Children Quotes

"We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults"

Richard Armour, Poet

"Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world"

Jesus Christ, Prophet

"She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else"

Anne Bronte, Novelist

"Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America"

Otto von Bismarck, Leader

"I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones"

Howard Nemerov, Poet

"We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings"

Bill Moyers, Journalist

"To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted"

Garrison Keillor, Writer

"I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy"

Garrison Keillor, Writer

"Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?"

Alan Bennett, Dramatist

"We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off"

Alan Bennett, Dramatist

"Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception"

Alan Bennett, Dramatist

"There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago"

J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist

"Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I'm very grateful for the support and kindness that we've gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband's policies or what have you, they care about children and that's been good to see"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

"Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

"Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ"

George Whitefield, Clergyman

"I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up"

Barbara Bush, First Lady

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being"

Red Skelton, Comedian

"Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children"

Bill Hicks, Comedian

"When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child"

George Whitefield, Clergyman

"I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children"

Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer

"Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average"

Garrison Keillor, Writer

"I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties"

Princess Diana, Royalty

"I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be"

Princess Diana, Royalty

"Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children"

Princess Diana, Royalty

"Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help"

Kid Rock, Musician

"People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn't"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings"

Hodding Carter, Journalist

"As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation"

Franz Liszt, Composer

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