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Quotes About Tantrum

You want to see emotional? Watch a table of ten's order come back for a refire in a busy all-male kitchen in the middle of the rush. You've never seen such weeping and rending of garments and tantrum throwing since you smacked your little brother and took away his favorite stuffed toy.
~ Anthony Bourdain
swivel around wildly and finally spot Minnie. She's balanced on a stone bench, tussling with Suze's son Wilfrid over a red plastic truck. "Pleeease!" she's yelling crossly. "Pleeease!" Now, to my horror, she starts hitting Wilfrid with the truck, yelling with each blow: "Please! Please! Please!" The trouble is, Minnie hasn't really absorbed the spirit of the word "please.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Extreme overeating is basically a warp spasm, a violent tantrum thrown by the deprived or captive Wild Child in our brains. When it hits, rational thinking goes out the window.
~ Martha N. Beck
In freedom, every non-nomenklatura citizen knew perpetual hunger – the involuntary slurp and gulp of the esophagus. In camp, your hunger kicked as I imagine a fetus would kick. It was the same with boredom. And boredom, by now, has lost all its associations with mere lassitude and vapidity. Boredom is no longer the absence of emotion; it is itself an emotion, and a violent one. A silent tantrum of boredom.
~ Martin Amis
Wonderful. What's the point of throwing a hissy fit without friends and family on hand to hear it? -Amy Cahill
~ Gordon Korman
Donald Trump is many things - a tantrum-throwing man-child and a wannabe strongman pining for his very own banana republic among them - but perhaps most of all he is a giant, melon-colored distraction from what is happening to our country under his watch.
~ Joy Reid
If I'm kept here much longer, I think I'll have to have another tantrum. They're certainly more satisfying than I ever suspected. I can see why a person would get in the habit of it.
~ Judith Merkle Riley
CALVIN: I don't WANNA take a bath! I don't WANNA take a bath! You can't make me! CALVIN (As mom carries him to the tub): Aghh! Leggo! Leggo!! No No No No No No No! Put me down! CALVIN (Now in the tub): I wish I was dead! I hate you all! I hate everything. AARRGGHHH! MOM (Dripping wet. Talking to her husband.): Whenever I hear about people trying to rediscover the child within, I want to scream.
~ Bill Watterson
He stomped away like a pint-sized Godzilla looking for Tokyo.
~ Julia Spencer-Fleming
I remember, as a kid, when any woman/girl came close to my dad to get his autograph, I would throw a complete tantrum - yell shout and sometimes even fight!
~ Ekta Kapoor
yelled,kicking
~ Gabrielle Lord
Did they think I would throw a tantrum?" "Baby, you're not the tantrum type. You are the scary-smile-and-stabbing type.
~ Ilona Andrews
You've had your tantrum. Now come back inside, and we'll talk like civilized people. You don't want to cause a scene in front of the neighbors.
~ Carly Phillips
It was like being around a particularly irritating two-year-old.
~ Charlaine Harris
Uh-oh. In all the time I'd interacted with Ghastek, he never swore. Ever. The "premier" Master of the Dead was about to throw a tantrum. I braced myself. "He comes into the city, he throws away my people, he orders me around like I'm his servant, and now this? How dare he!" I sighed. "How dare he!" came out. Could "Does he know who I am?" be far behind.
~ Ilona Andrews
Did they think I would throw a tantrum?" "Baby, you're not the tantrum type. You are the scary-smile-and-stabbing type." I looked at him. "Hard-stare type." He grinned.
~ Ilona Andrews
She wanted to stomp her foot, throw a tantrum, throw a punch.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
This psychology crap? I can guess where you're going with this tantrum, and in the interest of saving time — which seems to be an imperative for you — I would say that what is bullshit to you is a field of disciple that I've got a PhD is and will spend the rest of my life further researching, participating in, and advocating for. So if you're looking to persuade me that there isn't value in what I do, you're pushing water uphill.
~ J.R. Ward
As a father of two children, I am used to seeing kids in the midst of a five-alarm meltdown over the choice of DVD or the necessity of broccoli.
~ Louis Theroux
Sad! But So disrespectful to the people who made this great country what it is" "You may remove all the works of art you want and even those statues but the memory and the history will still survive even though you throw a baby tantrum...You are still a no count individual until you grow up...If the shoe fits, wear it proudly..
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
You may remove all the works of art you want and even those statues of which tax dollars paid for by your parents and grand parents. but the memory and the history will still survive even though you throw a baby tantrum...Your parents and grand parents are more important then your little mouse tantrum. You are still of a no count individual until you grow up...If the shoe fits, wear it proudly..??
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
It was something from the earth or the sky or the sea, or from a dream or the pages of a book I wasn't yet old enough to read, about monsters I wasn't brave enough to face. Soon it was an immense noise that rattled everything in my body. It was the sound of being chased in a nightmare, or the blind and violent fury of a bad parent, a tantrum that deafened the ears of the living and slithered across the bones of the dead.
~ Lemony Snicket
Clara and I retraced our steps and returned to the speakeasy. Josh and Carl were playing checkers in the dim light. "Who's winning?" I asked. "Carl is winning," Glo said. "If we don't let him win he pitches a tantrum and throws the checkers all around the room.
~ Janet Evanovich
Anger is short-lived madness.
~ Horace