Children quotes

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

We live in a society today where these children can be wanted children. Even if you don't want to keep this child after you've had it, there's plenty of young couples out there, that want children.

I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children--children lie all the time.

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.

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.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?

Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.

When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

Both of them were the children of the United States. They sacrificed their children for the benefit of the others. But they were not very devoted children of the United States.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!

Our children are not going to be just "our children" - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.

I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.

That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.

There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.

Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment.

Children want to do what the grownups do. Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.

My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

They tried to discredit me. I used to tell them, There's many wonderful people out there who can't have children, who would want to have these children.

All of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life.

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.

My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.

We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.

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

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