Children Quotes

"I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children"

"The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses"

Mac Thornberry, Politician

"Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree"

Ruth Ann Minner, Politician

"Many children work hard to please their parents, but what I truly longed for was good times that were about us, not about me. That is the real hole the Dodgers filled in my life"

Gil Hodges, Athlete

"Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children"

Patrick Buchanan

"Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun"

Kent Nerburn, Author

"Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why"

Bill Bixby, Actor

"Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built"

James Dobson, Psychologist

"I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we're still paying for it"

Blythe Danner, Actress

"I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it"

Emmanuelle Beart, Actress

"Our revenge will be the laughter of our children"

Bobby Sands, Activist

"Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women"

Reynolds Price, Novelist

"My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in"

Lisa Loeb, Musician

"The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand"

John Whitehead

"I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them"

Donna Douglas, Actress

"I don't think children are any more resilent than anyone else. They're just people with little bodies"

Kirstie Alley, Actress

"Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work"

Thomas S. Monson, Clergyman

"I think that being a conscious parent opens your eyes to the fact that any adult relationships that you have, whenever children are present on a daily basis, that they're modeling how they get along with people by what they see how you get along"

Peter Krause, Actor

"Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?"

Roseanne Barr, Actress

"Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth"

Scott Dixon, Celebrity

"The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof"

Anzia Yezierska, Novelist

"What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall"

Carl Stokes, Politician

"Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place"

Neil Kurshan

"And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years"

Mark Strong, Actor

"Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children"

Leon Kass, Educator

"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable"

Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist

"There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them"

Anthony Edwards, Actor

"There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children"

Andrew Shue, Actor

"Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games"

Faith Hill, Musician

"Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children"

Jon Kyl, Politician

"Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them"

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Novelist

"Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the content of the coursework"

Lawrence Kutner

"What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?"

Kate Millett, Activist

"As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history"

Kate Millett, Activist

"I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in"

Judd Nelson, Actor

"My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more"

Lois Capps, Politician

"Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children"

Jane Howard, Journalist

"But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?"

Ernie Hudson, Actor

"After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise"

Shirley Jones, Actress

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