Small Children Quotes

#1. Finn crossed his arms and glared at Volusian. It was kind of a bold move, considering Finn looked like a cartoon character and Volusian looked like he ate the souls of small children. For all I knew, he probably did.

Richelle Mead

#2. What chest?' I said, because everyone knows if you ignore persistent, throbbing pain then it goes away. Like toothache. And small children. And overdrafts.

Jodi Taylor

#3. As I'm traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we've harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don't know what I feel; I just don't know what the emotion is.

Jane Goodall

#4. Who needed the relief of occasional bad language more than a mother of small children? Maybe

Diana Gabaldon

#5. Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.

Spider Robinson

#6. Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.

Martha Beck

#7. But everybody is afraid of death; that too is contagious. Your parents are afraid of death, your neighbors are afraid of death. Small children start getting infected by this constant fear all around. Everybody is afraid of death. People don't even want to talk about death.

Rajneesh

#8. There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I'm lucky I'm not plucking chickens.

Anne-Marie Duff

#9. With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get.

Jo Brand

#10. Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#11. Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales were deemed fit only for small children, stripped of much of their original complexity, sensuality, and power to frighten and delight.

Terri Windling

#12. At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

Umberto Eco

#13. What does Christmas mean if we can't encourage small children to sit on a stranger's lap?

Ian O'Doherty

#14. Hell, a pig had most humans beat, smarter than small children, and we didn't eat those but maybe we should.

Kelly J. Cogswell

#15. Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.

Barbara Walters

#16. We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.

Thomas Harris

#17. As a child, l was fascinated by gemstones in the way that small children are fascinated by dinosaurs or trains. Stones seem very physical and look like sweets. You can look at them microscopically and imagine things about them.

Tobias Hill

#18. Small children will talk to anyone, once the guard of shyness has fallen, and they have, like the elderly, a sense of immediacy, a need to say or do something, now, now, the minute it is thought of, combined with that other sense, of the complete irrelevance of time.

Susan Hill

#19. Cosmetic surgery is terrifying. It never looks good. Those women look weird. They look in the mirror and think they look great, but they don't see what we see. I think it's hideous. They scare small children.

Jerry Hall

#20. He sensed Death with a depth and clarity of which only small children or great philosophers are capable, philosophers who are themselves almost childlike in the power and simplicity of their thinking.

Vasily Grossman

#21. The minds of small children are more interested in clockwork trains, jumping in puddles and other important childhood endeavours.

Maxwell Grantly

#22. If you're cool with slowly going crazy and wanting to eat small children, then I guess we won't cry for you. Words had never felt so empty before.

James Dashner

#23. The dance ritual never ended, The small children just sat down one by one as they got tired.

Dorothy Bryant

#24. Younger generations in particular, who have spent a great deal of time in information environments since they were small children, would feel like a fish out of water if they were shut out of the global stream of information.

Hubert Burda

#25. A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight of small tasks, a life in which we fall into bed at the end of the day exhausted from being all things to all people.

Anna Quindlen

#26. The Emrys! The Emrys is here!'
Merlin shook his head in astonishment. 'Has it come to this?' he wondered. 'Even small children know me by sight.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#27. Games? War is not a game, my friend. Games are for small children and old men like me. War is a young man's blighted delight

Renee Ahdieh

#28. I'm attracting small children," Orma muttered, twisting his hat in his hands. "Shoo it away, will you?

Rachel Hartman

#29. Ordinarily, small children learn much about emotions by looking at the other person's eyes, while those with autism avoid the eyes and so fail to get those lessons.

Daniel Goleman

#30. I just completed a long car trip on a Sunday in August with two small children, which believe me is enough to convince you that Samuel Beckett was right about everything.

Lev Grossman

#31. I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children.

Rosanne Cash

#32. His valet! In the rush of getting him off, his clumsy damned valet had put the wrong boots on him. Oh, when he got home ... when he got home he would have the oaf punctured! Worse. Dragged through the streets and bitten to death by small children.

L. Ron Hubbard

#33. When the going gets tough ... the sensitive people smooth the path for others, and take the small children gently by the hand. We'll catch up to the tough in time ...

Tom Althouse

#34. Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.

A.C. Grayling

#35. We were the first generation to have, in our own homes, the means to re- and forward-wind reality: even very small children could press their fingers against those clunky buttons and see what-has-been become what-is or what-will-be.

Zadie Smith

#36. What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small children. They are the first and purest source of artistic creation.

Franz Cizek

#37. Like dogs and lions, small children can sense fear. The slightest flinch, the slightest disinclination, and they will jump atop you and devour you.

Rachel Cohn

#38. Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.

Richard Louv

#39. I like throwing snowballs at small children.

Sam Mendes

#40. Parents needn't bother driving small children around to see the purple mountains' majesties; the children will go right on duking it out in the back seat and whining for food as if you were showing them Cincinnati. No one under twenty really wants to look at scenery.

Barbara Holland

#41. Mothers cowered over their small children, defenceless as their backs blossomed with red lines or swords were sunk into their flesh to reach the young ones they hid.

Osman Welela

#42. I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

Sue Townsend

#43. Some crime against nature is about to be committed. I feel it in my veins. These men and boys are grocers and clerks, gardeners and fathers - fathers of small children. A country cannot bear to lose them.

Sebastian Faulks

#44. They give an "X" rating to flicks
Where sex is the center of kicks,
While violence and war
Are considered fit for
Small children no older than six.

Norman W. Storer

#45. He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially
not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business deal may call for a handshake.

Stephen King

#46. Small children and unruly people who are demanding attention.

Hillary Clinton

#47. Well, I've got two small children and this is a very important time for me to be around them.

Treat Williams

#48. Having a hangover with small children is never a good idea. I did it once and it was the biggest mistake I've ever made, I've never felt so ill in my life. You have to get out of bed and look after your kid who doesn't care if you've got a sore head.

Sharleen Spiteri

#49. Maturity is the ability to see and act on behalf of others. Immature people don't see things from someone else's point of view. They rarely concern themselves with what's best for others. In many ways, they act like small children.

John C. Maxwell

#50. I discovered when I had a child of my own that I had become a biased observer of small children. Instead of looking at them with affectionate but nonpartisan eyes, I saw each of them as older or younger, bigger or smaller, more or less graceful, intelligent, or skilled than my own child.

Margaret Mead

#51. I travel all the time, and I have two small children.

Hope Davis

#52. I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

Ian Anderson

#53. The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.

James Daly

#54. Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.

Gary Numan

#55. His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.

Neil Gaiman

#56. I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.

Joan Didion

#57. Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive.

Jill Abramson

#58. these small children, listening with eyes wide and in rapt concentration, would one day grow up to need reading, with its accompanying sense of wonder and the feeling of having a film running inside your head, as much as they needed air to breathe.

Nina George

#59. Luckily, children's memories don't start much before four years of age, which is Mother Nature's way of forgiving parents during those really tough years of parenting small children.

Judy Arnall

#60. Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

Gregory Maguire

#61. And fairy tales are make-believe. They are the stories we tell to small children to make them believe the world is a far better place than it really is.

J.L. Vallance

#62. Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

Robert Benchley

#63. Aelfa assures me you eat small children every morn to break your fast. Do you? (Callie)
Nay, I find them to be too harsh on the belly. All that moving around once they're swallowed. Not worth the effort, really. (Sin)

Kinley MacGregor

#64. Holy shit. What does that mean? Does he white-slave small children to some God-forsaken part of the planet?

E.L. James

#65. Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

Keith Henson

#66. Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.

Maria Montessori

#67. As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You know, it's clowns and kid's toys and bright colors and things like that.

Anthony Bourdain

#68. He was a guy. A guy guy. As far as I was concerned, he probably had the dead bodies of small children and puppies hidden in his locker.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#69. The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

David M. Friedman

#70. In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

Robert Benchley

#71. Sadly, although the source of much enjoyment, Ginger the pig progressed from hunting and killing chickens to lambs and, after a stab at my mother's ankles, was banished to the freezer before she developed a taste for small children.

Bill Bryson

#72. We lived in Yorkville, which is located on the East End of Manhattan. It's further east than Hell's Kitchen, and back then it was the kind of place where the roaches and cockroaches were big enough to carry away small children.

Bob Cousy

#73. I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency.

Anatoly Karpov

#74. AAaargwannawannaaaagongongonaargggaaaaBLOON!" which is the traditional sound of a very small child learning that with balloons, as with life itself, it is important to know when not to let go of the string. The whole point of balloons is to teach small children this.

Terry Pratchett

#75. Life is too short to waste time changing the sheets every week. Especially when you have small children who tend to wait until you change the sheets to then wet the sheets.

Mary Engelbreit

#76. Hey," he said, stopping in front of me. "As much fun as it is watching you elbow small children
out of your way while clinging to a makeshift wall ... "
"That kid was hogging all the space!" I huffed. "He had it coming!

Robin Benway

#77. Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way.

Gloria Estefan

#78. Usually when I'm stressed, I'll eat everything not nailed down. Only small children and family pets are safe. And okra - I won't eat okra under any circumstances.

Sue Ann Jaffarian

#79. I am divorced, and one of the things I am tremendously grateful for is that my ex-husband and I made a decision to go through mediation. I knew a trial would drag on for years, would cost me everything, but worse, would be devastating for our four small children.

Jane Green

#80. For a long time I felt I had done a very brave thing. There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children. I felt I wasn't the best person to bring them up. I would have ended up an alcoholic or a frustrated intellectual like my mother.

Doris Lessing

#81. I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.

Margaret Mahy

#82. Parents of small children must perforce have an entirely different sense of irony than unimpaired humankind.

Neal Stephenson

#83. I have the hearing of a mother with small children. My shit is bionic. "Go

Elle Casey

#84. Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of the world goes along with their way of seeing things.

Neil Gaiman

#85. Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling pious
and self- righteous while you starve small children!

V.C. Andrews

#86. Love is a universal force, like gravity, that holds the solar system together and pours into our hearts as life-force - and gets expressed to us most beautifully by small children and animals.

Christiane Northrup

#87. Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children know,' Leto said. 'It's only after adults have confused them that children hide this knowledge even from themselves.

Frank Herbert

#88. There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.

Terry Pratchett

#89. I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.

Alfred Hitchcock

#90. Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk.

Stanislav Grof

#91. I won't trouble you long," said Maricara. "No doubt you have all manner of pressing plans to consider. Spies to engage. Betrayals to enact. That sort of thing."
"Only on Sundays," Kim replied. "It's Tuesday. We're discussing stealing sweetmeats from small children today.

Shana Abe

#92. . . . and Vaclav's special new shoes with the lights on the heels and the Velcro everywhere, because in America no one, not even small children, has time to tie his own shoes, and everything must have flashing lights.

Haley Tanner

#93. All grown-ups appear as giants to small children. But Headmasters (and policemen) are the biggest giants of all and acquire a marvellously exaggerated stature.

Roald Dahl

#94. Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.

Jo Brand

#95. All small children are weathermen.

Amie Ryan

#96. God favors drunks, small children, and the cataclysmically stoned ...

Stephen King

#97. No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.

Theodore Roosevelt

#98. Chemistry is good for fun - it's like baseball. It has its role for small children, but I can't see an adult being concerned with it.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

#99. If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.

Beatrix Potter

#100. Blame is for God and small children.

Dustin Hoffman