Children Quotes · Page 826

I think what we've done is given children a lot of things that they didn't ask for instead of what they do…

— Marva Collins

It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.

— Dave Grohl

When children are ready to talk, that is the time for parents to listen, regardless of the hour.

— Delbert L. Stapley

Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

— Nora Ephron

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who…

— Robert Breault

After 14 months of military service, I had a wife, a child, half an apartment, no car, and no job.

— Charley Pride

If the world does need to repopulate at some point, the announcing team of Rob Lowe and Sofia Vergara, I think, would…

— Jon Stewart

Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

— Vivek Shraya

“If I, the daughter of a physician, had been prepared for the medical side of pregnancy and childbirth, I was completely dumbfounded…

— Ree Drummond

So many of us limit our praying because we are not reckless in our confidence in God. In the eyes of those…

— Oswald Chambers

I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised…

— Hugo Chavez

Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we are born…

— Harper Lee

The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that.…

— Alice Walker

I'm an only child, so I don't come from a big family. But it has been my observation from friends who do…

— Ayanna Pressley

It seems clear to me that marriage ought to be constituted by children, and relations not involving children ought to be ignored…

— Bertrand Russell

The labor part wasn't so great, but seeing [my daughter] for the first time was pretty awesome. I mean, how does it…

— Cassandra Peterson

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become,…

— Pope John Paul II

Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so.

— Chris Murray

If you are God's child, you are no longer bound to your past or to what you were. You're a new creature…

— Kay Arthur

Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more.

— Loris Malaguzzi

Well, what are we waiting for? ...She said 'children.' I bet that's anyone under a couple of centuries old. Let's go.

— Donita K. Paul

Christmas has always been very special to all of us and we used to look forward to the Christmas holidays. Those were…

— Rituparna Sengupta

We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.

— Bill Drayton

Personally, I don't claim to be a great director. My films are made for children, not intellectuals.

— Priyadarshan

In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my…

— Anonymous

My own schooldays convince me that I would not send a child of mine to be educated by a grinning monk any…

— Harry Enfield

Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.

— Katharine Anthony

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won't do it.

— Angelina Jolie

I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.

— Jean Paul Gaultier

I think it's very wrong to be an unwed mother. You give your child the stigma of illegitimacy.

— Zeenat Aman

Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

— Jeannette Walls

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a…

— George Miller

We have found fathers and grandfathers of children with autism are more likely to be engineers.

— Simon Baron-Cohen

“. . . I suppose one starts out, as a child, being romantic and dreaming of adventure. Poetic. Then reality comes along,…

— Roberta Pearce

When your children are young you want to protect them from the world. When they're teenagers, you want to protect them from…

— Rock Cowles

Child: Why on this night do we eat Hot Fudge Sundaes? Adult: To remind us that being Jewish is like having your…

— Jon Stewart

It's like having children. You give birth, but then they take on a life of their own. That's what actors do for…

— Kelly Masterson

I was raised a black child in the South, where you're indoctrinated into a religion that an oppressor gave you.

— Killer Mike

You cannot wipe out Dalit's poverty just by embracing poor children and spending nights in their huts.

— Mayawati

“Sometimes, I think I was a child made of that swirling snow, borne of parents who faded into the mountains like ghosts…

— Moira Katson