Quotes About Well Behaved Children

#1. Mr. Speaker, there are some in this Chamber who believe that Christians, like well-behaved children, should be seen and not heard ... Christians will not remain silent. We are here to stay.

Tom DeLay

#2. It's the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don't say a word, they don't hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#3. When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.

Eva Zeisel

#4. Post-traumatic stress disorder didn't surface as a condition until 1980 ... that fact was very relevant when I remember back to how these men behaved. A lot of walking on eggshells was required for wives and children.

Matthew Nable

#5. I know that sounds odd, but I have always felt that the English love children as long as they are polite, quiet, and well behaved. Americans seem to love children however they behave.

Jane Green

#6. Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task.

Emily Post

#7. I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.

Helena Bonham Carter

#8. Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

J.B. Priestley

#9. I realized that this is what many people in our society seem to want most from children: not that they are caring or creative or curious, but simply that they are well behaved.

Alfie Kohn

#10. At the end, nothing will remain except the poetry of your love.

Debasish Mridha

#11. There are few children more treasured than ill-behaved ones who belong to someone else.

Laurie Frankel

#12. Men's activities are occupied into ways
in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

William James

#13. Get your filthy paws off my son, feet pue tan! Cherise

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

Ernestine Rose

#15. Children have a tendency to behave as poorly as the most poorly behaved kid in the room. The laws of physics dictate that if there is a kid screaming and running in the hallway of a hotel, all the other children will scream and run in the hallway of the hotel.

Jim Gaffigan

#16. The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed sense of independence.

Malcolm Gladwell

#17. Just 'cause you feel it doesn't mean it's there

Radiohead

#18. She wanted to run her hands over him as he whispered the impassioned corollaries of non-Euclidean geometry.

Sherry Thomas

#19. The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.

Kate Winslet

#20. Edith Vonnegut behaved like a guest in her children's lives. To her way of thinking, parenting came under the general heading of household tasks, which, as a wealthy woman, she could pay others to do.

Charles J. Shields

#21. Life hangs from so slender a thread. Life is but a sigh ...

Marjane Satrapi

#22. Teaching our children to be well-behaved, good citizens is proper as far as it goes. But we must never mistake this training for Christian nurture or discipline, nor should we mistake their acquiescence to our social mores as true Christian righteousness.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#23. By teaching our children to stay in line we create well-behaved followers. While this may make parenting a bit easier, it has enormous costs later in life. These same children grow up to be unhappy adults who desperately want to lead their own lives, yet lack the necessary skills to do so.

Cheryl Richardson

#24. As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

William Glasser

#25. I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

Michael Clarke Duncan

#26. My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

Steve Ballmer

#27. Blessed the one who has become a good spiritual net and caught many for the good Lord, such a one will greatly praised by the Lord.

Ephrem The Syrian

#28. Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

Abe Ajay

#29. These days, kids need to be sensitive and care about others. Not even fake-caring either, but they're actually expected to worry about everyone's every feeling. Children basically have to behave as no adult has behaved ever.

Bijou Hunter

#30. Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.

Mary Jo Putney

#31. I'll have what she's having

Nora Ephron

#32. It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?

Gregory Maguire