Children Quotes

"Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12"

Lucille Roybal-Allard

"There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then"

Hazel Scott, Musician

"All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting"

John Mortimer, Novelist

"My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children"

Lindsay Lohan, Actress

"People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace"

Thomas Goodwin, Clergyman

"The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?"

Susan Sarandon, Actress

"We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day"

Jim Wallis, Writer

"By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other"

Laura Dern, Actress

"Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

"I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page"

Sue Grafton, Novelist

"Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today"

Bruce Willis, Actor

"THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"The best defense against these people is to educate parents and children of the dangers that come along with the Internet and by limiting access to certain sites during the school day"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"Predators will look for any way to talk to children online whether through sites like Myspace, instant messaging, or even online games"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain"

Martin Mull, Actor

"The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question"

Jim Wallis, Writer

"The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"Well, there are about 10 million children that aren't covered by health insurance. About 3 million qualify for Medicaid but don't get it, so we're going to reach out and bring more of those kids into the Medicaid program"

Franklin Raines, Businessman

"You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

"When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin"

Olympia Dukakis, Actress

"The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth"

Mario Puzo, Novelist

"I'm going to be working the next 25 or 30 years. People like me, if we want, number one, for no benefit reductions for our parents and our grandparents, number two, for the system to survive and exist for us, and, more importantly, number three, for the system to exist for us children, we are going to have to make reforms to that system"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older"

Pierre Loti, Writer

"It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains"

Pierre Loti, Writer

"If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors"

Hans Kung, Theologian

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