Children Quotes

• Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Opportunity

• Woe to that land that's governed by a child.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Politics
  • Land
  • Maxims

• I never went to church as a child. I did not .

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Children
  • Church

• My big chip is that I never had an education. I wanted my children to get one so they didn't fall into the same trap as me.

  

  Alison Moyet
  • Children
  • Education
  • Fall

• We have thought that because children are young they are silly. We have forgotten the blind stirrings, the reaching outward of our own youth.

  

  Mabel Robinson
  • Children
  • Silly

• I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we're still paying for it.

  

  Blythe Danner
  • Time
  • Children

• We’re not going to allow gay people to adopt children, that’s against nature, it’s against nature’s God.

  

  William Anthony Donohue
  • People
  • Children
  • Gay

• Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear... Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Children

• I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

  

  Delloreese Patricia Early
  • Children
  • Book

• Avoid fancy words....If you admire fancy words, if every sky is beauteous, every blonde curvaceous, every intelligent child prodigious, if you are tickled by discombobulate, you will have bad time Reminder 14.

  

  William Strunk, Jr.
  • Intelligent
  • Blonde
  • Admire

• There must be a seed of every good thing in the character of men, otherwise no one can bring it out. Lacking that, analogous motives, honor, etc., are substituted. Parents are in the habit of looking out for the inclinations, for the talents and dexterity, perhaps for the disposition of their children, and not at all for their heart or character.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Good
  • Men
  • Heart

• I don't see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Children
  • Holding
  • Couples

• I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Children
  • Silence
  • Cold

• I want my children and my grandchildren to live in a world with clean air, pure drinking water, and an abundance of wildlife, so I've chosen to dedicate my life to wildlife conservation so I can make the world just a little bit better.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I'll take that chance! Violent films don't turn children into violent people. They may turn them into violent filmmakers but that's another matter altogether.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I've always been willing to take challenges, I grew up taking challenges: being an only child, having a mother, no father, I've always been one who has always done things the way I thought they should be done and not, and not having to answer to anybody for it and I've always taken my own chances and I've always followed by instincts according, mother would follow, follow wit, instincts, wisdom, whatever, always followed that.

  

  Teddy Pendergrass
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Taken

• All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.

  

  Duane Michals
  • Good
  • Children

• It puts a smile on my face to see all the children, and all the teenagers, and the adults - the demographics - it makes my heart very, very happy. I love them. I love all the fans, very much.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Smile
  • Face
  • Teenagers

• Thank God I didn't have my children until I was a little bit older.

  

  Lauren Holly
  • God
  • Children

• With regard to my family as I said nothing upon the subject before I may tell you that I have six children living, 1 dead and before I have the pleasure of seeing you I expect another.

  

  John Hawley
  • Children
  • Family
  • May

• I love 'Child's Play 2!' I love Don Mancini. That movie has a great theme: You better listen to children. That's why I wanted to do it. I was scared to do a horror movie - a blatant studio horror movie - but I liked the script, and I thought that was such an important theme because I don't think adults listen to children enough.

  

  Beth Grant
  • Great
  • Important
  • Why

• They say that Grandma Moses had several canvases going at the same time. Maybe it was a way for her to catch up with the time she missed while raising children and tending the farm. Like Grandma, I tend to have more than one poem or fiction going at a time. For me, it's just the way I think.

  

  Marge Simon
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.

  

  Donald Cram
  • Time
  • College
  • Decision

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