Children Quotes
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I was not a very good mother. I was always running out to do a movie or something. If I had to do it over, I would either have a career or children. I wouldn't do both unless I could work in my home. I spent 20 years feeling guilty, which is not a very nice emotion.
Joanne Woodward
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If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers in a garden.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent world.
Betty Williams
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I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance to be a human being, practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they're born. That to me is the greatest sin - that people can - can commit.
Margaret Sanger
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I used to do a Saturday drama group called Young Blood Theatre Company with school-friends in west London - nothing to do with my mum and dad. A casting director came to pick people out for a new BBC children's series called 'MI High.' She picked me, I auditioned, and I got the job.
Bel Powley
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We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children... Where nobody dies... In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest.
Neil Gaiman
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Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.
Mark Haddon
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Not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.
Cornelia Parker
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
Otto von Bismarck
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I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do. Now I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn't otherwise be here.
Angelina Jolie
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I have marvelous dreams! I meet Buddha, I meet Jesus, I meet Mohammed. I constantly dream of space, stars and planets: we are the children of stardust.
Brian Blessed
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I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith
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If I hadn't gone to dancing school, I would have married and had children like my mum and had a normal life.
Jean Simmons
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Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.
William Butler Yeats
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My kids are fanatical about 'Scooby-Doo', and I think that the creators of 'Scooby-Doo' somehow tripped across some kind of magical hypnotic formula that lures children. It's far more fascinating to them than anything else on the air.
Dave Willis
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I've met many young women who are HIV positive and courageously fighting the disease. Their determination to live a full life and see their children live in a better world is deeply inspiring to me.
Alicia Keys
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Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.
Randi Weingarten
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Continue to speak out against all forms of injustice to yourselves and others, and you will set a mighty example for your children and for future generations.
Bernice King
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Wu-Tang is for the children.
Ol' Dirty Bastard
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Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught 'talking Indian' suffered the hideous ordeal of having sewing needles pushed through their tongues.
Ward Churchill
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There is no better gift a society can give children than the opportunity to grow up safe and free - the chance to pursue whatever dreams they may have.
John Roberts
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But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.
Bruno Bauer
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Indeed, the highest honors are those granted by organizations who understand the necessity of providing our nation's children with access to technology in an environment which fosters the type of learning that will lead us into the next century.
John Morgridge
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Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.
Andre Dubus III