Children Quotes

"In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers"

"No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come"

Judy Biggert, Politician

"The idea of the show is that it's active and that children will become involved and watch the show, but also participate in the show. And I didn't know if that would work"

Steve Burns, Actor

"What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt"

John Spratt, Politician

"It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do"

Joan Blades, Businessman

"The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come"

Joe Manchin III

"There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth"

Richie Sambora, Musician

"Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning"

Roger Ascham, Writer

"My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future"

Robert. L. Ehrlich, Politician

"We should not have our children going to school to learn how to become obese"

Jeanne Kohl-Welles

"Now I have children of my own. They ask their mother what will I be. Will I be handsome, will I be rich?"

Jay Livingston, Composer

"On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children are born and the investment in children is the greatest investment a country can make. The benefits of this investment go to everyone"

Rocco Buttiglione, Politician

"Although I managed my schedule to be home by late afternoon most days, basically, Roselle raised our children alone. And so I missed out on a lot of wonderful moments, missed watching my kids grow into the wonderful people they are today"

Perry Como, Musician

"After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better"

Jaclyn Smith, Actress

"After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude"

Phillip Noyce, Director

"Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life"

Muriel Spark, Novelist

"We would love to have other children. It hasn't happened. We haven't been lucky enough"

Marg Helgenberger, Actress

"Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another"

Frank Pittman

"Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves"

Liberty Hyde Bailey, Scientist

"Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable"

Kenneth Clark, Author

"I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children"

Lee Majors, Actor

"It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children"

Kevin Eubanks, Musician

"Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely"

Tim Johnson, Politician

"I just want my children to be happy. I want my children to be healthy"

Ricky Martin, Musician

"If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important"

Linda Blair, Actress

"I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington"

James Green Somerville

"Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young"

Jaclyn Smith, Actress

"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift"

Kate DiCamillo, Author

"It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure"

Kate DiCamillo, Author

"Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college"

Chaka Fattah, Politician

"Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up"

Philip Larkin, Poet

"In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children"

Parminder Nagra, Actress

"Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else"

George Dennison Prentice, Editor

"If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders"

Abigail Van Buren, Journalist

"When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior"

Tim Murphy, Politician

"We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law"

Jose Serrano, Politician

"I play a scientist in a futuristic world in which 99% of the men have been wiped out. As a result, the women are nearly all homosexuals and the children are cloned"

Julie Bowen, Actress

"We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children"

Robert Stack, Actor

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