Children Quotes
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It seems like I don't have a lot of time for all the things I need to do. I'm spreading myself fairly thin. I have responsibilities to my children. I have a big staff that works for me. And when you have a staff, and I'm sure you know this, you're always concerned with everybody's life all the time.
Diana Ross
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Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint for the sake of the nation as a whole. We need a new era of fiscal sanity. I am not willing to subject my children and grandchildren to the level of debt that Congress has created.
John Ensign
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My dong is super-friendly and loves getting rubbed by children. #CareerEndingTwitterTypos
Patton Oswalt
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There's no question that we have great value on the sanctity of the family, and there are a lot of competing visions about exactly how we teach a set of values and we teach skills to our children, especially in the early years when they're really forming their personalities, their personas, really.
James Heckman
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I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.
W. S. Gilbert
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You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire
Colm O'Rourke
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I care about climate change because of our children. I want to safeguard their future.
Cate Blanchett
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If you're a parent, love your children. If you're married, honor your spouse instead of looking on the Internet for love in all the wrong places. I'm talking about real relationships, not false intimacies.
Paloma Ayana Stoecker
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I say legalize marijuana because we have a chance to leave this world a better place for our children. Marijuana legalization is job creation, tax dollars, something to rejuvenate our pathetic economy. This is a multibillion-dollar industry. This is about jobs; this is about economics; this is about freedom. This is about taking our country back.
Jesse Ventura
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If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I find it disturbing that men who are products of highly developed economies come to a developing nation solely to exploit their women and their children.
Mechai Viravaidya
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In your time, politicians win points in the polls for proposing to punish unmarried teenaged mothers like me, not to mention our children.
Elizabeth Cunningham
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Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.
James Buchan
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We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.
Ricardo Lagos
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And in that far distant day when the gods become wholly beautiful, or we at last are shown how beautiful they always were, this will happen more and more. For mortals, as you said, will become more and more jealous. And mother and wife and child and friend will all be in league to keep a soul from being united with the Divine Nature.
C. S. Lewis
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When I look around me, I see mostly women who are alone, left by their husbands after their kids grew up, for a younger woman, which is the most common thing, or suddenly abandoned after getting married and left with young children.
Dacia Maraini
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The institution of marriage should be re-examined because of its overwhelming claustrophobia. The odds are stacked against spontaneity and effervescence. It's an institution that was brought about for the sake of family and children, but biologically, it's very unnatural. It's masochism and torture the way it's been organized.
Peter Beard
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Learning itself, received into a mind By nature weak, or viciously inclined, Serves but to lead philosophers astray, Where children would with ease discern the way.
William Cowper
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It's not that I want to break down the public schools, ... I want to improve them for every child, but my children needed to be educated right now.
Margaret Young
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Listen to your child enough and you will come to realize that he or she is quite an extraordinary individual. And the more extraordinary you realize your child to be the more you will be willing to listen. And the more you will learn.
M. Scott Peck
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As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.
Maurissa Tancharoen
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A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.
H. G. Wells
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If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.
Ken Robinson
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It is so important that we get children thinking about these issues at an early age. It won't be long before those kids grow up. They'll be our new leaders.
Charles Alfred Leavell The Allman Brothers Band