Children Quotes · Page 891

Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal…

— Jonathan Kozol

And fathers are a blessing, too, they give the place a tone; In fact each child should try and have some parents…

— Louis Untermeyer

We Indians are musical- and dance-minded people. If a child is born or on a wedding, birthday, we dance. But when a…

— Waheeda Rehman

“You can't just go punching a bunch of kids in the face. Remember, you were once that kid looking for someone, anyone…

— Gabby Rivera

Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring.…

— Chinua Achebe

“That is the most godlike feeling a human can experience; being ignored by rebellious child.”

— Dennis Garvin

Daughters hate their mothers; I think it's the law of nature. But you know what? Then they come back.

— Camille

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much…

— Laura Miller

We thought the Duke would have been pleased if the King's Majesty would have married his daughter, but nothing came of that--'…

— Anonymous

My daughter doesn't want to go to school because she knows 'the men' are watching for her. They jump out of the…

— Halle Berry

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous…

— Adrienne Rich

“Invest your money and time acquiring knowledge for yourself... and the good news is that as you do so, you keep your…

— Israelmore Ayivor

My daughter is just as obsessed with playing in my makeup as everyone's daughter is. She paints our walls and herself and…

— Blake Lively

I was the youngest of the six kids, and to make my older siblings laugh, that was very important. I did a…

— Jim Gaffigan

Our Father, here I am, at your disposal, your child, to use me to continue your loving the world, by giving Jesus…

— Mother Teresa

“Our parents were our first gods. If parents are loving, nurturing, and kind, this becomes the child’s definition of the creator. If…

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better…

— Albert Einstein

There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your…

— Naomie Harris

Children are not their parents property, but when your parents treat you like property, it is attachment, not love

— Anonymous

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

— Cesare Pavese

[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with…

— Joan Crawford

I struggle with staying clean every day, and what really keeps me from doing something stupid is my daughter.

— Joshua Mohr

The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of…

— Amy Bloom

Even if abortion were made easy or painless for everyone, it wouldn't change the bottom-line problem that abortion kills children.

— Randy Alcorn

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ.

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

— Simon Callow

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

— J. B. Priestley

Every parent pursues the best possible opportunities for their child while climbing over obstacles and limitations each day. So in a way,…

— Andrew Yang

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

— Francine Pascal

The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it…

— Rachel Cusk

You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even…

— Robert Jordan

I have always been drawn to child-related causes. I find that people listen to me more when I advocate for children now…

— Jennifer Garner

And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to…

— Jean Webster

Demographers affirm that choosing to have a second child is already a potential choice in favour of a third.

— Vladimir Putin

A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

— Sylvia Plath

When you combine a Texas woman in a competition setting with her child, she gets very serious.

— Alyssa Edwards

Kids today are so intelligent and computer savvy, so pairing an interactive computer world with something cuddly seems like a natural fit.

— Ty Warner

Our child will not be raised in tissue paper! We don't even want her to hear the word princess.

— Juliana of the Netherlands

If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.

— Astrid Lindgren