For Children Quotes

#1. I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#2. Designing for children carries a social responsibility beyond bright colors and scaled-down furnishings that only perceptive and informed grown-ups can understand.

Sharon Exley

#3. For a healthy society, those laws and conventions should always support marriage as an institution characterised by an openness to children and the responsibility of fathers and mothers remaining together to care for children born into their family.

Vincent Nichols

#4. Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.

Kate Forsyth

#5. I say Democrats should not be afraid to talk about the morality of life, of caring for children who are born. It seems the Republican obsession with being pro-life lasts about nine months. After that, it's each baby for herself.

Jennifer Granholm

#6. 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

#7. The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists.

Artur Schnabel

#8. We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

Shirley Williams

#9. Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell a great story, write well, not be condescending-all in a few pages.

Andrea Brown

#10. Our company is working with Disney to create a game for children between the ages of maybe four and 12, so we can teach them what the capitalist system is all about.

Sanford I. Weill

#11. One of the pre - requisites for children becoming proactive and responsible citizens is the availability of enough role models inside and outside the school.

Azim Premji

#12. I volunteer a lot of my time with an organization in New York called The Center for Children and Families.

Tyra Banks

#13. I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it.

Gretchen Rubin

#14. They say that God watches out for children, drunks and fools. Simply put, this means I stand a two-thirds better chance for divine intervention in my life than most other people.

Lenny Castellaneta

#15. Apparently, it was common for children to participate in the Civil War, and thus, lots of fathers had brought their sons along for a fun family weekend of simulated violence and bloodshed.

Stuart Gibbs

#16. Those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.

Katherine Paterson

#17. We create our work for children not because they're "cute," but because they're human beings, deserving of respect.

Mo Willems

#18. One of the most important thing in families, both for children and spouses, is never to close off possibilities - particularly never to make demands or threats.

Hazel Hawke

#19. Being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred him to remove your brain or your heart.

Helen Bevington

#20. I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.

Maurice Sendak

#21. How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it

Maurice Sendak

#22. The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

Ivan Turgenev

#23. I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should be able to read it and enjoy it as much as a child would.

Amber Benson

#24. I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

George MacDonald

#25. Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.

Anthony Esolen

#26. Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive or don't.

Bernice Weissbourd

#27. You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

Talib Kweli

#28. A good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children.

Philippa Pearce

#29. It's important for children to see what's out there and learn that it's fun to go.

Heidi Klum

#30. Authors ... keep writing those great books for children and teens. It's a proven fact that those children & teens who read are less depressed than those who don't.

Timothy Pina

#31. Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

Jack Prelutsky

#32. One might also ask why we should develop energy-intensive robots to work in one of the few areas - care for children or elderly people - in which people with little education can find employment.

Peter Singer

#33. You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.

Arthur Ransome

#34. I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really amazing writers. It is a fantastic creative outlet and such an amazing teaching tool. The thing I love about kids, too, is it is so imaginative and poetic.

Jewel

#35. Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.

Susan B. Anthony

#36. Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children. -Diana

Kate Petrella

#37. If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.

Madeleine L'Engle

#38. I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.

Eleanor Catton

#39. I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a lot of people who write for children can remember their own childhoods vividly and I can remember my childhood very vividly.

Eric Wilson

#40. Miracles are not for matured men, they are for children or for unbelievers.

Sunday Adelaja

#41. It is important for children to learn that they are the sum of those who have come before them.

Wally Lamb

#42. I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

Maurice Sendak

#43. Art is a place for children to learn to trust their ideas, themselves, and to explore what is possible.

MaryAnn F. Kohl

#44. I'm interested in illustration in all its forms. Not only in books for children but in posters, prints and performance as a way of drawing people into books and stories.

Chris Riddell

#45. I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.

Sam Brownback

#46. My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

Marion Cotillard

#47. I don't believe in things literally for children. That's a reduction.

Maurice Sendak

#48. Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate and sense of justice are just tactics in a Darwinian struggle to perpetuate our genes.

Steven Pinker

#49. I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.

Walt Disney

#50. It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#51. I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

Jack Kerouac

#52. There can be no global security without respect for children. We have to be more than just observers of children's suffering, we have to be partners with them in their struggles.

Landon Pearson

#53. My aunt Julie was a production manager, and she heard of an opening. Some show was looking for children to run around the house or whatever. I auditioned and got the part, and I showed up in all of my monstrous energy, bouncing everywhere like an electron.

Xavier Dolan

#54. For children, most importantly, being in the garden is something magical.

Fritjof Capra

#55. I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.

Quentin Blake

#56. 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

#57. I'm the star of stage, screen, and television now, but I'm also available for children's parties and bar mitzvahs.

Chris Isaak

#58. I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic.

Albert Pujols

#59. High Times magazine is a notch intellectually below Highlights for Children. I mean, they're both great to read when you're baked, but come on, ya know ...

David Cross

#60. I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called 'The Package', and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.

Laurie Anderson

#61. Politics was like those little wooden sliding-picture games for children: you had to move all of the pieces in the hope of finding a place where the whole picture slotted together.

Terry Pratchett

#62. Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

Roald Dahl

#63. I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a responsibility to those who came before me.

Andy Garcia

#64. Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.

Dr. Seuss

#65. Having anticipated the onward march of our selfish genes, many of us are unprepared for children who present unfamiliar needs. Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity.

Andrew Solomon

#66. I can write about images from my own childhood for children today. I wasn't sure I could do this, but there was no way out; I had to use the images from my own childhood, because the child I was is the only child I really know.

Ellen Raskin

#67. Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Victor Hugo

#68. Mollie Hunter was both a great friend and a very fine writer for children. She was fascinated by Scotland's history and its folklore - almost all her novels reflect her tremendous knowledge of both.

Joan Lingard

#69. Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

Tom G. Palmer

#70. Wishes are for children," Jane Chatwin said. "I grew up.

Lev Grossman

#71. It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

Kate DiCamillo

#72. I don't know if I like communism, and I don't know if I like socialism. But I know that the Breakfast for Children Program feeds my kids. And if you put your hands on that Breakfast for Children Program ...

Fred Hampton

#73. For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

Aeschylus

#74. Optimism was for children. Once you reached adulthood then you had to join the rest of the world as a realist - life was a bag of shit you were expected to pay for.

NikNak

#75. Spoon Feeding is only good for children not for adults. Let them think for themselves and don't baby them. They are just plain lazy.

Ann Marie Aguilar

#76. In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.

Jack Zipes

#77. There was no such thing as a good divorce for children.

Liane Moriarty

#78. There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

W. H. Auden

#79. 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

#80. I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children.

Maurice Sendak

#81. LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.

Magnus Scheving

#82. For some, gin was a vile and degrading venom, but for many others it was a thirst-quencher, a proof of virility, an aphrodisiac, a rite of passage, a tonic, a nourishment, a pacifier for children, a fount of confidence and inspiration for the preacher or the soapbox ranter.

Richard Barnett

#83. I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going.

J.K. Rowling

#84. 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

#85. I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.

Maria Sharapova

#86. Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

George Eliot

#87. We have made it impossible for children to fall very far - and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.

Megan McArdle

#88. I like writing for children because they are not prejudiced against magic.

J.P. Hightman

#89. I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.

Malorie Blackman

#90. I am so honoured to have been given this opportunity to become an Ambassador. It's a new and different venture for me and one that I know will widen my wider perspective on life. I'm in a position to use the recognition from my work to do something really positive for children

Ewan McGregor

#91. The social rights of children must be recognized so that a world suited to their needs may be constructed for them. The greatest crime that society commits is that of wasting the money which it should use for children on things that will destroy them and society itself as well.

Maria Montessori

#92. We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.

Charlotte Mason

#93. Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#94. Day care poses no risk for children, provided that it is high quality ... Poor quality day care is risky for children everywhere ... The cost of poor quality day care is measured in children's lives. High quality day care costs only money.

Sandra Scarr

#95. I am available for children's parties, by the way ...

Bill Hicks

#96. Don't talk me about religion! Don't talk me about tales for children! Be serious! Trust science, because only the science can save you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#97. Cartoon violence is something very vivid and dark but made palatable for children in a fun way. That's the kind of comedy I do - I try to take subjects that might seem deep and make them as silly as possible.

Michael Che

#98. Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

Helen Dunmore

#99. UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.

Carol Bellamy

#100. We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

Isaac Bashevis Singer