Children Quotes

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Desmond Tutu

Heart, Wonderful, Gift

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
Ernest Istook

Education, Home, Parents

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Character, Parents, Real

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
Alice Walker

Care, Humanity, Left

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.
Todd Tiahrt

Home, Mother, Father

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Knowledge, Evil, Natural

You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.
Nicole Kidman

Respect, Anger, Help

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon

Men, Death, Fear

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.
Gary Oldman

Put, Away, Quiet

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
Woodrow Wilson

Women, Great, Men

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

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Abigail Van Buren

Put, Keep, Feet

Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
Fran Lebowitz

Off, Few, Clothes

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.
P. J. O'Rourke

Funny, Friends, Become

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.
Colin Powell

Giving, Learn, Often

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.
Black Elk

Mother, Father, Made

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Future, Awesome, Ourselves

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
Jean Baudrillard

Funny, Revenge, Nothing

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
Fran Lebowitz

Obvious, Relieved, Washed

Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
Fran Lebowitz

Sex, Small, Bother

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Sun, Earth, Buildings

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
Desmond Tutu

God, Help, Different

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna Quindlen

Enough, Content, Building

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
Democritus

Life, Success, Battle

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
Marie Antoinette

Alone, Mother, Husband

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Michel de Montaigne

Sports, Serious, Actions

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.
Marianne Williamson

Money, Society, Important

I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'
Richard Dawkins

Young, Islamic, Catholic

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
Rita Rudner

Last, Question, Guy

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
Ralph Marston

Time, Nothing, Moment

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