Children Quotes

"That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children"

Rebecca Miller, Director

"Blame is for God and small children"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need"

Christopher Bond, Politician

"Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity"

Charles Colson, Lawyer

"What God chooses for us children of men is always the best"

Karl Barth, Theologian

"The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks and cares of the little household were altogether too heavy for her years and experience"

John George Nicolay, Writer

"The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children"

Henry Morton Stanley, Explorer

"I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children"

Teresa Wright, Actress

"The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss"

Tammy Bruce, Author

"I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden"

Jessica Lange, Actress

"It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooked and that they begin receiving the treatment and care they deserve"

Mike DeWine, Politician

"Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture"

Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator

"If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them"

Luciano Pavarotti, Musician

"It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people"

Bob Keeshan, Entertainer

"It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future"

Kent Conrad, Politician

"Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children"

Armstrong Williams, Journalist

"If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly"

Sinead O'Connor, Musician

"Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children"

Little Richard, Musician

"My wife and two children traveled with me on locations all last season"

Martin Milner, Actor

"We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins"

Ellen Glasgow, Novelist

"I have a very open line of communication with both my children"

Gloria Estefan, Musician

"But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God"

Frances Farmer, Actress

"Children should enjoy the few years they have just being a kid"

Dwayne Hickman, Actor

"The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith"

Andy Williams, Musician

"My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working"

Dean Stockwell, Actor

"I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

"I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality"

Armstrong Williams, Journalist

"And ladies, build up your husband by being submissive. That's how you will give your children success; you will want your children to be obedient, to be submissive to righteous living"

Warren Jeffs, Criminal

"I started at a very early age in this business and I'm sure most of you have read stories about people who have started as children and ended up in very difficult lives and bad consequences"

Dean Stockwell, Actor

"Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek"

Sun Myung Moon, Clergyman

"You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell"

Brian McKnight, Musician

"The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat"

June Jordan, Writer

"Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves"

Jack Prelutsky, Poet

"We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children"

Gloria Estefan, Musician

"There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child"

Gloria Estefan, Musician

"So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children"

Phil Lesh, Musician

"The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success"

Wilhelm Keitel, Celebrity

"When you don't have kids and you're in a Catholic family - one of my sisters had 10 children in 11 years - she's part rabbit - you feel kind of guilty about that. So, I want to do things for other people's children"

Marge Schott, Businessman

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