Children Quotes
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My mom's a children's television writer, so I was involved and around from a very young age. When I was eight, I did my first film with Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown, who are a quite well-respected Australian producer-director duo, and that just changed my whole perspective on what I could do in life and be.
Alycia Debnam-Carey
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You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
Nancy Gibbs
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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My objective is to leave my family adequately catered for, but I want my children to make their own way. I want them to have pride in their own achievements.
John Caudwell
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Mexico has perhaps, in some ways, a good practice, in which it has officials devoted precisely to hold those children, to retain those children that are crossing through our territory, who are coming from Central America.
Enrique Pena Nieto
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
Karl Kraus
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson
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I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.
Alicia Keys
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
Zoe Saldana
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I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where I sang and what I sang and what I wore. I wanted to write a book about an American family, the family that has produced me. The longer I live, the more I realise the incredible support and love we were given as children.
Jessye Norman
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Among my books, the ones that sell best are for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. According to a study by the Association of American Publishers, the largest area of industry growth in 2014 was in the children and young adult category.
Kate Klise
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Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
Mal Peet
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Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults
Olara Otunnu
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I wanna stay an eternal girlfriend. I want to have my boyfriend's children, but I don't think we need a piece of paper to regulate the game, and we don't have to go through the whole stress of a wedding and suffering to throw a good party.
Shakira
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
Eric Lynn Wright
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They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.
Virginia Woolf
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I'm strong and opinionated. Those qualities brought me a lot of problems since I was a little girl in school, saying 'I don't agree' and fighting with the children. It's part of my curiosity for life.
Penelope Cruz
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
Ogden Nash
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Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.
William John Evans
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I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.
Donny Osmond
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I always had cats and animals, so children were never really in my thoughts.
Jacqueline Bisset
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Out of special hatred for our faith, the devil has sent some whores here to destroy our poor young men . . . such a syphilitic whore can poison ten, twenty, thirty or more of the children of good people, and thus is to be considered a murderer, or worse, as a poisoner.
Martin Luther
