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Children Quotes by Alice Walker
- We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to…
- HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants; none…
- HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To…
- We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
- I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be…
- The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
- It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
- At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a…
- It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the…
- I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert…
- A grown child is a dangerous thing.
- The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing…
- He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside…
- All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins…
- Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially…
- A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the…
- You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.
- I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.
- I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem…
- We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon