Children Quotes

"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

"And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done"

William Devane, Actor

"The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

"Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children"

Kingsley Amis, Novelist

"As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete

"In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes"

Jim Costa, Politician

"The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality"

John Hench, Artist

"As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children"

Rick Warren, Writer

"I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language"

William Bennett, Politician

"A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure"

Nick Rahall, Politician

"Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do"

Major Owens, Politician

"We live in a society today where these children can be wanted children. Even if you don't want to keep this child after you've had it, there's plenty of young couples out there, that want children"

Norma McCorvey, Celebrity

"I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young children in America"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"I believed in raising my children as I had been raised"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died"

Bobby Scott, Politician

"An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes"

Kim Campbell, Statesman

"Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed"

Isabel Allende, Writer

"Sadly, every year hundreds of children are victimized by a convicted sexual offender. Convicted predators should be put in prison where they belong and kept away from our Nation's children"

Jim Costa, Politician

"You see, we all want the same things. We want to be able to take care of our families, provide for our children, to have a roof over our heads and a good-paying job"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel"

Yakov Smirnoff, Comedian

"If the woman in my life, the one that I felt I loved enough to want to marry, loved my children, I'd know then that her love for me was deeper than I could hope for"

James MacArthur, Actor

"I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life"

Clay Aiken, Musician

"It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children"

Kingsley Amis, Novelist

"It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children"

Kingsley Amis, Novelist

"But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by"

John Shadegg, Politician

"I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures"

Jane Smiley, Writer

"A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children"

Alveda King, Clergyman

"There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things"

Gerald R. Ford, President

"I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule"

David Icke, Athlete

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