Quotes on Children

I had never really pictured myself working in children's ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries.

Author: Willie Aames

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.

Author: John Adams

Our children's children will hear a good story.

Author: Richard Adams

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

Author: Ama Aidoo

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

Author: Anna Akhmatova

I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.

Author: Tom Allen

Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives.

Author: Kirstie Alley

Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.

Author: Christiane Amanpour

They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.

Author: Barbara Amiel

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

Author: Kofi Annan

Having children with someone is the real bond.

Author: Francesca Annis

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

Author: David Antin

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

Author: Fiona Apple

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Author: Aristotle

If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.

Author: Billie Armstrong

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

Author: Eberhard Arnold

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

Author: John Audubon

Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program.

Author: Joe Baca

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Author: Francis Bacon

Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

Author: Abdullah Badawi

When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.

Author: Beryl Bainbridge

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

Author: Russell Baker

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Author: James Baldwin

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

Author: Johnny Ball

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

Author: Lucille Ball

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

Author: Steve Ballmer

Every man should see the birth of his children.

Author: Dennis Banks

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.

Author: Roger Bannister

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

Author: Joseph Barbera

Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime.

Author: Michael Barnes

I'm going to take over on the Techno Comics so I'm going to be dealing in the children's merchandising type department. But that's just setting it up and having somebody run it.

Author: Majel Barrett

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

Author: Dave Barry

The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like.

Author: John Barton

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

Author: Charles Bass

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

Author: Charles Bass

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.

Author: Charles Bass

I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same.

Author: Shirley Bassey

I'm blessed with eight children - though I'm talking about eight adults now.

Author: Ned Beatty

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.

Author: Bob Beauprez

It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that.

Author: Glenn Beck

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

Author: Glenn Beck

Adults under threat feel like children.

Author: Martha Beck

Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.

Author: Martha Beck

I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.

Author: Boris Becker

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

Author: David Beckham

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Author: Henry Beecher

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Author: Henry Beecher

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

Author: Carol Bellamy

Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.

Author: Carol Bellamy

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

Author: Carol Bellamy

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

Author: Robert Benchley

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

Author: Alan Bennett

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

Author: Alan Bennett

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

Author: Alan Bennett

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

Author: William Bennett

This legislation gives parents some comfort that their children won't fall prey to child predators while using the Internet at schools and libraries that receive federal dollars for Internet services.

Author: Judy Biggert

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

Author: Larry Bird

Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why.

Author: Bill Bixby

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

Author: Cate Blanchett

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

Author: Erma Bombeck

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.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

Author: Victor Borge

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.

Author: Ian Botham

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

Author: Christian Bovee

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

Author: Elizabeth Bowen

If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.

Author: Barbara Boxer

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

Author: John Bradshaw

We all agree that parents have the primary responsibility of filtering the material that reaches children. However, children are often lured onto websites containing obscene material through the devious manipulation of search engines.

Author: Robert Brady

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

Author: Eric Braeden

Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.

Author: Jo Brand

I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.

Author: Jonathan Brandis

I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.

Author: Carol Braun

A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.

Author: T. Brazelton

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

Author: David Brenner

Well, our children do know what this industry is about, but they have a good grip on who they are.

Author: Morgan Brittany

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.

Author: Pierce Brosnan

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

Author: Dick Bruna

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Author: Jean Bruyere

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Author: Jean Bruyere

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

Author: Bill Bryson

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

Author: Patrick Buchanan

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

Author: Georg Buchner

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Author: Abigail Buren

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

Author: Barbara Bush

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

Author: Laura Bush

The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

Author: Charles Buxton

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

Author: Lord Byron

Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!

Author: Jeanne Calment

I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue.

Author: David Cameron

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Author: Elias Canetti

We have very specific rules about how we go to market with children, and I think they are very responsible.

Author: Jim Cantalupo

I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests.

Author: Lois Capps

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

Author: Dennis Cardoza

I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.

Author: Leslie Caron

I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.

Author: Helena Carter

We must make children and families a national priority.

Author: Robert Casey

Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.

Author: Michael Castle

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

Author: Margaret Cavendish

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

Author: Dick Cavett

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Author: Miguel Cervantes

All my children inherited perfect pitch.

Author: Chevy Chase

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

Author: Mary Chase

I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children.

Author: Dominic Chianese

Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.

Author: Clayton Christensen

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

Author: Julie Christie

Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can.

Author: Julie Christie

I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

Author: Madonna Ciccone

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Author: Marcus Cicero

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

Author: Diane Cilento

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

Author: Frank Clark

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

Author: Kenneth Clark

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Author: Beverly Cleary

Children want to do what grownups do.

Author: Beverly Cleary

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

Author: Beverly Cleary

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.

Author: Hillary Clinton

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

Author: William Clinton

We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.

Author: Jim Clyburn

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Author: Leonard Cohen

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Author: Sidonie Colette

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

Author: Jackie Collins

And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.

Author: Phil Collins

It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future.

Author: Kent Conrad

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

Author: Mason Cooley

Sadly, every year hundreds of children are victimized by a convicted sexual offender. Convicted predators should be put in prison where they belong and kept away from our Nation's children.

Author: Jim Costa

Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

Author: Doug Coupland

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

Author: Marcelene Cox

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

Author: Marcelene Cox

A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way.

Author: Marcelene Cox

I always knew I wanted to have children.

Author: Cindy Crawford

Having children really changes your priorities.

Author: Cindy Crawford

My children are all doing just fine. The mountain dogs are great in this weather. The yorkies are freezing.

Author: Catherine Crier

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

Author: Quentin Crisp

The Professional Children's School, it's for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn't really like school all that much.

Author: Kieran Culkin

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.

Author: Roald Dahl

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Author: Clarence Darrow

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Author: Clarence Darrow

My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish.

Author: Henry Darrow

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

Author: Charles Darwin

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

Author: Doris Day

You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road.

Author: John Deacon

I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children.

Author: Alain Delon

And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done.

Author: William Devane

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.

Author: Princess Diana

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

Author: Princess Diana

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

Author: Princess Diana

I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.

Author: Kate DiCamillo

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

Author: Kate DiCamillo

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

Author: Kate DiCamillo

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

Author: Kate DiCamillo

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.

Author: Charles Dickens