Quotes About Children & Childhood – Page 10 | GloryQuotes

I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.

Merton Miller

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

Andrea Dworkin

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

Xavier Becerra

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Brigham Young

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Samuel Rutherford

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

Tom G. Palmer

The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them.

John Ashcroft

A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right.

John Dos Passos

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

Benjamin Spock

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

Benjamin Spock

In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids.

Jhonen Vasquez

The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.

Leonard Boswell

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

David Antin

The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive.

Susan Smith

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.

William Greider

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

Christopher Lasch

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

Helen Dunmore

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Coco Chanel

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

Robert T. Bakker

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

Sam Levenson

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

Robert Bork

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

William Feather

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

Mary Harris Jones

Predators will look for any way to talk to children online whether through sites like Myspace, instant messaging, or even online games.

Mike Fitzpatrick

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.

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

Robert Kennedy

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

Barry Sonnenfeld

I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.

Tom Allen

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

Sam Levenson

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

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.

Bill Griffith

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

James Merrill

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

Maria Montessori

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.

Caroline B. Cooney

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Judith Viorst

In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.

Kenny Marchant

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

Charles Ives

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Frederick Douglass

It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.

Bill Nelson

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

Angelina Grimke

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

R. D. Laing

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

Andrei Platonov

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

Alfred Adler

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Abdul Kalam

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg