Children Quotes

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.

Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.

You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language?

Whenever I date a guy, I think, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

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.

When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.

I think that being a conscious parent opens your eyes to the fact that any adult relationships that you have, whenever children are present on a daily basis, that they're modeling how they get along with people by what they see how you get along.

We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.

I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I'm having right now being gone.

On becoming a mother, I sort of feel like every kid is my kid. I really do get that sense in a much more profound way that we all are a global community and we all have to band to try and give the children of our this generation whatever tools we can to go out into this world and try and make it a better place.

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

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.

I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.

I dropped to the lowest point when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without me.

I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children are going to look back and say, 'What? You were around when gay people weren't allowed to get married?'

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

Women just weren't made to bear children to give them away.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

Children are very addicting. Once they start growing up, you miss when they were little.

I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

My parents were just searching for an alternative way of raising their children.