Children Quotes

There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.
Rick Warren

Good words will not give me back my children.
Chief Joseph

Good, Words, Give

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
Harry Browne

Family, Government, Liberty

When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.
Cindy Crawford

Love, Good, Mom

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
John Wilmot

Before, Married, Three

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
Jackie Kennedy

Together, Old, Ask

Books, the children of the brain.
Jonathan Swift

I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.
Emo Philips

Love, Down, Watch

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
Alice Walker

Become, Often, Write

In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.
Michael J. Fox

Dancing, Weddings

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
Madeleine L'Engle

Book, Difficult, Write

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Time, Training, Order

We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Parents, Serious, Write

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
Phil McGraw

Home, Parent, Voice

I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.
Ida B. Wells

Home, School, Sunday

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
Mick Jagger

Age, Play, Early

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
Glenn Beck

Everyone, Everybody, Stop

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
Whitney Houston

Beauty, Future, Show

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash

Family, Women, Men

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter Scott

Wisdom, Poetry, Mind

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
William Feather

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
Otto von Bismarck

America, Idiots, United

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
George Santayana

Hope, Behind, Pathetic

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
Robert Benchley

Travel, Two, America

The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.
Pat Robertson

God, Best, Knowledge

When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.
Jim Henson

Said, Around, Show

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
Isadora Duncan

Love, True, Long

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.
Paul Ryan

History, Future, Crisis

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Jimmy Carter

Peace, Live, Together

Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder.
Alice Miller

Give, Turn, Whose

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