Children Quotes

"We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit"

Dixie Carter, Actor

"It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life"

Mary Garden

"Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children"

Mark Sanford, Politician

"If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them"

Richard V. Allen, Public Servant

"As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet"

Judy Biggert, Politician

"If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use"

John Woolman, Clergyman

"Having played an angel for so long, you can imagine that I've been asked to endorse any number of causes over the years. Obviously I have to limit my participation with any charity, so I decided to really concentrate on my love of children"

Roma Downey, Actress

"Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort"

Naomi Campbell, Model

"My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop"

Pauline Hanson, Politician

"No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!"

Lauren Hutton, Model

"Our members are very much maligned. Obviously the average age is 60 something, but they all have children and grandchildren, they understand what we need to do, they want to win"

Francis Maude, Politician

"Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday"

Faith Hill, Musician

"The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them"

Juice Newton, Musician

"Success, and even life itself, wouldn't be worth anything if I didn't have my wife and children by my side. They mean everything to me"

Jude Law, Actor

"I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children"

Dominic Chianese, Actor

"It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory"

Martha Gellhorn, Journalist

"Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars"

Steve Israel, Politician

"It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going"

Harriet Harman, Politician

"I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit"

Harriet Harman, Politician

"I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention"

Kenny Guinn, Politician

"If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any"

Clarence Day, Author

"My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them"

Hunter Tylo, Actress

"The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters"

Annette Funicello, Actress

"It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest"

Roger Mahony, Clergyman

"There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming"

Beatrice Dalle, Actress

"It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from"

Anne Tyler, Novelist

"I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die"

Andrew Taylor Still, Scientist

"I've got one young family by the first wife, with four children"

Merle Haggard, Musician

"People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children"

Mary McCarthy, Author

"If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools"

Mike Davidson

"Once I was able to take care of myself and my children, I then wanted to share"

Robert Mondavi, Businessman

"And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13"

Merle Haggard, Musician

"Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents"

Wendy Wasserstein, Playwright

"In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934"

Jack Steinberger, Physicist

"It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children"

Bill Nelson, Politician

"With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits"

Eleanor Holmes Norton, Politician

"Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases"

Henry Winkler, Actor

"You help families focus on the future through their children"

Sam Worthington, Actor

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