Children Quotes
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When you're really famous, there's very little authenticity in people, so you prefer the company of children.
Katherine Ryan
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Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.
Irwin Redlener
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All my children inherited perfect pitch.
Chevy Chase
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As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
Margaret Mead
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Life is always a problem. The fact that I'm on the radio saying that I don't necessarily see hope does not relieve people, does not relieve my son, does not relieve children, of the responsibility to struggle.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.
Gary Numan
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I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with.
Hayao Miyazaki
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
Barack Obama
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Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
Fran Lebowitz
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Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter Scott
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All these children [who did not have music and art classes at school] go out into the world without knowing that there is anything other than what they have. Of course, children do look at TV, but what does it give them?
Bette Midler
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I started working in New York City as an actor and did many plays. I did regional theater, smaller theaters, children's theater.
Christopher Guest
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We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.
Christopher Dodd
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I'm well in touch with my family, my children. I keep them on my answer phone, so if I want to hear one of their voices, all I have to do is punch it up and it will be there.
Davy Jones The Monkees
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It is no coincidence that while some major female artists have married, very few have borne children. The issue is not conservation of energy but imaginative integrity. Art is its own self-swelling, proof that the mind is greater than the body.
Camille Paglia
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I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.
Gary Oldman
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That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to our ancestors. As we voyage we are creating new stories within the tradition of the old stories, we are literally creating a new culture out of the old.
Nainoa Thompson
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I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.
Emo Philips
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However you learn and whatever your circumstances, an education that prepares you for the world is every child's right.
Kandyse McClure
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While the U.S. government is unlikely to ever limit the number of football games, plenty of parents are refusing to let their children play the sport due to the risk of head injuries.
Mary Pilon
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You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
Ellen Goodman
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In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.
Jack Zipes
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When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years. If you are not careful, you can be too absorbed in work, and they will be only too happy to tell you about it later. Being a parent is one of greatest mindfulness practices of all.
Jon Kabat-Zinn