Quotes About Children & Childhood – Page 7 | GloryQuotes

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

Amos Oz

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

Dennis Potter

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

There is virtually nothing I wouldn't be willing to do, to try and make sure that children have a fair shake in life.

Daniel Keys Moran

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

J. B. Priestley

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

Rainer Maria Rilke

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.

Phyllis Schlafly

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

Norman Mailer

In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.

Christiane Amanpour

One in seven Americans, including more than 8 million children, does not have even basic healthcare coverage.

Dave Reichert

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

Leon Kass

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Benjamin Franklin

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Franklin P. Jones

It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.

Martha Gellhorn

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Clarence Darrow

Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach.

Temple Grandin

The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.

Rocco Buttiglione

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis.

Mike Judge

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

Sitting Bull

I don t think cartoons are only for kids, but I think kids will love anything as long as it's visually interesting.

John Kricfalusi

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

Antoine Rivarol

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

David Rockefeller

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

Mignon McLaughlin

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

Dennis Potter

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

Polly Toynbee

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

Donna Tartt

There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

Doug Larson

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.

Georg Brandes

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

Agatha Christie

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

Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.

Jim Harrison

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Franklin P. Jones

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

Guru Nanak

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

Marian Wright Edelman

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.

Alice Walker

I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world.

Steven Cojocaru

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

Albert Ellis

When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

Daniel Greenberg

Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children.

Martin Bashir

If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.

Barbara Boxer

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Hosea Ballou

Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.

Michael N. Castle