Children Quote by Rick Stein

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly…

— Jodi Picoult

I don't want to speak for all people who don't have children, but maybe there's a discomfort with kids and the amount of attention…

— Shannyn Sossamon

It has been noticed that people who are not parents often have a peculiar fondness for children. This is sometimes attributed to a very…

— Angela Thirkell

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

— Anthony Powell

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

— Morley Safer

Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.

— Penelope Leach

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to…

— Beverly Cleary

Well, I think one of the big things wrong with kids these days, a lot of them don't have a family. A lot of…

— Rudy Boesch

Everyone's generation probably feels like they're parenting in a better way.

— David Sheff

Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

It's refreshing and weird when your kids get older and they're able to tell you how they feel and what they want.

— Tess Holliday

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit…

— Samuel Richardson