Children Quotes

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

~ Bertrand Russell

I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born - I started getting wicked BO. You know there's a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

~ Dave Grohl

I'm an ambassador for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and one of the children, his wish was to go to the Emmys, so he's going to be my date, along with my husband, and my dad and his girlfriend. So we're going to have a really fun night and it's going to be really exciting. I'm really excited for him to experience that.

~ Christina Hendricks

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

~ Fred Allen

My father loved people, children and pets.

~ Tony Visconti

Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.

~ Anthony Quinn

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

~ Robert Bly

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

~ Christine Gregoire

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

~ Sitting Bull

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

~ Wilfrid Laurier

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

~ Hillary Clinton

We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life and to an equal opportunity to reach their full potential as citizens. Those children who have been denied that right in the past deserve better than to see fences thrown up to deny them that right in the future.

~ Thurgood Marshall

I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.

~ Tawakkol Karman

I'm the son of a pediatrician, and I do believe that the most important resource we have is our kids. And I think the most important thing for America's future is to invest more in our children.

~ Ezekiel Emanuel

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

~ Charles Darwin

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

~ Fred G. Gosman

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

~ Kofi Annan

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

~ Rob Reiner

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

~ Marian Wright Edelman

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.

~ Usher

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

~ Maggie Q

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

~ James Hansen

Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.

~ Michael N. Castle

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.

~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison