Spoiled Children Quotes

She said America was a spoiled child ignorant of grief.

Poisinet's verses are like spoiled children - loved only by their father.

Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.

Washington, one feels in Washington, is the spoiled child of the republic.

We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.

you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.

What I’m saying is I think life is staggering and we’re just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we’re given—it’s just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral.

Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

What children need is the conviction that satisfaction can and must be earned. ... Spoiled children do not learn the must.

This is not a game, ... Debt has become a part of who we are. It's become that spoiled child in the grocery store with their lip stuck out: 'I want it. I want it. I deserve it because I breathe air.' And, well, that's an uphill climb in our culture right now, to go against that and say, 'Hey, let's be grownups here. Let's be mature, learn to delay pleasure, save up and pay for things.'

We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.

At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly; that, in their playgrounds, courage is universally admired, meanness despised, manly feelings and generous conduct are encouraged: that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank, and to the child of upstart wealth an even-handed justice, purges their nonsense out of both, and does all that can be done to make them gentlemen.

The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent non-psalmic 'worship' based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education.