Quotes About Toddlers

#1. 'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget.

Ira Sachs

#2. Brains are like toddlers. They are wonderful and should be treasured, but that doesn't mean you should trust them to take care of you in an avalanche or process serotonin effectively. I

Jenny Lawson

#3. An old man with overalls walked by; I don't think old people should wear overalls; it makes them look like shrivelly toddlers.

Aimee Bender

#4. Although Hollywood commonly portrays children in foster care as toddlers clutching teddy bears, nearly one-half are eleven or older. And about one-fifth - 103,500 - are sixteen or older.

Martha Shirk

#5. Teenagers are basically toddlers with hormones - old enough to want to do stuff without having any of the common sense.

Jojo Moyes

#6. toddlers learn more between 12 months and three years old than during any other stage throughout their whole life?

Laura Stewart

#7. In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.

Robert Breault

#8. Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.

Hanna Rosin

#9. It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be biting my head off!

Emma Watson

#10. I mean you might have wanted Carrie Bradshaw, but to me she's like toddlers and tiaras gone berserk!

Michael Kors

#11. Once your baby starts to walk you'll realize why cribs are designed like prisons from the early 1900s. This is clearly because toddlers are a danger to themselves. The main responsibility for a parent of a toddler is to stop them from accidentally hurting or killing themselves.

Jim Gaffigan

#12. For toddlers I suggest leaving their mittens on year-round, indoors and out. That way they can't get into aspirin bottles, liquor cabinets, or boxes of kitchen matches.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#14. Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

Ben Bernanke

#15. The conversation had been so lacking in quality that it actually made Toddlers and Tiaras look like good entertainment by comparison.

Sorin Suciu

#16. The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen ... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers.

Geraldo Rivera

#17. Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.

Krista Tippett

#18. My hustle has often involved food, because, much like household pets or toddlers, I am food-motivated, which is a handy thing to know about me.

Amy Schumer

#19. In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.

Robert Breault

#20. Having toddlers always means that there's a fair amount of chaos at home, but that's part of the fun. And from a work perspective, we have projects under construction all over the world, including many right here in the US.

Ivanka Trump

#21. Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

Marian Wright Edelman

#22. Families survive the Terrible Twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons. A 2-year-old with the physical capacities of an adult would be terrifying.

Paul Bloom

#23. Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.

Anne Lamott

#24. The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other.

Mika Brzezinski

#25. With toddlers around, times are always interesting.

Beth Ann Fennelly

#26. They talked in the way toddlers might throw playthings around the room. There was seldom any catching of an idea and sharing it. When the lunches were over, individual opinions lay scattered about in a delicious jumble only ever one layer deep.

Jonathan Renshaw

#27. We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't get immediate gratification, they get petulant and sulky.

Faye Kellerman

#28. He just has to step away from the moment to see it. Which isn't surprising. Lots of parents will tell you that when they aren't fighting with their teenagers about homework or scraping up raisins their toddlers have expertly ground into the kitchen floor, they're quite happy, upon reflection.

Jennifer Senior

#29. They'd tried automatically generating the stories in response to the figures but had ended up with nonsense - one scenario suggested by the computer was that a gang of toddlers had terrorised a war veteran with a syringe full of HIV positive blood.

Simon Dewar

#30. Leaving the house in general really doesn't mix with toddlers, but long lines just indicate poor parental planning and judgment.

Jim Gaffigan

#31. Few people can present a completely secular argument detailing why abusing toddlers is objectively wrong. But that hardly stops them from recognizing this moral truth even if they can't articulate their reasons in strictly secular terms.

Scott Klusendorf

#32. What is really special about dogs is they're really similar to even human toddlers.

Brian Hare

#33. Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into neighborhood stickball games. We need to give kids room to create their own rules, set their own terms, and move their bodies in their own ways.

Darell Hammond

#34. We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share food, for instance, with their siblings and with kids that are around. They will sooth. If they see somebody else in pain, even the youngest of toddlers will try to reach out and pat the person.

Paul Bloom

#35. Toddlers really are daft with their inexperience and lack of communication skills. They all need to fucking grow up.

Sarah Noffke

#36. Grown-up people do very little and say a great deal ... Toddlers say very little and do a great deal ... With a toddler you cannot explain, you have to show. You cannot send, you have to take. You cannot control with words, you have to use your body.

Penelope Leach

#37. There is growing consensus that new parents need help
information, advice, practical assistance
and that infants and toddlers need stimulation as well as care and nurture.

Sheila Kamerman

#38. No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

Phyllis Schlafly

#39. Up until the age of 12, I went to dog shows every weekend. Mum showed beagles. It's a really competitive and eclectic world filled with characters who wear interesting outfits - similar to 'Toddlers & Tiaras,' but with dogs.

Rebel Wilson

#40. I learned that buying expensive furniture with toddlers around is pointless.

Nicole Polizzi

#41. We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#42. I don't get jazz. It always sounds like a bunch of toddlers let loose in a music room.

Libba Bray

#43. The whole world is sick ... we've all got this pathetic need to be seen. We're a bunch of fucking toddlers trying to get attention.

Jess Walter

#44. Babies and toddlers are mostly what I've been exposed to at this point. I'm hoping parenting just gets much easier after this. It does, right?

Jim Gaffigan

#45. Whenever someone says zygotes are babies, I reply: 'Imagine a thousand zygotes in test tubes in one room, and three toddlers in another. A fire breaks out, and you only have time to get to one room. Which would you save from burning - the zygotes or the children?'

Kurt Eichenwald

#46. Toddlers are active explorers. They eagerly try new things and use materials in different ways. Toddlers want to be independent and they have a strong sense of ownership.

Janet Gonzalez-Mena

#47. We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#48. If the Internet were planet Earth, the amount of space devoted to pregnancies, motherhood, infants, and toddlers would surely fill a continent. Of course, the Internet had an enormous investment in the subject: those future babies would be its next generation of users.

Christopher Bollen

#49. Toddlers are germ-warfare machines in a cute package
- Debora Geary

Debora Geary

#50. Of course there are people who would like to eat breakfast without the screams of toddlers all around them, but those people should get over themselves and stop being stuck up and idiotic.

Jon Ronson

#51. TLC should stand for Toddlers, Lunatics, and Cake.

Natasha Leggero

#52. What I like most about an aquarium is that all ages, from toddlers to pre-schoolers to retired grandparents, can really enjoy the wonders of the sea.

Jim Pattison

#53. [politicians are] like toddlers arguing over who gets the candy, but with a better vocabulary and less whacking each other with toys.

Garon Whited

#54. To the deepest, most cellular level of my being, I resent people who believe that depression is the same as weakness, that "sad" people must be coddled like helpless toddlers.

Emery Lord

#55. Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.

Rosanne Cash

#56. The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress.

Steven Pinker

#57. I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in the house you're performing all day long, anyway, with puppet shows and stories - I act around the clock.

Julia Roberts

#58. Pretend that toddlers are just people that are really drunk

Katelyn Perrier

#59. It was as if we had fallen down a rabbit hole and landed in a frat house Fu ll of drunken toddlers. Suddenly, Eat Me had a whole new meaning.

Jamie McGuire

#60. Others point to data showing that even as toddlers, 40 percent of American two-year-olds watch TV for at least three hours a day - hours they are not interacting with people who can help them learn to get along better. The more TV they watch, the more unruly they are by school age.

Daniel Goleman

#61. But the toddler mission is never mindless. They have two goals: find poison and find something to destroy. Toddlers

Jim Gaffigan

#62. If we were all our most real and raw selves every moment of the day things would be just awful. The world would be full of man-size toddlers.

Kelly Williams Brown

#63. Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children laugh and show off their jeans for an apparel ad is just as exploitative and less natural. Toddlers' natural state, like, 30 percent of the time, is crying, and it doesn't indicate pain or suffering.

Jill Greenberg

#64. Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on.

Tom Hodgkinson

#65. she and Ben chattered away to each other in the language of mothers with their toddlers; the two understood every word exchanged, while the rest of the world just listened, smiled, and didn't understand a single word of the happy gibberish.

William R. Forstchen

#66. Tantrums are not bad behavior. Tantrums are an expression of emotion that became too much for the child to bear. No punishment is required. What your child needs is compassion and safe, loving arms to unload in.

Rebecca Eanes

#67. Little kids talk about the strangest things. They really do.

Stephen Chbosky

#68. I'm sure the other kids wouldn't mind not being lectured by another toddler over the virtues of sharing and the mental benefits of toy blocks.

Hayden Thorne