Children Quotes
18494 Children quotes by 7563 unique authors
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Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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Women's rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those who work outside…
— William Ruckelshaus
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Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make…
— Tecumseh
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We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in…
— Urvashi Vaid
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more secure future for our children and grandchildren.
— Simon Wiesenthal
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The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and nothing haunted the nostrils all…
— Edna Lewis
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It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
— Red Auerbach
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
— Herman Melville
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We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden,…
— Barack Obama
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Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
— George Washington
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At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You…
— Cesare Pavese
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The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression, nor encourage their unique abilities.
— Unknown Author
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The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his "mistakes." The more a child's work is full of these individual mistakes the…
— Franz Cizek
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Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
— Maria Montessori
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Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
— Pablo Picasso
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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.
— Edward Hoagland
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What its children become, that will the community become.
— Suzanne La Follette
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Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they…
— Sun Tzu
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If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover, of quelling disorder:…
— Sun Tzu
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The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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