Children Quotes

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

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

Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.

Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.

I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.

The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible.

President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe, and he has several things to this effect, that he would like to provide universal preschool or at least far more preschool for our children.

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

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.

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

My children were born into this. They will always be the grandchildren of the President and First Lady of the United States.

I have failed to continue to set an example for a secure, loving family unit as an example for our children. That is the reality of it. There is no way of getting around it.

You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.

The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.

When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.

Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.

To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.

Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted.