Unruly Children Quotes & Sayings

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism. — Ben Nicholson

Easy for you to say. You're the one who got plowed. I was doing the plowing. Cam's mouth opened. Oh my God, did I really just say that? I had. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I played lacrosse for a hot second, but I was mainly a swimmer - captain of my swim team. — Grace Gummer

Small children and unruly people who are demanding attention. — Hillary Clinton

A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world
and the responsibilities of your life.
Scatter your flowers over the graves, and walk away.
Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.
In the glare of your mind, be modest.
And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling. — Mary Oliver

I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national evils as bleeding gums, facial blemishes, unsightly hairs, and faulty or inadequate life insurance. I drew housewives who, until they reached for the right soap flakes, laid themselves wide open to straggly hair, poor posture, unruly children, disaffected husbands, rough (but slender) hands, untidy (but enormous) kitchens. — J.D. Salinger

[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with her children:] Have you tried infanticide? — Joan Crawford

There's no use asking Mom and Dad to talk to Nana about her punishment. They won't stand up to her. They never do. This is why I decide I am not going to speak to Nana or Papa or my parents. What Leila and I did was wrong. But now I have been put in the middle of something else entirely. Something about Adam and the adults and things that happened before I was born, maybe even before Adam and Uncle Hayden and Mom were born.
~pgs 144-145; Hattie on adulthood — Ann M. Martin

There's a lot more people that enjoy me playing the enforcer, the destroyer. If bad disappears one day, then good goes out of business. — Robert LaSardo

You have not failed until you accept your failure. — Udai Yadla

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. — Thomas Szasz

Thing is, what does a hero look like these days? Muscles and lycra? Life isn't a contest of strength anymore. Jobs, banks, taxes. Boring social reality. — Adam Baker

I will not feed him to a tree, as is done in the Unseelie Court with unruly children," Mark promised. — Cassandra Clare

I'd rather be smart and poor than rich and dumb. — Ted Turner

The true test of a soldier's mettle is to see whether or not they will cling to what they believe in, even in the face of impending death. — Matthew S. Williams

The others were conspicuously silent, or talked among themselves, elaborately play-acting that they were unaware of the fact that Quentin was conversing with a drunk magic bear. — Lev Grossman

I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that. — Toni Morrison

Candy is my religion. — Sarah Addison Allen

The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before. — Bill Viola

The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she'd have children if she had it to do over again. 'Yes', she replied 'but not the same ones.' — David Finkelstein

Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself. — Mignon McLaughlin

Why did people try to shush trouble away as if it were an unruly child? — Marisa Silver