Children Quotes
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In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.
Kelly Lynch
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What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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I write pretty much when I can. I used to be very particular about needing certain conditions for writing, but when I had children, I discovered that I was a lot more flexible than I thought.
Ann Packer
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I love waking up in my home and being with my children and my husband. And I get an enormous amount of satisfaction out of my work. I really love working. I said it: I love working. It really grounds me, and I like helping people.
Marne Levine
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How do children learn to correct their mistakes? By watching how you correct yours. How do children learn to overcome their failures? By watching how you overcome yours. How do children learn to treat themselves with forgiveness? By watching you forgive yourself.
William Martin
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Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.
C. S. Lewis
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Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.
Gene Hackman
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We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.
Jayne Mansfield
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You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is to have children, lose children, get married, struggle to make a living and so on.
Simon Callow
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I completely appreciate the importance of fathers but millions of children are without loving homes. I think a child is lucky with one parent who truly loves her.
Jillian Michaels
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If, like me, nothing is more important to you than our children's future, then their opportunities must be protected.
Andrew Lansley
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I don't even like sitting in a taxi or on the tube when I've got a nicely ironed shirt on - I can feel the creases starting. I was taught to iron in the children's home I lived in - along with mopping, sweeping, and washing up. If you iron a shirt in order - collar, cuffs, yoke, sleeves and then body - it comes out all neat and gorgeous.
Neil Morrissey
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I want to leave an album behind that is classic, that people in 50 years will refer to and pass on to their children. An album that you never bored of.
Adele
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Being mothers, we try to stay home as much as possible and attend to the children.
Nancy Wilson Heart
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Our children need our presence, not our presents.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The things we do to our children - most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but with the best intentions ever.
Katherine Dunn
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Children and fooles can not ly.
John Heywood
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I am in charity, my children, with all the servants of God.
Caedmon
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Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and increasingly get scurvy and rickets, diseases we thought were left behind in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Mark Hyman
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The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been clear that deporting young people who have lived in the U.S. for years and were brought here through no fault of their own as children should not be the targets of deportation.
Luis Gutierrez
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Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.
Corrie Ten Boom
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I do love children, but I don't really talk about that in auditions.
Emilie de Ravin
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Revelation is communication from God to His children on the earth and one of the great blessings associated with the gift and constant companionship of the Holy Ghost.
David A. Bednar
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In great states, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents wanting to make men and women of them. In vile states, the children are always wanting to be men and women, and the parents to keep them children.
John Ruskin