Children Quotes

"Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers"

"When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom"

Alan Keyes, Politician

"I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day"

Ann Druyan, Writer

"We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children"

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Politician

"I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial"

Bert Williams, Entertainer

"In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy"

Dana Rohrabacher, Politician

"I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch"

Burt Ward, Actor

"All children have creative power"

Brenda Ueland, Writer

"Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children"

Agnes Smedley, Journalist

"I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well"

Annie Lennox, Musician

"Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society"

Andrew Vachss, Author

"Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching"

Bart Gordon, Politician

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

Anthony Powell, Novelist

"I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of"

Alberto Juantorena, Athlete

"What I learned growing up on the farm was a The fact is for nearly three years President Obama has been downgrading American jobs. He's been downgrading our standing in the world. He's been downgrading our financial stability. He's been downgrading our confidence, and downgrading the hope for a better future for our children. That's a fact"

Rick Perry, Politician

"There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone"

Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist

"I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell"

Edvard Munch, Painter

"The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings"

Brian Tracy, Author

"Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them"

Thomas Dekker, Dramatist

"The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country"

Rick Santorum, Politician

"Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships"

Rick Santorum, Politician

"Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children"

Joseph Barbera, Cartoonist

"Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it"

John Nelson Darby, Clergyman

"I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside"

Whitney Houston, Musician

"One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults"

Melanie Klein, Psychologist

"It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"I am glad that I do not have any children"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching"

Gilbert Highet, Writer

"My mother insisted that her children read"

Jimmy Buffett, Musician

"Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them"

John Walters, Musician

"I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school"

Laura Bush, First Lady

"If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you"

Dick Cavett, Entertainer

"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children"

Edward VIII, Royalty

"They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children"

Charles R. Swindoll, Clergyman

"We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us"

Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Theologian

"This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head"

John Nelson Darby, Clergyman

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