Children Quotes

"That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children"

Rocco Buttiglione, Politician

"Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment"

John Bradshaw, Philosopher

"Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy"

Blythe Danner, Actress

"I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to"

Pamela Anderson, Actress

"I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made"

Pepper Schwartz

"It eats you up. It eats you up. And you have to - I had a lot of help. I had a lot of therapy. And I was able to - because it was hard, you know, to - you can't just lay it on friends and children"

Lynn Redgrave, Actress

"There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village"

Roma Downey, Actress

"If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness"

Roma Downey, Actress

"There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can"

Raul Julia, Actor

"When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the idea unit"

Jerry Falwell, Clergyman

"I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power"

Thomas Willis, Scientist

"I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!"

Susan Smith, Criminal

"I dropped to the lowest point when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without me"

Susan Smith, Criminal

"The point of our demographics is that we're not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration, we're not going to have the population"

Susan Oliver, Actress

"I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war"

George Galloway, Politician

"It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life"

Pamela Anderson, Actress

"There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl"

Fiona Apple, Musician

"The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive"

Susan Smith, Criminal

"I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I had to end our lives to protect us from any grief or harm"

Susan Smith, Criminal

"We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching"

Paul Tsongas, Politician

"Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium"

Paul Tsongas, Politician

"The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children"

Nancy Friday, Author

"Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well"

Michael N. Castle, Politician

"Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias"

Lois Capps, Politician

"In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s"

Lois Capps, Politician

"There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests"

Marvin Hamlisch, Composer

"I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella"

Gwen Stefani, Musician

"If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited"

Orrin Hatch, Politician

"What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate"

Kathryn Stockett, Novelist

"I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact that we are taking the tab for defense in our time against terrorists in the Middle East and elsewhere and shoving this tab off onto our children"

John Spratt, Politician

"Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world"

Mary Garden

"If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them"

Ian Smith

"This legislation gives parents some comfort that their children won't fall prey to child predators while using the Internet at schools and libraries that receive federal dollars for Internet services"

Judy Biggert, Politician

"Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children"

Shirley Jackson, Novelist

"Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children"

John Sununu, Politician

"For my children, it makes sense to talk about modernizing Social Security, letting them create stronger personal accounts, letting them get a higher rate of return over the long run"

John Sununu, Politician

"When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with"

Faith Hill, Musician

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