Top 100 Children First Quotes
#1. With all her heart, Mom believed in opportunity for everyone and privilege for no one. She put her children first, and her faith and trust in the American dream.
Ralph Webster
#2. A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
Yoshihiko Noda
#3. Well, the first reaction was, What smoke? When I looked and saw it, and we all ran to the back where we were far away from the flames-cowards as we are, you know-all sat around the emergency door and even tested the emergency door, ready to jump out. Of course, I said, Beatles and children first.
Larry Kane
#4. This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.
Iyanla Vanzant
#5. The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.
Jean Kerr
#6. It's written in our DNA somewhere: our children first, the rest of the world second.
Rachel Caine
#7. We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.
Katrina Kenison
#8. The night was a magnificent confirmation of "women and children first," yet somehow the loss rate was higher for Third Class children than First Class men.
Walter Lord
#10. From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.
Padma Lakshmi
#11. We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
Plato
#12. There are certain things I couldn't write because they're not intrinsic to my beliefs. For instance, I couldn't write a hero or heroine who didn't put children first.
Lori Foster
#13. If on a sinking ship out at sea, the moral law is to always help save women & children first ... Why can't we apply the same morals here in our nation?
Timothy Pina
#14. All children are precious in the eyes of God. If we want to better humanity ... we must try and better the lives of all of it's children first.
Timothy Pina
#15. You must be committed to your children first. Otherwise, they will receive the leftovers.
Lorilyn Roberts
#16. My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.
Tayari Jones
#17. I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them.
Gene Wolfe
#18. People get burned out in big families, you can even see it in the naming of children. Like the first kid, "You were named after Grandma." The seventh kid, "You were named after a sandwich I had. Now get your brother, Reuben."
Jim Gaffigan
#19. I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those things no widow will tell you ever crossed her mind.
Shannon Celebi
#20. Children notice things first, people later.
Walker Percy
#21. Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to these children who never made the mess in the first place that education is worth the trouble, our schools have to inspire them so they can do what they ought to do.
Bill Cosby
#22. Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying "I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award." The other is "You want fries with that?".
Robin Williams
#23. My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that?Eight children and that's all I remember.
Toni Morrison
#24. he gave the first modern-day description of the condition in children in a lecture at a London hospital in 1887, noting, "If the patient can be cured at all, it must be by means of diet.
David Perlmutter
#25. Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.
James Dyson
#26. I am now of the opinion that children should first be taught the art of drawing before learning how to write.
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.
Rachel Corrie
#28. Whatever the era ... one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
Barbara Bush
#29. The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.
Jock Sturges
#30. The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.
Flora Thompson
#31. Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious about two fundamental things ... the first is the love of activity ... The second fundamental thing is independence.
Maria Montessori
#32. Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives being embarrassed by our parents and the last part being embarrassed by our children.
Ogden Nash
#33. A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children.
Michael Gove
#34. That was a judicious mother who said, I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
Henry Ward Beecher
#35. It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The bottom line is that every child can be an academic champion, an academic champion and a superstar in academics.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#36. First of all, I find everything funny, which is upsetting to my children sometimes, and to people in my life, in general.
Jenji Kohan
#37. If our society were truly to appreciate the significance of children's emotional ties throughout the first years of life, it would no longer tolerate children growing up or parents having to struggle in situations which could not possibly nourish healthy growth.
Stanley Greenspan
#38. Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
Benjamin Franklin
#39. Orthodox Jews often ask you: "Are you an Israeli first, or a Jew?" I see no difference between the two. After all, I'm also simultaneously the son of my parents, the husband of my wife and the father of my children.
Yair Lapid
#40. To build children you must first be built yourself. Otherwise, you'll seek children out of animal needs, or loneliness, or to patch the holes in yourself. Your task as a parent is to produce not another self, another Josef, but something higher. It's to produce a creator.
Irvin D. Yalom
#41. Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases.
Henry Winkler
#42. I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.
Robert Carlyle
#43. As a grown woman, I saw the first black president reach down a hand and touch the face of a child like I once was, lifting his eyes toward a better future. But I have never, ever, in all my years seen a leader so committed to delivering that better future to America's children as Hillary Clinton.
Donna Brazile
#44. You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.
Joe Frank
#45. The welfare of our children is our main concern and their best interests are our first priority
Eddie Murphy
#46. I would love to be fooled. The innocence of child for the first time, seeing something and being in wonder is something that I long for because I'm tainted.
Criss Angel
#47. A child ... who has learned from fairy stories to believe that what at first seemed a repulsive, threatening figure can magically change into a most helpful friend is ready to believe that a strange child whom he meets and fears may also be changed from a menace into a desirable companion.
Bruno Bettelheim
#48. Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.
Irina Bokova
#49. First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.
Kate Middleton
#50. A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#51. A good thing this was, and that we should be so care-free and irresponsible, enjoying every minute of every day; for it was the Easter of 1914, the last Easter of the old, easy world, and our last, as well as our first, Easter as children together in the little house I had built for happiness.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#52. The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.
Anthony Browne
#53. Water helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights of others and responsibility to a larger society ... It became part of the moral and mental legacy parents passed on to their children.
Max Meyer
#54. When we leave our child in nursery school for the first time, it won't be just our child's feelings about separation that we will have to cope with, but our own feelings as well-from our present and from our past, parents are extra vulnerable to new tremors from old earthquakes.
Fred Rogers
#55. If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.
Alice Miller
#56. It was concern for the welfare of children that got me into public service in the first place.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#57. When you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children,
Bob Marshall
#58. I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.
Ann Hood
#59. My child's first word was "more," but and it's all about, "I want." "I'm going to tell you what I want and what I don't want." It's about my desire to express my preferences. And that is really innate.
Sheena Iyengar
#60. My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.
Salman Rushdie
#61. Syd remembered that he had been surprised when he first learned that settlers on the Outer Worlds didn't infect their children with shark genes so that their adult teeth replaced themselves constantly as they wore out,
Tom Bruno
#62. There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
Norman Mailer
#63. In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother's first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air.
Charlotte Mason
#64. Hattie's children died in the order in which they were born: first Philadelphia, then Jubilee.
Ayana Mathis
#65. The first years of life are not just important; they are more crucial to shaping children than any other time. Even before they speak, children are extremely sensitive to the messages adults send them.
Hillary Clinton
#66. The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.
Arnold Bennett
#67. My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others.
Nel Noddings
#68. One rabbi compared wise men studying the law to children tossing a ball to one another: a first sage said the meaning was this, another said the meaning was that, one gave his opinion, another begged to differ.
Israel Shenker
#69. I tweeted once, and I still stick to this, that I would love to marry a Croatian girl. I want my children to speak Croatian first, and for them to do that, we need someone who speaks very good Croatian.
Nathaniel Buzolic
#70. A man who is a good lover to his wife is his children's best friend. ... Child care is play to a woman who is happy. And only a man can make a woman happy. In deepest truth, a father's first duty to his children is to make their mother feel fulfilled as a woman.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#71. Children are always looking at the world as if it was for the first time in their lives. So, we should always look to the world with the eyes of a child. I am not saying be naive, I am saying be innocent in the sense of discovering things.
Paulo Coelho
#72. God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
#73. I guess on a base level that's one of the first parental instincts that you have with children in Australia is learn to swim. Not only learn to swim but learn to swim strong.
Eric Bana
#74. One of my first jobs was doing children's theater. I did it to get my union card.
Frankie J. Alvarez
#75. one. Children of God! it is thus Jesus would have us to pray to the Father in heaven. O let His Name, and Kingdom, and Will, have the first place in our love;
Andrew Murray
#76. Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
Michael Jackson
#77. I started a list of things I want to teach my children, and that list is eight points long. The first one is, do what you love.
Tina Roth-Eisenberg
#78. Every parent's first responsibility is to teach his child that there is a God to whom he's accountable and that God has certain commands that we're obligated to obey.
Robert Jeffress
#79. Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
A. S. W. Rosenbach
#80. They already knew that they would be telling people about the morning for a long time to come, maybe for the rest of their lives, and the taxi ride was the first attempt at a first draft of a story that would have to satisfy parents, siblings, children, and grandchildren.
Nick Hornby
#81. I highly recommend getting your career established first and then having children.
Arizona Muse
#82. Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
Fergie
#83. Married life can seem as if it's only five days long. The first day you meet, the second day you marry, the third day your raise your children, the fourth day you meet your grandchildren, and the fifth day you die first or bury your spouse to go home alone for the first time in many years.
Mark Driscoll
#84. Children are the first thing I see in the morning and the last thing I see at night. It hurts me to be away from them for a few hours. It really does. I love them and they're girls, so they know how to push my buttons. But I've learned a lot and I have to thank my wife for that.
Sylvester Stallone
#85. I think children are like pancakes. You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around.
Kelly Ripa
#86. When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
Barbara Walters
#87. That youthful enthusiasm for the Resistance was killed off quick in new recruits, if they were not killed off first.
Dean F. Wilson
#88. I'm very proud that the first bill I had the opportunity to sign into law as President was the Family and Medical Leave Act No parent should ever have to choose between work and family; between earning a decent wage and caring for a child.
William J. Clinton
#89. Romans marveled that in Egypt female children were not left to die; a Roman was obligated to raise only his first-born daughter.
Stacy Schiff
#90. The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
George Bernard Shaw
#91. Especially with our first child, we tend to take too much responsibility
both credit and blame
for everything. The more we wantto be good parents, the more we tend to see ourselves as making or breaking our children.
Polly Berrien Berends
#92. Food is first for nourishment, not just for taste or appearance, and this is an important thing to teach children.
Katie Wells
#93. nest and prompt their children to follow them. The chicks were reluctant at first but then
D.A. Stevens
#94. You'll hear people say it's racist to test. Folks, it's racist not to test. Because guess who gets shuffled through the system oftentimes? Children whose parents don't speak English as a first language, inner-city kids. It's so much easier to quit on somebody than to remediate.
George W. Bush
#95. I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.
Will Smith
#96. I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, 'Concerning the Nature of Things.'
Dorothy Hodgkin
#97. Our sons and daughters are only passing through ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.
Jacquelyn Mitchard
#98. Why do the chimookomanag want us?" she growled. "They take all that makes us Anishinaabeg. Everything about us. First our land, then our trees. Now husbands, our wives, our children, our souls. Why do they want to capture every bit?
Louise Erdrich
#99. It all started with one of those days--one of those muggy, first-of-the-summer-vacation days when everyone older and everyone younger knew what to do, but everyone in between was lost.
Kate Willis
#100. Obciously, it ought to be the oldest things that are taught to the youngest people; the assured and experienced truths that are put first to the baby. But in a school today the baby has to submit to a system that is younger than himself.
G.K. Chesterton
