Children Quotes

"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"When I see that my geek may have contained some of the best parts of me, when I love and appreciate him, I set my children free to see themselves as lovable however they are"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"Whatever I have not yet learned to tolerate in myself inevitably will appear in my children. In this way, they, like Julia, guide me to a new level of self-awareness and everyone benefits"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to"

Rod Blagojevich, Politician

"A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned"

Ewan McGregor, Actor

"I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

"Specifically, the growing threat that sexual predators pose to our Nation's children and their families represents an area where our criminal justice system has failed the American people"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"We children learned responsibility automatically"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents"

Joan Chen, Actress

"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character"

Hosea Ballou, Clergyman

"I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'A long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future"

Romeo LeBlanc, Politician

"I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete"

Joan Chen, Actress

"Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did"

John Templeton, Businessman

"Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart"

Hesiod, Poet

"Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything"

Don Bluth, Artist

"Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"Millions of Americans, adults and children, lack access to dental care"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes"

Henry George, Economist

"I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring"

Helena Bonham Carter, Actress

"I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation"

Martha Beck, Author

"And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father"

Black Elk, Leader

"Adults under threat feel like children"

Martha Beck, Author

"Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life"

Martha Beck, Author

"Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss"

Black Elk, Leader

"Finally, I do not believe that we should punish American families who have worked diligently to provide for themselves and want to pass along their success to their children and grandchildren"

Howard Coble, Politician

"Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

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