Children Quotes

"I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS"

Madonna Ciccone, Entertainer

"Perhaps we shall also have to hold in check other coloured peoples who will soon be in their certain prime, and thus preserve the world, which is the world of our blood, of our children and of our grandchildren"

Heinrich Himmler, Criminal

"I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children"

Peter Brimelow, Journalist

"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood"

Fred Rogers, Celebrity

"I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus"

George Whitefield, Clergyman

"Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising"

Bob Filner, Politician

"I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals"

Wynonna Judd, Musician

"Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time on. I'm usually on the Nickelodeon site, coloring with my little five year old or something"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can't be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore"

Sela Ward, Actress

"The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start"

Bob Filner, Politician

"Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper"

Hannah More, Writer

"But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents"

Joseph Heller, Novelist

"Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn't. They had big ears on them"

Gerald Scarfe, Artist

"One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive"

Warren Farrell, Writer

"In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare"

Sharon Gless, Actress

"Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted"

Eartha Kitt, Actress

"Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother"

Theodore Hesburgh, Clergyman

"Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn"

Lucille Roybal-Allard

"Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel"

Margaret Cavendish, Writer

"My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

"There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia"

Julie Bishop, Politician

"As a person who has spent my career as a child psychologist and have dealt with many children who have struggled with many problems in families, I have seen families ripped apart by so many things that sometimes law has tried to deal with"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think"

Cathy Guisewite, Cartoonist

"In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature"

Giorgio Vasari, Artist

"Once I showed up at my sister's with a baby rabbit I had bought from some children because its ears were cold. I put the rabbit on a hot water bottle and massaged its ears for quite a while. After all, I knew that all healthy animals had warm ears"

Juliette G. Low

"Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills"

Debbie Stabenow, Politician

"There is no overt rivalry among our children"

Martin Milner, Actor

"Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education"

Tipper Gore, Celebrity

"Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded"

Susan George, Activist

"Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death"

Erik H. Erikson, Psychologist

"I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it"

Alan Rickman, Actor

"I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way"

Corazon Aquino, President

"Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being"

Evan Bayh, Politician

"I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation"

Erika Slezak, Actress

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