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Best Child Quotes by Jodi Picoult
- As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero…
- Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing…
- When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because…
- The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you…
- I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters…
- I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of…
- Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.
- There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You…
- When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe…
- It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will…
More Child Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. — Gaston Bachelard
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that… — Enid Bagnold
- A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. — James A. Baldwin
- There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. — James A. Baldwin
- Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. — Honore de Balzac
- What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? — Honore de Balzac
- When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky… — Joyce Banda
- It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a child into… — Tyra Banks