Children Quotes
18494 Children quotes by 7563 unique authors
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There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
— Frank A. Clark
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It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of…
— Christine Gregoire
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In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.
— Clay Aiken
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Advertising is not a rifle; it is a shotgun, and any campaign featuring outdoor boards of a cartoon animal inevitably will catch children in its…
— Bob Garfield
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Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
— Benjamin Franklin
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When a mother asked her small child how he fell out of bed, he answered, "Because I wasn't in far enough." Let me just say…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much…
— Nana Mouskouri
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I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make…
— George Carlin
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Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.
— Richard Bach
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The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very…
— Arnold Bennett
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I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of…
— Sam Keen
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I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child
— Angelina Jolie
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I promise that if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration to your families, to your…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not…
— Bob Dole
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If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black…
— Malcolm X
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Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of…
— Thomas de Quincey
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What will your children remember? We can change the world inside our own houses. Take the gift of this moment and make something beautiful of…
— Gloria Gaither
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God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the…
— Phyllis McGinley
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Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like…
— Louisa May Alcott
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When a child is born the mother also is born again.
— Gilbert Parker
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Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound…
— Charles Dickens
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The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm,…
— Kate Chopin
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I felt very maternal around eight months. And I thought I couldn't become any more until I saw the baby... But it happened during my…
— Beyonce Knowles
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When I was younger, there were moments where I said, 'I'm not going to have children.' And then moments when I wanted four. And now…
— Beyonce Knowles
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