Children Quotes

• Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere; and somewhere hearts are light; And somewhere men are laughing; and little children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville- great Casey has struck out.

  

  Ernest Lawrence
  • Heart
  • Sports
  • Laughing

• If you import a commercial quantity of illegal drugs, it is because you have made the personal decision that you are prepared to get rich by destroying our children. I have made the decision that I love our children enough that we will kill you if you do this.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Children
  • Decision

• Remember that you are not called to produce successful, upwardly mobile, highly educated, athletically talented machines...Givi ng your children great opportunities is good; it is not, however, the goal of parenting. Christlikeness is. Above all, seek to raise children who look and act a lot like Jesus.

  

  Chip Ingram
  • Giving
  • Opportunities
  • Parenting

• You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for 'The Lion King' a year in advance, and essentially a family comes as if to a picnic, and they pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is - a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar. We live in a recycled culture.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Culture
  • Kind
  • Theatre

• I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • People
  • Wife
  • Hurt

• The genius is childlike. Like children he looks into the world as into a new creation and finds there a perennial source of wonder and delight.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • World
  • Children
  • Wonder

• If we push for the children to know tennis, they have the chance to like it.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Children
  • Tennis

• I'm convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.

  

  Shakira
  • Children
  • Intelligent

• The lizard dragged the priest’s body back to her nest, and her children feasted very well. As for the rifle, it lay in the grass where Father Gomez had laid it down, quietly turning to rust.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Children
  • Father

• It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.

  

  Joycelyn Elders
  • Children
  • School
  • Gun

• Children are resilient and strong with powerful spirits.

  

  Rhea Perlman
  • Children
  • Strong
  • Powerful

• Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Children
  • Vote
  • Lobby

• Children are becoming disobedient... why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations.

  

  Cesar Millan
  • Boundaries
  • Limitations
  • Lack

• Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

  

  Ernest Dimnet
  • Children
  • Educate

• Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Poor
  • Homeless
  • Desperate

• From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.

  

  William James
  • Teacher
  • Philosophy
  • Educational

• A lot of times I play the villain or the comic relief, and I get to kind of play the comic relief to a degree, which is fun, but I also get to say, "You are created in the image in God. You are a perfect child of God. And this part of you is the heart of who you are. You're not alone, and you're okay just the way you are."

  

  Missi Pyle
  • Heart
  • Perfect
  • Comic

• We only work… the most I ever work is three days a week. Very rare that I will work four. If I’'m involved in a scenario where they need me to be in it, I don'’t mind. They always work around my children’s schedule, their sports, and stuff like that. That’s been very important to me.

  

  Ric Flair
  • Important
  • Involved
  • Schedules

• If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Children
  • Create

• Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

  

  Rudolph A. Marcus
  • Children
  • Parent

• We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.

  

  Amilcar Cabral
  • Children
  • Act
  • Answer

• I didn't marry. I didn't have children. I followed the food supply for jobs. I kept writing at night. And that kept me moving. It kept my life disruptive. It broke up many relationships. Was it worth it? Yes.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Writing
  • Night
  • Moving

• I believe that hunger for a 'lost dimension' of experience is a natural yearning in all of us, and it doesn't go away just because we ignore it. It is evidenced among other places in the millions of children and adults who obsessively read the 'Harry Potter' books. It is said that fiction is where someone gets to tell the truth.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Truth

• We'd be really screwed if we had to start our life over again as children with our brains right now, because I think we lose the plasticity and flexibility.

  

  Paul Bloom
  • Life
  • Children

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