Children Quotes

"Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school"

"I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy"

"Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"All of a sudden I had a baby, because it went really quick. It was like, 'Oh! I have a baby!' So, it's great. I'm just having a great time with my children. They're here in New York with me"

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Actress

"When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children"

David Beckham, Athlete

"When I'm not working, my time is really about my children"

Christine Lahti, Actress

"I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions"

Cheryl Ladd, Actress

"Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself"

Andy Garcia, Actor

"I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency"

Anatoly Karpov, Celebrity

"Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance"

Zoe Saldana, Actor

"That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?"

Frances Farmer, Actress

"An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write"

William Labov, Writer

"All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children"

Paul Auster, Author

"My father loved people, children and pets"

Tony Visconti, Musician

"For the first time in my life, I want the right to get married. I've met somebody who meets the criteria of what I've always imagined in and wanted from a partner - someone to marry and to bring children into the world with"

Kyan Douglas, Celebrity

"Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals"

Ann Oakley, Sociologist

"I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do"

Rebecca Miller, Director

"I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs"

David Dinkins, Politician

"Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones"

David Dinkins, Politician

"And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet"

David Dinkins, Politician

"I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do"

Gloria Estefan, Musician

"If they take their children to doctors, they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of in God"

Bob Bartlett, Politician

"If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children"

Roman Polanski, Director

"We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty"

Robert Casey, Politician

"If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses"

Lenny Bruce, Comedian

"I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home"

Robert Orben, Entertainer

"We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children"

Ricardo Lagos, Politician

"In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free"

Harry Browne, Writer

"These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last!"

John Dillinger, Criminal

"Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well"

Jonathan Carroll, Author

"I would love to have children, yes. Maybe even adopt them. I'm not sure that I should pass on my genes"

Linda Fiorentino, Actress

"I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency"

George Clooney, Actor

"There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience"

Anatole Broyard, Critic

"People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family"

Jung Chang, Writer

"In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home"

Harpo Marx, Comedian

"Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff"

Bob Keeshan, Entertainer

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