Children Quotes

"Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times"

"It's sometimes unnerving to think of that, and I wish it were possible for all children in the world to have the good fortune I've had in having a giving and loving family"

James MacArthur, Actor

"I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me"

Helen Dunmore, Poet

"When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I realised that confidence and a bit of aesthetic care can overcome that"

Johnny Vegas, Comedian

"But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns"

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Writer

"My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember"

John Malkovich, Actor

"You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever"

Ellen Goodman, Journalist

"If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts"

Brad Henry, Politician

"Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"I'd been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant"

David Thewlis, Actor

"I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children"

George Shearing, Musician

"Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children"

Fred Thompson, Politician

"I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children"

Ednita Nazario, Musician

"As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation"

Dennis Cardoza, Politician

"We have relegated the saints to a pink and blue and gold world of plaster statuary that belongs to the past; it is a hangover, a relic, of the Dark Ages when men were the children of fantasy's magic"

C. Kilmer Myers

"For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma"

Brad Henry, Politician

"I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential"

Brad Henry, Politician

"The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents"

Charles de Lint, Writer

"Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children"

Helen Dunmore, Poet

"An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others"

Aiden Wilson Tozer, Clergyman

"I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again"

Annie Dillard, Author

"We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word"

Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman

"Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?"

Dwight L. Moody, Clergyman

"I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience"

Cathy Guisewite, Cartoonist

"All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right"

Cathy Guisewite, Cartoonist

"People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me"

Meryl Streep, Actress

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