Children Quotes
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Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
Mary Ellen Chase
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I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when I was as young as five or six. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model.
C. Everett Koop
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Maybe the wealth we wanted as children is this, I thought: not strongboxes full of diamonds and gold coins but a bathtub, to immerse yourself like this every day, to eat bread, salami, prosciutto, to have a lot of space even in the bathroom, to have a telephone, a pantry and icebox full of food, a photograph in a silver frame on the sideboard that shows you in your wedding dress—to have this entire house, with the kitchen, the bedroom, the dining room, the two balconies, and the little room where I am studying, and where, even though Lila hasn’t said so, soon, when it comes, a baby will sleep.
Elena Ferrante
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Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.
Plutarch
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Our journey is not complete until all our children... know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm.
Barack Obama
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I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.
Travis Barker
Blink-182
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The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.
Louis Garrel
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Single mothers have as much to teach their children as married mothers and as much love to share--maybe more. Yet their motives are often labeled selfish and single-minded--never mind all the babies brought into the world to snag husbands, "save" faltering marriages or produce heirs.
Anne Cassidy
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As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.
Nan Goldin
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
Honore de Balzac
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Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.
Queen Victoria
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There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.
Marianne Williamson
