Children Quotes

I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact that we are taking the tab for defense in our time against terrorists in the Middle East and elsewhere and shoving this tab off onto our children.

Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family.

It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children.

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.

I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS.

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

Gwen and I have four children and ten grandchildren.

I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated.

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

I'm the star of stage, screen, and television now, but I'm also available for children's parties and bar mitzvahs.

Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.

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

I pitched my last children's show presentation in the mid 1980's. The era of locally produced children's shows was over and the networks were not and are not interested in children's television.

I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me.

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.