Children Quotes

"We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong"

Judith Viorst, Author

"The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

"In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot"

Patti Smith, Musician

"A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture"

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator

"I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS"

Madonna Ciccone, Entertainer

"But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination"

Laura Miller, Politician

"Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation"

Dora Russell, Celebrity

"The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them"

Gene Wolfe, Writer

"I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

"Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"Perhaps we shall also have to hold in check other coloured peoples who will soon be in their certain prime, and thus preserve the world, which is the world of our blood, of our children and of our grandchildren"

Heinrich Himmler, Criminal

"You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way"

Barbara Bush, First Lady

"I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children"

Peter Brimelow, Journalist

"One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive"

Warren Farrell, Writer

"That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that pollution will be on their mental and physical development, is both bad policy and immorally wrong"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood"

Fred Rogers, Celebrity

"I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising"

Bob Filner, Politician

"Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion"

William C. Bryant, Poet

"Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn't. They had big ears on them"

Gerald Scarfe, Artist

"I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals"

Wynonna Judd, Musician

"Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time on. I'm usually on the Nickelodeon site, coloring with my little five year old or something"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can't be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore"

Sela Ward, Actress

"The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start"

Bob Filner, Politician

"Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper"

Hannah More, Writer

"But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents"

Joseph Heller, Novelist

"The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare"

Sharon Gless, Actress

"Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted"

Eartha Kitt, Actress

"Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother"

Theodore Hesburgh, Clergyman

"Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn"

Lucille Roybal-Allard

"Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel"

Margaret Cavendish, Writer

"My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

"There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia"

Julie Bishop, Politician

"As a person who has spent my career as a child psychologist and have dealt with many children who have struggled with many problems in families, I have seen families ripped apart by so many things that sometimes law has tried to deal with"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

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