Children Quotes
40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.
~Tom Lantos
~Tom Lantos
A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.
~Marion Zimmer Bradley
~Marion Zimmer Bradley
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
~Groucho Marx
~Groucho Marx
A child of one can be taught not to do certain things such as touch a hot stove, turn on the gas, pull lamps off their tables by their cords, or wake mommy before noon.
~Joan Rivers
~Joan Rivers
A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.
~Nick Rahall
~Nick Rahall
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
~Richard Whately
~Richard Whately
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
~Victor Hugo
~Victor Hugo
A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way.
~Marcelene Cox
~Marcelene Cox
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
~John James Audubon
~John James Audubon
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
~Gore Vidal
~Gore Vidal
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
~Fran Lebowitz
~Fran Lebowitz
All of a sudden I had a baby, because it went really quick. It was like, 'Oh! I have a baby!' So, it's great. I'm just having a great time with my children. They're here in New York with me.
~Catherine Zeta-Jones
~Catherine Zeta-Jones
All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps.
~Ninette de Valois
~Ninette de Valois
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
~Jean Jacques Rousseau
~Jean Jacques Rousseau
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
~Phyllis Diller
~Phyllis Diller
And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.
~Michael Jackson
~Michael Jackson
And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.
~David Dinkins
~David Dinkins
Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.
~Unknown
~Unknown
As a person who has spent my career as a child psychologist and have dealt with many children who have struggled with many problems in families, I have seen families ripped apart by so many things that sometimes law has tried to deal with.
~Timothy Murphy
~Timothy Murphy
As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.
~David Rockefeller
~David Rockefeller
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
~Joseph Priestley
~Joseph Priestley
At the toughest times I recalled how the children and the elderly looked at me with trustful eyes. Your faith has given me strength.
~Viktor Yushchenko
~Viktor Yushchenko
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
~John Wilmot
~John Wilmot
Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.
~Ann Oakley
~Ann Oakley
Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.
~Julie Walters
~Julie Walters
Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
~Jonathan Carroll
~Jonathan Carroll
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
~Harriet Ann Jacobs
~Harriet Ann Jacobs
But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by.
~John Shadegg
~John Shadegg
Cartooning has come a long way. It started out as an adult medium, for satirical purposes; then the appeal to children got emphasized.
~Bill Griffith
~Bill Griffith
Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be--they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.
~Delia Ephron
~Delia Ephron
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.
~R. Buckminster Fuller
~R. Buckminster Fuller
Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.
~Faith Hill
~Faith Hill
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
~Francois Fenelon
~Francois Fenelon
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
~Haim Ginott
~Haim Ginott
Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.
~Moira Kelly
~Moira Kelly
Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it.
~Paul Winchell
~Paul Winchell
Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
~Fran Lebowitz
~Fran Lebowitz
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