Children Quotes

But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood.

I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.

No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock.

The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

There is no overt rivalry among our children.

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

All children have rights and those rights must be protected.

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.

I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around.

I very much like Kenya. It's hard to beat the Masai Mara and the idea of ballooning across it. I have a great time at Lewa. There's more rhinos than you'll find anywhere. A great part for the children is you can ride horses with the giraffes and the zebra.

Now I have children of my own. They ask their mother what will I be. Will I be handsome, will I be rich?

All revolutions devour their own children.

I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.

The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.

Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

We children learned responsibility automatically.

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

When I learned how millions of children go to bed hungry, my only response was, 'What can I do to help?'

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.