Children Quotes

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
Garrison Keillor

Women, Men, Strong

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.
Lance Armstrong

Hope, Fight, Give

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Margaret Mead

Age, Religion, Sex

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
H. L. Mencken

God, Failure, Long

Age merely shows what children we remain.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Age, Shows, Remain

I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.
Barack Obama

Gay, Doubt, Friends

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Done, Revolution, Give

Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.
W. C. Fields

Bad, Anyone, Hates

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
Robert Kennedy

Struggle, Down, Far

If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the peace and freedom of the world require it.
Mitt Romney

Work, Peace, Freedom

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Robert Orben

Hand, Leaves, Raise

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Society, Moral, Test

We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better.
Mitt Romney

Life, Night, America

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
Henry Ward Beecher

And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.
Mitt Romney

Love, Government, Job

You see much more of your children once they leave home.
Lucille Ball

Home, Once, Leave

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.
Steven Wright

Purpose, Few, Books

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.
Hillary Clinton

Future, Before, Wish

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher

Heaven, Hands, Hold

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.
Michael Jackson

Love, Enjoy, Sick

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Robert Fulghum

Worry, Listen, Watching

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.
Franklin P. Jones

Women, Husband, Care

The soul is healed by being with children.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.
Michael Jackson

Friends, Brothers, Parties

Once you have six children, you're committed.
Angelina Jolie

Once, Six, Committed

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
Stephen King

Life, Beauty, Pretty

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

Work, Good, Women

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
Margaret Mead

Point, Knows, Knew

I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.
Hillary Clinton

Life, Men, Understand

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
Sitting Bull

Life, Together, Put

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