Children Quotes

"We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children"

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

"Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves"

Elias Canetti, Author

"We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

"We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

"Good words will not give me back my children"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children"

Charles Darwin, Scientist

"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other"

Robert Benchley, Comedian

"You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop"

Robert Benchley, Comedian

"Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty"

Dennis Potter, Dramatist

"So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world"

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

"Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them"

Anthony Quinn, Actor

"We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons"

William J. Clinton, President

"The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children"

Denis Diderot, Editor

"I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don't know I'm only using blanks"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures"

Dennis Potter, Dramatist

"In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children"

Charles W. Pickering, Judge

"I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up"

Jayne Mansfield, Actress

"For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers"

Thomas Keneally, Novelist

"Because I practice often with my children at home"

Andrea Bocelli, Musician

"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility"

Maria Callas, Musician

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