Children Quotes · Page 348

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

— Susan George

When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.

— Didi Conn

“My job is to help my children believe in and belong to themselves.”

— Brené Brown

So Carol, you're a housewife and mother. And have you got any children?

— Michael Barrymore

As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark

— Peggy Fleming

But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me.

— Heidi Klum

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.

— Willie Stargell

Kids are like farts. You dont mind your own, but other peoples are unbearable.

— Emalie Newhall

I grew up Catholic and still feel a lot of Catholic guilt. But my wife is not religious so we're not raising…

— Bert Kreischer

“Remember when we were children and life was simple; how I yearn to return to those days.”

— A.H. Septimius

Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

— Hugh Jackman

It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore.

— Zilpha Keatley Snyder

I wanted to write a book for children about animals that would be factual, different, fun and varied.

— Michaela Strachan

From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is…

— Leo Tolstoy

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet?…

— Anne Tyler

I see pundits on the box, saying kids will watch 'Match of the Day' and copy what they see, but if you…

— Joey Barton

Special Needs People are innocence personified. They remain innocent throughout their lives. They are meant to be God's own children. The love…

— Chandrababu VS

O my child, bethink you that just as the bee, having gathered heaven's dew and earth's sweetest juices from amid the flowers,…

— Saint Francis de Sales

“Things last, but sometimes for days here only children seem fit to handle children, and there is no utility or inspiration in…

— Robert Lowell

“Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my…

— Jeanette Winterson

All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great…

— Xenophon

“The negative impacts (of biofuels) were much greater than most had anticipated...the amount of crops needed to fill an SUV’s fuel tank…

— Bjorn Lomborg

It is clear that God is saying, 'I gave man dominion over the earth, but he lost it. Now I desire mature…

— Pat Robertson

Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear.

— Madonna Ciccone

I wanted to have children and I wanted to be with the person I was in love with.

— Helen Baxendale

Kids are life's only guaranteed, bona fide upside surprise.

— Jack Nicholson

There's kids falling through the cracks of this society every, single day.

— Leigh Anne Tuohy

A child who thinks he can't do anything on his own eventually can't.

— Lenore Skenazy

“The children of God can defeat the adversary, for we have fought him before.”

— Chris Stewart

Everyone should be in the business of protecting children. What if it were your own?

— Anonymous

The rediscovered path, where were left the traces of childhood's lost steps.

— Milan Kundera

I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.

— Iris Apfel

Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.

— Laura Bush

“We often sing lullabyes to our children that we ourselves may sleep.”

— Kahlil Gibran

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

— Diane Abbott

People think that you are a nasty, selfish person if you don't want to have children.

— Janeane Garofalo

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

— George W. Bush

The age of a child is inversely correlated with the size of the animals it prefers.

— Desmond Morris

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

— Adele Faber