Quotes of: American-children Keyword

I keep a picture of my beloved children close by. Also, water and plenty of pads and pens.

Alain de Botton

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

Alan Bennett

If I were happy, married with six children, I wouldn't be writing. And I doubt if I should want to.

Anita Brookner

I'm always crying. I get a lump in my throat when I see intimacy between parents and their children.

Anna Chancellor

Today, it's possible to read both erotica and books written for children without fear of social castigation.

Amelia Gray

It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

Anthony Hecht

I think the closest thing to a time machine that I've ever found is the Children's section of a library.

AnnaMarie Ralph

The only people whose opinions I worry about are my wife, my children, and my employees.

Alan Sugar

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We guarantee rude emptiness for ourselves; later in life, when we treat children as - "empty buckets", today.

Aniruddha Sastikar

Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time. 

Abi bin Abi Taleb

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

Alice Walker

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

Bill Bryson

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Beverly Cleary

Children cannot develop a sense of inner discipline if all of the control comes from the outside.

Babara Coloroso

We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.

Bill Drayton

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

Robert Benchley

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Jackie Kennedy

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Luther Burbank

I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.

LZ Granderson