Children Quotes

"Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training"

Fay Godwin, Photographer

"Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not"

Edward Burnett Tylor, Scientist

"You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow"

Dudley Nichols, Screenwriter

"We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment"

David Satcher, Politician

"We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends"

Fay Weldon, Novelist

"I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country"

Edward Zwick, Director

"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations"

David Friedman, Musician

"Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?"

Benjamin Spock, Scientist

"But, neither of these educational scenarios worked for us, so when we started a family, we wanted a different school for our children. And the other founders felt the same way"

Daniel Greenberg, Educator

"Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience"

Burt Ward, Actor

"I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child"

Burt Ward, Actor

"Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free"

Anna Akhmatova, Poet

"Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs"

Anthony Hecht, Poet

"Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities"

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Politician

"Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be"

Benjamin Spock, Scientist

"I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job"

Roseanne Barr, Actress

"The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other"

Andrew H. Malcolm

"If you tell children they are bad, that's what they believe they are and that's probably what they will become"

Louise Hart

"In order to set forth the goodness of God towards myself, I have thought it prudent to record some of the leading incidents of my life, as a means of setting forth to my children that He is a rewarder of them who diligently seek Him"

William Rowley, Dramatist

"One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people"

Stephanie Beacham, Actress

"A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood"

Charlotte Davis Kasl

"Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children"

Doris Day, Actress

"Our children are not going to be just "our children" - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren"

Mary Calderone, Scientist

"Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom"

Erik Erikson, Psychologist

"If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?"

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

"America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children"

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

"I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children"

James Wolfensohn, Businessman

"One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards"

Shirley Williams, Politician

"Well, I've got two small children and this is a very important time for me to be around them"

Treat Williams, Actor

"All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master"

Joshua Reynolds, Artist

"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up"

James C. Dobson, Psychologist

"I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because he was doing it in a sexual manner now that I look back on it"

Tom Cole, Politician

"We all agree that parents have the primary responsibility of filtering the material that reaches children. However, children are often lured onto websites containing obscene material through the devious manipulation of search engines"

Robert A. Brady, Politician

"I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes"

R. Kelly, Musician

"I think that every show on television has its place. I think Married With Children or, I don't know, The Nanny... some people want to go home, turn on the TV and be able to iron their clothes or grab a sandwich. Come out and catch a joke and not have to follow the story"

Peter Krause, Actor

"Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements"

Napolean Hill, Author

"I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children"

Melinda Gates, Clergyman

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