Toddler Quotes - Page 2

• Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.

  Barry Lane

  Hands, Play, Dough

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• In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.

  Graydon Carter

  Country, Years, Office

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• Over the summer we chatted one night while Angie stripped a bed, changed wet sheets, comforted and repajamaed a toddler, and chased down a car of speeding teenagers while shaking a brick at them, never once interrupting the conversation or setting down her margarita. The only reason this woman isn't president of General Motors is because she's chosen not to be.

  Jen Lancaster

  Summer, Teenager, Night

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• As far as I can see it, anyone who has a problem with what guys do over there is incapable of empathy. People want America to have a certain image when we fight. Yet I would guess if someone were shooting at them and they had to hold their family members while they bled out against an enemy who hid behind their children, played dead only to throw a grenade as they got closer, and who had no qualms about sending their toddler to die from a grenade from which they personally pulled the pin....they would be less concerned with playing nicely.

  Chris Kyle

  Children, Fighting, Qualms About

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• Did Lovelace's forces find you? Did Jabor break in?" He spoke slowly through clenched teeth. "I went to get a newspaper" This is getting better and better! I shook my head regretfully. "You should leave such a dangerous assignment to people better qualified: next time ask an old granny, or a toddler-

  Jonathan Stroud

  People, Get Better, Teeth

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• When I ask how old your toddler is, I don't need to hear '27 months.' 'He's two' will do just fine. He's not a cheese. And I didn't really care in the first place.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Baby, Two

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• My daughter was a toddler. I had no idea there was anything wrong with kids' media.I started watching little preschool shows with her or G-rated videos or whatever; I couldn't believe what I was seeing, that there seemed to be far more male characters than female characters in what we make for little kids. It was just a shock.

  Geena Davis

  Daughter, Believe, Kids

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• We underestimate teenagers at our peril. Even the dismissive thing out on the street--look at what they're wearing. Then we'll hear stories about how a toddler fell on the tracks, and it's often a teenager who comes to the rescue and walks away because he or she doesn't want any credit. I recognize it because I've written books for teenagers--it's basically that they feel things more than adults do. They want things more than you think. They want things with greater depth than you think they do. Teenagers have got a lot of soul that adults have forgotten they have within themselves.

  Markus Zusak

  Teenager, Book, Thinking

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• 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

  Self Esteem, Pride, Achievement

  "Patriotism and Michelle Obama: A 4th of July Reflection" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2008.

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• The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.

  John Green

  Past, Eight, Light

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.112, Penguin UK

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• One current reaction to change in families, for example, is the proposal for more "education for parenthood," on the theory that this training will not only teach specific skills such as how to change diapers or how to play responsively with toddlers, but will raise parents' self-confidence at the same time. The proposed cure, in short, is to reform and educate the people with the problem.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Self Confidence, Play, Skills

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• I have a four-month-old and I also have a toddler, so that takes up all of my time.

  Eva Mendes

  Four, Months, My Time

  Source: wwd.com

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• You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not and never seemed to know how to earn it. Your pre-school child is positively asking you to tell him what does and does not earn approval, so he is ready to learn any social refinement of being human which you will teach him....He knows now that he wants your love and he has learned how to ask for it.

  Penelope Leach

  Children, School, Asking

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• 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

  Parent, Advice, Information

  Sheila B. Kamerman, Alfred J. Kahn (1995). “Starting Right: How America Neglects Its Youngest Children and what We Can Do about it”, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Michael Kors

  Mean, Might, Tiaras

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• In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.

  Jodi Picoult

  Tattoo, Art, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• if you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real love leaves a person intact. you would be wrong, jane. love is a greedy toddler who knows only the word 'mine.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Real, Love Is, Might

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• Such a strange thing, to hold a six-year-old's hand. Especially a six-year-old you've only just met. A toddler will grab hold of your finger, and someone your own age will clasp on to your whole hand, but with six-year-olds it's something in between, this acknowledgment that they can't be the one to take hold, so you have to do all the holding, folding your hand around theirs, feeling so much bigger and responsible.

  David Levithan

  Hands, Years, Feelings

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• My dad taught me swears when I was a toddler, and I saw, at a really early age, that if I shocked people, I would get approval, and it made my arms itch with glee. I got addicted to it. It became this source of power in a totally powerless life.

  Roseanne Barr

  Dad, People, Age

  Source: www.elle.com

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• In the range of things toddlers have to learn and endlessly review--why you can't put bottles with certain labels in your mouth, why you have to sit on the potty, why you can't take whatever you want in the store, why you don't hit your friends--by the time we got to why you can't drop your peas, well, I was dropping a few myself.

  Mary Blakely

  Labels, Bottles, Mouths

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Baby, Doe, Easier

  Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.83, Crown Archetype

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• One of the most essential and mundane of human activities - taking care of children - requires high levels of anxious vigilance. ... [Parents] dare not risk assuming that the sudden quiet from the toddlers' room means they are studying with Baby Einstein. Visualize fratricidal stranglings and electric outlets stabbed with forks: this is how we have reproduced our genomes.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Baby, Children, Mean

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• 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

  Funny, Baby, Children

  P. J. O'Rourke (1987). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, Pocket

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• 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

  Family, Two, Unity

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• Paradoxically, the toddler's "No" is also a preliminary to his saying yes. It is a sign that he is getting ready to convert his mother's restrictions and prohibitions into the rules for behavior that will belong to him.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Mother, Saying Yes, Prohibition

  Louise J. Kaplan (1978). “Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual”, Touchstone

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