Childless Quotes
28 quotes by 27 authors
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
— Francis Bacon
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I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world,…
— Julianna Baggott
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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be…
— Lord Chesterfield
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If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing.…
— James Cameron
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I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
— Kate DiCamillo
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I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to…
— Carol Leifer
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If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and…
— Matthew Simpson
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Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.
— Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, I love children because they're so honest. There…
— Bill Cosby
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If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it.
— Daniel Keys Moran
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Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters;…
— Euripides
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All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!
— Euripides
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I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like…
— Sarah Paulson
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The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is…
— Chanakya
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This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most…
— Beth Ditto
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My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons.…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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You, what are you? The brat of lucky parents who were related to a childless king. There is no such thing as royal blood. I…
— Shannon Hale
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She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been caught…
— Louise Erdrich
Who Wrote These Childless Quotes
27 authors contributed a total of 28 Childless Quotes, led by these top contributors: