Kids Quotes
Norton Juster
Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
2024Karl Lagerfeld
The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.
1643 Ursula K. Le Guin
Sure, it's simple writing for kids…just as simple as bringing them up.
2393 Jennifer Elisabeth
Despite how lonely or broken down you might feel, we need you with us helping to make the world better, kinder and safer, especially for the little girls coming up.
1091 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A hundred years ago, an average teenager knew countless authors, and, a sex position or two. Today, an average teenager knows countless sex positions, and, an author or two.
3340 Julia Marriott
All the kids with fancy shoes or clothes, do you know what I got with a family of nine? When ever we said let's play poker, we had a full team of adults right there.
1936 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for grandchildren.
1061 Scott Dikkers
Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.
1999 Jim Butcher
Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon-perfect.
1272 George Carlin
If your kid needs a role model and you ain't it, you're both fucked.
1872 Eoin Colfer
I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal.
2091 H.L. Mencken
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
1926 Ilona Andrews
Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place.
1459 C. JoyBell C.
I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.
2627 Lynette Mather
What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?
2921 Betsy Cornwell
Children’s and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we get. I think that’s why so many adults read YA: we’re never done coming of age.
3053 Darnell Lamont Walker
What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how not to be killed
1861 Andy Rooney
We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.
4613 Huntley Fitzpatrick
I scoop a clattering cascade of green apple Jelly Bellys into the white paper bag and remember when we were seven. I got stung by a jellyfish. Tim cried because his mother, and mine, wouldn’t let him pee on my leg, which he’d heard was an antidote to the sting.
3001 Tina Fey
My parents raised me that you never ask people about their reproductive plans. “You don’t know their situation,” my mom would say. I considered it such an impolite question that for years I didn’t even ask myself. Thirty-five turned into forty faster than McDonald’s food turns into cold nonfood.
4232 Hilary McKay
I can only drive slowly."
"That's all right."
"And I can only do left turns."
Rose ran downstairs, grabbed a road atlas, and ran triumphantly back up again. "Wales is left! Look! It's left all the way!
4512 Ilona Andrews
Kid 1: *examining my gorgeous strawberry and blueberry pies*: Wow, Mom, your pies don’t look awful this time.
Me (Ilona): ...
~A little later~
Kid 2: *wandering into the kitchen*
Kid 1: Hey, you’ve got to see these pies. *opening the stove*
Kid 2: Wow. They are not ugly this time.
Kid 1: I know, right?
3459 Benedict Cumberbatch
I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
3064 Lorraine Loria
Roaring is never a voice for indoors. Roaring sounds better when done outdoors!
2436 Lorraine Loria
We all need good manners, like our friends from the zoo!
3353 Lorraine Loria
That's when I remember if you have a choice, always ask friends to leave in a very nice voice.
3446 Amit Kalantri
Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child.
3309 Amit Kalantri
The problem with a man is, he is no more a child.
1311 Alcurtis Turner
Most kids act out because they want your attention. Don't spank your child show them some attention.
4079 Amit Kalantri
Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.
2976 Doug Dillon
A child’s imaginary playmate just might actually be there.
2404 Roald Dahl
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
2616 Ryan Lilly
Not only should we encourage kids to daydream, but also to jump-in and build those dreams. Dreaming is largely lost among adults drowning in self-imposed realities.
4922 Zig Ziglar
To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E.
3347 Carew Papritz
KIDS. They know a BRIBE when they see one. They want a PARENT, not a PAY-OFF. They don’t care if you’re Jack-King-Rodeo or Mister-You-Own-New-York. All they understand is time spent WITH YOU or WITHOUT YOU. It’s that SIMPLE.
2957 Robert Reed
How many of us readers say this quote and mean it. "If I knew what I know now life would be different"....
1729 Kristin Hannah
I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror.
4191 Herbert Hoover
Thank God she doesn't have to be confirmed by the Senate.
(on the birth of his granddaughter)
4528 Dr. Seuss
You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
4723 Melanie Kirk
Want to get your kids to read more? Try making books easily accessible. Put them where kids can easily reach and don't make them off limits. (within reason)
1296 Annie Lang
There's a story behind every Bookworm"!
2336 Sanhita Baruah
In the midst of the vagaries of life, they provide us a trip to the land of goodness and fairies, of imaginations and possibilities.
A childhood that wasn't spent watching cartoons or reading comic strips, no wonder, seems too dull to imagine.
2844 Sarah Jio
What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.
1888 PBS Kids
Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card."
[Arthur]
4408 Aaron B. Powell
I’m just happy to have experienced life; to have had a beautiful son and to have loved.
1117 Bill Watterson
Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!
1635 Dan Brown
She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to guess where one would land next. The nuns called again, threatening that pneumonia might make an insufferably headstrong child a lot less curious about nature.
2487 Ursula K. Le Guin
Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry."
"Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "their hands are kind.
1333 Hain Ginott
The world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately; they talk to the heart.
2733 Paul Hoffman
...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.
4496 Orson Scott Card
While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights.
2979 Amy Goodman
I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.
3596 Norman Rockwell
I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be so and painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers . . . only foxy grandpas who played baseball with kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the back yard.
4718 Todd Stocker
You can't judge your parenting by the choices of your kids.
3282 Amit Kalantri
When you are a grown up your brothers become your neighbors and your unconditional brotherhood become your conditional neighborhood.
1094 Amit Kalantri
When I see an evil person, I cannot believe that once he was an innocent and sweet baby.
3641 Kurt Vonnegut
We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.
1516 Rita Mae Brown
I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.
4573 Anthony Kiedis
She was probably the girl I loved the most of all my girlfriends, but also the toughest one to make things work out with. If I had put that much effort into any of my other relationships, I'd be married with five kids now.
2529 Mitch Albom
I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought u wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.
3498 Caroline Stevermer
Frederick left the young couple gazing into each other’s eyes. Revolting, the way otherwise sensible people could carry on, he decided. Something to do with being married, no doubt. Perhaps it damaged the brain.
4345 Jennifer Crusie
First, I'm not getting married, so you can forget the wife. Second, if I was insane enough to get married, I wouldn't have kids. Third, if I was insane enough to get married and have kids, it would be a cold day in hell I'd let you babysit.
3428 Joshua Ferris
People have all this resentment against their parents for fucking them up, but they never realize, the minute they have a kid, that they cease being the child so fondly victimized in their hearts and start being the benighted perpetrators of unfathomable pain.
2106 Mitch Albom
Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"
Rose chuckled.
"But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out.
3243 Carolyn Byers Ruch
Sometimes I hesitate to use the term sexual abuse. It conjures up worst-case scenarios in our minds, and we think, "That will never happen to my kids." And we never begin the conversation regarding sexual abuse with our children. But one violation left in secret can cause significant pain.
1055 Richard Eyre
Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it.
1567 Alice Miller
We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.
4391 Elizabeth George
Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.
2740 Bill Cosby
Parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
1059 Anne Fadiman
One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.
2270 Salvador Minuchin
Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be "strangers in a strange land," who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.
1592 Allison Bechdel
Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from high school, i don't want to see you again.
1385 Thiruvalluvar
She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state
2755 Abby Norman
I saw the bruises, the burns, the cuts - I knew which ones had been done to you by someone you thought you could trust. Someone you thought loved you. I knew which ones you gave yourself.
1602 Vivian Amis
All problems, though appearing outside of you, must be resolved within YOU.
4955 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To increase the odds of being thanked, some people compliment some people; some make kids.
4830 Sara Sheridan
Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.
1630 Sydney J. Harris
And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
4268 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.
2271 Tom Burns
Talking about abstract things is important. Having big, wild conversations about concepts like art, music, time travel, and dreams makes it much easier when you’ll eventually need to talk about things like anger, sadness, pain, and love.
2312 Elizabeth Gilbert
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4556 Justin Torres
We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful - little animals, clawing at what we needed.
3205 Ryan Lilly
I had a dream about you making balloon animals for kids. You were out of balloons and the kids were out of patience, so you inflated their imaginations instead.
2806 Nicholas Sparks
It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitable take their place; that every place has something good - and bad - to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.
4594 D. Simone
For Every Child We Teach To Cherish Learning, A Universe Is Born.
3268 Hillary DePiano
DOSTIE: Let's be honest here. People? Sometimes they suck. But kids, well, they're like a new snowfall, you know?
4973 Skip Coryell
It’s not easy to kill; it’s not supposed to be. If it is, then there’s something wrong with you. But sometimes good people have to do unpleasant things just so we can come home at night to our kids.
3207 Sarah J. Maas
And he looked lonely enough that she said, 'If you like, you could be my friend'.
4514 Plato
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
2836 Harry Edwards
We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.
4149 Robert Burns
Gin a body meet a body
Coming thro' the rye,
Gin a body kiss a body -
Need a body cry?
3602 Jodi Picoult
And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.
4229 Magda M. Olchawska
But our forest is sacred & magical with many unusual creatures & plants.We don’t want people to destroy everything!
2552 Doug Dillon
Very young children often accept the paranormal as “normal” until adults squeeze it out them.
3227 Eileen Kennedy-Moore
The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become.
4313 Magda M. Olchawska
Julia heard from her mummy that fairies were gentle creatures with singing voices just like the mermaids.
1369 Kurt Chambers
The innocence of children is what makes them stand out as a shining example to the rest of Mankind.
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