Children Quotes

"I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you know. He certainly raised mine"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school"

Kenny Marchant, Politician

"We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs"

Keith Emerson, Musician

"I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments"

John Hume, Politician

"It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense"

John Hersey, Writer

"We have very specific rules about how we go to market with children, and I think they are very responsible"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"Never have children, only grandchildren"

Gore Vidal, Novelist

"My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one"

Ezra Cornell, Businessman

"I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much"

Nicholas Sparks, Author

"Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children"

Victoria Principal, Actress

"When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens"

Michael Badnarik, Politician

"The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it"

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Musician

"What's done to children, they will do to society"

Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist

"Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected"

Robert Orben, Entertainer

"The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me"

Brenda Lee, Musician

"Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period"

Ted Nugent, Musician

"All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma"

Kazuo Ishiguro, Author

"A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents"

Richard Reeves, Writer

"I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm"

Tom Allen, Politician

"If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole"

Bob Dole, Politician

"Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded"

Tom G. Palmer, Educator

"Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands"

Alan Rickman, Actor

"Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy"

Glenn Beck, Journalist

"Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children"

Susan George, Activist

"We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons"

Saddam Hussein, Criminal

"I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime"

Gary Bauer, Public Servant

"This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more"

Geoffrey Rush, Actor

"There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren"

Mitch McConnell, Politician

"In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science"

Kenny Marchant, Politician

"It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying"

Dick Van Dyke, Actor

"I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life"

Lara Flynn Boyle, Actress

"If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future"

Helen Thomas, Journalist

"There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me"

David Hasselhoff, Actor

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