Children Quotes

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.

~ Diane Abbott

Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.

~ Gro Harlem Brundtland

Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.

~ Mark Hyman

As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You know, it's clowns and kid's toys and bright colors and things like that.

~ Anthony Bourdain

The Project Angel Food Program's mission is to nourish the body and spirit of men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS and other serious illness. The Project Angel Food Program delivers free and nutritious meals prepared with love. We act out of a sense of urgency because hunger and illness cannot wait.

~ Marianne Williamson

As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.

~ Jose Andres

When children are exposed to advertisements for unhealthy food, they will, in turn, consume significantly unhealthier rather than healthy calories as a result.

~ Chuck Norris

Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the prisoner of war camps. It became routine for me to line up three times a day to eat lousy food in a noisy mess hall. It became normal for me to go with my father to bathe in a mass shower.

~ George Takei

It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.

~ Samantha Morton

Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and schools are selling astronomical amounts of junk food in order to supplement shrinking budgets. It's a ticking time bomb, and America's children are exploding.

~ Lisa Ling

By giving the FDA adequate resources and authority to both prevent outbreaks and intervene once they appear, we can support the administration's efforts to reassure the parents of America that the food they feed their children is the product of the safest system in the world.

~ Diana Degette

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

~ Dwight L. Moody

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

~ Christopher Hitchens

I remember the first time going to St. Jude. I didn't like going there because the children were ill, and it just broke my heart. It makes you test your religion when you see something like that. But the Lord doesn't want just old people. You know, He wants some young people, too, and good people. He takes care of them. He takes care of them.

~ Lee Trevino

For many people who were never religious or who leave the religion of their childhood behind, it's the experience of having children of your own that brings an urgency to the question of what you believe.

~ Krista Tippett

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

~ Mary Garden

For one who feels compelled, as I do, to accept the existence of the Master Architect, it is important to examine his handiwork for the light it throws on him and on his program for his children. For me, there has been no serious difficulty in reconciling the principles of true science with the principles of true religion.

~ Henry Eyring

I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

~ Yehuda Amichai

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

~ Noah Webster

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

~ Ralph Marston

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

~ Grace Abbott

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

~ Thomas Paine

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

~ Chanakya

It's very difficult to take candid portraits of children because they're moving around all the time.

~ Ren Ng

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

~ Charlie Sheen

We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married.

~ Hugh Hefner

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

~ Jonathan Carroll

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

~ Pat Robertson

If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.

~ Emmeline Pankhurst

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

~ Hồ Chí Minh

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

~ Herbert Hoover

The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.

~ Robert Casey

Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.

~ Kid Rock

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

~ Margaret Mead

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

~ H. L. Mencken

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

~ Isabel Allende

Humanitarian issues must bring together all people who act in good faith trying to alleviate the suffering of people in dire need - especially women, children and the elderly.

~ Sergei Lavrov

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.

~ Coretta Scott King