Children Quotes

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

~ Jean Baudrillard

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.

~ Bill Hicks

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

~ David Brenner

I like children - fried.

~ W. C. Fields

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

~ Phyllis Diller

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

~ Lucille Ball

Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.'

~ Dylan Moran

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

~ Samuel Butler

Before the Kennedys were elected, there had been older Presidents. Then here was this devastatingly attractive young couple with two beautiful children. They were so intelligent, graceful, gracious and funny. They enjoyed life so much. That's what caught America's eye.

~ Letitia Baldrige

All my children inherited perfect pitch.

~ Chevy Chase

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

~ Meryl Streep

The imagination of our children is blunted on television, and their thinking is done for them.

~ Stanley R. Jaffe

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.

~ Richard Dawkins

Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this.

~ Lydia Millet

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

~ J. C. Watts

Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked out of them by turning into adults and life experiences.

~ Nicolas Cage

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

~ Chris Van Allsburg

My children have been all over the world, and I think it's so good for them: expanding their horizons and imagination and seeing how other people live.

~ Keeley Hawes

Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children's Laureate post exists.

~ Anthony Browne

The nomads' egalitarian lifestyle astonished the Greeks, who kept their own women indoors weaving and minding children. The exotic Scythian lifestyle fueled the Greek imagination and led to an outpouring of myths about fierce Amazons, 'the equals of men.'

~ Adrienne Mayor

In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.

~ Darell Hammond

Writing for children isn't easy. Kids will abandon a story that doesn't interest, enchant, delight, thrill, or terrify them. But when you can find a way into a young reader's imagination through something as simple as words on paper, well, there's nothing more satisfying.

~ Kate Klise

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

~ R. D. Laing

I consider myself very fortunate indeed to have created a character which has captured the imagination and enthusiasm of so many children worldwide. They are my family, and Spot belongs to them all.

~ Eric Hill

The old, sad art colors are gone. Now I paint bright colors. I paint paintings which are happy, where children are laughing and playing with animals. I paint paradise on Earth. I still paint sadness sometimes, but there is sadness in the world, too.

~ Margaret Keane

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

~ Audrey Hepburn

People have come to me for my opinion since 'October Baby.' But, hey, look, I'm an actor who is very fortunate to be in a movie that's making wonderful noise, and hopefully helping parents and children to be a little closer. Leave me alone. I'm not talking about politics. I'm just trying to have a conversation with my own kids.

~ John Schneider

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

~ Herbert Hoover

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again.

~ Dr. Seuss

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

~ Jonathan Sacks

Where is instruction in relationships, in the management of career, in the raising of children, in the pursuit of friendship, in the wise approach to anxiety and death? All this sort of stuff I craved to learn about when I was a student and down to this day.

~ Alain De Botton

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

If the food of friendship is time together, how do we make the time to ensure we're all fed? My friends and I have recently come across a way to keep each other close. It fits into our lifestyles despite busy schedules and a surfeit of children. We call it the 'kibbutz.'

~ Nir Eyal

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.

~ Dolly Parton

It's kind of sad, the way we've turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli - something to feel guilty about if you don't force it on your face-making children while dutifully consuming a few token florets yourself.

~ Lynn Coady

Our generation, unfortunately, is stuck to our phones - and, like, Twitter - constantly, which I have no problem with. I'd say we're not describing the children of America or anything like that, but there is something to take from it: It is kind of sad how we can't go thirty minutes without checking our phone.

~ Israel Broussard

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

~ Michael Jackson

There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world.

~ Alice Morse Earle

What we want to help children with is, just because you feel sad or happy or depressed doesn't mean that is who you are. We want them to know, 'I am really sad right now, but I am not a sad person.'

~ Goldie Hawn

I'm very sad 'Life' wasn't a big hit, But it was undone by politics at NBC. It was intense. I moved my wife, and we had two children back to back. So working those hours and living abroad in L.A. was a handful. But it was a great experience.

~ Damian Lewis