Children Quotes

When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children's book for the times.

~ Rick Riordan

I enjoy 'Murphy Brown,' but I am shocked that people really like 'Married... With Children.' These shows are toilet humor, and none of them have good characters.

~ Jamie Farr

For me, true beauty has nothing to do with wrinkles and everything to do with the fact that my maternal grandmother raised five children just after the war and remained a fighter throughout her life. True beauty is the slick of red lipstick my paternal grandmother would put on before going to church on Sunday.

~ Monica Bellucci

In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.

~ Malala Yousafzai

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.

~ Judy Biggert

If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

~ Barry Mccaffrey

I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter.

~ Ishmael Beah

We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.

~ Peter Shaffer

One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories.

~ Suzanne Collins

I wouldn't want to go back over my life. I've done it all. I wouldn't have wanted to miss the Marine Corps. I wouldn't have wanted to miss the war. I wouldn't have missed college. Or playin' for the Colts. I got all the money I need. Five children. I got a truck. I have no regrets whatsoever.

~ Art Donovan

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

~ Germaine Greer

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

~ Benjamin Spock

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

~ H. L. Mencken

Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.

~ Bill O'reilly

In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

~ Gail Sheehy

As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.

~ Michael Gove

The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.

~ Henry B. Eyring

Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.

~ Bill Dedman

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

~ Joseph Barber Lightfoot

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

~ Theodore Hesburgh

Patriotism is not an abstract concept. It begins from one's own home. It buds out from the love for one's parents, spouses and children, the love for one's own home, village and workplace, and further develops into the love for one's country and fellow people.

~ Kim Jong-Un

I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children.

~ Hugh Hefner

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

~ Roger Moore

My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.

~ Gena Lee Nolin

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

~ Plato

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

~ H. Jackson Brown

To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.

~ James E. Faust

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

~ Carl Jung

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

~ James Dobson

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

~ Ogden Nash

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

~ Jackie Kennedy

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

~ Benjamin Spock

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

~ Denis Waitley

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

~ Anne Sullivan

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

~ Princess Diana

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

~ Anna Quindlen

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

~ Garrison Keillor

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

~ George Bernard Shaw