Children Quotes
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Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
Ernest Istook
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Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.
Marilyn Monroe
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It's important to let children fly on their own. I understood that they needed to create their own life and not be my shadow. Let them make their own decisions, and support them along the way.
Lidia Bastianich
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I was the second oldest of seven children, and chores were a way of life for us. If your task wasn't completed, you were called right back to finish it.
Ann Dowd
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In response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Theresa replied, 'Go home and love your children.
Mother Teresa
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What I have learned from the teachers with whom I have worked is that, just as there is no simple solution to the arms race, there is no simple answer to how to work with children in the classroom. It is a matter of being present as a whole person, with your own thoughts and feelings, and of accepting children as whole people, with their own thoughts and feelings. It's a matter of working very hard to find out what those thoughts and feelings are, as a starting point for developing a view of a world in which people are as much concerned about other people security as they are about their own.
Eleanor Duckworth
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The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a decent education?
Thomas Sowell
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The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.
Elliot W. Eisner
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Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
Herbert Spencer
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Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all horrors of the adult world. They know very early on that the world is sometimes a very dark, difficult and complex place, and the literature they read must reflect that. Otherwise we're just entertaining them to pass the time.
Michael Morpurgo
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Whenever one of my children says, 'Goodnight, Daddy,' I always think to myself, 'You don't mean that.
Jim Gaffigan
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I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different. I really felt I didn't fit in. My dad was from the Caribbean, my mum was English, we lived in quite a white area but we were quite poor, but also quite brainy, and I was a really, really skinny child so I felt a bit awkward about all these things.
Corinne Bailey Rae
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My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.
Robin Williams
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Oh, it is sad for a poor Christian to stand at the door of the promise, in the dark night of affliction, afraid to draw the latch, whereas he should then come boldly for shelter as a child into his father's house.
William Gurnall
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Life changes when you have a child, when you have your own family. You become more careful about what you do. You're not going to be out late, going out to clubs, hanging out with your friends. You're going to be at home, taking care of your daughter, playing with her.
Paul Pierce
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She has a little bit of both of us in her, and a little something magical that nobody can take credit for, which I now know is the case with all children, no matter how they come into this world.
Cindy Chupack
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The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within.
Carson Grant
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We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone.
Cate Blanchett
