Quotes About Spoiled Child

#1. The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Because he's no better than a spoiled child. You were his toy, and even though he's got new toys, it doesn't mean he wants anyone to play with his old toys.

Nicholas Sparks

#3. of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent nonpsalmic "worship" based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who,

N. T. Wright

#4. You were a spoiled child who did a cruel thing. You deserved to be beaten and confined to your room, but you didn't deserve to lose everything.

Jeaniene Frost

#5. We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.

Robert Grudin

#6. One of the worst things we can do is allow our children to grow up thinking they don't need to keep any rules. A spoiled child becomes a spoiled adult.

Billy Graham

#7. Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. He wasn't supposed to die,' he cried out, somewhat desperately, petulantly, like a spoiled child. But I could hear other thoughts racing between us.
Neither are you.
Neither am I.

Patti Smith

#10. The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education.

Charles Baudelaire

#11. Most gods have the morals of a spoiled child.

Robert A. Heinlein

#12. Washington, one feels in Washington, is the spoiled child of the republic.

Montgomery Schuyler

#13. The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.

Robert Breault

#14. She said America was a spoiled child ignorant of grief.

George Saunders

#15. It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

Sloan Wilson

#16. Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

Suzanne Farrell

#17. My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that. My brother played drums and we jammed in the garage and started writing our own stuff.

Dimebag Darrell

#18. A child may be "spoiled" by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly.

Garry Chapman

#19. I want to be spoiled like a child. Cry to my heart's content. But I can only suppress my feelings..

Ai Yazawa

#20. If we operate with a belief in long sweeps of time, we build cathedrals; if we operate from fiscal quarter to fiscal quarter, we build ugly shopping malls.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#21. In Nam, the jungle's heat was heavy, and like a spoiled overweight child, it insisted on being carried everywhere.

Billy O'Connor

#22. What I'm saying is I think life is staggering and we're just used to it. We are all like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we're given - it's just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral.

Donald Miller

#23. Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?

C. Sommerville

#24. Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be spoiled.

Julia Child

#25. I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

Katherine Heigl

#26. Leaders succeed or fail depending on whether or not they clarify role expectations and keep their promises.

Bob Anderson

#27. I did a 'Love Boat!' And based on my trip on the 'Love Boat,' I said, 'I'd just as soon not do 'Fantasy Island.'

Tom Hanks

#28. Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

Willie Mays

#29. You certainly have a higher quality of life when you are not on the Forbes list. It just means that your security changes, and you're known for the wrong things.

Ronald Burkle

#30. I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.

Orlando Bloom

#31. I am an only child, and I guess was spoiled by my parents.

Mordecai Brown

#32. I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

Orson Welles