Children Quotes

"I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think"

Cathy Guisewite, Cartoonist

"Once I showed up at my sister's with a baby rabbit I had bought from some children because its ears were cold. I put the rabbit on a hot water bottle and massaged its ears for quite a while. After all, I knew that all healthy animals had warm ears"

Juliette G. Low

"Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills"

Debbie Stabenow, Politician

"There is no overt rivalry among our children"

Martin Milner, Actor

"However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home"

Robert Neelly Bellah

"Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education"

Tipper Gore, Celebrity

"Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded"

Susan George, Activist

"Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death"

Erik H. Erikson, Psychologist

"I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it"

Alan Rickman, Actor

"I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way"

Corazon Aquino, President

"Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being"

Evan Bayh, Politician

"I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation"

Erika Slezak, Actress

"Now I'm starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children"

Paula Yates, Entertainer

"As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing"

Vito Fossella, Politician

"God has two families of children on this earth, the once-born and the twice-born"

Francis W. Newman, Writer

"That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children"

Dwayne Hickman, Actor

"One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

"I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a lot of people who write for children can remember their own childhoods vividly and I can remember my childhood very vividly"

Eric Wilson, Musician

"I think people need to commit to one another before they commit to bringing children into the world because that's the optimum arrangement for children, not to take anything at all away from women who have to rear their children by themselves"

Leah Ward Sears, Judge

"And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879"

Mary A. Ward

"I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me"

William Jackson

"Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount"

Lara St. John, Musician

"It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia"

Henry Lawson, Writer

"Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own"

David Allan Coe, Musician

"All my children inherited perfect pitch"

Chevy Chase, Comedian

"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision"

Denis Waitley, Writer

"Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth"

Joan of Arc, Celebrity

"Children are the anchors of a mother's life"

Sophocles, Author

"But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies"

Sophocles, Author

"Children always turn to the light"

David Hare, Playwright

"Tell the children the truth"

Bob Marley, Musician

"Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil"

H. L. Mencken, Writer