Quotes About Children & Childhood – Page 4 | GloryQuotes

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

Andrew Young

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Democritus

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

William J. Clinton

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

Laurence J. Peter

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

James A. Baldwin

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.

Donna Tartt

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.

Elizabeth I

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

Donald Rumsfeld

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

Ogden Nash

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

Jack Prelutsky

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990.

Carol Bellamy

The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.

Jock Sturges

Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility.

Joe Baca

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

e. e. cummings

Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.

Gordon Getty

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

Peter De Vries

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

Donna Tartt

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

Andrew Vachss

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

Ken Thompson

You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.

Temple Grandin

Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.

Jack Kingston

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.

Bob Ney

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

Martha Beck

The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.

William Cowper

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

Rabindranath Tagore

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

Susan George

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

John Updike

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

Quintilian

Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.

Christopher Dodd

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

Charles Darwin

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

Walter Annenberg

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

Patrick J. Kennedy

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

Yoko Ono

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

Sandra Day O'Connor

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries