Children Quotes

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

"However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you"

"In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children"

Oliver North, Soldier

"Well, our children do know what this industry is about, but they have a good grip on who they are"

Morgan Brittany, Actress

"We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat"

Ringo Starr, Musician

"True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. 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

"The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers"

Geraldo Rivera, Journalist

"I love being with my children. They're fascinating people"

Amy Grant, Musician

"But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children"

Armistead Maupin, Novelist

"The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing"

Andrea Martin, Actor

"The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience"

Hugh Mackay

"Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I"

Eydie Gorme, Musician

"Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children"

Guy Laliberte, Businessman

"Suffer little children and come unto me"

Evita Peron, Statesman

"I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue"

David Cameron, Politician

"I don't have any children, I have four middle-aged people"

Dick Van Dyke, Actor

"Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?"

Gary Becker, Economist

"Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel"

David Wilkerson, Clergyman

"Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education"

Ed Markey, Politician

"I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them"

Armistead Maupin, Novelist

"Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again"

Moira Kelly, Actress

"I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth"

Evel Knievel, Entertainer

"If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers"

Edward W. Howe

"I've worked with children all my life"

Denzel Washington, Actor

"The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future"

Henry Lawson, Writer

"I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me"

Geraldo Rivera, Journalist

"The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

"As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community"

Ed Pastor, Politician

"I have four children and I have seven grandkids"

Dick Van Dyke, Actor

"In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

"After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind"

John Ratzenberger, Actor

"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive"

Dom DeLuise, Actor

"You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship"

Connie Sellecca, Actress

"The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves"

Charles Reade, Novelist

"Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision"

Dick Armey, Politician

"Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit"

Connie Sellecca, Actress

"My children are all doing just fine. The mountain dogs are great in this weather. The yorkies are freezing"

Catherine Crier, Journalist

"The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers"

Joan Didion, Author

"Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

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