Children Quotes

"All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are"

"When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part"

Amy Irving, Actress

"Our children were trained to look after each other"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere"

Kent McCord, Actor

"Frequently parents forget that children are people. I don't try to treat Kristen as an adult, but I do try to treat her as a person, with a child's sensibilities"

Kent McCord, Actor

"We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed"

Bob Taft, Politician

"Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer"

Kent McCord, Actor

"I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children"

David Soul, Actor

"At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children"

Mark Kennedy, Politician

"Both of them were the children of the United States. They sacrificed their children for the benefit of the others. But they were not very devoted children of the United States"

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Politician

"I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything"

Jeremy Irons, Actor

"I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words"

Laurie Anderson, Musician

"The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent"

James T. Walsh, Politician

"Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well"

Michael McCaul, Politician

"Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much"

Michael McCaul, Politician

"I want my children to live in the country, to be a part of nature"

Kent McCord, Actor

"Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs"

Jonathan Kozol, Writer

"Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children"

G. Stanley Hall, Psychologist

"I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty"

Mira Nair, Director

"The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth"

Goldie Hawn, Actress

"We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning"

Mary Wesley, Novelist

"It is all too evident that our nation, and the governments of other countries, require all the help they can get in order to fight the War on Terrorism against people who have no qualms about taking the lives of innocent men, women, and children"

Jim Sensenbrenner, Politician

"I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried"

Ella R. Bloor

"Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15"

Clayton Christensen, Businessman

"Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once"

Diane Cilento, Actress

"If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again"

Diane Cilento, Actress

"The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment"

Bob Ney, Politician

"Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom"

Bob Beauprez, Politician

"We're helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We've done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now"

Jane D. Hull, Politician

"Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults"

Clayton Christensen, Businessman

"It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered"

Denis Norden, Writer

"Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100"

William Greider, Author

"Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think"

Dixie Carter, Actor

"Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children"

Diane Cilento, Actress

"If I have no children what would be the point of living"

Sheena Easton, Musician

"As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves"

Norman Macleod, Writer

"I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents"

Linda Hamilton, Actress

"Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do"

Barbara Walters, Journalist

"To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons"

Marilyn French, Author

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