Children Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 17, 2024
‘Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.’ – William Makepeace Thackeray
‘It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.’ – Frederick Douglass
‘I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.’ – Thomas Paine
‘Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.’ – Vladimir Lenin
‘I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.
‘Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.’ – Ronald Reagan
‘The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.’ – Theodore Hesburgh
‘I work a lot in the slums of Tondo, Manila, and the life there is poor and very sad. And I’ve always taught to myself to look for the beauty of it and look in the beauty of the faces of the children and to be grateful.’ – Catriona Gray
‘Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
‘As a mom to biological children and adopted gay children all around the world, nothing gives my heart strings a tug as much as seeing a parent stand by their queer/gay/trans child with beaming pride.’ – Michelle Visage
‘A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.’ – Victor Hugo
‘Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.’ – Garrison Keillor
‘The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.’ – Billy Graham
‘Women are nothing but machines for producing children.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte
‘If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much.’ – Jackie Kennedy
‘There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
‘Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.’ – Sitting Bull
‘There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.’ – Nelson Mandela
‘Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
‘Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.’ – Oscar Wilde
‘I didn’t have children because I was passionate about having my career.’ – Anita Dobson
‘Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.’ – Fred Rogers
‘Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what’s important.’ – Elle Macpherson
‘Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.’ – Bob Keeshan
‘I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.’ – Mike Tyson
‘I’ve never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.’ – Robert Smith
‘We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.’ – Jimmy Carter
‘Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.’ – Aristotle
‘Adults are obsolete children.’ – Dr. Seuss
‘Anyone who hates children and animals can’t be all bad.’ – W. C. Fields
‘The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.’ – Jessica Lange
‘It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.’ – Hubert H. Humphrey
‘Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.’ – Frank Lloyd Wright
‘Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.’ – Napoleon Hill
‘Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.’ – Sophocles
‘Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.’ – Sun Tzu
‘The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.” – Maria Montessori
‘I have three lovely children. They are beautiful, talented, and kind-hearted. I’m most proud of them. I love them so much that I will never want to burden them with a large amount of inherited wealth.’ – Li Lu
‘The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.’ – Denis Waitley
‘I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.’ – Marie Antoinette
‘Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.’ – Bobby Sands
‘Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.’ – Robert Fulghum
‘Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.’ – Helen Keller
‘Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.’ – Grace Abbott
‘Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.’ – Khalil Gibran
‘The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.’ – Albert Einstein
‘Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.’ – Maxim Gorky
‘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
‘We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.’ – Paul Tsongas
‘Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.’ – Robert A. Heinlein
‘Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.’ – Steven Wright
‘I am still married, yes – no children. I have Benzo, though; he’s my dog, a Lhasa apso.’ – Archie Panjabi
‘Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.’ – Carl Jung
‘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
‘Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.’ – John F. Kennedy
‘We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.’ – Wangari Maathai
‘Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.’ – Charles R. Swindoll
‘Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.’ – James Baldwin
‘Your mindset matters. It affects everything – from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.’ – Peter Diamandis
‘The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.’ – Frank A. Clark
‘There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.’ – Otto von Bismarck
‘I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.’ – Phyllis Diller
‘You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.’ – Franklin P. Jones
‘Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.’ – Joan of Arc
‘Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.’ – Chanakya
‘The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.’ – Herbert Hoover
‘We need women who are devoted to shepherding God’s children along the covenant path toward exaltation; women who know how to receive personal revelation, who understand the power and peace of the temple endowment; women who know how to call upon the powers of heaven to protect and strengthen children and families; women who teach fearlessly.’ – Russell M. Nelson
‘There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.’ – J. Robert Oppenheimer
‘Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.’ – Hosea Ballou
‘The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.’ – Clarence Darrow
‘Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.’ – Peter Ustinov
‘He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.’ – Francis Bacon
‘As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children, I’m going to work for it – even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.’ – Medgar Evers
‘All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.’ – Pablo Picasso
‘Voting is how we participate in a civic society – be it for president, be it for a municipal election. It’s the way we teach our children – in school elections – how to be citizens, and the importance of their voice.’ – Loretta Lynch
‘Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.’ – Walt Disney
‘Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.’ – Kate DiCamillo
‘The soul is healed by being with children.’ – Fyodor Dostoevsky
‘Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.’ – Rosa Parks
‘Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.’ – George Bernard Shaw
‘The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.’ – John Locke
‘I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children, we tend to copy our parents.’ – Elton John
‘My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.’ – Groucho Marx
‘Nobody trusts anyone in authority today. It is one of the main features of our age. Wherever you look, there are lying politicians, crooked bankers, corrupt police officers, cheating journalists and double-dealing media barons, sinister children’s entertainers, rotten and greedy energy companies, and out-of-control security services.’ – Adam Curtis
‘Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.’ – Kailash Satyarthi
‘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
‘Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.’ – Pat Robertson
‘There is stardust in your veins. We are literally, ultimately children of the stars.’ – Jocelyn Bell Burnell
‘When I see children, I see the face of God. That’s why I love them so much. That’s what I see.’ – Michael Jackson
‘The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.’ – Mario Puzo
‘All the riches in the world do not come close to the happiness of having children and being a mother.’ – Jocelyn Wildenstein
‘Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.’ – Jesus Christ
‘When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability… To be alive is to be vulnerable.’ – Madeleine L’Engle
‘The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.’ – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
‘Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.’ – Matt Blunt
‘God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.’ – Desmond Tutu
‘We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children.’ – Justin Trudeau
‘Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.’ – Maya Angelou
‘Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child’s play.’ – Carl Orff
‘Children have limited power to shape their own lives, but when they can experiment with possibilities through books, their optimism can be recharged and kept alive.’ – Morris Gleitzman
‘No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.’ – Plato
‘Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson
‘As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.’ – Ursula K. Le Guin
‘The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.’ – Mark Twain
‘I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.’ – Beverly Cleary
‘Tell the children the truth.’ – Bob Marley
‘Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.’ – Lady Bird Johnson
‘Hugs can do great amounts of good – especially for children.’ – Princess Diana
‘The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind’s most basic duty to protect the innocent.’ – James T. Walsh
‘The most sophisticated people I know – inside they are all children.’ – Jim Henson
‘Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.’ – Walter Scott
‘There’s really no point in having children if you’re not going to be home enough to father them.’ – Anthony Edwards
‘My mother is a strong woman. Her strength comes from being tested by life’s unpredictability. It comes from soldiering on for her children, even when she might rather have given up. I know it hasn’t always come easily, but I also know it’s her greatest gift.’ – Matt Lauer
‘Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.’ – George Eliot
‘For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.’ – Henri Nouwen
‘I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.’ – Reese Witherspoon
‘We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.’ – H. L. Mencken
‘We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life and to an equal opportunity to reach their full potential as citizens. Those children who have been denied that right in the past deserve better than to see fences thrown up to deny them that right in the future.’ – Thurgood Marshall
‘Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn’t be human without narrative fiction.’ – Paul Auster
‘Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.’ – Daisaku Ikeda
‘We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.’ – Kevin Costner
‘Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.’ – Michael Gove
‘I used to work with autistic children, and they said a lot of funny things to me.’ – James Acaster
‘If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t either.’ – Dick Cavett
‘You don’t teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.’ – Judy Sheindlin
‘Your children need your presence more than your presents.’ – Jesse Jackson
‘The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.’ – Joyce Carol Oates
‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.’ – Moses
‘The most valuable investment we can make is in our children’s education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.’ – Martin O’Malley
‘A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.’ – Stephen King
‘We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn’t pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it’s not fair. Bad things happen to good people.’ – Laurie Halse Anderson
‘I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.’ – Malala Yousafzai
‘The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.’ – Orlando Aloysius Battista
‘Being hardworking is the best thing you can show children.’ – David Beckham
‘My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.’ – Gena Lee Nolin
‘Circus is what real life should be like. It’s sincerity, feeling, emotions. All real. There are no lies in circus. There are artists working together to give a smile. It’s a world where people help one another. It’s the only show where a family, everyone from children to their grandmothers, can sit together and all be entertained by the same thing.’ – Princess Stephanie of Monaco
‘To achieve our goals of educating bold and ambitious children, we must invest in enriching, quality early child care and learning.’ – Stacey Abrams
‘Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.’ – James Anthony Froude
‘Every book is a children’s book if the kid can read! – Mitch Hedberg’ – Mitch Hedberg
‘Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.’ – Robert Kennedy
‘From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.’ – Rabindranath Tagore
‘I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States’ apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.’ – George Galloway
‘Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.’ – Erik Erikson
‘If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.’ – Mahatma Gandhi
‘Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.’ – P. J. O’Rourke
‘God has no grandchildren. He has only children, so being a born-again Christian is not an automatic thing.’ – Reinhard Bonnke
‘I’m blessed with four great children and eight grandchildren.’ – Robert Kraft
‘The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.’ – Christian de Duve
‘Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can’t explain it. They really can’t translate feeling because they’re not part of it. That’s why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It’s not. It’s feeling.’ – Bill Evans
‘Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore, and that’s what parents were created for.’ – Ogden Nash
‘Our children are the living messages we send to a future we will ever see… Will we rob them of their destiny? Will we rob them of their dreams? No – we will not do that.’ – Elijah Cummings
‘A society should be judged by how it treats its children. A country that fails to invest in its children is imperilling its future.’ – Owen Jones
‘The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.’ – Edward VIII
‘There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.’ – Kurt Cobain
‘Children should have enough freedom to be themselves – once they’ve learned the rules.’ – Anna Quindlen
‘I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.’ – Harry S Truman
‘We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they’ll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.’ – Naveen Jain
‘We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.’ – Charles Spurgeon
‘Close to a billion people – one-eighth of the world’s population – still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.’ – Jonathan Sacks
‘It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.’ – Christine Gregoire
‘A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.’ – Florence Nightingale
‘I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.’ – Geronimo
‘Parents must lead by example. Don’t use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children’s first and most important role models.’ – Lee Haney
‘Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny.’ – Ben Stein
‘If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.’ – E. W. Howe
‘Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.’ – Zora Neale Hurston
‘There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.’ – Ted Nugent
‘What’s done to children, they will do to society.’ – Karl A. Menninger
‘A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.’ – Horace Mann
‘Who would want one’s children growing up buying things like bitcoin? I hope to God my family doesn’t buy it. It’s noxious poison.’ – Charlie Munger
‘Children make your life important.’ – Erma Bombeck
‘Student loans are delaying retirements. They’re suppressing the housing market. They’re suffocating new business formation. They’re even leading young people to delay getting married and having children.’ – Annie Lowrey
‘To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.’ – P. T. Barnum
‘Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.’ – Sam Levenson
‘When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.’ – Michael Badnarik
‘To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can’t see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.’ – Nancy Reagan
‘I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.’ – Red Cloud
‘I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don’t go to school and many of them are in Africa.’ – George Weah
‘Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.’ – Leonard Cohen
‘Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.’ – Naomi Campbell
‘Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.’ – Georg Buchner
‘Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.’ – Audrey Hepburn
‘Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.’ – Henry Ward Beecher
‘Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.’ – Ernest Dimnet
‘Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they’re 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.’ – Ed Markey
‘Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.’ – Al Hirschfeld
‘If we don’t make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.’ – Paul Ryan
‘When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.’ – Carl Honore
‘I was standing on a ladder outside the Homestead juvenile immigrant detention center outside Miami, looking over the fence, and I saw children lined up like prisoners. They had been separated from their families and put in this private detention facility. It was horrible.’ – Kamala Harris
‘One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.’ – Langston Hughes
‘Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.’ – Alex Haley
‘My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.’ – King George V
‘A lot of people think the Breakfast for Children program is charity. But what does it do? It takes the people from a stage to another stage. Any program that’s revolutionary is an advancing program. Revolution is change.’ – Fred Hampton
‘The mission of the Ruby Bridges Foundation is to create educational opportunities like science camp that allow children from different racial, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds to build lasting relationships.’ – Ruby Bridges
‘You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.’ – Raymond E. Feist
‘I’m aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in ‘The Catcher in the Rye.’ Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It’s almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.’ – J. D. Salinger
‘Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.’ – Colin Powell
‘Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.’ – Shakuntala Devi
‘Children learn to smile from their parents.’ – Shinichi Suzuki
‘Your children can be around you all day, but if you don’t spend quality time with them and you don’t pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn’t matter that they’re just around you.’ – Brandy Norwood
‘Our children are our future and we must continue to nurture them and provide the best possible environment for them to grow and learn.’ – Jim Justice
‘Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.’ – Sheri L. Dew
‘Three groups spend other people’s money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.’ – Dick Armey
‘At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.’ – e. e. cummings
‘The seeds of success in every nation on Earth are best planted in women and children.’ – Joyce Banda
‘All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.’ – Henry David Thoreau
‘Learning a musical instrument is challenging, it demands fine motor skills and coordination. It develops children’s listening, thinking skills, imagination and perseverance. It brings out the very best in the children as they work collaboratively with their peers and teachers.’ – Sheila Hancock
‘If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.’ – Luther Burbank
‘Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.’ – Samuel Butler
‘Our generation has taken to the cosmetic use of pesticides and I think, perhaps unwittingly, not fully understanding the dangers it represents to ourselves and, most importantly, to our children.’ – Dalton McGuinty
‘All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.’ – Ken Robinson
‘Patriotism is not an abstract concept. It begins from one’s own home. It buds out from the love for one’s parents, spouses and children, the love for one’s own home, village and workplace, and further develops into the love for one’s country and fellow people.’ – Kim Jong-un
‘With the amount of money I have, it’s difficult raising children the way I was raised.’ – Adam Sandler
‘I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you’re dead.’ – Tom Stoppard
‘Finance, like time, devours its own children.’ – Honore de Balzac
‘Being married, having children, a home and being happy. Without these things, nothing else matters.’ – Amanda Blake
‘I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.’ – Steve Jobs
‘When school children start paying union dues, that ‘s when I’ll start representing the interests of school children.’ – Albert Shanker
‘Children need models rather than critics.’ – Joseph Joubert
‘Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.’ – Sigmund Freud
‘Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don’t begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.’ – Bob Ehrlich
‘I am not a father, and the only children that I get close to are my nieces.’ – Greg Davies
‘I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.’ – Harriet Tubman
‘Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we’ve always had: work, or prison.’ – Tim Allen
‘Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.’ – Laura Schlessinger
‘Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.’ – Katherine Jenkins
‘I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.’ – Christopher Hitchens
‘It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.’ – Pope John XXIII
‘Do you know who the real hypocrite is? It’s the federal government and the Justice Department. It’s a fraud; it’s a lie. They have no interest in the education of black children. They are only interested in the politics of it.’ – James Meredith
‘Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.’ – Marian Wright Edelman
‘First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.’ – Brene Brown
‘The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.’ – Jean Paul
‘To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear children, and this implies having autonomy or control over one’s life. In the 19th century, becoming an adult was celebrated as a liberation from paternal authority. Today we regard it more as a time of regret and stagnation.’ – Jane Ridley
‘If I didn’t have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I’m a big swearer. I’m trying to rein it in but I do think it’s a nice seasoning of language.’ – Olivia Colman
‘We get strength and encouragement from watching children.’ – Hayao Miyazaki
‘Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?’ – Tecumseh
‘Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.’ – Richard L. Evans
‘The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.’ – Margaret Mead
‘We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country.’ – Kevin Rudd
‘I don’t think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.’ – Wilma Mankiller
‘Of our seven children, five are at ABC Supply. The three older daughters went to college. The boys went into construction, and I wasn’t disappointed they didn’t go to college.’ – Diane Hendricks
‘Please hug your parents while you have them, tell your children how much you love them every second of the day, and don’t let the petty things in life separate you.’ – Teresa Giudice
‘The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children.’ – Charlie Sheen
‘To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.’ – Pope John Paul II
‘I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.’ – James Herriot
‘In my opinion, animation will continue to thrive as long as there are children, parents, television, movies and the need to laugh.’ – William Hanna
‘I never wanted children; maybe I’m afraid of responsibility.’ – Mahmoud Darwish
‘To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.’ – James E. Faust
‘Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.’ – Golda Meir
‘Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine.’ – Dennis Prager
‘The true teachers and educators are not those who have learned pedagogy as the science of dealing with children, but those in whom pedagogy has awakened through understanding the human being.’ – Rudolf Steiner
‘Mental illness and gun violence are not directly correlated, but when the two go hand in hand, Americans – often children – lose their lives.’ – Emma Gonzalez
‘The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.’ – Henry Morton Stanley
‘My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called ‘bread lines,’ children begging in the streets.’ – Bill O’Reilly
‘I got a lot of money, but when you wealthy, that mean that your children is ballin’, your grandchildren is ballin’.’ – YoungBoy Never Broke Again
‘Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this… only the best is good enough for a child.’ – Zoltan Kodaly
‘A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there’s a secure family atmosphere.’ – Mel Gibson
‘For children of my generation, anime was an escape from Japan’s loser complex following World War II. Anime wasn’t foreign. It was our own.’ – Takashi Murakami
‘In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.’ – Isabel Allende
‘Every woman’s path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother’s love is withering.’ – Anne Lamott
‘Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.’ – Ban Ki-moon
‘The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.’ – Niccolo Machiavelli
‘God looks after children, animals and idiots.’ – Lou Holtz
‘Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.’ – Laura Amy Schlitz
‘Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don’t think about yesterday, and they don’t think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.’ – Jessalyn Gilsig
‘I know certainly that my parents sacrificed a lot to come to America, and to… start a new life for their family and their future families. At least with first-generation Asian-American immigrants, parents put so much risk in work and to provide the best for their children.’ – Jonny Kim
‘Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be.’ – Carolyn Haywood
‘I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years – kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.’ – Vanessa Diffenbaugh
‘When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing – just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?’ – Ralph Marston
‘My grandad’s a gospel singer, and his children were singers, too. But I don’t believe in God in the same way… not religion; it breaks us up too much. The same with musical styles – it breaks people up. I believe they are all one thing – why not put them together?’ – Labrinth
‘It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.’ – Michel de Montaigne
‘Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.’ – Sylvia Plath
‘A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.’ – Abraham Joshua Heschel
‘Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.’ – Aldous Huxley
‘Transportation is responsible for half of our state’s air pollution, and many suffer as a result. Children are more likely to develop respiratory illnesses and struggle in school when they breathe smoggy air.’ – Alex Padilla
‘It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the ‘good old days’ when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.’ – Sherry Turkle
‘Being raised by a Catholic father, a Protestant mother, and marrying the Muslim father of my three children, I encourage people to respect and at least try to understand different religions.’ – Yolanda Hadid
‘If there is anyone dependent on your income – parents, children, relatives – you need life insurance.’ – Suze Orman
‘Inside every adult there’s still a child that lingers. We’re happiness merchants – giving people the opportunity to dream like children.’ – Guy Laliberte
‘I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.’ – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
‘Sometimes bad things happen to good people. We don’t know the meaning of all things, but we know God loves His children! And because He loves us, He will never desert us.’ – John Bytheway
‘I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.’ – Alice Munro
‘To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.’ – Annie Besant
‘Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.’ – Anne Sullivan
‘There’s an African proverb that I always quote as I think it’s incredible which is, ‘if the children are not initiated into the village, then they’ll burn it down just to feel its warmth.” – Wunmi Mosaku
‘And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.’ – Black Elk
‘Blame is for God and small children.’ – Dustin Hoffman
‘We are all different. Yet we are all God’s children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.’ – Barbara Boxer
‘Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.’ – Martin Mull
‘The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.’ – Peter De Vries
‘Home is where children find safety and security, where we find our identities, where citizenship starts. It usually starts with believing you’re part of a community, and that is essential to having a stable home.’ – Matthew Desmond
‘Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.’ – Mary Wollstonecraft
‘Children are the keys of paradise.’ – Eric Hoffer
‘After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.’ – Jaclyn Smith
‘There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It’s duty.’ – Mary Oliver
‘The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.’ – Billy Graham
‘Children can write poetry and then, unless they’re poets, they stop when reach puberty.’ – Dennis Potter
‘We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson
‘In ‘The Hunger Games,’ in most people’s idea, in terms of rebellion or a civil-war situation, that would meet the criteria for a necessary war. These people are oppressed, their children are being taken off and put in gladiator games. They’re impoverished, they’re starving, they’re brutalized.’ – Suzanne Collins
‘I’ve a great family, two children to take care of. Then, of course, I do commentary for TV. I do speak about various women’s issues around the world – like LGBT, motivational speeches. I have a lot on my plate right now. But eventually, yes, I would like to pass on the knowledge and something that I would like to do.’ – Martina Navratilova
‘When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? – Gilbert K. Chesterton’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton
‘Free school meals for all children, no matter what their background, will improve the education and health of our children.’ – Angela Rayner
‘We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.’ – Carl Sagan
‘I think that’s something that all mothers have to deal with, especially single mothers. We work, and we have to leave the kids behind. And I think that’s one of the reasons that we, not only as women but as families, we have to advocate for early childhood education for all of our children.’ – Dolores Huerta
‘The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.’ – Tom Vilsack
‘There is no better gift a society can give children than the opportunity to grow up safe and free – the chance to pursue whatever dreams they may have.’ – John Roberts
‘A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.’ – Lois Wyse
‘My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt.’ – Princess Margaret
‘Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.’ – Thomas Szasz
‘Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.’ – Michael Morpurgo
‘I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn’t hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.’ – Gary Oldman
‘I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don’t know I’m firing blanks.’ – Emo Philips
‘In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.’ – Charles Dickens
‘Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time.’ – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
‘Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.’ – Laura Bush
‘In limits, there is freedom. Creativity thrives within structure. Creating safe havens where our children are allowed to dream, play, make a mess and, yes, clean it up, we teach them respect for themselves and others.’ – Julia Cameron
‘We don’t classify all doctors as incompetent because of the infrequent instances of medical malpractice. We don’t use the example of one bad teacher in our children’s school to draw a negative conclusion of the entire teaching profession. We should apply that same rational standard when it comes to how we view law enforcement.’ – Thom Tillis
‘The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.’ – Gilbert Highet
‘Everything I do is for my children.’ – Brandi Glanville
‘As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.’ – Zig Ziglar
‘My father was 91 when he passed away of natural causes, and my mother died aged 88. She had a heart condition and had many heart attacks throughout her life, but she had ten children, so that would have put a strain on her body.’ – Engelbert Humperdinck
‘We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? – a world without whales. It’s too terrible to imagine.’ – Pierce Brosnan
‘If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.’ – Emmeline Pankhurst
‘All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn that some forms of gratification must be deferred and others denied.’ – Andrew Vachss
‘The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.’ – Neil Gaiman
‘Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There’s no need to tell the children that.’ – Marcel Pagnol
‘Children… are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God’s children.’ – Dirk Benedict
‘Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.’ – Ho Chi Minh
‘All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.’ – Kazuo Ishiguro
‘Abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children is knowing when it’s not a good idea to bring them into the world.’ – Katha Pollitt
‘Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.’ – Clint Eastwood
‘It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.’ – Joyce Maynard
‘I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin’. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.’ – Kevin Gates
‘I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?’ – Angelina Grimke
‘The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.’ – David Friedman
‘I can’t think of anything I regret. Everything I’ve done, I’ve enjoyed doing. I’ve had five husbands, four children. I’ve done it all, but mainly I’ve enjoyed studying fish and being underwater with them, being in their natural habitat, looking at the fish and the fish looking at me.’ – Eugenie Clark
‘Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.’ – Kent Nerburn
‘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
‘Old men are children for the second time.’ – Menander
‘No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.’ – Florida Scott-Maxwell
‘Our nation’s children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.’ – Christopher Dodd
‘My favorite movies are ‘The Notebook,’ ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,’ and ‘Wolf Children.” – Nayeon
‘Having children showed me a whole different kind of love that I had never known. It was something that had always been missing. Complete love. I would die for them.’ – Scott Weiland
‘The research clearly demonstrates high-quality early childhood opportunities help children succeed.’ – Tim Kaine
‘My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me.’ – Monica
‘Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.’ – Dan Quayle
‘I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children.’ – Demi Moore
‘I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.’ – Angelina Jolie
‘It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.’ – Jean Piaget
‘When you are surrounded by children, the child in you comes back.’ – Celine Dion
‘Ever since I was a kid, I knew I could play in the NFL because I had a knack for the game. But I can’t play this game forever. When I’m finished, maybe I’ll become a motivational speaker, maybe a preacher. But children need to know that life may be hard, but you can always overcome.’ – Ed Reed
‘I live in a house in a forest about 20 minutes out of Copenhagen, with my actress wife Rikke and my four children – my son Louis, 20, from a previous relationship, and our three: Charlie, ten, Miles, eight, and Nomi, six.’ – Kim Bodnia
‘Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years’ worth of education.’ – Julian Bond
‘God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.’ – Richard Holloway
‘When I meet children and people who suffer, when they mention any kind of pain, emotional pain, physical pain, I know what they need, because it’s the same thing I need. They need healing, they need peace, they need joy, they need hope.’ – Phan Thi Kim Phuc
‘My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don’t have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don’t have children who are overweight.’ – Arabella Weir
‘A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.’ – Randi Weingarten
‘Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.’ – Martha Beck
‘As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!’ – Coco Chanel
‘If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy once they graduate – first we must make quality, affordable early childhood education accessible to all.’ – Kirsten Gillibrand
‘For me, true beauty has nothing to do with wrinkles and everything to do with the fact that my maternal grandmother raised five children just after the war and remained a fighter throughout her life. True beauty is the slick of red lipstick my paternal grandmother would put on before going to church on Sunday.’ – Monica Bellucci
‘No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.’ – Susan B. Anthony
‘Showing up in the lives of children is everything.’ – Greg Boyle
‘Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don’t know one child with a full time job and children.’ – Bill Hicks
‘To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.’ – Earl Warren
‘We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.’ – Emily Dickinson
‘Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‘Why?’ ceaselessly.’ – John C. Maxwell
‘To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It’s asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It’s one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live.’ – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
‘If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.’ – Lenny Bruce
‘I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.’ – Ayelet Waldman
‘The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.’ – Thomas Jefferson
‘There was no such thing as child abuse. Parents owned their children. They could do whatever they wanted.’ – Ellen Burstyn
‘Continue to speak out against all forms of injustice to yourselves and others, and you will set a mighty example for your children and for future generations.’ – Bernice King
‘Sharing good food with your children is the purest form of love.’ – Monica Galetti
‘I’ve worked with children all my life.’ – Denzel Washington
‘I am very happy to say I look just like my dad. But mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.’ – James Blunt
‘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
‘I want to spend as much time as possible with my children, so I always like to keep my beauty and fashion routines effortless… but still chic!’ – Liya Kebede
‘We must not only imagine a better future for women, children, and persecuted minorities; we must work consistently to make it happen – prioritizing humanity, not war.’ – Nadia Murad
‘In the scriptures, ‘peace’ means either freedom from strife, contention, conflict, or war, or an inner calm and comfort born of the Spirit that is a gift of God to all of his children, an assurance and serenity within a person’s heart.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin
‘I think having children is the most amazing thing.’ – Rachel Stevens
‘The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don’t talk about it.’ – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
‘I’m the one person who wears the words ‘hustle, loyalty, respect’ on my T-shirts and merchandise. My audience is children. It’s very flattering to see a kid wear your T-shirt; it’s even more flattering to have a dad come up to you and say, ‘I watch you with my kid. Keep doing what you’re doing. You’re a role model for my son.” – John Cena
‘A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.’ – Harriet Beecher Stowe
‘Isn’t it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it’s we who led our parents on to bear us, and it’s our unborn children who make our flesh itch.’ – T. E. Lawrence
‘I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.’ – John Adams
‘Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.’ – Barbara Coloroso
‘In America there are two classes of travel – first class, and with children.’ – Robert Benchley
‘Children haven’t changed – the world around them has. Their basic natures haven’t changed. They like ice creams. They like to have fun, play games if they get space.’ – Ruskin Bond
‘When my father articulated his vision for the future, he expressed his wish that one day his children would be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. This dream was not just about me and my siblings, but about our children and their children.’ – Martin Luther King III
‘Never have children, only grandchildren.’ – Gore Vidal
‘I just want to be that to my children. The ultimate father.’ – Lil Baby
‘We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.’ – William J. Clinton
‘Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness – a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster – children into strength and athletic proportion.’ – William Cullen Bryant
‘I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.’ – Warren Buffett
‘The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.’ – Daniel Goleman
‘We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.’ – Sandra Day O’Connor
‘Immigrant parents dream that their children will find a place in their new home, and they willingly suffer hardships in service to that dream. That was certainly true of my parents.’ – Gene Luen Yang
”Kochadaiyaan’ is a fantasy film. It will attract not only children but everyone.’ – Rajinikanth
‘I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.’ – Eazy-E
‘For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.’ – George Whitefield
‘I received a lot of complaints from parents who wrote and told me that their kids wouldn’t go to sleep until our show was over. So I went on the air and told all the children watching to ‘listen to their Uncle Miltie and go to bed right after the show.” – Milton Berle
‘Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.’ – Ludwig van Beethoven
‘The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one’s children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.’ – Leonard Boswell
‘A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.’ – Unknown
‘The old, sad art colors are gone. Now I paint bright colors. I paint paintings which are happy, where children are laughing and playing with animals. I paint paradise on Earth. I still paint sadness sometimes, but there is sadness in the world, too.’ – Margaret Keane
‘I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children – I had an older brother, David, and an older sister, Betty. My father Fred worked in the mills as a textile weaving supervisor, and my mother, Mary, was a housewife.’ – Kiki Dee
‘As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.’ – Rose Kennedy
‘She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.’ – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
‘Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don’t know. I don’t know. I’ve convinced myself – I hope I’m right – that children despair of you if you don’t tell them the truth.’ – Maurice Sendak
‘I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He’s the best father my children could have.’ – Vera Farmiga
‘Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.’ – Alison Gopnik
‘My sister made certain choices about the life she wanted. Those choices include a steady job, a husband and children. But balance and stability come at a cost. It is harder for her to be spontaneous. It is harder to just up and leave.’ – Simon Sinek
‘Understand: as children and young adults, we are taught to conform to certain codes of behavior and ways of doing things. We learn that being different comes with a social price.’ – Robert Greene
‘I think imparting sex education to children is important.’ – Urvashi Rautela
‘Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming.’ – Hunter S. Thompson
‘I think children are like pancakes. You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around.’ – Kelly Ripa
‘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
‘The most valuable blacks are those in prison, those who have the warrior spirit, who had a sense of being African. They got for their women and children what they needed when all other avenues were closed to them.’ – August Wilson
‘My first novel, ‘Leaving Atlanta,’ took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.’ – Tayari Jones
‘What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree – a devastating degree – is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.’ – Jock Sturges
‘Feeling gratitude isn’t born in us – it’s something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.’ – Joyce Brothers
‘Cognitive and character skills work together as dynamic complements; they are inseparable. Skills beget skills. More motivated children learn more. Those who are more informed usually make wiser decisions.’ – James Heckman
‘With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.’ – Tara Brach
‘Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.’ – Rowan Atkinson
‘We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.’ – Roy L. Smith
‘I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.’ – Stanley Kubrick
‘The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.’ – Nancy Friday
‘My parents are psychologists. My father is a specialist with schizophrenia and my mother works with mostly children.’ – Mikey Madison
‘I’m a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I’m a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I’m betraying myself and my children.’ – Nicole Kidman
‘You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for – if you are honest – you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.’ – P. L. Travers
‘No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.’ – Russell M. Nelson
‘I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show ‘Nanny 911′ occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.’ – Amanda Donohoe
‘Never have more children than you have car windows.’ – Erma Bombeck
‘There are those who believe that the value of a children’s book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that’s huge.’ – Barbara Park
‘The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.’ – O. Henry
‘Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It’s the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I don’t like at work where you stop everything to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to someone. I feel like that’s for children.’ – Mindy Kaling
‘Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.’ – LZ Granderson
‘Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.’ – Gustave Flaubert
‘Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all ‘pretend’ most of the time.’ – Gary Gygax
‘Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin, but also secures for us the true liberty of the children of God, in order that we might do all things out of love rather than out of fear – love for him that has shown us such grace that no greater can be found.’ – Peter Abelard
‘Each year, several million children either die or suffer irreparable developmental defects because of vitamin A deficiency. Countless others are harmed by malnutrition and starvation. Yet many of these deaths would be preventable if we addressed them head on and used the tools that exist to stop them.’ – Richard J. Roberts
‘Fighting for kids has been my lifelong mission. Right out of high school, I went to work at a camp that served disadvantaged adolescents. When I became a recreation therapist, I worked with children battling severe mental illness.’ – Laura Kelly
‘Children see things very well sometimes – and idealists even better.’ – Lorraine Hansberry
‘You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger
‘Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?’ – Alan Bennett
‘I just can’t think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already… It’s too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.’ – Otto Frank
‘If I had children, as soon as I have them, I’m teaching them everything I know. I don’t want to feed you fairytales. Fairytales are nice. But they come to an end, and then you have to face reality.’ – Burna Boy
‘An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.’ – Aiden Wilson Tozer
‘Having children is not for everyone, but I think it’s a beautiful lesson in it not being all about me anymore. It’s a relief, in a way. It’s like, this is her story now, and I’m her mom. It’s a nice shift.’ – Lake Bell
‘The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.’ – Bertrand Russell
‘If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.’ – Adam Grant
‘You see much more of your children once they leave home.’ – Lucille Ball
‘If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.’ – Louise L. Hay
‘A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.’ – Alice Walker
‘Your employer is the last person you should want to provide for your healthcare, from a privacy, financial, and value standpoint. Employees with families should get the family, meaning spouses and children, off the company plan. In most cases, that will save them money.’ – Paul Zane Pilzer
‘I really love pets. They’re like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can’t fool them.’ – Donna Douglas
‘Having children has been one of the biggest things that has happened to me in my life.’ – Tracy Lawrence
‘If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.’ – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
‘Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.’ – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
‘Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald
‘I feel playful aggression is important for children because they have to deal with all kinds of anger and aggression in their lives.’ – Brian Sutton-Smith
‘For just a few dollars a dose, vaccines save lives and help reduce poverty. Unlike medical treatment, they provide a lifetime of protection from deadly and debilitating disease. They are safe and effective. They cut healthcare and treatment costs, reduce the number of hospital visits, and ensure healthier children, families and communities.’ – Seth Berkley
‘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
‘So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.’ – Isadora Duncan
‘At the end of the day, we get to be parents, greeting our lovely, crazy children and talking about their day, making sure they brush their teeth, so all the tension from our day is tabled… until the next.’ – Brad Pitt
‘We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo – men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?’ – Robert McNamara
‘A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met.’ – David A. Bednar
‘Most farmers know that their children’s future will probably not be in agriculture, but they have a hard time imagining a different life.’ – Abhijit Banerjee
‘Diabetes is an all-too-personal time bomb which can go off today, tomorrow, next year, or 10 years from now – a time bomb affecting millions like me and the children here today.’ – Mary Tyler Moore
‘We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.’ – Phyllis Diller
‘Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child’s death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.’ – Ezekiel Emanuel
‘Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we’re currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.’ – Charles Colson
‘My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.’ – Evelyn Waugh
‘Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.’ – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
‘I hope my own children never have to fight a war.’ – George H. W. Bush
‘We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.’ – Yoko Ono
‘Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.’ – Miep Gies
‘Increased physical activity during the school day can help children’s attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play is closely linked to ADHD; behavioral problems; and stunted social, cognitive, and creative development.’ – Darell Hammond
‘I don’t deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn’t because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.’ – B. F. Skinner
‘Only when all children are in a book-loving environment will they achieve literacy, yes, but a lot more: a confidence in handling abstract ideas, an understanding of a multiplicity of viewpoint and the complexity and diversity of human interaction that comes through reading widely and often.’ – Michael Rosen
‘Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children’s faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.’ – Sara Teasdale
‘There’s certain lines you just don’t cross. You know the one thing that will get a man out of pocket is when you mess with his children.’ – Damon Dash
‘It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?’ – Dwight L. Moody
‘I don’t want children cursing. I’m very strict on my nieces and my little brother. They have to listen to clean versions of music. Even my music.’ – Nicki Minaj
‘A vegetarian is a person who won’t eat anything that can have children.’ – David Brenner
‘I believe that investing in our children’s development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.’ – Jay Weatherill
‘Children are our future and every child deserves to have an environment where they can learn and flourish and gain knowledge.’ – Lil Jon
‘Studies have identified a significant ‘skills gap’ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.’ – Stephen Covey
‘In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.’ – Malala Yousafzai
‘I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone who’s busy and has too many children, like my mother.’ – Sandra Cisneros
‘Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.’ – Avery Brooks
‘I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.’ – Jacqueline Novogratz
‘The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.’ – Leo Buscaglia
‘We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. I think that is very sad.’ – Ruby Bridges
‘Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.’ – J. R. R. Tolkien
‘Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.’ – Louise J. Kaplan
‘I think your children are your measure of success, regardless of work and career.’ – John Rhys-Davies
‘Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.’ – Kim Yuna
‘In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.’ – Desmond Tutu
‘It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?’ – Cesare Pavese
‘As a child in South Carolina, I spent summers like so many children – sitting on my grandparents’ back porch with my siblings, spitting watermelon seeds into the garden or, even worse, swallowing them and trembling as my older brother and sister spoke of the vine that was probably already growing in my belly.’ – Jacqueline Woodson
‘We long to have a home where civil freedoms are respected, where our children will not be subject to mass surveillance, abuse of human rights, political censorship and mass incarceration.’ – Joshua Wong
‘I was a victim of the American Dream, the bourgeois, middle-class dream. All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.’ – Anne Sexton
‘Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.’ – Russell Baker
‘Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.’ – Roger Moore
‘For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.’ – Theodore Roosevelt
‘I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Michele, Anne, Georges, from a first marriage with Esther Dujardin, and Sarah, Helene from a second one with Danielle Vindal.’ – Francois Englert
‘After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.’ – Shirley Jones
‘If children who commit crimes are not given the opportunity of a second chance, they may die in prison for acts made before having developed the cognitive and emotional skills needed to make informed and smart decisions and choices.’ – Alan K. Simpson
‘As a memorial, I’d like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I’d just like it to say: ‘Maeve Binchy, storyteller’ and people could look at the name and remember that they’d seen it somewhere else.’ – Maeve Binchy
‘I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?’ – Fran Lebowitz
‘The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.’ – Frank Serpico
‘What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.’ – William Blake
‘There is a part of ‘Wonder Woman’ inside me and inside every woman, kind of that secret self that women share. We are all caretakers, giving birth, caring for our children and companions and loved ones.’ – Lynda Carter
‘So, I was born and raised the youngest of seven children on this really beautiful mountain in Southern Idaho. But my dad had some radical beliefs. And because of those beliefs, we were isolated. So I was never allowed to go to school or to the doctor.’ – Tara Westover
‘As children, we all hold on to the myth of omnipotence. Comics are successful because kids identify with superheroes. They’ll read a book or watch a TV programme and say, ‘I’m that guy.’ And that guy is always the one in control.’ – Eddie Marsan
‘Straight couples don’t have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn’t compulsory and its absence doesn’t invalidate a marriage.’ – Dan Savage
‘I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society’s care.’ – Camille Paglia
‘There were about 30 children at one stage, running around like savages at a place called Callow Hill, near Monmouth, which was owned by my grandparents. They lived in the big house, but my dad had five brothers and a sister, and they all lived in various houses scattered on the hill.’ – Saul David
‘I’m considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family – father, mother, children – is fundamental to our civilisation.’ – Rupert Murdoch
‘Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.’ – Doug Larson
‘Coming through the fire and through the storm of life with a strong man, my fiance Ashanti, whom I’ve been dating for eight months and two wonderful children beside me, I’m just so happy that I have been able to maintain my integrity and get to where I am today with the right energy around me.’ – Angie Stone
‘Marriage does figure in my life, as I do want to have children. But I could also consider having children without getting married. The primary thing is having a good father, a partner who could be there with me through that journey.’ – Jacqueline Fernandez
‘If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.’ – Helen Thomas
‘My music reflects my strong belief in equal opportunities for all – specifically young girls and women. Many, many children do not have anywhere near the opportunities that we kids did in my community – great schools, public safety, etc.’ – Daya
‘I spent almost all my life in poverty, raised by a single mother who had to raise three children on minimum wage, which in the 1990s was $4.25 an hour. And I grew up in public housing, in conditions of mold and mildew, leaks and lead, without reliable heat and hot water in the winter.’ – Ritchie Torres
‘There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.’ – Jean Baudrillard
‘Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.’ – James Newman
‘For my part, I try to do my bit to make people’s lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.’ – Lionel Messi
‘The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.’ – Wayne Dyer
‘I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people’s children stars.’ – Abby Lee Miller
‘It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.’ – Richard Dreyfuss
‘I’d like to think that I’m a calm and sweet person. I tend to be very playful at home with my children, but in life… we have to fight our battles – our work battles, our political battles, our personal battles – and we’re focused.’ – Angelina Jolie
‘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
‘If there’s no inner peace, people can’t give it to you. The husband can’t give it to you. Your children can’t give it to you. You have to give it to you.’ – Linda Evans
‘My mom is a nurse; my dad is a pediatrician. They were born in the 1940s, and they were both inspired to fight against injustice, whether it was the injustices of the Vietnam War or Watergate or children in poverty or oppression of African Americans in Philadelphia where I was growing up.’ – Jake Tapper
‘Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.’ – Charles Lamb
‘Education is supposed to be our great equalizer, but when only half of low-income students are enrolling in college and only three tenths are graduating, you have to figure some of our children are getting a greater equalizer than others.’ – Chris Meledandri
‘God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That’s our job. Raising children and helping the community, that’s preparing for the next generation.’ – Dikembe Mutombo
‘Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.’ – James Dobson
‘I’m a snowflake. And so are you. Your children are snowflakes. And so are mine. And those who protest the loudest about not being snowflakes? I can see your six-fold ice crystals from here! Because every person, empirically, is unique.’ – Faith Salie
‘I don’t have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.’ – Charles Bronson
‘Whenever I date a guy, I think, ‘Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?’ – Rita Rudner’ – Rita Rudner
‘My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila
‘Our nation’s commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings.’ – Betsy DeVos
‘I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.’ – James Thurber
‘We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children’s life. It may save someone you love. And it’s very important.’ – Jim Valvano
‘Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.’ – Michael Jackson
‘I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.’ – Sting
‘What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.’ – Kurt Vonnegut
‘The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.’ – Sojourner Truth
‘Imagine having all of your freedoms taken away, being forced to work against your will, and constantly living under the threat of violence – in short, being forced to live as a slave. Sadly, this situation is a reality for millions of children, women, and men each year as part of the global human trafficking industry.’ – Bill Flores
‘We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.’ – Lawrence Durrell
‘I’ll do almost anything for cake – even trample little children! – Gayle King’ – Gayle King
‘We went through substantial periods of being dependent on some type of government service, whether food stamps, WIC, Medicaid, children’s health insurance. And I had an acute awareness as a child of what happens when people go without access to health care. I also had an acute awareness that people’s lives were not valued the same.’ – Leana S. Wen
‘The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.’ – Joe Lieberman
‘When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look at yourself as being people who have well being and comforts, I think it takes a very insensitive, tough person not to feel they need to do something.’ – Ratan Tata
‘I have two young children, and I will say that motherhood is its own peak, just like in the process of writing: one climbs and is continuously moving with each book. Becoming a mother is the greatest connection I’ve ever felt to being spiritual.’ – Jhumpa Lahiri
‘It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.’ – Maria Montessori
‘We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.’ – Alice Waters
‘I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I’ve yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.’ – Gloria Steinem
‘It’s racist to teach children to treat other children differently because of their skin color.’ – Marjorie Taylor Greene
‘I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.’ – Elizabeth Edwards
‘Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.’ – William Feather
‘People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.’ – Rebecca Solnit
‘It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.’ – Sloan Wilson
‘If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.’ – Lance Armstrong
‘When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God’s eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can’t un-see.’ – Bono
‘Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it – but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.’ – Jackie Kennedy
‘You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.’ – Khalil Gibran
‘My deep emotional connection to my mother, a remarkable woman who made a hard choice to save her children, and who valiantly struggled to care for us as a single parent, is the current that has driven my entire life. Everything I’ve accomplished is a testament to her fortitude.’ – Mazie Hirono
‘The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.’ – Lord Byron
‘I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.’ – Gary Bauer
‘It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame’s sake.’ – Henry Lawson
‘I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.’ – Chen Guangcheng
‘When you see the poet laureate saying that every child should have read ‘Ulysses’ and that you’re just giving up on children if you think it’s elitist – does that include children with special needs or whose first language isn’t English?’ – Nick Hornby
‘There’s no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people.’ – Al Sharpton
‘I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.’ – Nancy Pelosi
‘My music is best understood by children and animals.’ – Igor Stravinsky
‘My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.’ – Andrew Young
‘He’s my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression… I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent. I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.’ – Ronan Farrow
‘I love my children beyond all reason. They’re my joy, even when they’re wild with kid energy.’ – Christopher Meloni
‘Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.’ – Leon Kass
‘Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives – earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.’ – Queen Rania of Jordan
‘Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer and harsher as a consequence. The value of liminal space and transitional imagination remain personally and culturally undeveloped.’ – Michael Leunig
‘To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?’ – Christopher Hitchens
‘Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I’m putting out in the world, is because of my children.’ – Meryl Streep
‘I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.’ – Abigail Disney
‘Back in my mid-20s I was told I’d never be able to have children as I wasn’t having periods. Doctors tried to start up my monthly cycles, but when nothing worked, they actually offered me a hysterectomy. Without it, they said I might get ovarian cancer in the future. I chose not to have the operation, and am so glad I didn’t.’ – Jill Scott
‘Children are like little angels – there’s no way you can’t love them.’ – Gisele Bundchen
‘Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming.’ – Joel Salatin
‘There might be children in Somalia or the Arctic who have never heard of ‘Hamlet’ or the ‘Great Gatsby.’ But you can bet they know ‘Tarzan.” – Harlan Ellison
‘My parents were typical Asian parents, and they do, like all parents, want their children to be successful. They really encouraged my brother and I to study math and science, and that’s what we did as kids.’ – Lisa Su
‘My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.’ – Jack Black
‘The Biden Administration provides federal tax-payer funding to NGOs to indiscreetly shelter, purchase airplane tickets, and provide instructions on how to get through TSA without proper ID, along with how to enroll children into school once they reach their destination.’ – George Santos
‘Often when I go to home of people who have small children, the children will run from me, even though they have seen me on television. I understand why they do this but it is a sad feeling for me, even so.’ – Andre The Giant
‘Weston Bakeries is proud to support local children’s charities across Canada. We believe the more we invest in our kids’ futures today, the better our communities will be tomorrow.’ – Galen Weston
‘There’s nothing like the joy of the arts, and promoting the arts early in children is going to give them such a start in life in a way.’ – Julie Andrews
‘If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn’t be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.’ – Linda Blair
‘Age merely shows what children we remain.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
‘I like children – fried.’ – W. C. Fields
‘When you go to Africa, and you see children, they’re usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they’d love to go to school.’ – Annie Lennox
‘We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood.’ – Maya Soetoro-Ng
‘What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?’ – Nikita Khrushchev
‘I wouldn’t want to have the thought police going to people’s homes, dictating what they teach their children. I don’t want to be Big Brotherish. I would hate that.’ – Richard Dawkins
‘I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.’ – A. A. Milne
‘A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.’ – Richard Whately
‘If we don’t stand up for children, then we don’t stand for much.’ – Marian Wright Edelman
‘Sex education is very relevant in today’s world where children have access to adult content across media. So it has become all the more important for parents to educate kids about sex and talk to them about it.’ – Tejaswi Madivada
‘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
‘Keep your families close together, and love and honor your children.’ – Gordon B. Hinckley
‘Children born with Down Syndrome are not vegetables, nor are their lives demonstrably not worth living.’ – Tucker Carlson
‘The biggest lesson I learned from my dad is to support children even if they’re doing something that is unorthodox.’ – Tony Hawk
‘Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? – Erich Fromm’ – Erich Fromm
‘Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won’t have as much censorship because we won’t have as much fear.’ – Judy Blume
‘Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.’ – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
‘My father worked for a children’s home called Dr. Barnardo’s Homes. They’re a charity.’ – David Bowie
‘What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.’ – Theodore Schultz
‘Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.’ – Francis Bacon
‘For so long, black conservatives have not been able to have a voice; people who have bi-racial children, people in bi-racial relationships, it has been so black and white. I blame Obama. His eight years in office did a lot of damage in terms of race relations in this country.’ – Candace Owens
‘I’m the blackest member of my family. You know, these mixed families produce children of all colors, and in Jamaica, the question of exactly what shade you were, in colonial Jamaica, that was the most important question. Because you could read off class and education and status from that. I was aware and conscious of that from the very beginning.’ – Stuart Hall
‘I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.’ – Dave Grohl
‘Books, the children of the brain.’ – Jonathan Swift
‘Children are so talented. Little children, until about the age of 10 or 11, are just little artists. They need to be given the time and the space and the materials to do their work. That’s all they need.’ – Faith Ringgold
‘Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.’ – Mandy Moore
‘Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
‘Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
‘You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.’ – Toni Morrison
‘I feel that heterosexual marriage is the more excellent way, and it surely is approved holy by the Holy Bible, and it holds so many more possibilities: the possibilities of having children of both the mother and father, the male and the female.’ – Robert H. Schuller
‘I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.’ – Princess Diana
‘I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.’ – Deborah Eisenberg
‘We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.’ – Brigham Young
‘Atul had a child from his first marriage but lost him when he was just 16 years old. His wife died 7-8 years later. He’s really had a tough life. Probably these experiences have made him a more sensitive, caring and loving person… Had we been 20 years younger, we definitely would have had children.’ – Suhasini Mulay
‘Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I’m not sure we do.’ – Sam Harris
‘I often get asked why I decided to spend time highlighting the mental health of children.’ – Kate Middleton
‘The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.’ – Linus Torvalds
‘Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.’ – Jean de la Bruyere
‘My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.’ – David Oyelowo
‘In the 1950s, the black men and women and their white allies who fought for civil rights and basic human dignity could look to the federal government. If the racist sheriff and his troops beat them with batons or sprayed them and their children with water cannons, the attorney general would act.’ – Joy Reid
‘We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.’ – Dave Ramsey
‘People tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children ‘school-striking,’ and they say, ‘Oh the children are going to save us.’ But no, we aren’t. We are too young to be able to do that. We don’t have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.’ – Greta Thunburg
‘We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.’ – Charles Hamilton Houston
‘I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
‘But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.’ – Joseph Heller
‘Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media and make the right moves that will help them. The physical world is similar to the virtual world in many cases. It’s about being aware. We can prevent many debacles if we’re educated.’ – Amy Jo Martin
‘Intelligence may be taken as a necessary, but not sufficient, cause of moral advance. All morally advanced children are bright, but not all bright children are morally advanced.’ – Lawrence Kohlberg
‘We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.’ – Walt Disney
‘In my career, there’s many things I’ve won and many things I’ve achieved, but for me, my greatest achievement is my children and my family. It’s about being a good father, a good husband, just being connected to family as much as possible.’ – David Beckham
‘Your retirement comes before your children’s tuition. That’s because there’s no financial aid for retirement, and there’s still a good deal available for college.’ – Jean Chatzky
‘Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that’s a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.’ – Morris Gleitzman
‘He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.’ – Jeremy Taylor
‘My dad is a children’s singer. His name is Red Grammer. He’s literally one of the happiest people on the planet.’ – Andy Grammer
‘Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That’s probably why they get along so well.’ – Jonathan Carroll
‘When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.’ – Johnny Depp
‘In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see.’ – Severn Cullis-Suzuki
‘The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.’ – Ivan Turgenev
‘Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right?’ – Thomas Sowell
‘We just don’t like the idea of turning the children over to nannies and minders. We like to help them ourselves – and then, of course, we know what to tell them when they ought to do something on their own.’ – Grace Kelly
‘My mother is my biggest role model, and she showed me how to do it right. She was very present in our lives and has a great career of her own. Same with my father. So I knew it was possible going in to stay closely connected to my children while also chasing big dreams. And it’s given me great perspective.’ – Kerri Walsh Jennings
‘The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.’ – Jonathan Sacks
‘I grew up in poverty and my mother had to sacrifice a lot for us to eat and get an education – just imagine in a house where we were more than six children! But hard work and dedication is what it took for me to be here today.’ – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
‘God’s children and their happiness are my reasons for being.’ – Red Skelton
‘With teenagers, the emotions are higher and things are more dramatic. That doesn’t mean adults don’t also act like children in their own way.’ – Sara Shepard
‘Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they’re opposed to it.’ – B. D. Wong
‘We’re all family at the end of the day – connected to other members of our family as adults or children.’ – Jo Frost
‘You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what’s wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever’s in them rises to the surface in free play.’ – Erik Erikson
‘How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.’ – Alexandre Dumas
‘Safe Routes to School is one with great potential to get children walking and biking to school again. The program uses federal grants to make road and sidewalk repairs aimed at getting kids to school safely on foot or bicycle. The money also supports efforts to get the community, school officials and others involved.’ – Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
‘A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.’ – Richard Reeves
‘I do get kind of jealous when I see women with children but look at Angelina Jolie, she is like a super mama and proof that you can have a career and a family.’ – Victoria Silvstedt
‘I am a huge advocate for anti-bullying in our youth. What I have seen with the rise of social media is that children are not facing bullying on a playground, they are facing it on their cell phones.’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd
‘War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.’ – Jimmy Carter
‘Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.’ – Hans Christian Andersen
‘It will be a great accomplishment if I become the best player in the world. But if my children can grow up with great core values and become great people and do good things and are happy, then, man, that would bring me great joy.’ – Tony Finau
‘Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?’ – Patch Adams
‘The government can’t even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children?’ – Rand Paul
‘Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children’s writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.’ – Mal Peet
‘China’s one-child policy punishes families for having ‘out-of-plan’ children, resulting in sex-selective abortion and tens of millions of ‘missing girls’ as well as forced abortion and sterilization campaigns.’ – Chris Smith
‘My children are my life. They’re so spectacular.’ – Lara Logan
‘Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive thing to tell children, but ultimately, what that means is when they lose, it must make them a loser.’ – Joshua Waitzkin
‘Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.’ – Meshell Ndegeocello
‘If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.’ – George Bernard Shaw
‘Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises… the best excellence in the children of any other land.’ – Herman Melville
‘I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She was like the god Cronus, who gave birth to his children in the morning and then ate them at night.’ – Jamaica Kincaid
‘Let us continue to reach out in godly love to all homosexuals who want deliverance, while opposing at the threshold every attempt of the militant homosexuals to represent their lifestyle as ‘normal,’ and to impose it on us and our children.’ – Anita Bryant
‘Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.’ – Billy Graham
‘I gravitate toward people with a big, sane, sound mind and big heart with a soft spot for elders, children, and animals.’ – Mya
‘All my children inherited perfect pitch.’ – Chevy Chase
‘I am glad that I do not have any children.’ – Anna Freud
‘There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.’ – Paul Auster
‘My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God – I thank God every time I think of it – I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.’ – Maya Angelou
‘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
‘If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.’ – Haim Ginott
‘I always try and give a good example to children who follow me.’ – Diego Godin
‘Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.’ – Thornton Wilder
‘I like children; I like ’em, and I respect ’em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
‘I was not a very good mother. I was always running out to do a movie or something. If I had to do it over, I would either have a career or children. I wouldn’t do both unless I could work in my home. I spent 20 years feeling guilty, which is not a very nice emotion.’ – Joanne Woodward
‘Thirteen, 13 children, and I love – I love them all. And I think I’ve been a good father to all of them.’ – Anthony Quinn
‘I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.’ – Angelina Jolie
‘It is on us to support our children and early childhood educators as we work toward having a healthier and better educated state where people have the opportunity to live a more abundant and purposeful life.’ – Roy Cooper
‘Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.’ – Ezra Taft Benson
‘When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.’ – Robert Bly
‘Every child is different. I think it’s important that we don’t have maybe just one or two books that we’re recommending to all children – but rather we cater the books to fit each individual child.’ – Rick Riordan
‘I became a children’s author by accident.’ – Jerry Spinelli
‘Children can change the world.’ – Choi Si-won
‘I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But the one I’m most proud of is the one no one will ever see – the very first manuscript I ever wrote, back in 1990. It took me a year to do it.’ – Steve Berry
‘Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He’s always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.’ – Steve Wozniak
‘We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.’ – Howard Zinn
‘A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.’ – Ogden Nash
‘Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.’ – Allan Bloom
‘With your own children, you love them immediately – and with grandchildren, it’s exactly the same.’ – Kevin Whately
‘I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.’ – Michelle Obama
‘There is a saying: ‘The child is parent to the adult’, which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that’s why fiction needs to be diverse.’ – Malorie Blackman
‘It is saddening to see parents busy making money and their children losing out on a good life.’ – Ravi Kishan
‘To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn’t believe that.’ – David Attenborough
‘We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.’ – Kofi Annan
‘These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois
‘I don’t have children, but I have 17 nieces and nephews, and they more than make up for anything that I can do. I have a stepdaughter, and I adore her to pieces, and I think about adoption. There are so many kids at different ages and stages that need families.’ – Lauren Velez
‘When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.’ – Henry Fielding
‘Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.’ – George Santayana
‘What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?’ – O. J. Simpson
‘What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.’ – Karl Barth
‘Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?’ – Marilyn Manson
‘The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.’ – Polly Berrien Berends
‘No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.’ – Erma Bombeck
‘All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn’t. They had big ears on them.’ – Gerald Scarfe
‘I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He’s adopted, though we’re still blood related – he’s my cousin. My parents couldn’t have any more children after me, so when Dad’s brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.’ – Gary Numan
‘In working to end violence against women and children, we need to ensure that men are centrally involved. Men need to organise themselves in a sustained campaign against gender-based violence.’ – Cyril Ramaphosa
‘There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.’ – Doris Lessing
‘A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.’ – Ian Anderson
‘I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.’ – Mick Jagger
‘Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.’ – David Lodge
‘One day mom sat down and says, ‘I’m moving my children to Queens. There was this quiet in the room and then everyone burst out laughing. Moving to Queens for us was like moving to Mars. It was like breaking out of poverty, the ultimate in luxury.’ – Eric Adams
‘Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.’ – William Penn
‘I’m a mother lion when it comes to protecting my children.’ – Joanna Cassidy
‘In my house, there is an old Chinese cabinet full of little figurines on two shelves. They are for my daughter, to tell stories. We have told hours and hours or stories using these figures. There are all kinds of people, children and adults, and all kinds of animals – elephants, tigers, snakes.’ – Caterina Fake
‘We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.’ – Lawrence Clark Powell
‘When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.’ – Margaret Sanger
‘The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.’ – Phillip Noyce
‘Whoever said having children makes a comedian safer and less dark is an idiot. Having a baby has filled my whole life with fear, and totally destroyed all illusion that the world is safe or fair.’ – Richard Herring
‘My mom’s a children’s television writer, so I was involved and around from a very young age. When I was eight, I did my first film with Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown, who are a quite well-respected Australian producer-director duo, and that just changed my whole perspective on what I could do in life and be.’ – Alycia Debnam-Carey
‘Having children was a revelation – it’s like going through a doorway, and everything is different forever.’ – Andrew Lincoln
‘Divorce is not the end of the world. It’s worse to stay in an unhealthy marriage. That’s a worse example for the children.’ – Jerry Hall
‘Teachers across the world are doing all they can to ensure a good education is the top priority for children.’ – Brian Lara
‘When you’re in a big family you have to hustle all the time. But I think that’s a good quality to instill in your children, for whatever they have to get.’ – Eunice Kennedy Shriver
‘My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.’ – Johan Cruyff
‘How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.’ – Charles Darwin
‘Be ever watchful for the opportunity to shelter little children with the umbrella of your charity; be generous to their schools, their hospitals, and their places of worship. For, as they must bear the burdens of our mistakes, so are they in their innocence the repositories of our hopes for the upward progress of humanity.’ – Conrad Hilton
‘I had this chronic hyperactivity and an inability to focus, so I was forever being moved to another class, with a much smaller group of children – some of them about 18. If I was asked to read a paragraph, this white wall would go up in my head. Still now, I read very slowly and can rarely work out a tip.’ – Justin Theroux
‘My attachment to my wedding ring is a powerful symbol of the infinite love that I have for my wife and children.’ – Gad Saad
‘People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It’s because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can’t; it’s impossible.’ – Marina Abramovic
‘When I first saw children’s television, I thought it was perfectly horrible. And I thought there was some way of using this fabulous medium to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.’ – Fred Rogers
‘The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn’t in the cards, I guess.’ – Jeanette MacDonald
‘I had two brilliant children and one genius. Elon could figure out things when he was very young and was always advanced for his age. He could hold a conversation about something that was way beyond his years, and he read voraciously.’ – Maye Musk
‘Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.’ – Tim Johnson
‘My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.’ – Cesar Pelli
‘Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.’ – Paul Klee
‘There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.’ – David Hasselhoff
‘I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.’ – Steven Chu
‘The support of my mother has made such a difference in my life, sacrificing everything to make sure that we went to school, did our homework, got an education. That was one person supporting me, and it takes more than one person in our community to help raise our children.’ – Adam Goodes
‘When families are strong and stable, so are children – showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong – either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship – the impact on a child’s later life can be devastating.’ – Iain Duncan Smith
‘Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.’ – Mike Fitzpatrick
‘All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can’t swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.’ – Roald Dahl
‘Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect them from any bad thing that might come.’ – Chris Cornell
‘I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there’s one little group… well it’s not little, it’s got hundreds of people marching, and they’re all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.’ – Jacki Weaver
‘I feel like in 10 or 15 years’ time our children are going to look back and say, ‘What? You were around when gay people weren’t allowed to get married?” – Scarlett Johansson
‘I’ve seen children’s eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.’ – Brian Greene
‘My father is an engineer, and my mother raised the three children.’ – Yasmine Hamdan
‘Nobody asks a working man who looks after his children; it’s always the woman who is asked.’ – Smriti Irani
‘One thing I’ve learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and love the children they care for.’ – Ai-jen Poo
‘Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.’ – Jean Cocteau
‘They would say, ‘If you run around too much as a girl, you’ll never be able to have children.’ The running was supposed to be too much strain for your body, and your body would never be the same again.’ – Wilma Rudolph
‘What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?’ – Kate Millett
‘How could I have been a wife, a mother and a singer? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the world? Your children would not call you ‘Mama,’ but ‘Renata.” – Renata Tebaldi
‘A huge dollar bill is the most accurate way to teach children the real motto of the United States: In the Almighty Dollar We Trust… Until the average American realizes that capitalism damages her livelihood while augmenting the livelihoods of the wealthy, the Almighty Dollar will continue to rule. It certainly is not ruling in our favor.’ – Kyrsten Sinema
‘Actors often behave like children, and so we’re taken for children. I want to be grown up.’ – Jeremy Irons
‘My brothers, my children, I see how much they care about me.’ – Seve Ballesteros
‘For me it is important that children be children. My parents felt exactly the same about me.’ – Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
‘Our world faces difficult challenges, but no more so than in the past. Working together in a constructive spirit, we can assure our children the future they deserve.’ – Paul Kagame
‘I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus, I think that those are things I would aspire to or hope for for all our children.’ – Angela Duckworth
‘My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish! – Dorothy Kilgallen’ – Dorothy Kilgallen
‘I have a very open line of communication with both my children.’ – Gloria Estefan
‘In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.’ – Khaled Hosseini
‘I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.’ – Hans Rosling
‘Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.’ – Ruth Ann Minner
‘I don’t know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.’ – Penelope Cruz
‘Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.’ – John Bradshaw
‘Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.’ – Wilfrid Laurier
‘I never talk about ‘Harry Potter’ because I think that would rob children of something that’s private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.’ – Alan Rickman
‘I don’t think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.’ – Gerard Way
‘I really don’t have any weaknesses. I do have areas of my life that I am working on to grow, heal and evolve. Giving myself permission to rest is an area I am working on. Not rescuing my children and grandchildren is another area.’ – Iyanla Vanzant
‘Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can’t support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars.’ – Steve Israel
‘Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they’re growing.’ – J. B. Priestley
‘What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?’ – Sitting Bull
‘Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are trained to reduce the use and capacity of their brain.’ – Tony Buzan
‘El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras have all agreed to send additional consular officers from Guatemala, from Honduras, from El Salvador, send them to the U.S. border so that we can more quickly and humanely identify unaccompanied children and process their individual removal.’ – Joe Biden
‘The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It’s also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.’ – Chris Van Allsburg
‘Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.’ – Muriel Spark
‘Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.’ – Shirley Jackson
‘Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one’s children.’ – William Bennett
‘It doesn’t seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.’ – Anthony Hecht
‘Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.’ – Germaine Greer
‘I like to do everything myself – I’m very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.’ – Pamela Anderson
‘Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister – who is a children’s writer married to a poet.’ – Anne Stevenson
‘I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.’ – Geraldo Rivera
‘My mother grew up with each of her children – whatever your age, that’s the age she’d be when she listened to your stories. She never belittled our problems. It made for something permanent and reliable.’ – Esther Rolle
‘I couldn’t walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.’ – David Icke
‘Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn’t finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education – I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.’ – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
‘Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and discouraged. This same disposition will be seen through their whole lives, and they will be helpless, leaning upon others for aid, expecting others to favor them and yield to them.’ – Ellen G. White
‘I think it’s a mother’s dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation.’ – Erika Slezak
‘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
‘You can never spend enough time with children.’ – Dwayne Hickman
‘The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.’ – Alexandra Paul
‘Racism is a form of hate. We pass it on to our young people. When we do that, we are robbing children of their innocence.’ – Ruby Bridges
‘Sidney Farber was a pathologist. He was called a doctor of the dead. He was a pathologist who sort of lived in the basement of the children’s hospital in Boston, and he became very interested in childhood leukemia. And Farber began to inject this drug, aminopterin, into young kids, in order to see if he could get a remission.’ – Siddhartha Mukherjee
‘One of the great things about children is that they have no other concern than to be simply interested in things. It is considered by some the height of mindfulness to approach the world afresh like a child.’ – John Dickerson
‘Black, poor, without a father most of my life, one of 10 children – it was actually pretty amazing I had made it to the age of 29 without a noose around my neck.’ – Anthony Ray Hinton
‘Women, you can have it all – a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career.’ – Jada Pinkett Smith
‘If children do not understand the Constitution, they cannot understand how our government functions, or what their rights and responsibilities are as citizens of the United States.’ – John Roberts
‘I’m always in favor of more glamour. I embarrass my children, I think. I am the lady in feathers in the car pool line.’ – Mia Sara
‘It’s important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.’ – Carlos Slim
‘Gwen and I have four children and ten grandchildren.’ – David Wilkerson
‘Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.’ – Democritus
‘When I was young, I asked my priest how you could get to Heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God said to his children. You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.’ – Casey Affleck
‘My mother lived through the Great Depression. Her family of 11 children pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and moved to wherever there was work at the time. And in rural Oklahoma, that wasn’t easy to find.’ – Chuck Norris
‘I have wonderful children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.’ – Gladys Knight
‘When you have children, you realize that at the end, it’s all about passing on, about handing down.’ – Andy Serkis
‘It’s always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.’ – David Almond
‘I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter.’ – Ishmael Beah
‘In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.’ – Marie Curie
‘Children’s games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules – that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own.’ – Jean Piaget
‘I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.’ – Mahatma Gandhi
‘They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.’ – Angelina Jolie
‘In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.’ – Malala Yousafzai
‘If I could teach people to be grateful, we could have an amazing world where negativity could not grow and foster, and children would have a smile on their face.’ – Catriona Gray
‘Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.’ – Aristotle
‘If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.’ – Maria Montessori
‘I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.’ – Dr. Seuss
‘For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.’ – John F. Kennedy
‘A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte
‘We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.’ – Margaret Mead
‘Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.’ – Garrison Keillor
‘Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.’ – Maurice Sendak
‘Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.’ – Mark Twain
‘I’ve helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.’ – Michael Jackson
‘The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.’ – James E. Faust
‘Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.’ – Clarence Darrow
‘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
‘Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.’ – Daniel Goleman
‘Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.’ – Plato
‘Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.’ – Nelson Mandela
‘As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.’ – Russell M. Nelson
‘Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.’ – Desmond Tutu
‘In raising children, we need to continuously keep in mind how we can best create the most favorable environment for their imitative behavior. Everything done in the past regarding imitation must become more and more conscious and more and more consciously connected with the future.’ – Rudolf Steiner
‘The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I’m thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family’s future.’ – Jackie Kennedy
‘Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God’s children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The ‘many mansions’ are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be.’ – Charles Spurgeon
‘A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.’ – Peter De Vries
‘Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.’ – Victor Hugo
‘Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.’ – Florence Nightingale
‘The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.’ – H. L. Mencken
‘So long as I can stay mentally alert – inquiring, curious – I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don’t want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I’m just not ready to stop, to die.’ – Rupert Murdoch
‘These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.’ – Kamala Harris
‘I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.’ – Angelina Jolie
‘It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
‘I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don’t even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.’ – Rita Rudner
‘All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.’ – Franklin P. Jones
‘If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.’ – Jonathan Sacks
‘One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
‘Children who play regularly with their peers are most likely to achieve the highest levels of adjustment as adults.’ – Brian Sutton-Smith
‘Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.’ – Marian Wright Edelman
‘All my films are all my children.’ – Hayao Miyazaki
‘If your parents never had children, chances are… neither will you.’ – Dick Cavett
‘I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.’ – Medgar Evers
‘With ‘Stardust’, I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children.’ – Neil Gaiman
‘I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: ‘Checkout Time is 18 years.” – Erma Bombeck
‘The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.’ – Harry S Truman
‘Children are our most valuable natural resource.’ – Herbert Hoover
‘Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.’ – Black Elk
‘You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.’ – Madeleine L’Engle
‘Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.’ – Thomas Szasz
‘If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.’ – John C. Maxwell
‘I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don’t know I’m only using blanks.’ – Emo Philips
‘Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.’ – Denis Waitley
‘Generosity has built America. When we fail to invest in children, we have to pay the cost.’ – Bob Keeshan
‘I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.’ – Oscar Wilde
‘We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind’s greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.’ – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
‘I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.’ – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
‘Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.’ – Pat Robertson
‘Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.’ – Paul Tsongas
‘Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!’ – Maria Montessori
‘My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.’ – Christopher Hitchens
‘The world is not always a kind place. That’s something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it’s something they really need our help to understand.’ – Fred Rogers
‘Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.’ – George Whitefield
‘Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.’ – P. T. Barnum
‘Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.’ – Angelina Jolie
‘We can’t understand when we’re pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time – like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.’ – Anne Lamott
‘Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others’ children.’ – Sam Levenson
‘I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.’ – George Bernard Shaw
‘Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.’ – Peter Ustinov
‘The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.’ – Jean Paul
‘Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.’ – Wayne Dyer
‘The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.’ – Henry Ward Beecher
‘I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.’ – Kevin Gates
‘If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila
‘Whether were parents, carers, teachers or anyone working with young children, we know that children move easily and often between free play and structured play. One is not better or worse than another, they each offer different experiences, different ways of thinking, and different kinds of learning.’ – Michael Rosen
‘A lot of school-going children are familiar with my writing. I am basically very much a children books author.’ – Ruskin Bond
‘I have loved being a step-mum to Brian’s children. We have a great relationship, and it’s lovely to spend time with the grandchildren.’ – Anita Dobson
‘When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.’ – Zig Ziglar
‘Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.’ – Isabel Allende
‘Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.’ – Khalil Gibran
‘The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.’ – Theodore Roosevelt
‘Revelation is communication from God to His children on the earth and one of the great blessings associated with the gift and constant companionship of the Holy Ghost.’ – David A. Bednar
‘Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.’ – Alan Bennett
‘The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.’ – Ursula K. Le Guin
‘I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.’ – Meryl Streep
‘It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.’ – Rose Kennedy
‘I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.’ – Archie Panjabi
‘Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
‘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
‘What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.’ – Maurice Sendak
‘If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it’s a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also – to do the lawn and clean the gutters.’ – P. J. O’Rourke
‘Children should neither be seen or heard from – ever again.’ – W. C. Fields
‘It’s time to get past our racial differences. We owe it to our children to help them keep their clean start.’ – Ruby Bridges
‘Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.’ – Phyllis Diller
‘I think all children love art, but not all get the opportunity to do it.’ – Faith Ringgold
‘No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could’ve done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it’s best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.’ – Billy Graham
‘We know that children who are healthier do not require medical treatment or care, both of which cost time and money. So, by avoiding illness, infants have a greater chance of growing into healthier children who are able to attend school and become more productive members of society.’ – Seth Berkley
‘Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn’t him. This is not him.’ – Michael Jackson
‘Children with Down Syndrome are not monsters, but uncommonly gentle human beings who can and do lead full lives.’ – Tucker Carlson
‘As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.’ – John Adams
‘Logic itself affirms that a loving Heavenly Father would not abandon His children without providing a way for them to learn of Him.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin
‘Now the problem with standardized tests is that it’s based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can’t, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.’ – Ken Robinson
‘Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.’ – Francis Bacon
‘Certainly, by providing individuals coming out of institutions with ways to become productive citizens, we reduce recidivism. What that means is we reduce crime. There are fewer victims when individuals have options – when they have job skills, when they have life skills, we break the cycle of children following their parents into institutions.’ – Loretta Lynch
‘My message to everyone: the next time you hear about migrant children near the border, just picture them as your own. Then think what you would want our government to do.’ – Al Sharpton
‘Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.’ – Walt Disney
‘I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.’ – Princess Diana
‘More than ever, we as parents and a nation must do something about the growth of obesity in our children. We must do more than just talk, we must be concerned enough to act.’ – Lee Haney
‘Is ‘The Wind in the Willows’ a children’s book? Is ‘Alice in Wonderland?’ Is ‘Treasure Island?’ These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.’ – A. A. Milne
‘My husband’s a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can’t raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.’ – Brene Brown
‘We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.’ – Russell M. Nelson
‘First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.’ – Angelina Jolie
‘The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.’ – Alice Munro
‘Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.’ – Ogden Nash
‘I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.’ – Michelle Obama
‘The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.’ – Kerri Walsh Jennings
‘Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.’ – Jonathan Swift
‘The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.’ – Tony Buzan
‘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
‘If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.’ – Richard Dawkins
‘The children of less effective, less competent parents will be more likely to adopt the customs and values of the peer group.’ – Caterina Fake
‘Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.’ – Erik Erikson
‘All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.’ – Erma Bombeck
‘My mother taught children to love to dance.’ – Abby Lee Miller
‘All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn’t need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.’ – Paul Auster
‘The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.’ – Jonathan Sacks
‘My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.’ – Malala Yousafzai
‘I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.’ – Mahatma Gandhi
‘Among the other values children should be taught are respect for others, beginning with the child’s own parents and family; respect for the symbols of faith and the patriotic beliefs of others; respect for law and order; respect for the property of others; respect for authority.’ – James E. Faust
‘If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children’s mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.’ – Sitting Bull
‘Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.’ – Margaret Mead
‘It was always going to be difficult, no matter what I’d set up, no matter how many children I have got to take my mind off things. There was always going to be a moment when I finished playing, that I was going to find tough.’ – David Beckham
‘Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.’ – Maya Angelou
‘Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.’ – Daniel Goleman
‘If you observe children with sufficient objectivity as they grow into the world, then you will perceive that children’s temporal bodies are still not fully connected with the spirit-soul. The task of education, understood in a spiritual sense, is to bring the soul-spirit into harmony with the temporal body.’ – Rudolf Steiner
‘Many people must have noticed the intense attention given by children to the conversation of grown-ups when they cannot possibly be understanding a word of what they hear. They are trying to get hold of words, and they often demonstrate this fact by repeating joyously some word which they have been able to grasp.’ – Maria Montessori
‘Everyone knows that at the age of 11-12, children have a marked impulse to form themselves into groups and that the respect paid to the rules and regulations of their play constitutes an important feature of this social life.’ – Jean Piaget
‘What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown – watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?’ – Jackie Kennedy
‘In my life, I have learned that most people want the same thing. They are not driven by class resentment. What they want most is to make a better life for themselves and their families – and to know that the opportunities for their children will be better than they were for themselves.’ – Rupert Murdoch
‘The ‘Maddox Jolie-Pitt’ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.’ – Angelina Jolie
‘There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.’ – Victor Hugo
‘Despite the efforts of some parents, children still tend to act out the traditional sex roles of our culture. The child’s peer group may have more of an influence over this than the parents.’ – Brian Sutton-Smith
‘The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people’s children.’ – Marian Wright Edelman
‘A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.’ – H. L. Mencken
‘God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.’ – Desmond Tutu
‘I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.’ – Rita Rudner
‘If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
‘It is a great thing about having young children, is that they don’t really care whether you’re the chief justice or whatever, and they do make sure that you have a good perspective on life and what’s important.’ – John Roberts
‘I don’t like games. You’re robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.’ – Hayao Miyazaki
‘Play is the work of children. It’s very serious stuff.’ – Bob Keeshan
‘While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
‘Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.’ – Peter De Vries
‘I want to help children develop strengths that allow them to feel they don’t have to push things away mentally… If we ‘cotton-ball’ kids, it produces adults who are too scared to think for themselves and are easily manipulated.’ – Morris Gleitzman
‘One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.’ – Christopher Hitchens
‘It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.’ – Erma Bombeck
‘I do think that young children can spot a phony a mile away.’ – Fred Rogers
‘Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.’ – Phyllis Diller
‘Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.’ – George Bernard Shaw
‘Parents shouldn’t assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don’t. We do.’ – Maurice Sendak
‘My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.’ – Angelina Jolie
‘Well, you don’t get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn’t have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.’ – Michael Jackson
‘I’ve seen schools in Detroit where the windows are broken, where there’s no heat, and children are sitting with their coats on in class in the middle of a snowstorm. I’ve also seen schools in California with Olympic-sized swimming pools and cafeterias like five-star restaurants.’ – Ruby Bridges
‘Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.’ – Billy Graham
‘And also I didn’t want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn’t want to see my life in that way.’ – Malala Yousafzai
‘Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.’ – Jonathan Sacks
‘Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.’ – Russell M. Nelson
‘It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.’ – Maria Montessori
‘In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn’t danced in television.’ – Erma Bombeck
‘Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.’ – Angelina Jolie