Top 100 Children Because Quotes
#1. But many researchers operate as if it is their responsibility to demonstrate that video violence has a direct effect on the behaviour of young children, because that will help to explain why society is becoming more violent.
Hugh Mackay
#2. I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
Yehuda Amichai
#3. The person who practices advanced meditation is usually not married, some are. They usually don't have children, some do. But chances are they will not marry or have children because it demands to much time.
Frederick Lenz
#4. I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.
Kailash Satyarthi
#5. Stanley Hauerwas is correct that Judaism insists on the bearing of children because it is essential to Jewish continuity. But to end the matter there is to miss an essential point: if we are to learn to love others, Judaism says, we must begin by loving those who are closest to us.
Meir Soloveichik
#6. So to me, what the drugs and addiction are saying is that I deserve to feel good, I'm allowed to take this because look how I was treated as a child. Our authority figures, particularly our parents are hypnotic. Their words are hypnotic literally to small children because of brain wave patterns.
Bernie Siegel
#7. It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.
Roddy Doyle
#8. Once I showed up at my sister's with a baby rabbit I had bought from some children because its ears were cold. I put the rabbit on a hot water bottle and massaged its ears for quite a while. After all, I knew that all healthy animals had warm ears.
Juliette Gordon Low
#9. I am comfortable around babies and children because I have two of my own.
Clive Owen
#10. We are partners with our children because we are just like them, dearly loved sinners.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#11. I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.
Paul Newman
#12. I stopped drinking when I had children because I wanted to be awake and aware. I did not want to be going, you know, daddy loves you and then drop my head on the table. I do not want to miss anything that they do or say. It is important to me.
Robin Williams
#13. I write a lot about disadvantaged people, particularly vulnerable children, because I feel that that's who I was. That is familiar terrain for me. And I try to write about things that are very close to me because I want people to feel the passion that I have for the subject.
Charles M. Blow
#14. I want to do some things before I have children, because when I have children it's not going to happen. I've done bungee jumping, I've done the running with the bulls, I guess sky diving is the last thing on my list.
Heather Mitts
#15. The best dreams are the ones we have as children because they're most pure.
Gwendolyn Heasley
#16. It would be wonderful if this world was guided by little children, because they are closer to life than anyone else.
Jaggi Vasudev
#17. It's the sacrifice I'm not willing to make right now to leave my children because I felt it wasn't only my choice.
Joan Chen
#18. I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because he was doing it in a sexual manner now that I look back on it.
Tom Cole
#19. Write hand-written notes daily and commit to supporting the growth and self-esteem of children, because it makes such a big difference in terms of their capacity for learning.
Debra Messing
#20. He brought toys to the children because they were little and helpless, and because he loved them.
L. Frank Baum
#21. Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling. You do not collect children because you find them cuter than stamps. It is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in. It is what God gave you time for.
Neil L. Andersen
#22. I know so many women in their 30s who didn't get married, or they did and it didn't work out, or they didn't have children because they were trying to get their careers going, or because they were expected to be independent, plus have a family. They didn't feel secure enough.
Uma Thurman
#23. But by her still halting course and winding, woeful way, you plainly saw that this ship that so wept with spray, still remained without comfort. She was Rachel, weeping for her children, because they were not.
Herman Melville
#24. I love children because that's a part of my life that was so happy, and I like to remember back to those days where everything is a discovery, and the world is so fresh.
Jan Brett
#25. I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens.
Donald Trump
#26. I have a lot of mermaid stuff. I did start collecting a lot before I had children because I didn't know if I would have a boy or a girl. So I saved everything.
Jodi Benson
#27. When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which will be marketed for children, because children understand what their parents have rejected and forgotten.
Madeleine L'Engle
#28. Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small and having a child's need for sleep.
Stefan Zweig
#29. I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.
Betty White
#30. If I had known what it meant to love, I wouldn't have had children, because once we love, we love forever, like Uncle Two's wife, Step-aunt Two, who can't stop loving her gambler son, the son who is burning up the family fortune like a pyromaniac.
Kim Thuy
#31. I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
Dan Marino
#32. Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.
Pete Seeger
#33. I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
Natalie Babbitt
#34. Final things are for children, because infinity scares children, and it is important that children sleep peacefully at night.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#35. Education has the capability of making women better wives and mothers. Since families are the cornerstone of our society, we should strengthen women's abilities to teach their children because then we strengthen our society as a whole.
Jody Hedlund
#36. I have a fantastic team, and it's much easier having children, because that creates a natural limit.
Phoebe Philo
#37. I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.
Audrey Hepburn
#38. I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be nurtured in safety, but I do think it's better to be adopted by blacks.
Kola Boof
#39. It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.
Iain Duncan Smith
#40. I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.
Sue Grafton
#41. I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
Mark Haddon
#42. Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Phyllis Diller
#43. I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.
Colonel Sanders
#44. In a real sense, all of us are "the parents" of all young children - because we help shape the culture and determine its values.
Sydney J. Harris
#45. I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.
Tyler Perry
#46. I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we are never going to bring a child into this wicked world,' but we had children by the dozen and got married.
Doris Lessing
#47. Be the best father you can be to your children. Because nothing is more important.
Barack Obama
#48. I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.
Margaret Wise Brown
#49. Sometimes I think we have children because we want to leave behind someone who can explain who we were to the world when we are gone.
Ayobami Adebayo
#50. Actually, abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children is knowing when it's not a good idea to bring them into the world.
Katha Pollitt
#51. A lot of people think I chose these children because they have problems. That's not true. I chose these children because they touched my heart.
Susan Mallery
#52. I like writing for children because they are not prejudiced against magic.
J.P. Hightman
#53. The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.
Maya Rudolph
#54. I prefer children because they are honest. They don't want anything from you other than to have fun. Adults have let me down. Adults have let the world down.
Michael Jackson
#55. I have never liked the theory that poltergeists only come into houses where there are children, because I think it is simply too much for any one house to have poltergeists and children. - "The Ghosts of Loiret
Ruth Franklin
#56. Jesus does not love any child (young or old) because the child is good. Jesus loves his children because he is good.
Bryan Chapell
#58. We have children because we can't remember our own first taste of ambrosia." I can't
Ken Liu
#59. The reasons why we do the things we do will not always be the ones others will remember. Sometimes I think we have children because we want to leave behind someone who can explain who we were to the world.
Ayobami Adebayo
#60. And two men standing up top, weeping like children because they'd somehow never known the world could get this bad.
Dennis Lehane
#61. I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing.
Minnie Driver
#62. The No. 1 thing that I care about is the fact that I did my job by the children because that has a legacy that will far outlive me. Because it won't only be them, it will be how they impact their children and the next generation.
Michele Bachmann
#63. I feel playful aggression is important for children because they have to deal with all kinds of anger and aggression in their lives.
Brian Sutton-Smith
#64. I'm trying to work out more ways to involve my children, because the way I do stuff is so anti-kid, it's really boring. It's not fun. It is to me, but not to them, because they don't even know what I'm doing.
Aphex Twin
#65. Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children, because they're more certain they are their own.
Greg Iles
#66. It's paradoxical that, when you have better health, families choose to have less children, because they've been having enough children so that they can be sure that a few of them will survive and take care of them. So as health improves, then all the other problems are dramatically easier to tackle.
Bill Gates
#67. But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.
Rick Perry
#68. I don't want to go into a marriage just because of my age - too many people make that mistake. But of course I'd like to be married one day - I dream of having children because I adore kids so, so much.
Shilpa Shetty
#69. It's very difficult to take candid portraits of children because they're moving around all the time.
Ren Ng
#70. I like writing about children because that is a time of life when our perceptions of the world are very intense, and children are so vulnerable to the fortunes of adults
Annie Murray
#71. Alexander assured her, 'Eva, none of us know our children. Because they are not us.
Sue Townsend
#72. We like little children, because they tear out as soon as they get what they want.
Kin Hubbard
#73. When a flower and a child come together, it makes two flowers or two children because every child is a flower and every flower is a child!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#74. I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me.
William Jackson
#75. Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.
Christine Baranski
#76. I feel strongly about HIV/AIDS and children because I'm a famous singer, a public figure, and I'm a female and a mother. I have the responsibility and the passion to help out and do whatever I can.
Peng Liyuan
#77. I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.
Mickey Rourke
#78. The indwelling of Christ is a thought particularly fit for the children, because their large faith does not stumble at the mystery, their imagination leaps readily to the marvel, that the King Himself should inhabit a little child's heart.
Charlotte Mason
#79. If you aren't willing to face your demons-if you can't find the courage to take on your fear and hurt and anger-you might as well wrap them up with a bow and give them to your children. Because they will be carrying the same thing ... unless you are willing to do the work
R.A. Dickey
#80. Never force a sexual relationship on anyone, because that is considered to be rape. And never have sexual relations with children, because that is the worst of all sins. Apart from that, you're free.
Paulo Coelho
#81. Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.
Benjamin Spock
#82. If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
Baron De Montesquieu
#83. I think that women are afraid to say they don't want children because they're going to get shunned.
Cameron Diaz
#84. I'll probably never have children because I don't believe in touching people for any reason.
Paula Poundstone
#85. We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
Woodrow Wyatt
#86. How would I like to be remembered? As a person who came and brought light to the world, some escapism. Also as the voice for the voiceless children, because I love them.
Michael Jackson
#87. I think musicals can be more than what people imagine. That'll be the case with 'Matilda.' It's such a clever thing to stage. Parents would have read this when they were young and will want to share it with their children because they have such a fondness for the source.
Bertie Carvel
#88. God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.
Donald Miller
#89. The world is an unfair place because of bullying. A lot of parents loose their children because of bullying next time think twice before bullying someone
Ryan Lewis
#90. I love working with horses. People say you shouldn't work with animals and children; that's wrong. You must only work with children, because you only work eight hours a day and I love working with animals. Animals have an honesty that human beings reach to find in their lives at the best of times.
Colin Farrell
#91. As a police officer it has been my experience that pedophiles are able to operate and stay functional over long periods of time and victimize scores, even hundreds, of children, because no one wants to believe his or her own intuitions about the symptoms in the perpetrator.
James Lee Burke
#92. It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.
Mary Wesley
#93. My husband and I don't have children. We can't have children because we hate them.
Sarah Millican
#94. I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
Branch Rickey
#95. People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#96. I would love four children because I have a very small family, so I want those big Thanksgiving dinners.
Chrissy Teigen
#97. It was almost like being a child again because you felt like you were in your bedroom and it almost felt like no one was really watching you. So, you were just kind of having a bit of fun on your own doing silly voices in the bedroom.
Ashley Jensen
#98. I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.
Molly Crabapple
#99. But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
Arianna Huffington
#100. The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.
Maxwell Maltz
