tired of talking about food. I do getting tired of fighting governments when they are so clearly not putting…

— Jamie Oliver

I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away…

— John Lennon

My daughter, when she was younger, was crazy about 'The X-Files,' so I'd watch that with her.

— Scott Bakula

I have plans to send my little daughter and son into dancing because I'd love for them to enjoy it too.

— Kelvin Fletcher

Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.

— Louis Kronenberger

“The lactase-prolonging mutations conferred an enormous advantage on their owners, letting them leave ten times more surviving children than those without the…

— Nicholas Wade

People ask me whether I'd like another child, and it is difficult to answer, as I am so happy with the two…

— Louise Nurding

One child, One teacher, One pen and One book can change the world. Education is the only solution.

— Prince Khetran

Kids are more rewarding than anything in life. They are the most enthusiastic, honest people in the world. And so beautiful. They…

— Jim Nabors

“Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having. Never pretend that children, for instance, can be replaced by…

— Virginia Woolf

I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a…

— Terry Tempest Williams

But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop.

— Talib Kweli

“Dear Daughter, Do not seek help from anyone who cannot wait to see you on the brink of despair.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

— Gary Hamel

But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.

— Isaac Watts

[On sister Kim's pregnancy] The new year, we've got another child coming, so that's great. Kim's never had a baby, so it's…

— Rob Kardashian

I'd say I did a lot of what I did with songs like 'At My Best' was because of the influence of…

— Machine Gun Kelly

In general, Dutch children are taught not to depend too much on adults; adults are taught to allow children to solve their…

— Michelle Buteau

It is my children who have made all this possible. My children are my wealth; they are my strength.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because…

— Rudyard Kipling

Don't you think it's time we thought about the future? Whether our children are gonna be winners or losers

— Anonymous

I can inverse my style, cause I'm versitile. Quick to burst a child I'm livin worse than foul.

— Big L