Children Quotes

"If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge"

"Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive or don't"

Bernice Weissbourd

"While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes; recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor"

Tim Holden, Politician

"Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them"

Rocco Buttiglione, Politician

"I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren"

Tom Coburn, Politician

"And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right"

Phil Collins, Musician

"Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS"

Marvin Olasky, Educator

"Also, if we take back our schools and concentrate on improving them so our children get a better education, they will be better trained to compete for a job locally"

Vincent Frank

"Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children"

Ryan Phillippe, Actor

"I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"If we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must look to our values and ensure that we all exhibit a peace loving life to our nation's children"

Silvia Cartwright, Statesman

"There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well"

Marlee Matlin, Actress

"Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children"

Kathryn Stockett, Novelist

"It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself"

Joyce Maynard, Writer

"There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about"

Shirley Knight, Actress

"Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness"

Charlotte Davis Kasl

"The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess"

Jeanette MacDonald, Actress

"It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day"

Milton R. Sapirstein, Physicist

"The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me"

Kate Winslet, Actress

"We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet"

John Lynch, Politician

"We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society"

Anne Lamott, Author

"It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked"

Carolyn McCarthy, Politician

"Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons"

Al Hirschfeld, Cartoonist

"I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street"

Robert McCloskey, Author

"We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this"

Kay Bailey Hutchison, Politician

"It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children"

Ama Ata Aidoo, Author

"I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with"

Shakira, Musician

"I do not think our priorities are misplaced when we are looking at creating a whole new class of children from these gay marriages who could end up completely dependent on the State, on the taxpayers - the American people"

James Inhofe, Politician

"My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself"

Tatum O'Neal, Actress

"Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience"

Will Adams, Explorer

"In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature"

Will Adams, Explorer

"Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be"

Trey Parker, Artist

"I mean, that's another big surprise of the show, is that I see sixteen year old people who recognize me and they're honest, for-real fans of the show. And it goes down to nine months. I mean, I've heard of nine month to year-old children who are watching the show"

Steve Burns, Actor

"Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten"

Robert. L. Ehrlich, Politician

"The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them"

Phillip Noyce, Director

"I think I went through everything anyone who had a long career needed. I needed quiet. I needed to raise my children"

Ron Darling, Athlete

"I'm blessed with eight children - though I'm talking about eight adults now"

Ned Beatty, Actor

"I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point"

Patrick Warburton, Actor

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