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Children Quotes by Anna Quindlen
- Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.
- Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
- I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like…
- I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future.
- This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older.
- When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.
- We are writers. We danced with words, as children, in what became familiar patterns. The words became our friends and our companions, and without even…
- Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was 13 years old…
- The dark aftermath of the frontier, of the vast promise of possibility this country first offered, is an inflated sense of American entitlement today. We…
- Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently…
- My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a sea of infinite…
- All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.
- I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough…
- Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they…
- If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes.…
- Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules…
- I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for…
- A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a woman of forty-six…
- This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.
- Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.
More Children 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
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough