Children Quotes

The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of ...

Children have more need of models than of critics.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our childre...

Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner...

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is trem...

The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to whic...

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

We are all born rude. No infant has ever appeared yet with the grace to understand how inconsiderate...

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and th...

I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only kn...

We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our childr...

In the early '70s - a very good time for children's books and their authors - editors and publishers...

A person can have a happy and fulfilling life without children.

you find yourself repeating, ‘They grow up so quickly, don’t they?’ when all you really mean is: tim...

I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny an...

When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything th...

I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our chil...

I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suff...

Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, c...

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into ...

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with ...

There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to cha...

The roses started him thinking, how the oddity of them was beautiful and how that oddity was contriv...

Then he dreamed that he was in the open door of a plane several thousand feet above the earth and he...

Of course, I’ve told Jesus to suck it, too, which earned me a certain measure of notoriety, because ...

That's most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. Iwas weeping for an altoge...

I'm from a small town so, like, everyone's married with children or about to have children. So it's ...

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale u...

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. T...

The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the ...

In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child rela...

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an ex...

When Aziza first spotted Mariam in the morning, her eyes always sprang open, and she began mewling a...

She will not plant the seed in their mind, that a parent is capable of abandoning her children, of s...

Baba and I lived in the same house, but in different spheres of existence. Kites were the one paper-...

I wondered when I had forgotten that, despite everything, he was still just a child.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care ...

When mothers earn their fair share, young children have greater access to quality health care, educa...

If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy onc...

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their childr...

There's nothing better than having a baby. I've always loved children. I used to work summers at the...

Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in ...

Perhaps I should admit on the title page that this book is "By L. Frank Baum and his correspondents,...

Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imaginat...

Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

Though the children did not know Levin well and did not remember when they had last seen him, they d...

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resou...

Peaceful with six children Darya Alexandrova could not be...Rare indeed were the brief periods of pe...

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wid...

...those children were already beginning to repay her care by affording her small joys. These joys w...

I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the fut...

For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into half halves - to wear a grave face on Sun...

Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be her...

Now, what am I to do with this creature when I get it home?" when it grunted again, so violently, th...

Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look...

What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-...

One! two! and through and throughThe vorpal blade went snickersnack!He left it dead, and with its he...

My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dol...

There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I ca...

Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and sc...

Children may not understand all that's happening below the surface of a story. It doesn't matter. Be...

And whose fault was it that the boy swallowed down lies, when no one would feed him the truth?

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, w...

Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one a...

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnatio...

Everybody has it wrong way round. Parents don't make children--children make parents. They shape our...

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children ...

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husban...

I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of co...

In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" ...

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant...

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people,...

…no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the...

TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with hi...

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving gr...

Our baby gives herself to me completely. There is no hesitation, no reservation, no holding back, no...

The literature of America should reflect the children of America.

But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and wit...

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good polit...

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is n...

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown...

I believe that every one of us here tonight has as clear and vital a vocation as anyone in a religio...

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succ...

I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was...

If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be...

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

Our children... have a passionate need for the dimension of transcendence, mysticism, way-outness. W...

The child is aware of unlimited potential, and this munificence is one of the joys of creativity.Tho...

Good BonesLife is short, though I keep this from my children.Life is short, and I’ve shortened minei...