Selfish Child Quotes

#1. He is such a child underneath all his alpha male bravado. A selfish child who thinks everything in the whole world is meant for him.

Amy Engel

#2. I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.

Alan Moore

#3. What did he see, I wonder? What avenue opened before him? A sudden way through, an escape from all the torment? Or was it just the venal act of a selfish child, wanting to somehow punish the woman standing before him ... just passing the guilt along, as cowards will do. Well,

Steven Erikson

#4. Technically I have siblings, but they are quite a bit older than me - I was the accident - so I have the only-child syndrome going on. I'm a little more selfish, a little more independent, a little closed. I do wish I were softer. I wish I were able to form relationships better.

Carrie Underwood

#5. I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were not me, and I was certain, rock-solid, unshakeably certain, that I was the most important thing in creation. There was nothing that was more important to me than I was.

Neil Gaiman

#6. But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?

Ramez Naam

#7. Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child's needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish.

Penelope Ward

#8. Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, "I will never let that happen to you."

John Darnielle

#9. It is the selfish parents who are to blame. Pay attention, be involved in your children's lives. They are your legacy, your only hope.

Aaron B. Powell

#10. I always said if it gets to a point where I really want a child, I would adopt; kids are amazing, so I'm getting the selfish stuff out of my system so when I have them I can say, 'Go, run. I have plenty of money, go play.'

Sandra Bullock

#11. I am your handiwork made flesh. You took beauty and created hideousness, and out of this monstrosity your child will be born ... . I am the meaning of your deeds. I am the meaning of your so-called love; your destructive, selfish, wanton love ... your love looks just like hatred.

Salman Rushdie

#12. When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too ... she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#13. A child fish asks mother fish, 'Mother, why cannot we live on the Earth?' Mother fish replied, 'Dear ... it is not the place for fish, it is the place for selfish

Santosh Kalwar

#14. I know because I was also broken as a child and forced to become a wicked conniving selfish manipulating monster in order to protect the fragile love-hungry girl who would have been destroyed by the life I had to lead.

Orson Scott Card