Children Quotes · Page 845

When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.

— Maria Lassnig

Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.

— Lisa Unger

“Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.”

— Heather O'Neill

To bring up a child well, all a parent needs to do is be extremely honest with the child.

— Sushmita Sen

Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I admit I feel funny when I use the word 'whom' as I'm talking to my diapered children, but I persist.

— Faith Salie

Every time I went to the doctor when I was in my twenties, he repeated the same thing to me: don't wait…

— Janine di Giovanni

If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.

— Jackie French

It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal…

— Walt Whitman

“Children, even when very young, have the capacity for inventive thought and decisive action. They have worthwhile ideas. They make perceptive connections.…

— Lori McWilliam Pickert

I think people who are horrifically abused as children and then start to repeat the same thing to their own offspring or…

— Rupert Wyatt

We have to get children to understand that not only do they have this incredible uniqueness, but they also have something that…

— Leo Buscaglia

The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet,…

— Carson Grant

We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd…

— Robert Stack

Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday…

— Dalton Trumbo

“I thought you wanted to help the child. I’ll help her to help herself. That is my way.”

— Terry Pratchett

Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.

— Seth MacFarlane

The thing with children is they're a bit like baking a fruitcake: you throw all the ingredients in but you never know…

— Len Goodman

We don't want to raise sheltered children. They should see different parts of the country, and they should experience things.

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure…

— James Cash Penney

Jesus could get on Twitter and be like 'fear not, child. I know for a fact that your going to heaven!' and…

— Anonymous

Learning what's happening in children's digital life is the best way to ensure that they're safe.

— Dido Harding

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a…

— Oprah Winfrey

Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.

— Victoria Principal

[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

— Albert Bandura

“All my internal women and children wanted to create greatness. They held my spiritual bones wherever I was, all that time.”

— Tsholofelo Lehaha

They say you can only fall in love once, but that's not the case,every time I look into my sons eyes, I…

— Channel Doherty

The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I don't know any woman who has a simple relationship with their mother or with their daughter.

— Greta Gerwig

A real mother sticks with her child and accept the responsibilities if making one. I loathe seeing a deadbeat mom.

— Anonymous

All parents remember the moment when they first held their children - the tiny crumpled face, an entire new person, emerging from…

— Charles C. Mann

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I…

— William Butler Yeats

I think, as kids, everyone is fascinated with dinosaurs. I definitely was. It is the ultimate big, huge, monster.

— Brian Tee

I think, having kids, I really care more about the world. I'm not just caring about myself.

— Susan Tedeschi

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

— George Bernard Shaw

George Gervin was my childhood idol since I was little. In Oakland I had all his posters on my wall.

— Gary Payton

We believe that the real child-care experts are mom and dad. That's why we brought in the universal child care benefit way…

— Pierre Poilievre

Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is…

— Arnold Palmer

I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and…

— Jessica Biel