Children Quotes

"Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive"

"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold"

"The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it"

"Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for"

"What I will remember most from my time in NATO is meeting children in the countries where I've gone to, to Moscow and to Kiev, I've met school children"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children"

William Makepeace Thackeray, Novelist

"The people that live in these districts, they don't want to watch it. They don't want to see their children die or killing other people. The only people that it is entertainment to are the people in the capital that have been brainwashed and are misguided and living in a completely unrealistic kind of world"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life"

Rose Kennedy, Author

"I know that in order to be considered successful, you're supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise"

Meg Tilly, Actress

"Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first"

Meg Tilly, Actress

"She's 32, and she has three children. She loves to be pregnant but she doesn't want anymore children in her life. So she decided to help another couple. And she's just been amazing"

Cheryl Tiegs, Model

"If the massive invasion is not stopped, we are going to be flooded to the extent that we will drift into third world status. For our children and for our grandchildren, we cannot fail on this issue"

Virgil Goode, Politician

"Many children's writers don't have children of their own"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no"

Ewan McGregor, Actor

"Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young"

Martha Beck, Author

"If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track"

Dinah Sheridan, Actress

"Literally every department of state government has gone through, or is in a period of, chaos. Not just fiscal chaos, but certainly as we saw in the Department of Children and Family Services and State Fair Agency and many of Walker's departments, there is absolute chaos"

Bill Scott, Actor

"Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer"

Katherine Whitehorn, Journalist

"I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing"

Celine Dion, Musician

"Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children"

Bob Filner, Politician

"I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God"

Fred Melamed, Actor

"In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it"

Graeme Le Saux, Athlete

"It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years"

Meg Tilly, Actress

"I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone"

Meg Tilly, Actress

"No, but women are saying, and they say, are you crazy? But because they've had children since they were 20 years old. I haven't. So I had a child when I was 43, and now he's really out with his friends"

Cheryl Tiegs, Model

"Children enhance you"

Melanie Griffith, Actress

"My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!"

Dorothy Kilgallen, Actress

"As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy"

Chris Van Hollen, Politician

"You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born"

Raymond E. Feist, Author

"The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any"

Katherine Whitehorn, Journalist

"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city"

Bob Filner, Politician

"However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry"

Bob Filner, Politician

"Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age"

Paul Klee, Artist

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