Best Children Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I was a barefoot earth child for a couple of years.”

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Author:Isabel Lucas

“Mom worked with autistic children.”

Children Mom Autistic Autistic Children

Author:Isabel Lucas

“I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.”

Ifs World Believe Children Jobs Parent Pawns

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.”

Want Needs Writing Mind Children Helping Stories Pages Paint Short Story

Author:Jonah Lehrer

“Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.”

Mind Humans Children Games Difficult Human Beings Fantasy Particular Species Revenge Terrorist Checks Video Exacting Revenge Fabricate

Author:Alan Dean Foster

“As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.”

World Children Art Earth Joy Night Fall Natural Birth Species Falling In Love Touched Works Of Art Great Work Natural World Animated Day And Night Birth Of A Child

Book:The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age

Source: The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age

“Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.”

Giving Children Turns Space Rocks Particular Our Children Your Children Fishing Rough Yards Bugs Small Child Manicures

Author:Richard Louv

“I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.”

Want Children Kids Doctors Pediatrician

Author:Adriana Lima

“My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.”

Children Father My Children

Author:Lord Mountbatten

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

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Author:Lord Mountbatten

“I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.”

Ifs Thinking Children Littles Country Running Black Imagination Dark

Author:Malcolm McDowell

“At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.”

Children Stills Young Stage Involved Adults Young Adult My Children Grandchildren My Grandchildren

Author:Margaret Mahy

“I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.”

Thinking Feels Writing Wells Children Stories Age Young Groups Adults Young Adult Small Child

Author:Margaret Mahy

“I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.”

Writing Children Long Wanted Waiting Support Long Time Most Wanted

Author:Margaret Mahy

“I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.”

People Thinking Knows Children Kids Particular Actresses Bored Screwed Up

Author:Jodie Foster

“Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“Your children don't have to fear you to respect you.”

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Author:Michael Madsen

“Meth is too easy to make, and unfortunately right now all the ingredients need to make this highly addictive drug are legal and readily available to those who want to cook it up and sell it to our children.”

Want Needs Children Easy Right Now Drug Our Children Sells Available Cooks Ingredients

Author:Michael McCaul

“A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.”

“My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn’t achieve the things she wanted to.”

Children Wanted Young Mother Achieve Tension Having Children

Author:Natalie Merchant

“I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.”

Thinking Giving May Children Give Me True Happiness Pure Happiness

Author:Nicki Minaj

“I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.”

People Trying Children Speak Old People Profane

Author:Paula Malcomson

“We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.”

Children Play Mother Values Asks Nations Roles Building Duty Integrity Drama Equal Commitment India Constitution Complexes Loyalty Nation Building

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.”

Children Crazy Mom Late My Mom

Author:Jodie Foster

“I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.”

Children I Can Film Actors Wonderful Unhappy Wonderful Times Child Actors

Author:Roddy McDowall

“I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.”

Children Actors Study

Author:Roddy McDowall

“Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.”

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Author:Rudolph A. Marcus

“My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.”

Mind Children Today Violence Amount Today's Society

Author:Samantha Morton

“It's important to have masculine energy around your child.”

Children Important Energy Our Children Your Children Masculine

Author:Samantha Morton

“When I have a child, it will be probably become my whole life, so I don't want to have any regrets that I should have done more.”

Want Should Children Done Whole Regret Should Have Whole Life

Author:Sienna Miller

“I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.”

People Thinking World Children Ability Psychology Examining Prodigious Life Living

Author:Jodie Foster

“The one advice that I would give just to moms who have a child or a newborn is definitely sleep while the baby sleeps. I've heard that so many times. I never realized how true it really is. If you don't, you'll be walking around like a zombie.”

Ifs Giving Children Sleep Heard Advice Baby Mom Walking Zombie Newborn Sleeping Baby

Author:Tia Mowry

“Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time on. I'm usually on the Nickelodeon site, coloring with my little five year old or something.”

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Author:Todd McFarlane

“A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they’re trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that’s beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they’ve spent years just hanging out with adults and they don’t even have a sense of what it’s like to grow up with kids their own age.”

Trying Years Kind Children Feelings Might Kids Age Actors Grows Growing Up Adults Hanging Out Presentation Poise Child Actors

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.”

Knows Feels Children Great Things Ambitious Amelie

Author:Amelie Nothomb

“Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.”

Writing Years Children Lasts Regret Consumers I Regret Layman

Author:John Noble

“Lord Of The Rings fandom was massive, worldwide, entrenched. Generally it had been part of the fans' life all their life, because they had it read to them as children; they'd become Tolkien students.”

Children Lord Fans Students Rings Massive Fandoms

Author:John Noble

“I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.”

Children Saws Concerts Very Strong

Author:Bebe Neuwirth

“We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.”

Giving Children Our Children Hopeful Hopeful Future

Author:Giorgio Napolitano

“My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.”

Giving Children Father Pleasure Special One Day Treats Anxious Towers Chimes

Book:James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography

Source: James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography

“Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.”

Children School Opportunity Educational Access Our Society Adulthood Public School Equalizer

Author:Janet Napolitano

“People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.”

People Ifs Want Kind Children Kids Sake Make Sense Evasion

Author:Jeremy Northam

“When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like Madonna. It's not that I had this great idea. Actually, in my case, it was a great idea.”

Knows Children Book Ideas Names Chance Cases Great Idea Children's Books Good Chance

Author:Jo Nesbo

“There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.”

People Ifs Thinking Children End Times Spend Time Ceilings Music Business

Author:Juice Newton

“Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.”

Children Wish Born Optimism Simplicity Clarity

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really into beings who are at ease with themselves.”

Children Animal Adults Ease Children Love

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.”

Knows Children Problem Political Students College Stance

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.”

Children Only Child Youngest Child

Author:Paul Nurse

“More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care.”

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Author:Richard Neal

“I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.”

Way Want Children Made Decision Musician Conscious

Author:Stevie Nicks

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