Children Quotes

In my career, there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved, but for me, my greatest achievement is my children and my family. It's about being a good father, a good husband, just being connected to family as much as possible.

~ David Beckham

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

~ Khalil Gibran

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

~ Khalil Gibran

I believe in the value of life. I believe we must prepare our children for tomorrow with the family values of my grandparents.

~ Ryan Zinke

I am blessed to have married the man that God sent me. He's loving, compassionate, strong and supportive of my children, family and career. I look forward to our lives together.

~ Monica

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

~ Walt Disney

The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.

~ Kerry Washington

The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I'm doing good.

~ Kate Winslet

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

~ Harry Browne

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

~ Ednita Nazario

In the family, in interpersonal relationships, even in friendship, faith is tremendously important. If you have a partner who you believe is a good person, then it is your duty to have faith in them until the end, despite the fact that they might have done some bad things. And you have to support and believe in your children.

~ Greg Graffin

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

~ George Eliot

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

~ Jackie Kennedy

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

~ Penelope Cruz

I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.

~ Corazon Aquino

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.

~ Hilda Solis

I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do that it's inborn. I'm not asking that. All I'm saying is don't let these children suffer without a family because of your bias.

~ Rosie O'donnell

My wife once said that one of her great ambitions was to walk down the streets of Hong Kong with her children. So we all went to Asia on one occasion. Then she said she'd like to walk down the streets of Jerusalem with her children. So we arranged our family finances and all went to Jerusalem.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.

~ Martha Plimpton

I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

~ Anne Hathaway

When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family.

~ Jung Chang

I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

~ Jane Smiley

Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons.

~ Bobby Brown

It's really all about family, love and the children for me. I work at that every day.

~ Celine Dion

But I want to start a family one day, and be involved in more charities, helping children.

~ Lily Aldridge

I would love to have a complete family. I'd love to do it all at once. I'd love to be able to give to my children what my parents were able to give to me. And if I'm blessed to be able to do that, fantastic. If I'm not, then life goes on. You have to do the best you can. I do think we have to bring the family back; I do.

~ Michael Ealy

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

~ Angelina Jolie

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

~ George Clooney

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

~ Heidi Klum

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

~ Francesca Annis

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

~ Mel Gibson

With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one.

~ Ginnifer Goodwin

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

~ Jessica Lange

I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children.

~ Günter Grass

Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.

~ Christopher Alexander

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

~ Shirley Knight

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

~ Marcelene Cox

Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent in all that one does, from the books you read to the way you bring up your children. Everything you do is connected.

~ David Chipperfield

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

~ Denis Waitley

The swashbuckling independence of my childhood was not all good, and as a father, I'm puzzling out how to be part of my children's lives rather than shoehorning them into mine. But there's a risk that I'll overcompensate, of course.

~ John Dickerson