Children Quotes
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I mean that's really depressing man. Of course, the kids are freaking out. They watch cartoons and sit in front of the television and their parents are just probably yuppies who focus their entire lives around the child. The child has no sense of context, no sense of what world they are inhabiting-just like this Disnified bag of Cheerios reality. Don't give them a @#$%& pill! God! Take them out on a canoe already! You know what I mean?
Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
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There were always other children in our house, even though I'm an only child - there were always these other kids coming by.
Jeryl Prescott
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Jesus loves me! This I know As He loved so long ago Taking children on His knee Saying, Let them come to Me.
Anna Bartlett Warner
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You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.
Dudley Nichols
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I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.
Adrian Anthony Gill
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[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?
Joan Fontaine
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Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.
Clayton Christensen
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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
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That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity.
Joe Nichols
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If today is Children's Day, yesterday I said that child... the children's day is mother's day, father's day and teachers' day, but is also the day of the animals. Whenever you look at a child, there is always a hidden figure, which is a dog behind, which is something very important.
Dilma Rousseff
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You can't have nine children and not be organized. Otherwise it just looks like Appalachia.
Danielle Steel
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Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll
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My riches are my family and my foster children. I try to store any material wealth in my hand, not my heart, so that I always feel free to give it away when the opportunity arises.
S. Truett Cathy
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Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.
Whitney Houston
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I grew up during apartheid; there was never a day in South Africa that was just great. I love that I've had success as an actor and producer, but I know the thing my children will know most about is the work I've done with HIV. Success in life is all about humanity.
Charlize Theron
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I don't think I'm yet peaceful because I have to struggle every day within myself when I see the suffering of the people of the world, the women and the children. And fury sets in. But I have to transform that and take it out and do something positive with it - but I have to do that sometimes minute to minute.
Betty Williams
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In the past, I never gave money to my children when they were young in return for nothing. When one of them approached me to give them cash, I asked them to do some work in exchange for it.
Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
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Spending time with Mexican-born writer and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, you'd never guess that he's the filmmaker behind a series of movies known as the 'Death Trilogy.' The way he dotes on his children and talks about his wife makes it clear that he has a crackling passion for life.
Elvis Mitchell
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Next he will be foxtrotting down to the Tory party's fundraising ball, auctioning City internships for the children of the highest bidder. Is that not the Government's idea of social mobility?
Harriet Harman
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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
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It turns out that justices are also God’s children; and being of this world, their makeup consists of actual flesh and blood. They are no more noble or virtuous than the rest of us, and in some cases less so, as they suffer from the usual human imperfections and frailties. And the Court’s history proves it.
Mark Levin
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Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
Phyllis Diller
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What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.
Maurice Sendak