Children Quotes

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Honore de Balzac

Beauty, Alone, Woman

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
Princess Diana

Fight, Human, Public

Let your children go if you want to keep them.
Malcolm Forbes

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mignon McLaughlin

Parents, Long, Before

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
Gore Vidal

Yourself, Parents, Forever

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.
Chuck Palahniuk

Book, Trying, Stories

I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.
Christopher Meloni

Love, Joy, Energy

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson

Women, Become, Leave

Finance, like time, devours its own children.
Honore de Balzac

Time, Finance, Devours

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
Shirley Jones

School, Made, Friends

We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet.
John Lynch

Moral, State, Needs

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.
Todd Tiahrt

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
John Adams

Love, Long, Heroes

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Education, Future, Today

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow

Parents, Lives, Second

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
James Russell Lowell

Love, Peace, God

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.
Richard Armour

Marriage, Husband, Wife

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
Samuel Johnson

Happy, Find, Allow

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
Laura Bush

Learning, Find, Wonderful

But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and we don't betray. We're not jealous. We're not envious. We're not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness.
Colin Farrell

Judge, Jealous, Eyes

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
Rudyard Kipling

Why, Tell, Often

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Art, Knowledge, Greatest

Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.
Phyllis Diller

Work, Advice, Away

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
E. M. Forster

Good, Luck, Playing

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
Alice Hoffman

Work, Time, Thinking

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James Thurber

Women, Maybe, Somewhere

The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
Pope John Paul II

Child, Year, United

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Francis Bacon

Bitter, Labours

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
William Gibson

Daily, Nation, Taught

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman

Best, Give, Find

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