Children Quotes

18494 Children quotes by 7563 unique authors

Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn. Children don't have… — Carl Sagan
35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children.… — Jeff Bridges
In this country that grows more food than any other nation on this earth, it is unthinkable that any child should go hungry. — Sela Ward
A child regards your cheery smile as evidence that you are on his side, so he relaxes and is happier. — George W. Crane
School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies a day per… — Drew Barrymore
The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being and productivity of future generations… — Carol Bellamy
There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children. — William J. Clinton
We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future… — Blythe Danner
We're not locked in to these conditions that degrade the environment, and jeopardize the future of our children. — Dennis Kucinich
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources… — Margaret Mead
We must come to terms with our responsibility to be the gatekeepers to end childhood hunger. Our love for life can propel us to share… — Edward James Olmos
If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding… — Elizabeth Edwards
I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and grief, and pain, I soon… — Charles Wesley
The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Aren't grown up people just little children at heart? — Adolphe Menjou
True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. — William Shakespeare
The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind. — Maria Montessori
We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who… — Maria Montessori
Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence. — Maria Montessori
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect… — David Hume
Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother,… — James Anthony Froude
You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world. — Hans Rosling
Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs… — Natalie Portman
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the… — George Bernard Shaw
To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought,… — William Cobbett

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