Children Quotes

"Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse"

"Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period"

John Pople, Scientist

"Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognized their slaughtered warriors, women, and children"

John Gibbon, Soldier

"There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care"

Harriet Harman, Politician

"Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it"

Walter Rauschenbusch, Writer

"It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved"

Priscilla Presley, Actress

"So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children"

Pat Boone, Musician

"I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time"

Mike Thompson, Politician

"Your children don't have to fear you to respect you"

Michael Madsen, Actor

"In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation"

Michael Lewis

"I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing with no lines. I was beat after that storyline"

Hunter Tylo, Actress

"In too many cases, the moms, the dads, the sisters and brothers of children with cancer must stand by a hospital bed and watch helplessly as this horrible disease consumes the life of an innocent child"

Michael McCaul, Politician

"Money does not motivate me as long as I can provide for my children"

Steve Waugh, Athlete

"Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not"

Lawrence Kutner

"I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be"

Ricky Martin, Musician

"Let our children be taught love love love"

Daniel H. Hill, Soldier

"Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home"

Matt Blunt, Politician

"I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults"

Kate DiCamillo, Author

"We are all members of a single humanity, inside our hearts we all speak the same language, we all love our children and our parents, we all live in the same world"

Marc Forne Molne, Politician

"Train our children to love God"

Daniel H. Hill, Soldier

"Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings"

John Thorn, Historian

"I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children"

Kate DiCamillo, Author

"Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome"

Rosa Parks, Activist

"All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe"

Roald Dahl, Novelist

"And to play as long as I did and to have a family you have to be very blessed and I was with my wife Ruth. Ruth, I appreciate the job you did, and my three fine children, Reid, Reese, and Wendy"

Nolan Ryan, Athlete

"I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife"

Ja Rule, Musician

"We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us"

Mark Kennedy, Politician

"A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do"

Lois Wyse

"I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy"

George Andrew Olah, Scientist

"I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different"

Story Musgrave, Astronaut

"Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves"

Francois Fenelon, Clergyman

"No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement"

Florida Scott-Maxwell, Writer

"There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age"

John Agyekum Kufuor, Statesman

"At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security"

Ruben Hinojosa, Politician

"There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era"

Pierre Salinger, Public Servant

"God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers"

Richard Holloway, Writer

"I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me"

Val Kilmer, Actor

"Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children"

Pat Brown, Entertainer

"Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy"

Martha Gellhorn, Journalist

"We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State"

Major R. Owens, Politician

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