Children Quotes

• The prevailing view was that girls were outside of school because of the resistance of families to their education. But when I visited a local village, what everyone told me - the chiefs, the parents, the children - was that girls weren't in school because it was the boys that had a better chance of getting paid work in the future.

  

  Ann Cotton
  • Work
  • School
  • Future

• A man's mind should be single to the glory of God in everything that he starts to accomplish. We should consider that of ourselves we can do nothing. We are the children of God. We are in darkness, only as God enlightens our understanding. We are powerless, only as God helps us. The work that we have to do here is of that nature that we cannot do it unless we have the assistance of the Almighty.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • Work
  • God
  • Mind

• May God want for man to be able to be a child again to understand that he is mistaken if he thinks he can find happiness with a checkbook.

  

  Facundo Cabral
  • God
  • Men
  • Thinking

• The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it have not accepted the very elementary psychological fact that people (all people, of every age) remember the things that are important to them - the things they need to know - and forget the rest.

  

  Daniel Quinn
  • People
  • Important
  • Libertarian

• One of my concerns for my children is growing up with your parents having a lot of money.

  

  Xochi Birch
  • Up
  • Money
  • Parents

• I'm a children's book writer, and my wife is a musician. We've raised a family on income from songs, performances and books.

  

  Peter Lerangis
  • Family
  • Book
  • Wife

• Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children

• ...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.

  

  Minor White
  • Wonder
  • Photographer
  • Innocence

• Writing children's books all started out as a way for me to give back and make a difference.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • Writing
  • Children

• I think that anyone who denies their heritage doesn't deserve their destiny. My grandmother was a maid. She put nine children - eight of them - through college; I did not finish college.

  

  Nell Carter
  • She
  • College
  • Destiny

• Both parents’ rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Balance

• Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • Men
  • Women
  • Innocent

• I met my wife; she barely owned a television and worked for Save the Children. We sat down one night, and we fell in love, and that was it.

  

  James Corden
  • She
  • Night
  • Wife

• With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • People
  • Night
  • Laughter

• 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
  • Work
  • Children
  • Respect

• We need not only open trading systems, but systems that work for people around the world - taking into account not only the bottom line, but the well-being of working men and women, the protection of children against sweatshop labor, and the protection of the environment.

  

  Al Gore
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• On an altar of prejudice we crucify our own, yet the blood of all children is the color of God.

  

  Don Williams
  • God
  • Prejudice
  • Altar

• I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Important
  • Thought

• When we use punishment, our children are robbed of the opportunity to develop their own inner discipline-the ability to act with integrity, wisdom, compassion, and mercy when there is no external force holding them accountable for what they do.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Opportunity
  • Wisdom
  • Discipline

• I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy.

  

  Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Bitter

• Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of the purest form of play: the unstructured, self-motivated, imaginative, independent kind, where children initiate their own games and even invent their own rules.

  

  David Elkind
  • True
  • Age
  • Independent

• When I think of those in the 'far right' or those who are pro-life to the extreme and at all costs protect the unborn, the thing that enrages me is you want to ask every one of them, 'How many foster children are in your home now?'

  

  Ann Dowd
  • Life
  • Children
  • Home

• I am happy to be patient zero. It is for the world, for the sick children and sick old people. My life has been good. I understand the risks but I research how people die and I am happy to say that today I do not know how I will die now. Tomorrow or in the long future I was up for a change.

  

  Liz Parrish
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• 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
  • Life
  • Educate
  • Honored

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