300 Quotes on Children

• To heal the world, we must start by healing our children.

  Author: King of Pop - Michael Jackson

• A baby is a little bit of heaven sent down to earth.

  Author: Sandra Mitchell

• I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.

  Author: Edward Zwick

• One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.

  Author: Daphne Zuniga

• I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children.

  Author: Daphne Zuniga

• Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• All of a sudden I had a baby, because it went really quick. It was like, 'Oh! I have a baby!' So, it's great. I'm just having a great time with my children. They're here in New York with me.

  Author: Catherine Zeta-Jones

• I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children.

  Author: Steve Yzerman

• We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

  Author: Brigham Young

• My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

  Author: Andrew Young

• The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.

  Author: Anzia Yezierska

• Now I'm starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children.

  Author: Paula Yates

• I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.

  Author: Brock Yates

• Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

  Author: Francis Xavier

• 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.

  Author: Lois Wyse

• The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children.

  Author: Teresa Wright

• I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

  Author: Steven Wright

• Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

  Author: Frank Wright

• My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

  Author: Fay Wray

• 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.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• You help families focus on the future through their children.

  Author: Sam Worthington

• My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from her.

  Author: Joanne Woodward

• Good mothers know that their relationship with each of their children is like a movable feast, constantly changing and evolving.

  Author: Sue Woodman

• Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.

  Author: Natalie Wood

• I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.

  Author: Natalie Wood

• Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.

  Author: James Wolfensohn

• I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them.

  Author: Gene Wolfe

• 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.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.

  Author: John Wise

• I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

  Author: Jeanette Winterson

• The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.

  Author: Kate Winslet

• Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases.

  Author: Henry Winkler

• That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you heard Howard Cunningham talking to Marian about shopping? Too many.

  Author: Henry Winkler

• Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it.

  Author: Paul Winchell

• Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.

  Author: April Winchell

• There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

  Author: Sloan Wilson

• I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a lot of people who write for children can remember their own childhoods vividly and I can remember my childhood very vividly.

  Author: Eric Wilson

• Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

  Author: John Wilmot

• Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.

  Author: John Wilmot

• I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.

  Author: Thomas Willis

• Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.

  Author: Bruce Willis

• My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful.

  Author: Treat Williams

• Well, I've got two small children and this is a very important time for me to be around them.

  Author: Treat Williams

• I have a beautiful wife and two beautiful children, and every day I am paid to do what I love.

  Author: Treat Williams

• We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

  Author: Shirley Williams

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

  Author: Brian Williams

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

  Author: Bert Williams

• I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?

  Author: Barry Williams

• Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

  Author: Andy Williams

• Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.

  Author: David Wilkerson

• Gwen and I have four children and ten grandchildren.

  Author: David Wilkerson

• The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.

  Author: Andrew Wiles

• Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.

  Author: Thornton Wilder

• Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

  Author: Thornton Wilder

• Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

  Author: Meg Whitman

• Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

  Author: Katherine Whitehorn

• The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

  Author: Katherine Whitehorn

• We've already recognized that it is absolutely essential for British children to learn other languages and we will be working hard to put further strategies in place to ensure this.

  Author: John Whitehead

• The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand.

  Author: John Whitehead

• 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.

  Author: George Whitefield

• 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.

  Author: George Whitefield

• When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.

  Author: George Whitefield

• I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.

  Author: Wayne White

• A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

  Author: Richard Whately

• Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

  Author: Jessamyn West

• I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.

  Author: Mary Wesley

• It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.

  Author: Mary Wesley

• We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

  Author: Mary Wesley

• Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

  Author: Mary Wesley

• I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.

  Author: Ida Wells

• We should not have our children going to school to learn how to become obese.

  Author: Jeanne Welles

• Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

  Author: Fay Weldon

• We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

  Author: Fay Weldon

• Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive or don't.

  Author: Bernice Weissbourd

• We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.

  Author: Randi Weingarten

• Our company is working with Disney to create a game for children between the ages of maybe four and 12, so we can teach them what the capitalist system is all about.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• The laws of this world are for children.

  Author: Frank Wedekind

• In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

  Author: Noah Webster

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

  Author: Andrew Webber

• We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.

  Author: Damon Wayans

• 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.

  Author: Gerard Way

• Money does not motivate me as long as I can provide for my children.

  Author: Steve Waugh

• My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

  Author: Evelyn Waugh

• We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children.

  Author: Diane Watson

• I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding.

  Author: Stand Watie

• Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

  Author: Wendy Wasserstein

• There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.

  Author: Rick Warren

• 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.

  Author: Earl Warren

• As they work hard for our children, America's teachers often reach into their own pockets to make sure they have the best classroom supplies. I feel strongly that the federal government should help make up for their personal financial burden.

  Author: John Warner

• Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children.

  Author: Chris Ware

• Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

  Author: Mary Ward

• Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.

  Author: Burt Ward

• I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child.

  Author: Burt Ward

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

  Author: Burt Ward

• I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point.

  Author: Patrick Warburton

• Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

  Author: Julie Walters

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

  Author: John Walters

• Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

  Author: Barbara Walters

• Adam's abduction was our private hell - but it was not an isolated incident. On any given day, any number of children are absent from their homes for diverse and numerous reasons.

  Author: John Walsh

• 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.

  Author: James Walsh

• The Children's Safety Act will help protect children from the perpetrators of these vile crimes by strengthening notification requirements for sex offenders and increasing criminal penalties.

  Author: James Walsh

• We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question.

  Author: Jim Wallis

• We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.

  Author: Jim Wallis

• It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.

  Author: Alice Walker

• Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

  Author: Denis Waitley

• The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

  Author: Denis Waitley

• The world today is changing rapidly, and we are helping to make it better for our children's future.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

  Author: Peter Vries

• 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.

  Author: Peter Vries

• The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

  Author: Peter Vries

• Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.

  Author: Claude Vorilhon

• I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.

  Author: George Voinovich

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

  Author: A. Vogt

• My father loved people, children and pets.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

  Author: Judith Viorst

• We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.

  Author: Judith Viorst

• You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

  Author: Judith Viorst

• It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.

  Author: Troy Vincent

• Never have children, only grandchildren.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• Well, I know that 500,000 children died in Iraq because of the embargo.

  Author: Jacques Verges

• When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I realised that confidence and a bit of aesthetic care can overcome that.

  Author: Johnny Vegas

• In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.

  Author: Giorgio Vasari

• All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps.

  Author: Ninette Valois

• Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.

  Author: Andrew Vachss

• I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

  Author: John Updike

• The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

  Author: John Updike

• All children have creative power.

  Author: Brenda Ueland

• I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

  Author: Mark Udall

• 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.

  Author: Sun Tzu

• 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.

  Author: Mike Tyson

• Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.

  Author: Edward Tylor

• I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing with no lines. I was beat after that storyline.

  Author: Hunter Tylo

• I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.

  Author: Steven Tyler

• I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people who bought my records then are married now and they probably still play these records and their children like them.

  Author: Bonnie Tyler

• I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

  Author: Anne Tyler

• It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

  Author: Anne Tyler

• The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

  Author: Mark Twain

• Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

  Author: Mark Twain

• 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.

  Author: Desmond Tutu

• What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is love out there for them- God's love.

  Author: Janine Turner

• I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

  Author: Ivan Turgenev

• That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.

  Author: Charles Tupper

• In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• 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.

  Author: Paul Tsongas

• The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

  Author: Harry Truman

• 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.

  Author: Harry Truman

• If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.

  Author: Lee Trevino

• 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.

  Author: Brian Tracy

• 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.

  Author: Aiden Tozer

• There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

  Author: Polly Toynbee

• But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I don't remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it.

  Author: Robert Towne

• The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

  Author: Linus Torvalds

• As people grow up and they want more freedom, it's on an individual basis, children want to have more freedom, you've got to allow that, so how do you balance it. I would say let it evolve, move as quickly or slowly as people would like to move.

  Author: Goh Tong

• I'm a married man and I've got two children, and you have to do sacrifices.

  Author: Glenn Tipton

• I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

  Author: Meg Tilly

• I know that in order to be considered successful, you're supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.

  Author: Meg Tilly

• It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years.

  Author: Meg Tilly

• Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• No, but women are saying, and they say, are you crazy? But because they've had children since they were 20 years old. I haven't. So I had a child when I was 43, and now he's really out with his friends.

  Author: Cheryl Tiegs

• The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

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

  Author: James Thurber

• The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

  Author: Mac Thornberry

• All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.

  Author: Mike Thompson

• For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.

  Author: Fred Thompson

• Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

  Author: Emma Thompson

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

  Author: Emma Thompson

• It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving great technical expertise sometimes, but you can tell that they have been told only to play happy pleasant music.

  Author: Michael Thomas

• As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.

  Author: Marlo Thomas

• 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.

  Author: Helen Thomas

• As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.

  Author: Alan Thicke

• With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.

  Author: Twyla Tharp

• Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

  Author: William Thackeray

• What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?

  Author: Randall Terry

• Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.

  Author: Mary Terrell

• Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

  Author: Terence

• Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

  Author: John Templeton

• He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

  Author: Jeremy Taylor

• On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?

  Author: Sharon Tate

• I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

  Author: Donna Tartt

• I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

  Author: Donna Tartt

• Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.

  Author: Donna Tartt

• Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.

  Author: Donna Tartt

• Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.

  Author: Donna Tartt

• Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.

  Author: James Talent

• From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

  Author: Rabindranath Tagore

• We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed.

  Author: Bob Taft

• 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.

  Author: Thomas Szasz

• Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

  Author: Thomas Szasz

• The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark.

  Author: Max Sydow

• There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all.

  Author: Max Sydow

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

  Author: Charles Swindoll

• Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

  Author: Jonathan Swift

• Books, the children of the brain.

  Author: Jonathan Swift

• Children learn to smile from their parents.

  Author: Shinichi Suzuki

• Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

  Author: John Sununu

• For my children, it makes sense to talk about modernizing Social Security, letting them create stronger personal accounts, letting them get a higher rate of return over the long run.

  Author: John Sununu

• South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk.

  Author: Kim sung

• We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

  Author: Patricia Sun

• Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

  Author: Anne Sullivan

• It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

  Author: Anne Sullivan

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

  Author: Jock Sturges

• I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.

  Author: Jock Sturges

• And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.

  Author: Mark Strong

• I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

  Author: Meryl Streep

• I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

  Author: Meryl Streep

• Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.

  Author: Meryl Streep

• Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

  Author: Meryl Streep

• It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

  Author: Meryl Streep

• People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

  Author: Meryl Streep

• My music is best understood by children and animals.

  Author: Igor Stravinsky

• Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.

  Author: Peter Straub

• 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.

  Author: Harriet Stowe

• When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'

  Author: Sharon Stone

• What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.

  Author: Carl Stokes

• My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.

  Author: Dean Stockwell

• I started at a very early age in this business and I'm sure most of you have read stories about people who have started as children and ended up in very difficult lives and bad consequences.

  Author: Dean Stockwell

• I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

  Author: Sting

• I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

  Author: Sting

• I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

  Author: Andrew Still

• I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.

  Author: Payne Stewart

• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  Author: Parker Stevenson

• 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.

  Author: Anne Stevenson

• Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.

  Author: Thaddeus Stevens

• Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

  Author: Gloria Steinem

• Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.

  Author: Gloria Steinem

• 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.

  Author: Gloria Steinem

• If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.

  Author: Gloria Steinem

• In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

  Author: Jack Steinberger

• In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

  Author: Jack Steinberger

• Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

  Author: William Steig

• I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella.

  Author: Gwen Stefani

• I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified!

  Author: Danielle Steel

• The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.

  Author: Danielle Steel

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

  Author: Cliff Stearns

• We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat.

  Author: Ringo Starr

• To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.

  Author: Willie Stargell

• The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.

  Author: Henry Stanley

• 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.

  Author: Philip Stanhope

• We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children.

  Author: Robert Stack

• Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.

  Author: Debbie Stabenow

• 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.

  Author: Charles Spurgeon

• I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact that we are taking the tab for defense in our time against terrorists in the Middle East and elsewhere and shoving this tab off onto our children.

  Author: John Spratt

• What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt.

  Author: John Spratt

• Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

  Author: Benjamin Spock

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

  Author: Benjamin Spock

• 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.

  Author: Benjamin Spock

• What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

  Author: Benjamin Spock

• Different parents have different standards for their children.

  Author: Penelope Spheeris

• In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here.

  Author: Penelope Spheeris

• Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.

  Author: Catherine Spence

• And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.

  Author: Margaret Spellings

• And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

  Author: Margaret Spellings

• I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to court, and I was never able to get a project going.

  Author: Ronnie Spector

• I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.

  Author: Nicholas Sparks

• I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

  Author: David Soul

• But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

  Author: Sophocles

• There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.

  Author: Barry Sonnenfeld

• I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.

  Author: James Somerville

• I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

  Author: Will Smith

• I dropped to the lowest point when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without me.

  Author: Susan Smith

• I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I had to end our lives to protect us from any grief or harm.

  Author: Susan Smith

• I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!

  Author: Susan Smith

• My children deserve to have the best, and now they will.

  Author: Susan Smith

• The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive.

  Author: Susan Smith

• My children, Michael and Alex, are with our Heavenly Father now, and I know that they will never be hurt again. As a mom, that means more than words could ever say.

  Author: Susan Smith

• We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

  Author: Roy Smith

• We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.

  Author: L. Smith

• Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career.

  Author: Jada Smith

• We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.

  Author: Jada Smith

• Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

  Author: Jaclyn Smith

• If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them.

  Author: Ian Smith

• That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

  Author: Iain Smith

• We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable - greater retirement security for ourselves and our children.

  Author: Gordon Smith

• Everything has gotten vulgar and out of line for children to watch. It's more of a swearing match.

  Author: Bubba Smith

• We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

  Author: Yakov Smirnoff

• I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

  Author: Jane Smiley

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

  Author: Agnes Smedley

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