Children Quotes
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I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.
Saoirse Ronan
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Today, I would like you to pause, ponder, and think of the value of an immortal soul, especially the ones entrusted to you as parents. Where are your priorities? Have you committed yourself to give the sufficient time necessary to train your children?
L. Tom Perry
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I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn't you suffer? I do! Will you forget me? Will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say twenty years hence, "That's the grave of Catherine Earnshaw? I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I've loved many others since: my children are dearer to me than she was; and, at death, I shall not rejoice that I am going to her: I shall be sorry that I must leave them!" Will you say so, Heathcliff?
Emily Bronte
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Men want children later, but women can't rely on being able to. So I'm all for scientific advances and the help they can give people.
Mariella Frostrup
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Well, I know that 500,000 children died in Iraq because of the embargo.
Jacques Verges
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How on earth do people imagine we equip children for life if we never show them the sorts of issues other people encounter, if we never talk through with them how they might deal with difficulty or violence or unexpected shocks and surprises?
Margo Lanagan
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Pretty much all children are helpful to act with; they lack any guile when they act.
Mark Rylance
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The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.
Lewis H. Lapham
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It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
George Washington
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I want to personally thank all the participants in this outing for providing a record amount of support to benefit children in need.
Bob Kaufman
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I wouldn't want to go back over my life. I've done it all. I wouldn't have wanted to miss the Marine Corps. I wouldn't have wanted to miss the war. I wouldn't have missed college. Or playin' for the Colts. I got all the money I need. Five children. I got a truck. I have no regrets whatsoever.
Art Donovan
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We need to do everything we can to protect the health and welfare of children around the world, but fortunately, it's getting easier to provide things like medication and care.
Alek Wek
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Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.
James Dyson
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You know what we can be like: see a guy and think he's cute one minute, the next minute our brains have us married with kids, the following minute we see him having an extramarital affair. By the time someone says, 'I'd like you to meet Cecil,' we shout, 'You're late again with the child support!'
Cynthia Heimel
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I've got one young family by the first wife, with four children.
Merle Haggard
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How, frequently, some murder'd man appear'd, To tell his wife and children who had done it.
Bill Vaughan
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Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.
Wess Stafford
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Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.
John Wilmot
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I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.
Jeanette Winterson
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At first, I didn't hang out with celebrity kids. That wasn't the way I was brought up. I went to a run-of-the-mill Catholic primary school when we first moved to L.A. But then I went to a high school where there were lots of 'industry' children. Those weren't my best friends and I've never set out to make myself a part of that scene.
Lily Collins
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Our generation, and that of our children, will face its share of crises, just like every generation in the past. When those calls come, will you be ready? The answer depends on how we educate the next generation.
Oliver DeMille
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No, I'm not adopting any children.
Jennifer Aniston
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Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
J. C. Ryle