Children Quotes

"I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done"

Wayne White

"While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate"

Kathe Kollwitz, Artist

"The success my children have had has helped me immensely. I've showed them a certain respect for this career"

Julio Iglesias, Musician

"I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown"

Anne Tyler, Novelist

"We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative"

Herb Kohl, Politician

"Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up"

Jeremy Irons, Actor

"I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"I like to spend my time with my children"

Kelly Preston, Actress

"As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities"

Alan Thicke, Actor

"I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids"

Leslie Caron, Actress

"The Children's Safety Act will help protect children from the perpetrators of these vile crimes by strengthening notification requirements for sex offenders and increasing criminal penalties"

James T. Walsh, Politician

"In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools"

Jack Steinberger, Physicist

"We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act"

Kelly Preston, Actress

"I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way"

Kelly Preston, Actress

"That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you heard Howard Cunningham talking to Marian about shopping? Too many"

Henry Winkler, Actor

"Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a tremendous amount of debt to the new generation, much of it owed to overseas creditors who expect to be repaid by our children with interest"

Mark Kirk, Politician

"There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed"

Benjamin Netanyahu, Leader

"President Abbas, you've dedicated your life to advancing the Palestinian cause. Must this conflict continue for generations, or will we enable our children and our grandchildren to speak in years ahead of how we found a way to end it? That's what we should aim for, and that's what I believe we can achieve"

Benjamin Netanyahu, Leader

"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard"

John Powell, Composer

"With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren"

Doc Hastings, Politician

"Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying"

David Antin, Poet

"Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents"

Clayton Christensen, Businessman

"My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot"

Fay Wray, Actress

"The outcome can truly determine whether our homes will be destroyed, whether our children will be torn from their mothers, trained as conspirators and turned against their parents, their home and their church"

George Smathers, Politician

"Well, I know that 500,000 children died in Iraq because of the embargo"

Jacques Verges, Lawyer

"I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children"

Hugh Lofting, Author

"I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well"

Heidi Klum, Model

"But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me"

Heidi Klum, Model

"And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way"

John Boehner, Politician

"Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated"

Ernest Istook, Politician

"Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood"

Janet Napolitano, Politician

"We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right"

Roger Mahony, Clergyman

"Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math; parents must push and help their children to meet this goal"

Ernest Istook, Politician

"Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom"

Ernest Istook, Politician

"In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children"

Robert Benton, Director

"Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today"

Annette Funicello, Actress

"Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear"

Emma Thompson, Actress

"Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder"

Alice Miller, Psychologist

"The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves"

Alice Miller, Psychologist

"I have three sons, and I think we're both fierce protectors of our children"

Jami Gertz, Actress

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