Children Quotes

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

When I see that my geek may have contained some of the best parts of me, when I love and appreciate him, I set my children free to see themselves as lovable however they are.

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they'll be my main focus. I'd never put my career in front of my babies - it'd be a case of fitting jobs around them.

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived.

Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.

My dream is to eventually open a children's theatre.

Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.

The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.

I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.

Thank God I didn't have my children until I was a little bit older.

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs.

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.