Top 100 No Children Quotes
#1. I am still married, yes - no children. I have Benzo, though; he's my dog, a Lhasa apso.
Archie Panjabi
#2. Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
John Wilmot
#3. I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
Walter Mosley
#4. All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
Paul Auster
#5. We have no children Harriet. Or, rather, I have no children. You have one child.
Doris Lessing
#6. Diddums. Critics claim that somebody who had no children could
Liz Nugent
#7. In my box of sound bites there are no jackhammers, no snowmobiles, no Jet Skis, no children wailing. Music but no Muzak.
It's my box. Put what you want in yours.
Joan Oliver Goldsmith
#8. I used to write my books at night when I was a freelancer with no children. I used to really work in huge spurts - I could turn around a revision in two weeks, I used to be able to write 10,000 words a day. It's like, 'Wow, what happened to that?' That's just gone.
Melissa De La Cruz
#9. And to those people with no children but who think they'd like to have them some day to fulfill their lives. Remember: With fulfillment comes responsibility.
Bill Cosby
#10. There was something pleasant about an empty classroom. Of course, as any teacher would point out, one nice thing was that there were no children in it.
Terry Pratchett
#11. There would be no children in the world if men had to bring them into it.
Nora Roberts
#12. God had no children too weak, but a great many too strong to make use of.
Dwight L. Moody
#13. I haven't any troubles, I have some money like a gentleman of leisure, no boss, no wife, no children; I exist, that's all. And that particular trouble is so vague, so metaphysical, that I am ashamed of it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#14. No children. No books. Few friends. She seemed to know what she was doing.
Kurt Vonnegut
#15. By 1940 Grace Hopper was bored. She had no children, her marriage was unexciting, and teaching math was not as fulfilling as she had hoped.
Walter Isaacson
#16. I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
Brendan Behan
#17. If the homemakers of this country don't get the idea into their heads pretty soon that they are not going to be able to hold their own with the rest of the world, with no children, or one child in the family, there's a sad day of reckoning coming.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#18. A man with no children can easily be lulled into a sense that time is standing still. It's not. It's marching past us, relentlessly. Having a child growing and changing before your eyes makes this unavoidably clear.
Jonathan V. Last
#19. Life and stories are alike in one way: They are full of hollows. The king and queen have no children: They have a child hollow. The girl has a wicked stepmother: She has a mother hollow. In a story, a baby comes along to fill the child hollow. But in life, the hollows continue empty.
Franny Billingsley
#20. Would you buy a giant inflatable jumping castle if you had no children and no garden to put it in? No? Then why would you eat food that you didn't need and didn't enjoy? It's just as nonsensical.
Ingrid Lindberg
#21. But he and his friends have no children, and in their absence, the world sprawls before them, almost stifling in its possibilities.
Hanya Yanagihara
#22. One of the easiest things in the world to do is to tell other people how to raise their children. This is especially easy if you have no children of your own.
Robert Stacy McCain
#23. There's a Mother's Day and there's a Father's Day, but there's no Children's Day. It would mean a lot. World peace.
Michael Jackson
#24. Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked ...
Mikhail Bulgakov
#25. I see God in the face of children. If there were no children on this Earth, if somebody announced that all kids are dead, I would jump off the balcony immediately. I'm done.
Michael Jackson
#26. I always thought I'd adopt - I have a dog but no children.
Perrey Reeves
#27. I would like to bear thy son and hy daughter," she told hime. "And how can the world be made better if there are no children of us who fight against the fascists?
Ernest Hemingway,
#28. Newsflash, you Heavenly puke; no children that come of the union with my mate will ever be handed over to you.
Larissa Ione
#29. I have a significant other and a large, immediate family. No children, thank goodness. And I have a 13-year-old kitty.
Andrea Parker
#30. You must understand that in the afterlife, our personalities reflect an adult situation anyway, so we can say for sure that there will be no children in hell.
J.P. Moreland
#31. For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.
Fred Thompson
#32. No children are so divine that they do not need responsible parenting and be taught proper manners.
Anni Sennov
#33. She'd wanted to run an inn. To welcome people, to mother them. They had no children of their own, and she had a powerful need to nurture.
Louise Penny
#34. We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.
Al Gore
#36. Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#38. I survived a divorce, no children and come to Paris three days per week. My cat ran away on a love adventure; don't know when he will be back.
Tionne Rogers
#39. Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason," Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie.
"You're forgetting the Little Prince," Polly reminded him.
"Who he had the good sense to kill off in the second act," snapped Sir Godfrey.
Connie Willis
#40. Once I had no children and eight ideas. Now I have eight children and no ideas.
Stephen King
#41. Some perfect wife I am. I've been married four times, divorced four times, have no children, and can't boil an egg.
Myrna Loy
#42. No children?" Emilio asked them one evening, to his own surprise.
"Nope. Turned out, we don't breed well in captivity," George said, unembarrassed.
Mary Doria Russell
#43. Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.
Anne Rice
#44. Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.
Germaine Greer
#45. A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain.
Bill Cosby
#46. For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.
Pericles
#47. years old and widowed. No children. He'd sold his insurance business
Janet Evanovich
#48. Why not coincidentally? From religion comes hope for the future and a sense of societal obligation (i.e., a non-hedonistic worldview). No faith, no hope. No hope for the future, no sense of obligation - hence, no children.
Don Feder
#49. Ah, there are no children nowadays.
Moliere
#50. I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
Park Geun-hye
#51. My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
Bill Cosby
#52. I had no children and shall have none. There are moments when this troubles me, when I reflect that with me a line will end which has lasted since the beginning of humanity.
Henri Barbusse
#53. You may have no family, no food, no clothes, no future, no spouse, no health, or no children, yet be rich beyond your wildest dreams because you have the Holy Spirit in your life.
Jill Briscoe
#54. He did not alarm her, for she thought she had seen him before in the faces of many women who have no children. Perhaps he is to be found in the faces of some mothers also.
J.M. Barrie
#55. Lucky she was, she would reply, with no children to break her back, no husband to break her heart.
Yiyun Li
#56. The best divorce is the kind where there are no children. That was my first divorce. You walk out the door and you never look back.
Nora Ephron
#57. It was not my destiny, I kept thinking it would be, waiting for it to happen, but it never did, and I didn't care what people thought ... It was only boring old men who would ask me. And whenever they went, 'What? No children? Well, you'd better get on with it, old girl,' I'd say 'No! F*** off!'
Helen Mirren
#58. I married my first boyfriend. We just married too young. No children. So that broke up. There were a few relationships in between, and then I met my husband Adam when I was 37.
Liane Moriarty
#59. Every family is a "normal" family- no matter whether it has one parent, two, or no children at all.
Shere Hite
#60. No matter. I was single, no children, a handful of plants and at 39, young enough to regroup. If I hit ground before I finished building my wings, I would not take anyone with me.
Gina Greenlee
#61. You will wake up at forty with no husband, no children, and no career if you don't learn to engage with the world.
Lauren Kate
#62. And though there were no children playing, no doves, no blue-shadowed roof tiles, I felt that the town was alive. And that if I heard only silence, it was because I was not accustomed to silence - maybe because my head was still filled with sounds and voices.
Juan Rulfo
#63. If I have no children what would be the point of living.
Sheena Easton
#65. When all the mythologies have been set aside, we can see that, children or no children, the joke of evolution is that it is a teleology without a point, that we, like all animals, are a project that issues in nothing.
Maggie Nelson
#66. It was almost like being a child again because you felt like you were in your bedroom and it almost felt like no one was really watching you. So, you were just kind of having a bit of fun on your own doing silly voices in the bedroom.
Ashley Jensen
#67. Doesn't he have any daughters?' Emma muttered.
'He has no use for them,' said Mark. 'They say he has girl children killed at birth.'
Emma couldn't prevent a flinch of anger. 'Just let me get close to him,' she whispered. 'I'll show him what use girls are.
Cassandra Clare
#68. I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.
Jeff Bridges
#69. There was no one to comfort the children, no one to embrace them, no one to love them. Care and control were what the dormitories were all about, not love and affection.
Ruth Hegarty
#70. Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.
Cornelia Funke
#71. No child should be raised in a system. A system isn't a parent. Even the system knows this, which is why the Children and Family Services Division puts so much effort into finding permanent homes for the kids who are never going to be reunited with their birth parents.
Rhea Perlman
#72. Will you accompany me in this dance?" he said, bowing and holding out his hand.
"No, thank you." Miri smiled.
The prince frowned and looked and the chief delegate as if for assistance.
Miri laughed self consciously. "I, uh, I was teasing.
Shannon Hale
#73. I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.
Jared Harris
#74. I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those things no widow will tell you ever crossed her mind.
Shannon Celebi
#75. No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of institutionalizing them.
Jessie Bernard
#76. I couldn't decide if he was four or nine or twelve. I had no idea of the specifics of children. He was too young to drive, but old enough to be able to turn doorknobs.
Maggie Stiefvater
#77. My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.
Charles Dickens
#78. Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table.
Gurney Williams
#79. I dish the dirt out, and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it? In 20 years, I have taken any number of stories, most of which are not true, without a murmur of complaint. But some stories you have to draw the line and say No.
Jeremy Clarkson
#80. No gift bestowed upon us us so precious as children. They are proof that God still loves us. They
are the hope of the future Ensign, May 1987
James E. Faust
#81. I cannot blame them, in truth, for desiring ... But they were like children, who have only just begun to grasp the idea of a thing. And like children, they had no notion of laboring to create, but only of having ... and no thought given to the cost, to others, of taking it.
Jacqueline Carey
#82. We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be left more vulnerable, other that laziness or callousness in considering what life is like from their point of view.
Steven Pinker
#83. We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'
Betty Friedan
#84. Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.
Aaron Shepard
#85. No man has the right to bring up children without surrounding them with books.
Horace Mann
#86. There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.
N.K. Jemisin
#87. The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
Bruno Bettelheim
#88. The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
Marian Wright Edelman
#89. As children we had been taught that no price was too high to pay for our country. But the personal price to our family had been high.
Benazir Bhutto
#90. The biggest single problem of American parents today is the foolish idea that you just have to be a friend to your children. Kids need parents, not just another pal. This means being able and willing to say no, to challenge faulty thinking, and to expect accountability.
Steve Biddulph
#91. Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
Russell Baker
#92. There are no bad boys. There is only bad environment, bad training, bad example, bad thinking.
Edward J. Flanagan
#93. No child can repay his father unless he finds him enslaved and then buys him and sets him free.
Muhammad
#94. In America, the border of the property would have been gated to keep children and sleepwalkers and drunkards from dropping to their deaths, but there was no division here between safety and stupidity: you had to draw those lines yourself.
Courtney Maum
#95. God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as Creator.
Elie Faure
#96. Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.
James Dyson
#97. Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.
Lincoln Chafee
#98. We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games.
Tom Bissell
#99. The ideal situation for a parent is one that no one has - having a fulfilling job that requires you to work three days a week. It's better for the parents, because they get to spend time with the children and also have a source of pride and achievement - and income - outside the home.
Tina Fey
#100. With all her heart, Mom believed in opportunity for everyone and privilege for no one. She put her children first, and her faith and trust in the American dream.
Ralph Webster
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