Children Quotes
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Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older.
Pierre Loti
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Our generation has taken to the cosmetic use of pesticides and I think, perhaps unwittingly, not fully understanding the dangers it represents to ourselves and, most importantly, to our children.
Dalton McGuinty
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The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months, and then I can have six months off.
Gal Gadot
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
Naomi Wolf
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
Hanna Rosin
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A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.
Euripides
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If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy once they graduate - first we must make quality, affordable early childhood education accessible to all.
Kirsten Gillibrand
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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
Florence Henderson
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We are all a sort of camelions, that still take a tincture from things near us; nor is it to be wonder'd at in children, who better understand what they see than what they hear.
John Locke Nazareth
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
Taylor Schilling
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There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.
Jack Straw
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Ogden Nash
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If you have a class of 35 children, and they're all smiling, and there's one little bastard, and he's just staring at you as if to say 'Show me', then he's the one you think about going home on the train.
Frank McCourt
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
Carl Honore
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I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.
Victor Borge
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
Andrew Vachss
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
Kate Winslet
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We can lead this world and make it safer and more secure for our children and our grandchildren, for generations to come.
Barack Obama
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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During the year, our schools are busy slashing P.E. and recess to make more time for math. During the summer, we get ourselves worked into a tizzy that our children will forget their fractions.
Darell Hammond
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I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and princesses, and we played together, as if we had known each other for years.
Max Muller
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Kövecses radiated the sense of self-sufficiency that comes about when there are lots of children in a big house.
Edmund de Waal
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Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.
Zachary Quinto