Children Quotes · Page 868

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

— John William Fletcher

We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we…

— Piero Ferrucci

School choice empowers families with the freedom to make important decisions to help their children achieve their full potential and secure a…

— Katie Britt

Our children are the living messages we send to a future we will ever see... Will we rob them of their destiny?…

— Elijah Cummings

I know that from my own experience, after I had my daughter Kelly, I felt great. I just wanted to get back…

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

I have a dream! Someday I'll show my children a map. I will tell them, 'Mommy was here and here and there…

— Katy Tur

I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation…

— Alison Gopnik

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

— Kathleen Turner

Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to heaven; therefore, if poverty…

— Richard Sibbes

The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to…

— Margaret Mead

There appears to be a disturbing trend in this nation to try to force single moms to choose between their children and…

— Gloria Allred

“I told her that we go to work to provide for our families, attend school functions that our children are involved in,…

— Jeffrey Lang

Them Jews aren't going to let (Obama) talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five…

— Jeremiah Wright

I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper…

— John Steinbeck

Everything that occurs in the temple is uplifting and ennobling. It speaks of life here and life beyond the grave. It speaks…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I remember Karoi as a very hot, flat place, but in reality, it is all hills. We just lived next to an…

— Alexandra Fuller

Symbolic racism is hurtful and it is especially hurtful to Black children who get called Black Pete in school and grow up…

— Roger Ross Williams

Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.

— Elizabeth Bishop

We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.

— Maria Montessori

Only a niche section of parents allow their children to take up courses on film and television.

— Amala Akkineni

Looking back, some of the happiest moments of my childhood were spent with my arm in packets of breakfast cereal, rootling around…

— Craig Brown

It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is…

— Denis Norden

“Let’s call me a shadow child, overlooked rather than broken. I’m the teddy bear gathering dust bunnies under the bed, not the…

— Dot Hutchison

You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall…

— Charles Spurgeon

I think I spent my whole childhood diving out of haylofts with my BB gun and coming out shooting.

— William Sadler

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

— Anonymous

“Don’t trouble yourself with the woes of life, for they will only prevent you from giving all of yourself to others. A…

— Dannika Dark

The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in…

— James Mercer

My wife and children seem to like me quite a bit, and as long as that is true, I'm really OK.

— Brian Williams

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

— Guy Laliberte

I read a couple of books a week. About 80 percent of what I read is contemporary literature for adults. The other…

— Kate DiCamillo

“He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder.”

— Patrick Ness

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants…

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

— Golda Meir

I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.

— Saul Bellow

I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like…

— Bill Maher

I'm just your everyday woman who is trying to feel good and be healthy for her daughter, her fiancé, and herself.

— Jessica Simpson

“Now that he was dead, Paul could look at him. The cop looked like a big doll that has been badly treated…

— Stephen King

I was, after all, the daughter of a man who believed that to be involved with books was to live at the…

— Mary Cantwell

Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing…

— Alan Cumming