Quotes About Children & Childhood – Page 6 | GloryQuotes

Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children.

John Pople

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.

Charles Foster Bass

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Thomas Szasz

We have very specific rules about how we go to market with children, and I think they are very responsible.

Jim Cantalupo

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

Laurence J. Peter

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Maria Montessori

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.

John Mortimer

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

Thornton Wilder

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

Martha Beck

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

Major Owens

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

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

Linus Torvalds

Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.

Maggie Gallagher

Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

Camille Claudel

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.

Joe Baca

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

Frank Howard Clark

Millions of Americans, adults and children, lack access to dental care.

Michael K. Simpson

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

Wangari Maathai

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

It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.

Henry Lawson

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.

Ron Reagan

But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television.

Jhonen Vasquez

Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents.

Rod Blagojevich

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

Roger Ascham

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

Kate DiCamillo

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

Napoleon Bonaparte

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Charles Dickens

Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn.

Roy Barnes

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

Jesus Christ

Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.

Carol Bellamy

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

Clarence Day

Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

Mignon McLaughlin

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

Alan Rudolph

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

Hillary Clinton

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

John Updike

We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.

Temple Grandin

Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.

Peter Straub

Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times.

Allen Klein

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

Jean Baudrillard

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease.

Michael K. Simpson

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

Swami Sivananda