Children Quotes

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program.

Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

All of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life.

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.

My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.

I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'.

My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many times. Orton is a gem on the Cape Fear River and I am excited about our restoration efforts to bring it back to its original landscape.

Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.

I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.

No one chooses to raise children alone.

It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.

Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.

I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.

You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.

When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discovering I was riddled with lice. That used to happen very, very regularly. I used to get headlice all the time.

I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long.

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves.

All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners.

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Every man should see the birth of his children.

I find writing for children much easier. I don't mean it's less demanding - you've got to have a talent for it and you've got to work very hard - but you don't have to pull your guts out and lay them on the line in quite the same way as when you're writing for adults.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

Children make your life important.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.