Children Quotes

"Having children really changes your priorities"

"The laws of this world are for children"

"If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration"

Daniel Greenberg, Educator

"I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children"

Charles Bronson, Actor

"When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs"

Cindy Crawford, Model

"But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children"

Dick Bruna, Artist

"Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families"

Dirk Kempthorne, Politician

"My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business"

Bob Balaban, Actor

"I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person"

Eric Braeden, Actor

"It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore"

Annie Lennox, Musician

"You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually"

Cate Blanchett, Actress

"We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap"

Emma Thompson, Actress

"These children should be enrolled in Independent Living programs designed by state and local governments to prepare them to enter the workplace, or attend college, and successfully manage their lives"

Charles Foster Bass, Politician

"My wife and children seem to like me quite a bit, and as long as that is true, I'm really OK"

Brian Williams, Journalist

"By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn"

Elijah Cummings, Politician

"The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all"

Benjamin Spock, Scientist

"In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God"

Benjamin Spock, Scientist

"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children"

Arianna Huffington, Journalist

"Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children"

A. E. van Vogt, Author

"But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents"

Daniel Greenberg, Educator

"I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children"

Barney Frank, Politician

"We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories"

Damon Wayans, Comedian

"Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries"

Anthony Hecht, Poet

"I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers"

Cliff Stearns, Politician

"If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good"

Eric Braeden, Actor

"A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time"

Eric Braeden, Actor

"It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden"

Anthony Hecht, Poet

"I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence"

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Politician

"You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old"

Jackie Collins, Author

"Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults"

Bobby McFerrin, Musician

"I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children"

Daniel Greenberg, Educator

"I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren"

Astrid Lindgren, Author

"Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years"

Anthony Powell, Novelist

"The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

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