Top 100 Children In Quotes
#1. The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance is always considered in its effect on them-on the race. You see, we are MOTHERS, she repeated, as if in that she had said it all.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#2. In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.
David Sedaris
#3. Between July 1936 and June 1937, the number of children in the city receiving free school education rose from 34,431 to 116,846, and for the first time free nurseries were opened.
Nick Lloyd
#4. I've watched Jamie Oliver 's Food Revolution, he wants better school lunches for children in the US and UK. In NZ, we want Kiwi kids to have school lunches!
Metiria Turei
#5. The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.
C.S. Lewis
#6. If humanity is to live in the future in a socially right way, humanity must educate its children in a socially right way.
Rudolf Steiner
#7. My most visible goal is to do something in nutrition to children in India, and pregnant mothers. Because that would change the mental and physical health of our population in years to come.
Ratan Tata
#8. She's 32, and she has three children. She loves to be pregnant but she doesn't want anymore children in her life. So she decided to help another couple. And she's just been amazing.
Cheryl Tiegs
#9. I didn't wholly identify with the collective experiences of children in either place. I had one foot in each culture, but no firm footing in either of them. At
Padma Lakshmi
#10. Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.
Heather O'Neill
#11. Lord ... my goal is not to live forever but to live in thy favor forever. May you not only always bless me and my children in friendship & favor but may you also bless all our generations to come.
May we always walk in your light and do our best to bring praise to your holy name.
Amen.
Timothy Pina
#12. There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.
Tim Minchin
#13. Whatever I have not yet learned to tolerate in myself inevitably will appear in my children. In this way, they, like Julia, guide me to a new level of self-awareness and everyone benefits.
Kenny Loggins
#14. For integrity to flourish in society, we have to nurture it - within ourselves, in our children, in our education systems.
Jaggi Vasudev
#15. Always make time to eat. Always. There's enough starving children in the world without adding to their number
Diane Samuels
#16. I live. I travel. I eat. I pray. These are the things I do. I'd rather be in my condition than be a man with four children in a four-bedroom house, working hard every day to pay for his house, taking his children to school.
Muhammad Ali
#17. The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.
E.M. Delafield
#19. We articulate our fears, like children in the dark, giving them names in order to tame them.
Patricia Duncker
#20. Those who judge children in their innocence, prove themselves the lesser of character and the greater of ignorance.
Wes Fesler
#21. I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky.
Annette Bening
#22. See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.
John Webster
#23. I believe young children in particular enjoy witnessing the survival of youthful protagonists against terrible odds. I think it's gratifying to the reader when you give young characters that kind of agency.
Robert Paul Weston
#24. He pulled back his head warily; like many of the children in the neighbourhood, this one had come into the world in the avatar of a complete maniac, and it would not be unlike her to whack him on the forehead with the egg just to see what would happen.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#25. The public schools tend to teach little kids from when they are very young about the whole universe without God and that God cannot be in science. They are indoctrinating children in an atheistic religious view of things.
Ken Ham
#26. In November, at winter's gate, the stars are brittle. The sun is a sometime friend. And the world has tucked her children in, with a kiss on their heads, till spring.
Cynthia Rylant
#27. I've always been concerned with what happens to children in our society when there's nobody left to take care of them.
Janet Fitch
#28. I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.
Vin Diesel
#29. Enough, children. In case you haven't noticed, we have a major situation playing out. We have to find and stop War, corral the gallu, protect Apostolos, and get Savitar out of here. (Apollymi) Why the later? (Jared) Because I hate his guts. (Apollymi) I hate you, too, precious. (Savitar)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#30. What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.
Chuck Palahniuk
#31. With teenagers, the emotions are higher and things are more dramatic. That doesn't mean adults don't also act like children in their own way.
Sara Shepard
#32. There's no spirit or soul. I will be dead. Get that through your thick head. I'll be dead. And I live, in quotation marks, in my children, in my DNA, in my books, in my reputation. It's as simple as that.
Edwin S. Shneidman
#33. As in the general society, fertility tends to be greatest where people are poorest: "The rich get richer, and the poor have children." In
Thomas Sowell
#34. East St. Louis-which the local press refers to as "an inner city without an outer city"-has some of the sickest children in America. Of 66 cities in Illinois, East St. Louis ranks first in fetal death, first in premature birth, and third in infant health.
Jonathan Kozol
#35. Although Hollywood commonly portrays children in foster care as toddlers clutching teddy bears, nearly one-half are eleven or older. And about one-fifth - 103,500 - are sixteen or older.
Martha Shirk
#36. I've always believed it's important to make the invisible visible. And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that I've always instinctually known is the key to the kind of society I want to live in and raise my children in.
Ai-jen Poo
#37. Now, we don't teach children in schools to be creative. We don't teach them to experiment. We want them to fill in the right answer, tick the right answer in the box.
James Dyson
#38. We have to stop harming children in child care. I'm trying to make us stop. I wouldn't know what to do otherwise.
Edward Zigler
#39. An equation: 40,000 dead young men = 3,000 tons of bone and flesh, 124,000 pounds of brain matter, 50,000 gallons of blood, 1,840,000 years of life that will never be lived, 100,000 children that will never be born (the last we can afford: there are too many starving children in the world already).
Dalton Trumbo
#40. Beware of what you teach your children in the womb.
Marty Rubin
#41. Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?
John Taylor Gatto
#42. Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.
Edmond De Goncourt
#43. I tried to always include my children in everything that I did. I traveled with them, I brought them with me to work, I tried to balance it between work and being a mother as best as I could.
Jill Stuart
#44. Being with my wife and children in Kauai, seeing old friends there, being on the beach, painting, paddleboarding. Sitting under a Kauai moon with a bonfire going, buddies around. Those are the things that kind of make my world turn.
Pierce Brosnan
#45. To be honest, I was sometimes even jealous of those starving children in India, because nobody ever told them to finish up everything on their plate.
Amos Oz
#46. People who come to 'The Country House' are like, 'You're on 'The Good Wife' now.' But I've been on since the second season! I feel that the interest in the children in that series is almost tangential.
Sarah Steele
#47. I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.
Cornelia Funke
#48. As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it.
Charles Spurgeon
#49. Always treat children in the direction you wish them to grow, not as they now are.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#50. What children, in fact all of us at any age, find frightening is unreliability and emotional coldness. The idea that you can't affect someone, that you can't see where they're coming from and can change tact at any moment.
Tilda Swinton
#51. If there is a secular equivalent of standing in a great spired Cathedral with marble pillars and streams of mystic light slanting through two-tier Gothic windows, it would be watching children in their little bedrooms fast asleep. Girls especially.
Don DeLillo
#52. A man I admire and respect - Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with the worst chapter in American history, segregation, deaths of children in church bombings, George Wallace. That, to me, was so hurtful.
John McCain
#53. Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
#54. It would have been better far for men To have got their children in some other way, and women Not to have existed. Then life would have been good. CHORUS
Euripides
#55. We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.
Desmond Tutu
#56. All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps.
Ninette De Valois
#57. Motherhood is the most beautiful, exciting thing, and there's nothing that I feel like I can't accomplish while having children in my life. I would sacrifice having more years of being wherever I want whenever I want for years with my kids.
Hayden Panettiere
#58. Initially, I had two thoughts. First, this is a very large conspiracy; and second, our children in Washington. We knew there were a few unidentified planes that may have been headed for the White House or the Capitol Building.
Mercer Reynolds
#59. Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
H.L. Mencken
#60. The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination ... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive.
Dan Brown
#62. I see myself raising my children in Europe, probably in Paris.
Diane Kruger
#63. Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.
Michael McCaul
#64. The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings.
Pope Benedict XVI
#65. There are far too many children in America in need of a loving home who are shuttled between temporary homes and group shelters that fail to provide the stable, nurturing environment all children deserve.
Ronnie Musgrove
#66. I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
Anne Enright
#67. Teach them [your children] in such a way that they could not misunderstand the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#68. Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#69. But I assure you, a government that is willing to put their own children in danger, their own future, just to see their potential, is twisted. We do not grab babies, newborns, and throw them out of windows just to see if they sprout wings.
S. Elizabeth Dover
#70. I'd seen the older children in class look into books for invisible traces, as if they were driven by the same force and, sinking deeper into silence, they were able to draw from the dead paper something that seemed alive.
Muriel Barbery
#71. I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way.
Kelly Preston
#72. In the second part of my life, away from cycling, I hope I will be able to benefit fully from my family and children in the same way that cycling gave me such joy.
Richard Virenque
#73. I just want to be entertained. The stories that have aged the best are the ones where the wolf eats grandma, or the woman is going to bake children in an oven, or the bear is going to eat the girl for eating the porridge. There are lessons in there, but they're deeply engrained and hidden.
Drew Daywalt
#74. The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.
Zig Ziglar
#75. Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.
S.I. Hayakawa
#76. Every year I collect a select amount of material possessions (baseball cards, coins, famous paraphernalia) to pass on to my children. In two or more generations they should have a small fortune of 'ancient' famous items.
Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea
#77. If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie; if ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring.
John Flavel
#78. I was living in Germany in the thirties, and I knew that Hitler had made it his mission to exterminate all Jews, especially the children and the women who could bear children in the future. I was unable to save my people, only their memory.
Roman Vishniac
#79. I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young children in America.
Jay Inslee
#80. This faculty is mother wit, the creative power through which man is capable of recognising likenesses and making them himself. We see it in children, in whom nature is more integral and less corrupted by convictions and prejudices, that the first faculty to emerge is that of seeing similarities.
John Eliot Gardiner
#81. Common sense was sufficient to determine that it could not mean that all men were equal in fact, but in right, not all equally tall, strong, wise, handsome, active, but equally men . . . the work of the same Artist, children in the same cases entitled to the same justice. Nabby
David McCullough
#82. Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.
Carol Bellamy
#83. It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid ... These schools should get rid of unionized janitors, have one master janitor, pay local students to take care of the school.
Newt Gingrich
#84. These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.
Cory Doctorow
#85. I spent most of my adult life as someone's mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children are safe. So this to me is - we wrote Hell Is For Children in 1979.
Pat Benatar
#86. He's weeping, his face dissolving in his hands. It's exhausting. People hiding behind the asteroid, like it's an excuse for poor conduct, for miserable and desperate and selfish behavior, everybody ducking in its comet-tail like children in mommy's skirts.
Ben H. Winters
#87. Each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.
Lucy Freeman
#88. If there is some divine plan that requires my survival and the deaths of all those children in day care, I respectfully decline to participate.
Tim Kreider
#89. I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting ... . I will never talk down to, or draw down to, children.
Barbara Cooney
#90. Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason," Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie.
"You're forgetting the Little Prince," Polly reminded him.
"Who he had the good sense to kill off in the second act," snapped Sir Godfrey.
Connie Willis
#91. Most children in the world go to schools in two shifts, there's a morning shift and an afternoon shift.
Nicholas Negroponte
#92. I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.
Maria Sharapova
#93. If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries
Ian Botham
#94. There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything.
Maria Montessori
#95. Like traditional upper class families, there are nannies and servants, and the children, you know, come in to say good-night before they go to bed. There's very little private time with the children in the early years. Actually, there's much more private time with the children in the 20s.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
#96. Vashon is an island, accessible by ferry from Seattle, mainly populated by NIMBY-ish hippies, NIMBY-ish yuppies, boutique farmers, and wizards riding recumbent bicycles. A full quarter of the children in Vashon schools are unvaccinated.
Lindy West
#97. I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
Nancy Pelosi
#98. Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her children. In this suffering she found the best sort of perfection
the kind that never demands it of others.
Martine Leavitt
#99. Children in the kingdom of God hold onto possessions loosely. They know that the King is powerful and generous, and they know that what they have is on loan anyway. They are quick to help those in need. The rich, on the other hand, are sorely tempted to trust in their riches.
New Growth Press
#100. By degrees, he joins that sorry legion of passive men who abandon their children in order to placate their second wives.
Ian McEwan
