Quotes About Children & Childhood – Page 8 | GloryQuotes

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

Margaret Spellings

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

Sanford I. Weill

We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

Mark Kennedy

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

John Irving

I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Henry Ward Beecher

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.

Keith Henson

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

Ramakrishna

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

Havelock Ellis

40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.

Tom Lantos

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

John Engler

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

Truman Capote

A man growing old becomes a child again.

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

Constance Baker Motley

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

Martin Lewis Perl

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

Otto von Bismarck

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

Lillian Hellman

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.

Leon Kass

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

Carter Burwell

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.

Moshe Dayan

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

Peter Shaffer

I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.

Bill Griffith

The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers.

Geraldo Rivera

If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

Pat Robertson

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

Cesare Pavese

If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.

Paul Ryan

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

Barbara Walters

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

Daniel Libeskind

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

James M. Barrie

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

Alan Bennett

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

Lord Mountbatten

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

Jack Valenti

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

Mary Wesley

It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.

James Cash Penney

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

Christopher Dodd

No one can keep a secret better than a child.

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

Barbara Bush

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

William Feather

Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.

James S. Coleman