Children Quotes

"Whenever I date a guy, I think, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'"

"I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children"

"We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them"

"I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out"

Barack Obama, President

"It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today"

Barack Obama, President

"There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

"This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands"

Barack Obama, President

"I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

"Where children are, there is the golden age"

Novalis, Poet

"The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children"

Ivan Turgenev, Novelist

"Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

"If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first"

Larry Bird, Coach

"I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere"

James Thurber, Comedian

"There are few successful adults who were not first successful children"

Alexander Chase, Author

"Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world"

Karl Kraus, Writer

"Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?"

Karl Kraus, Writer

"A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children"

Holbrook Jackson, Writer

"There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?"

Augustus Hare, Writer

"And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children"

Jimmy Carter, President

"It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever"

Jimmy Carter, President

"I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"Children need models rather than critics"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

"Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

"Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things"

Plautus, Playwright

"Education is not just about academics. It is about building character and helping children become their best selves"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

"Teaching is not just a job, it is a calling. It takes a special kind of person to work with children who have special needs"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

"Patience and persistence are the keys to helping children with special needs"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

"Children don't always understand their emotions. They need someone to help them navigate through the confusion"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

"Children are not problems to be solved. They are people to be loved"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

"The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause"

Guru Nanak, Philosopher

"We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

"Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures"

Sherman Alexie, Writer

"I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

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