Children Quotes

"Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people who bought my records then are married now and they probably still play these records and their children like them"

Bonnie Tyler, Musician

"I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world"

Dennis Kucinich, Politician

"I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!"

Caroline Corr, Musician

"Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, they were scratching out a living and working hard. They kept the family going"

Cheryl Ladd, Actress

"Jackson and I spent the day together, just me and him and his children. Little underlings came and went. The PR person came and went. It was just Michael and me and the kids. And it was very interesting"

Geraldo Rivera, Journalist

"Parents should be the most important examples for their children"

Christy Turlington, Model

"I'm an ambassador for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and one of the children, his wish was to go to the Emmys, so he's going to be my date, along with my husband, and my dad and his girlfriend. So we're going to have a really fun night and it's going to be really exciting. I'm really excited for him to experience that"

Christina Hendricks, Actress

"What interests me is what children go through while growing up"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy, successful lives"

Anne Ford

"These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up"

Charles Manson, Criminal

"Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword"

Calista Flockhart, Actress

"In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there"

Dana Delany, Actress

"Gwen and I have four children and ten grandchildren"

David Wilkerson, Clergyman

"I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics"

Bob Lilly, Athlete

"I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others"

Blanche Lincoln, Politician

"I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies become a little more like your children"

Campbell Scott, Actor

"If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men"

Archibald Alexander, Clergyman

"Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way"

Betty Cuthbert, Athlete

"I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted"

Christy Turlington, Model

"I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life"

Andy Garcia, Actor

"Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future"

Blanche Lincoln, Politician

"In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue"

Blanche Lincoln, Politician

"There is virtually nothing I wouldn't be willing to do, to try and make sure that children have a fair shake in life"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children"

David Duchovny, Actor

"This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching"

Damon Hill, Athlete

"Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"Children want to do what grownups do"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"And you've got to remember that I'm also the father of nine children"

David Neeleman, Businessman

"Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day"

Armstrong Williams, Journalist

"I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event"

Anatoly Karpov, Celebrity

"I want more children but for the next three years I want to act"

Anna Friel, Actress

"You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave"

Giuseppe Garibaldi

"Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps"

Anatoly Karpov, Celebrity

"How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands"

Anne Frank, Writer

"When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them"

Ramakrishna, Leader

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