Children Quotes

18494 Children quotes by 7563 unique authors

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have… — C.S. Lewis
There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned,… — Edward McKendree Bounds
We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation… — Richard Riley
My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I'm an… — Condoleezza Rice
In 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, there was a teenage girl who was pregnant with her second child. She was a high school dropout and a… — Jared Leto
Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears. — Kate Winslet
The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best. — Emma Thompson
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is… — Rajneesh
Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering… — Charlotte Gray
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. — George Eliot
Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes… — Agatha Christie
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a… — Toni Morrison
I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to. — Pamela Anderson
I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me. — Bill Watterson
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is… — Phyllis Diller
He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will… — Laozi
Our attitude toward abortion . . . is fixed by our knowledge that according to an eternal plan all of the spirit children of God… — Dallin H. Oaks
In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult belonging has to be chosen,… — John O'Donohue
I do not believe that the people of the United States are going to take people who have been here a quarter century, who have… — Newt Gingrich
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child. But… — Ed Koch
Many of the self-described "political refugees" who come here make stopovers in other countries on their way to the U.S., in places where they would… — Ed Koch
The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated. — Washington Irving
He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the… — Sydney Smith
...if we want to meet the obligations of our civilization and our culture which are to create communities for our children that provide them with… — Robert Kennedy

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