Children Quotes

"I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals"

Mary Wesley, Novelist

"I've loved it, but I have a wife and two children"

Joe Mantegna, Actor

"We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children"

Diane Watson, Politician

"When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

"There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species"

Hugh Lofting, Author

"I'm taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that's not going too well"

Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Politician

"To find someone who loves your children like you do is really rare"

Goldie Hawn, Actress

"We put the Children to death... by throwing them overboard and shooting out their brains in the water"

George Percy, Explorer

"Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go"

Cornelia Funke, Author

"I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have"

George J. Mitchell, Politician

"I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world"

George Voinovich, Politician

"I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves"

Elizabeth Edwards, Lawyer

"We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it"

Dorothy Height, Activist

"If you're a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough"

Eric Braeden, Actor

"The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective"

Frank Shorter, Athlete

"Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible"

Diana Ross, Actress

"Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system"

Dirk Kempthorne, Politician

"It is solely for the reason that this government has legalized the murder of children that I have no allegiance to nor do I recognize the legitimacy of this particular government in Washington"

Eric Rudolph, Criminal

"More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children"

John Powell, Composer

"A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children"

David Brenner, Comedian

"Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime"

Charles Foster Bass, Politician

"Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them"

John Boehner, Politician

"Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up"

Morton Hunt

"I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is love out there for them- God's love"

Janine Turner, Actress

"If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that"

Elizabeth Edwards, Lawyer

"UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before"

Jane D. Hull, Politician

"In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity"

George Pataki, Politician

"One in seven Americans, including more than 8 million children, does not have even basic healthcare coverage"

Dave Reichert, Politician

"God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists"

Camille Pissarro, Artist

"Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully"

Fay Weldon, Novelist

"By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children"

Mark Foley, Politician

"Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children"

David R. Ellis, Director

"One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me"

Hugh Laurie, Comedian

"I'm a married man and I've got two children, and you have to do sacrifices"

Glenn Tipton, Musician

"I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children"

Cornelia Funke, Author

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