Youngest Child Quotes:

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

- Sam Levenson

topic: Children, Grandma, Grandmother, My Grandfather, Mother And Grandmother

We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!

- Yasser Arafat

source: "The Legacy of Islamic AntiSemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History" by Andrew Boston, Prometheus Books, (p. 682), 2008.

topic: Children, Blood, Land, Youngest Child

The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.

- Alison Gopnik

topic: Children, Giving, Empathy, Altruism, Youngest Child

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

- Anne McCaffrey

topic: Children, Writing, School, Youngest Child

I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.

- Paul Nurse

topic: Children, Only Child, Youngest Child

I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right.

- Suzanne Collins

topic: Brother, Growing Up, Children, Older Brother, Youngest Child

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.

- Steve Irwin

topic: Memories, Dad, People, Aboriginal, Childhood Memories

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

- Katherine Heigl

topic: Children, Believe, Play, Make Believe, Playing Make Believe

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Children, Adults, Way, Youngest Child

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.

- Paul Giamatti

topic: Brother, Children, Trouble, Radar, Youngest Child

I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.

- Garrett Hedlund

source: "Garrett Hedlund Exclusive Interview TRON: LEGACY; Plus an ON THE ROAD Update". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 27, 2010.

topic: Children, Kids, Ducks, Mario, Youngest Child

Of course none of those men was suitable. Half were after your fortune, and as for the other half—well, you would have reduced them to tears within a month.” “Such tenderness for your youngest child,” Hyacinth muttered. “It quite undoes me.

- Julia Quinn

source: Julia Quinn (2005). “It's in his kiss”

topic: Children, Men, Tears, Hyacinths, Youngest Child

Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

- Andrew Wyeth

topic: Children, Loneliness, Frail, Youngest Child

A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child.

- John Steinbeck

source: John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.15, Penguin

topic: Children, Fall, Men, Life Span, Youngest Child

During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in acute conflict. The problem was really that I put two things first. My husband and children came first. So did my writing. Bump.

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Husband, Children, Writing, Youngest Child

My mom let me kind of run free and be rowdy. She encouraged it. I'm a youngest child. So I was spazzy and trying to be funny to my older sisters. It's kind of my role in the family - tension reliever. I was funny or annoying, depending on your perspective.

- Andy Samberg

source: Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

topic: Mom, Running, Children, Rowdy, Youngest Child

I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.

- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

topic: Sarcastic, Teacher, Children, Very Sarcastic, Handle Me

When television families aren't gathered around the kitchen table exchanging wisecracks, they are experiencing brief but moving dilemmas, which are handily solved by the youngest child or by some cute extraterrestrial houseguest. Emerging from Family Ties or My Two Dads, we are forced to acknowledge that our own families are made up of slow-witted, emotionally crippled people who would be lucky to qualify for seats in the studio audience of JEOPARDY!

- Barbara Ehrenreich

topic: Cute, Children, Dad, Exchanging, Family Ties