"Children" Quotes . Top 30 Short Quotes About "Children"

"Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children."

--- A. E. van Vogt

#Book #Males #Ends

"When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost."

--- A. H. Almaas

#Values #Self Esteem #Oneself

"To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris."

--- A. J. Liebling

#Thanks #War #Made

"There is nothing like the love or a child."

--- A. J. McLean

#Children

"I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?"

--- A. J. P. Taylor

#Answers #Happened #Historian

"It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics."

--- A. N. Wilson

#Organised #Remarkable #Dictatorship

"Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable."

--- A. P. Herbert

#Behavior #Gentle #Found

"The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child."

--- A. R. Rahman

#Branches #Rooted #Children

"A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children."

--- A. S. Byatt

#People #Book #Including

"You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's surprise at the world."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Feels #Surprise #Stills

"She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good God as the one they preyed to, could condemn the whole earth for sinfulness and flood it, or condemn his only Son to a disgusting death on behalf of everyone. This death did not seem to have done much good."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Nice #Behalf #Done

"When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Book #Television #Children

"I was no good at being a child."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Children

"Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery."

--- A. S. W. Rosenbach

#Scarcity #Young Children #Reason

"Nothing is truly unnatural, because everything that exists, including human intelligence, is a product of nature. If human intelligence can devise ways for the genes from two men to result in a child, their doing so is an entirely natural event."

--- A.C. Grayling

#Including #Human Intelligence #Way

"Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal."

--- A.C. Grayling

#Abuse #Religion #Scandal

"Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life."

--- A.C. Grayling

#Behave #Share #Moderation

"Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations."

--- A.C.H. Smith

#Down And #Goblin #Taken

"If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered, the harm caused, especially to children, by the pernicious doctrine of original sin, a case could be made for saying that the world would have been better off without Christianity."

--- A.J. Ayer

#Heretic #Sin #War

"Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates, some parts are sharpened, others dropped, and there is often debate about what really happened. But even with these different sides of the same story, there is still agreement that this is the family story. And in the absence of other narratives, it becomes the flagpole that the family hangs its identity from."

--- A.M. Homes

#Different Sides #Agreement #Happened

"I thought a lot about Nixon's personal history and the changes in America during his lifetime and tried to craft stories, which I thought reflected some of his personal history but also the backdrop of a changing America. Nixon grew up in a strict Quaker family. The idea of the American Dream, of hard work and not much fun, was ingrained in Nixon as a child, but curiously so was a love of music. Nixon himself was a pretty good piano player. So it's the contradictions that interest me, as I think we all have them."

--- A.M. Homes

#Thinking #Contradiction #Quaker

"Philip Galanes makes his debut with a novel that is both heartbreaking and deftly comic, the story of a young man struggling with his most primitive desires--wanting and needing. It is a novel about the complex relationships between parents and children, a story of loss and of our unrelenting need for acknowledgment, to be seen as who we are. And in the end it is simply a love story for our time."

--- A.M. Homes

#Who We Are #Our Time #Complex Relationships

"When you get into this business you have to grow up quickly. But I wouldn't say I've lost any of my childhood, I've always been a mature child. My Mom says I've been like that since I was little kid. I make time for my friends and I make time for things that other kids do. This is a business and I knew what I was getting into. I make time for being a kid, but I also know when to put on my business hat and go for the business."

--- Aaliyah

#Childhood #My Friends #Kids

"I'm a worldly angel, meaning I've adjusted to the ways of the world, even though I am a child of God. I wouldn't consider myself a Christian rapper, but if we were Christian rappers, we would kill."

--- Aaron Dontez Yates

#Child Of God #World #Way

"More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan."

--- Aaron Huey

#Afghanistan #Korea #War Of The Worlds

"I had a tremendous upbringing and foundation but as others like me have experienced, when you go to college, mom and dad are no longer there to help guide. There were some moments in college that really cemented my own convictions and beliefs. It was a real period of growth and maturity in my sanctifying process. I got married in college. That was a tremendous blessing. Four years later, we started having children and that gives you a deeper understanding of the Father's love."

--- Aaron Kampman

#Four Years #Having Children #College

"Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best."

--- Aaron Shepard

#Good Writing #Difficult #Writing

"People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways."

--- Aasif Mandvi

#People #Fields #Way

"Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!"

--- Aasif Mandvi

#Known #Television #Making Love

"It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity. Ultimately, my parents marker is do you have a wife? And do you have children?"

--- Aasif Mandvi

#Markers #Capacity #Wife

30 "Children" Quotes