Children Quotes

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.

But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

I really like children to watch my movies.

I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.

I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions.

I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children.

I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.

With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.

Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or tidal wave can attract 1,000 aid organisations, from the United Nations Children's Fund and Oxfam to the 'Jesus Brigades' of the American south and other charitable adventurers.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again.' I can't bring my mom back, but I can have children.

I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella.