Children Quotes

I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful.

People in China say: 'If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your children, also send them to New York.'

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

All of a sudden I had a baby, because it went really quick. It was like, 'Oh! I have a baby!' So, it's great. I'm just having a great time with my children. They're here in New York with me.

The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing.

Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'

We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

Whatever I have not yet learned to tolerate in myself inevitably will appear in my children. In this way, they, like Julia, guide me to a new level of self-awareness and everyone benefits.

And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.

We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty.

Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.

And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.

Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.

I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.

It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!

By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.

Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.