Children Quotes · Page 866

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother

— Voltaire

I love holi. Since childhood I have been such a holi fan, but obviously as we grow a little matured you understand…

— Rahul Vaidya

Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.

— Whoopi Goldberg

People say, 'Oh, to be the daughter of Picasso!' But it's not as extravagant as it seems. He was very special, very…

— Paloma Picasso

I think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children.

— Amanda Peet

Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners.

— Anna Paskevska

I was very introverted as a child and as an adult. But something inside told me that I needed to express myself,…

— Deepti Naval

I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't…

— Florence Griffith Joyner

“For years I've kept you in secret, behind a glass screen. I've watched helplessly as day after day, your new girlfriend becomes…

— Lang Leav

“Why? When I, myself do not believe? "Because,"explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination.…

— Betty Smith

“Little children gladly accept even the strangest stories that others tell them, because they lack either the context or the confidence to…

— Orson Scott Card

I was one of six children, brought up by my mother in Swindon after my father died. We had all we needed…

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

My children have helped give me purpose and made me a better lawyer. They have shown me the power of choosing life.…

— Leslyn Lewis

“My brothers’ faces haunt me. I hear their children, my nieces and nephews, asking me why I came home without their daddies.…

— Kevin Wallis

It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I have been blessed in my career and I was able to afford the extra procedures and everything to have my children.…

— Cindy Margolis

Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.

— Shelby Steele

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

— Nora Ephron

I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my…

— Leonard Cohen

Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So…

— Mother Teresa

“Like it or not,” he said, “you're still his daughter. Run from it, spit on it, that’s your choice. Those of the…

— Ilona Andrews

I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children…

— Rachel Nichols

I was an only child and was obviously really bored, so I would entertain my parents by imitating cartoon voices like Scooby…

— Justin Timberlake

“Jobs expressed regret that he hadn’t been a better father. He wished he better understood his daughters.”

— Yukari Iwatani Kane

Alf Wight was remarkable, and I keep in touch regularly with his children Rosie and Jim, I love them dearly and I…

— Christopher Timothy

Empowering women by allowing them to choose when and how many children to have is not only the right thing to do,…

— Mike Quigley

“When a child receives the message, even subtly or indirectly, that his emotions don't matter, he will grow up feeling, somewhere deep…

— Jonice Webb

Me whole life, me whole childhood, me whole growing up, the competitions I went for and the weekends doing the dancing and…

— Nicola Roberts

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

— Patrick Stewart

The American dream has always been about chasing opportunity and pursuing a brighter future for ourselves and our children.

— Jay Inslee

When my first daughter was born, I had to figure out a new way of [making music] so that I wouldn't wake…

— Jason Schwartzman

Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of…

— Nita Lowey

Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.

— Germaine Greer

I watch 'Sons of Anarchy' and 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Walking Dead' and think, 'I want to create that kind of…

— Michael Easton

Nutritious meals, including lunch in school, and daily physical exercise, are essential for children and adolescents.

— Margaret Cuomo

By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their…

— Benjamin Rush

Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.

— Bruce Dickinson

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

— Bertrand Russell

When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's…

— Chelsea Clinton

The Children's Justice Campaign reminds us of our sacred obligation as adults to raise ourselves into consciousness so that our children may…

— Shefali Tsabary