Children Quotes · Page 863

My priority in life has always been family. I actually think children teach you to be a man.

— David Essex

Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident

— Shannon Hale

I don't want my children to fallow in my footsteps, I want them to take the path next to me and go…

— Mommy

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.

— Thomas Nagel

Unless I have to, I can't take a job for the money. Unless my children are going to be out on the…

— Jean Smart

The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive

— Susan Smith

Shortly after my first daughter was born in 2007, we had to move into a homeless shelter.

— Stephanie Land

Growing up in the greater Toronto area, I was a happy kid. I was my mother's first child, surrounded by admiring godparents…

— Winnie Harlow

Scientists have one thing in common with children: curiosity. To be a good scientist you must have kept this trait of childhood,…

— Otto Robert Frisch

There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was…

— Christina Applegate

Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent.…

— Stephanie Coontz

The kids now, on "Junior," we educate the parents and it's quite a fascinating turnaround. You can just see the parents thinking,…

— Gordon Ramsay

I've never really been into flags of any kind, cause flags can bring people together, but they always bring people together against…

— Michael Franti

And so today, the undermining of the home and family is on the increase, with the devil anxiously working to displace the…

— Ezra Taft Benson

After all, by providing early access to medicine, nutrition and stimulation, early childhood development creates lifelong improvements in health, cognitive development, school…

— Shakira

Antiquity was often delighted to cast a halo of mythical glory around its illustrious names. The immortal works of this great philosopher…

— John William Draper

Since I had children, I cry all the time - I just had a little cry in 'Harry Potter And The Deathly…

— Hugh Dennis

The shenanigans of the kids, on and off the screen, they all fell in love with each other.

— Mary Ellen Trainor

Another important thing to learn is that kids have a personality that has nothing to do with you.

— Mila Kunis

I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell.

— Tamara Taylor

I had no confidence as a child; I still really don't. Acting is the only thing I've ever felt comfortable doing.

— Kaya Scodelario

Girls compete with each other. Women empower one another. Ladies, be like Christ and encourage one another as mature daughters of the…

— Anonymous

Things are different now. Kids grow up, mature. But for many, they're still going through it. Some people never change.

— Anonymous

Don't badger people without children into admitting the secret desire for children you're sure they have to you! Don't badger anyone! Leave…

— Mallory Ortberg

I would love four children because I have a very small family, so I want those big Thanksgiving dinners.

— Chrissy Teigen

Moses, who said to the children of Israel, Wear your galoshes; I never did this trick before. Never got a dinner!

— Red Buttons

“The ECLS data do show, for instance, that a child with a lot of books in his home tends to test higher…

— Steven D. Levitt

“A child knows how to image before he know how to reason. He is born with a naturally vivid and fertile imagination…

— Ursula Markham

There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a…

— Edward Lear

The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

As a child I learned what it meant to be persecuted. But, even then, at the worst of times, I knew there…

— Frank Lowy

Once you're a mom, whether you're kids are next to you or far away from you, you're always a mom.

— Vanessa Paradis

I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands…

— Jane Gardam

Someone please return my innocent childhood once again; I have forgotten (that/the) laughter with negligence.

— Mak_786

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.

— Hillary Clinton

When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less…

— Irwin Redlener

“...who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children's eyes...?”

— John Geddes

The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them-thus preserving the system.

— Quentin Tarantino

What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is…

— James Joyce

“Hey, ants!" she shouted. "Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food.”

— Emlyn Chand