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Children Quotes by Gore Vidal
- I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then,…
- Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them…
- Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to any lively child…
- Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and…
- Never have children, only grandchildren.
- All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
- Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity…
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
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- 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
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon