More Children Quotes

#1. I could not be more determined and robust about this. I want more children to play cricket and to have the chance to compete. I want them playing on the correct pitches with hard balls and proper headgear.

Tessa Jowell

#2. In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family.

Peter Diamandis

#3. Why don't we have more babies, Mom? Bailey has big sisters. I wish I had a big sister.
I don't know why, Fern. I tried to have more children, but sometimes we are given something so special, so wonderful, that one is enough.

Amy Harmon

#4. I think race is very important. I think generally speaking, we've to face the general problem, which is that we are seeing more children coming out of families which simply don't give them adequate resources for their development.

James Heckman

#5. And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.

Phil Collins

#6. More children of humanity showing others love ... is what our world really needs!

Timothy Pina

#7. The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program is a very effective way to raise awareness and consumption of two vital food groups that are sometimes ignored, especially by children. The program results in more children consuming more fruits and vegetables, helping their health and Idaho's farmers.

Michael Dean Crapo

#8. I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.

Barbara Walters

#9. You've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those three things put together. It's a very potent weapon of mass destruction.

Rose George

#10. Researchers in England say tall men are more likely to have more children than short men. Here in America we call that the NBA theory.

Jay Leno

#11. There were more children there than Scrooge in his agitated mind could count, and unlike the celebrated poem, not every forty children were acting as one, but every child was acting as forty.

Charles Dickens

#12. U.K. welfare cuts are pushing more children into poverty; that is beyond dispute.

Nicola Sturgeon

#13. You know, more children die under the age of five when the parents are not educated.

Angelina Jolie

#14. I've been told that 'Midnight at the Oasis' has been responsible for the conception of more children than any other song of the '70s.

Maria Muldaur

#15. It's like his parents are funneling years of their lives into Rusty so he'll get well sooner. But I think if that were possible, more children who got hurt would end up as orphans.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#16. Where is the civil rights groundswell on behalf of stronger marriages that will allow more children to grow up in two-parent families and have a better chance of staying out of poverty?

Juan Williams

#17. There's a verse in the Bible: 'Those who are barren have more children than those who give birth.' There are young people all over the world who come to me for advice and love. I have all the children I can handle.

Ginger Rogers

#18. If I got married one day and settled down, I would love to have more children.

Rebecca Ferguson

#19. In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four.

Thomas Malthus

#20. How much blood will it take to make them stop? How many more children must die?

Brom

#21. No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

Margaret Sanger

#22. I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.

Anna Friel

#23. I've had bad luck with all my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't. The third gave me more children!

Donald Trump

#24. Somehow, out of his watch shop that never made money, he fed and dressed and cared for eleven more children after his own four were grown.

Corrie Ten Boom

#25. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it?

Lesley Stahl

#26. I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

Mary J. Blige

#27. If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their own. The fact that they do not, despite their being surrounded by print, suggests that learning to read is not a spontaneous or simple skill.

David Elkind

#28. Never have more children than you have car windows.

Erma Bombeck

#29. Spring appears and we are once more children.

Stendhal

#30. I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.

Toni Braxton

#31. I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.

Gary Numan

#32. More children from the fit, less from the unfit
that is the chief aim of birth control.

Margaret Sanger

#33. And that is how someone who is unusally susceptible to nightmares, night terrors, the Creeps, the Willies and the Seeing Things That Aren't Really There talks himself into making one last trip to the abandoned, almost-certainly-haunted house where a dozen or more children met their untimely end.

Ransom Riggs

#34. More children suffer from interference than from noninterference.

Agatha Christie

#35. How many more tragedies does it take before we do something? How many more children have to die before this country realizes that No Gun Zones create perfect locations for violence? You can not stop criminals and mad men with laws, you can only stop violence with the fear of armed victims.

Alan Gottlieb

#36. Our opponents say more children are living in poverty than when we came into office. And that's probably right.

John Key

#37. If women's role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.

Betty Friedan

#38. I wish I could hear more children say I can do something instead of I can't! Self-motivation will always lead them to greater & better heights in their lives!

Timothy Pina

#39. More children will live through their parents' bankruptcy than will live through their parents' divorce.

Christine K. Jahnke

#40. I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

Mahatma Gandhi

#41. You should never take responsibility for more children than you can give attention to.

James Redfield

#42. The boats came, and they were only taking a few people at a time, so what happened was they took a boat and said, 'We can have two more children', so the boys went.

Anna Lee

#43. Once a person has a child, the first question everyone asks is: "Are you going to have more children?" But it basically means: "Are you going to have more sex with your wife in the hopes of having children?

Will Ferrell

#44. Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom.

Ernest Istook

#45. 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

#46. I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, 'What am I going to do?' My husband's view of it was, 'Stay home ... We'll have more children; you'll love this.' And I was very restless about it.

Elizabeth Warren

#47. We were not born with a purpose of marrying and giving life to a son-animals are able to have children too and they can have many more children than we do

Sunday Adelaja

#48. That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity.

Joe Nichols

#49. Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.

Mandy Moore

#50. After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#51. NCLB should be called "More Children Left behind".

Jim DeMint

#52. I'd love to have more children. If I'm still clear after five years, I'll think again.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#53. Germany's population is getting older and older and smaller and smaller. To be able to finance our welfare system over the long term, we need more women in the workforce, more children and more immigrants.

Paul Achleitner

#54. In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.

Jonathan Kozol

#55. I hope that more children have the same opportunities as me, with the same parents as me, that let me be an individual, who gave me freedom, and taught me to believe in myself before anyone else would believe in me.

Johnny Weir

#56. After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

Dorothy Rowe

#57. What is a child?" he asks her.
The diamond gaze does not flinch. "Creatures that are sold on the street by their parents, to get the coin to make more children." She paused. "Adults sell themselves.

C.S. Friedman

#58. Children give a house its personality, you know, more than its decorating. They leave their mark on it.

Nora Roberts

#59. So frequently we mistakenly believe that our children need more things, when in reality their silent pleadings are simply for more of our time.

Thomas S. Monson

#60. 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

#61. I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.

Kellyn Roth

#62. For years he'd strived to make a difference in the world, and he'd worked like a dog to make that happen, and yet here he was, a man sitting on a dock with his children, and never had he felt more certain that his words mattered.

Kristin Hannah

#63. 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

#64. Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than I am (as his chapter in Chopin proves).

David Hewson

#65. Children are perceptive, and if they see leaders and parents talk with boredom and apathy about faith yet become overtly passionate about sports teams or shopping malls, they will think the sport or the mall is more attractive than Jesus.

Matt Chandler

#66. Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

D.H. Lawrence

#67. Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.

David O. McKay

#68. We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be left more vulnerable, other that laziness or callousness in considering what life is like from their point of view.

Steven Pinker

#69. We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'

Betty Friedan

#70. One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#71. Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world, you know. They 'see' more than adults, 'believe' in more, are honest, and will always, 'always' let you know where you stand.

Cecelia Ahern

#72. If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.

Sherry Turkle

#73. The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid.

Gever Tulley

#74. She remembered telling a sturdy little girl in guidance that looks did not matter, that personality was much more important. What rubbish we tell children [ ... ].

J.K. Rowling

#75. I actually have two children now, and sometimes I wonder if that's it. Because they do make writing and directing more complicated and more difficult, especially now that they're very young.

Diablo Cody

#76. The woods are a place where children can go to think. Children gravitate towards these spaces. When I was a child it was nothing more than a scrubby little overhang under a rhododendron bush, but it was incredibly important to me.

Jay Griffiths

#77. Many autistic children like to smell things, and smell may provide more reliable information about their surroundings than either vision or hearing.

Temple Grandin

#78. In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.

George Clooney

#79. Creativity becomes more visible when adults try to be more attentive to the cognitive processes of children than to the results they achieve in various fields of doing and understanding.

Loris Malaguzzi

#80. After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?

Alice Walker

#81. Everything you have, whether it's money or stuff, is an obligation. It is as much your duty to care for and nurture any object you own as it would be if that object were your child. All possessions come with responsibilities. More possessions equals greater responsibility.

Brad Warner

#82. Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.

Eydie Gorme

#83. Raising children has made me more patient and selfless.

Candace Cameron

#84. Words don't hurt you. Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

Neal Shusterman

#85. 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

#86. Someday I'd like to be a father, not of a human child, but something more reasonable.

Dov Davidoff

#87. But it's the temptation of so many suburban-raised children to invent tales of adversity, to create hardscrabble mythologies out of life histories marked by little more than field hockey games and orthodontist appointments.

Meghan Daum

#88. The people are not coming because of me. They didn't come before me. It's because of a lack of education and understanding, so it makes me more motivated. It's like my mother said about having an artistic child - she learned more from him and he gets more attention and more of the love, not less.

Wynton Marsalis

#89. The mistake ... was attributed in part to the fact that employees called the 3-year note 'Losh' and the 5-year note 'Bosh'. The comic mixing of 'Loshes' and 'Boshes' sounded more like a Dr. Seuss children's book than a cutting-edge risk-management operation.

Frank Partnoy

#90. If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable.

Gloria Steinem

#91. There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know.

D.E. Stevenson

#92. Parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents
we didn't rear them
and yet we do.

Peg Bracken

#93. Nothing appeals to children more than justice, and they should be taught in the nursery to "play fair" in games, to respect each other's property and rights, to give credit to others, and not to take too much credit to themselves.

Emily Post

#94. I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.

James Patterson

#95. The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him.

Maria Montessori

#96. The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which still remained free. The woman's slavery was assumed to be for life.

Henry Adams

#97. Children crawl before they walk, walk before they run
each generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward more independence, more mastery of the environment, their mothers take a step away
each a small separation, a small distancing.

Lillian B. Rubin

#98. The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.

Flora Thompson

#99. A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.

Oprah Winfrey

#100. The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

Katharine Whitehorn