Children Quote by Salman Rushdie

Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on…

— Iain Duncan Smith

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as…

— Alice Walker

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To…

— Jeremy Northam

I was an only child growing up, and my father passed away when I was twelve, so for most of my life, it was…

— Annie Wersching

Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was…

— Johnny Cash

Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

— Mike Huckabee

“Parents rarely let got of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.”

— Mitch Albom

As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper…

— Lewis H. Lapham

That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up

— Walt Disney

As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the key to…

— Jonathan Lethem

If our society were truly to appreciate the significance of children's emotional ties throughout the first years of life, it would no longer tolerate…

— Stanley Greenspan

As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of…

— Robin G. Collingwood

Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and I knew…

— Lorraine Toussaint