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

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
Abdul Kalam

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

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George Santayana

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Maria Montessori

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
Sara Teasdale

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.
George W. Bush

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
Benjamin Disraeli

My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.
Tracey Emin

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.
Stevie Nicks

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

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis Bacon

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

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.
Hillary Clinton

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.
Albert Ellis

Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.
Hillary Clinton

We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.
Hillary Clinton

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert