Children Quotes
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Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.
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Hilary Clinton said you know, it takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village idiot to believe that … it is part of the whole thing of third parties wanting to make decisions for which they pay no price for when they’re wrong.
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[Animals] appreciate others' affection, they also have the sort of ability to show their own affection. And then as soon as we're born, child, no religious faith.
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I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.
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My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
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The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
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Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.
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I had a fantasy as a child that I might be a writer someday. I always thought that meant you went to New York or Paris. But after that intense summer, I never thought that I wanted to live any place but Chicago. It also made me see what the stakes were in the civil rights movement. And it made me see what real hatred was like and the forms that it took. But it also made me understand how powerless ordinary people feel in their lives.
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If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
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I have a hard time with people who say they write for children but they don't really like children. I love children. I love talking with them.
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The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty or thirty thousand natives died of hunger, some mothers even killing their own children and eating them.
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There is a war on men, and feminists are very open about it. They don't conceal it; they brag about it. You read all of their material – they're always saying they want to abolish the patriarchy. They said that husbands are not necessary in a marriage, they're not necessary in raising children.
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I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
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I'm addicted to routine. I don't know if that's because I moved around so much as child - by the time I was 12 years old, I had lived in about 10 different places. But I like going to the theater at a certain time.
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In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.
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From the earliest days, we knew that it was not possible to do good work with the little children without the help of their parents.
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That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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Pledge to ask if there is a gun where your kid visits or plays. Pledge to protect your children from harm's way.
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When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop him hollering. As long as you go on telling him a story, he will listen. Novelists who neglect this fundamental effect do so at their peril. They become what is known as the experimental novelist, and an experimental novel is not really a novel at all.
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With confidence we testify that the Atonement of Jesus Christ has anticipated and, in the end, will compensate all deprivation and loss for those who turn to Him. No one is predestined to receive less than all that the Father has for His children.
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What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them.
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I've never once resented the fact that I couldn't go out because of my kids.
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Dogs aren't born knowing what or what not to do; they only learn like children.
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When children do not have three square meals a day, a proper education, and at least one adult who they know loves and is committed to them, its very unlikely they will grow up to be productive citizens of the world.
