Children Quotes

"If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children"

"The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day"

"Charlie and I were never blessed with children"

"The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like"

John Barton, Poet

"The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals"

Leonard Boswell, Politician

"Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children"

Judith Martin, Author

"We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live"

Jim Clyburn, Politician

"Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them"

Samuel Rutherford, Theologian

"The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb"

Robert Casey, Politician

"Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early"

Rita Dove, Poet

"Brown v. Board is the foundation by which all Americans can look for hope - hope for their children, hope for their families, and hope for a better future"

Mike Rogers

"It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman"

Lindsey Graham, Politician

"With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get"

Jo Brand, Comedian

"Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society"

Jack Kingston, Politician

"There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs"

Lawrence Summers, Economist

"A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune"

Richard Whately, Writer

"Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"If anyone has it rough at Guantanamo, it is the guards. They are constantly harassed and threatened by some of these terrorists. Prisoners tell guards, we know where your families are. We know where your wife is, your children, and we are going to kill them"

Robin Hayes, Politician

"All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself"

Gore Vidal, Novelist

"So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children"

Maria Monk, Celebrity

"I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree"

Katy Perry, Musician

"Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother"

Christine Baranski, Actress

"Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings"

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Writer

"There is nothing I have to reflect on that gives me more satisfaction than the fact that my life is insured for the benefit of my Dear Wife and children"

Ezra Cornell, Businessman

"And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that"

Glenn Beck, Journalist

"If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world"

Matthew Simpson, Clergyman

"Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children"

John Goodman, Actor

"Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account"

Hugh Mackay

"It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake"

Henry Lawson, Writer

"Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?"

King Abdullah II, Statesman

"I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions"

Joe Pantoliano, Actor

"Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters"

Hugh Mackay

"Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen"

Hugh Mackay

"If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children"

Coretta Scott King, Activist

"My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents"

Carol Moseley Braun, Politician

"I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me"

Ian Botham, Athlete

"Many Americans are unaware that we still have a large population of working families, elderly, and children who rely on emergency food pantries, shelters, and other resources to meet their nutritional needs"

Blanche Lincoln, Politician

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