Quotes About Children & Childhood – Page 9 | GloryQuotes

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

Philip Roth

I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.

Harry Mathews

Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.

Christopher Dodd

Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

Dick Armey

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Luther Burbank

I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.

Jack Kingston

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

Morley Safer

Good words will not give me back my children.

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.

Pierre Salinger

The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.

Martha Beck

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

Terence

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

Doug Larson

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Abigail Van Buren

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

Al Goldstein

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

Theodore Roosevelt

I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.

Caroline B. Cooney

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

Guy Laliberte

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.

Donna Tartt

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

Mary Antin

In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.

Renny Harlin

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.

Caroline B. Cooney

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Jackie Kennedy

People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn't.

Phyllis Schlafly

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

Walter Benjamin

My parents have been really supportive right from the very beginning.

Benjamin Cohen

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Bill Gates

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Maxim Gorky

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Pope John XXIII

Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

John Sununu

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

Leon Kass

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

Doris Lessing

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

Paul Farmer

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

John F. Kennedy

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

Mark Haddon

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Richard Whately

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Maria Montessori

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

Lynda Barry

To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.

Allen Klein

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Napolean Hill

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

Bill Moyers

Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.

John Kricfalusi

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.

Antonio Porchia

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

Joan Didion

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

Herman Melville