Children Quotes

"The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves"

Stanley Baldwin, Statesman

"The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves"

Stanley Baldwin, Statesman

"When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think"

Patricia Schroeder, Leader

"The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government"

John L. Lewis, Leader

"We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do"

Brigham Young, Leader

"I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive"

Robert Kennedy, Politician

"Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later"

Allan Bloom, Philosopher

"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine"

Allan Bloom, Philosopher

"Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family"

Francesca Annis, Actress

"I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children"

Steve Yzerman, Athlete

"Having children with someone is the real bond"

Francesca Annis, Actress

"I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children"

Diane von Furstenberg, Designer

"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children"

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theologian

"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children"

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theologian

"I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women"

Will Smith, Actor

"The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds"

James S. Coleman, Sociologist

"Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels"

James S. Coleman, Sociologist

"What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people"

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

"And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that"

Duane G. Carey, Astronaut

"I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us"

James Herriot, Writer

"Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away"

Gary Oldman, Actor

"But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel"

Theodore Bikel, Actor

"I like throwing snowballs at small children"

Sam Mendes, Director

"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own"

Doug Larson, Cartoonist

"We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings"

F. H. Bradley, Philosopher

"I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children"

Alain Delon, Actor

"When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like"

Isaac Mizrahi, Designer

"When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so"

Louise Brown, Celebrity

"They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children"

Barbara Amiel, Journalist

"Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth"

Tom Lantos, Diplomat

"40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight"

Tom Lantos, Diplomat

"There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own"

Doug Larson, Cartoonist

"Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember"

Louise Brown, Celebrity