Children Quote by Emma Straub Download Open image ““They were with their mother, and so they were acting like children.”” — Emma Straub ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children Mother Parenting
“I wasn't exactly good with children. I wasn't bad with them, as such. I just wasn't around them much and, because of that, when… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“I named those actions, they became part of me,as children do share the same blood and qualities with their parents... I think I have… — Bela Anĝelo Copy Share Image
“I was nothing to them. Just a toy, like Suit said. And they were like a bunch of bratty rich kids who knew that… — Skye Callahan Copy Share Image
“My mom always wanted a bunch of kids, but they stopped after me. I never understood why." His voice was wistful. Haven closed the… — j.m. darhower Copy Share Image
“Of course the children had exchanged labels with one another the second her back was turned. They were only human, even if they hadn’t… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“I looked at her from the corner of my eye. Some people are hard to imagine as children.” — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
“But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“...[their] children were not growing up or being brought up, but were tumbling up.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I had the strong sensation that I'd underestimated my parents and their devotion to me. Of course they'd be on my side, whether they… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
“Now whenever Franny or Jim spoke to someone who kept a car in Manhattan, they reacted with quiet horror, like people who’d been subjected… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“There was nothing in life harder or more important than agreeing every morning to stay the course, to go back to your forgotten self… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“Having a daughter whose company he actually enjoyed was one of Jim’s favorite accomplishments. The odds were against you, in all matters of family… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“Once Charles arrived, Franny would start laughing the way she had when she was twenty-four, and the rest of them could start setting one… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“Teenagers and younger children did not need to sit in business class, let alone first—that was Franny’s philosophy. The extra room was for people… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“What were parents anyway, except two people who had once thought they were the smartest people in the world? They were a delusional species,… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“It's a rental," I said, realizing when I said it that our house was the only rental on the block. Maybe something unseemly had… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“Timing was everything—that was more and more obvious the older you got, when you finally understood that the universe wasn’t held together in any… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth was happy in her marriage, she really was. It was just that sometimes she thought about all the experiences she’d never gotten to… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“It was crazy, what young people believed was possible, what so many earnest twenty-three-year-olds took for granted about the rest of their lives.” — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“...all she wanted was a button she could push to pause her age, just for a little while, a few years, while she got… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
My school was one of the most beautiful places a child can grow up in. You are surrounded by nature - cats, dogs, birds… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
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