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Quotes About Children

I find in animals the same thing I find so wonderful in children. That purity, that honesty, where they don't judge you, they just want to be your friend. I think that is so sweet.
~ Michael Jackson
When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.
~ Kevin Bacon
I am reminded of yet one more reason why I avoid children, why I have remained intentionally childless. Children make ruthless biographers and terrifying judges.
~ Kyo Maclear, Stray Love
Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.
~ Henri Nouwen
A good example is a better legacy for children than wealth or honor.
~ Charles Simmons
Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
~ John F. Kennedy
I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
~ Beverly Cleary
By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
~ Gloria Steinem
For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.
~ Stanley Hauerwas
The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let's hope America keeps producing nicer white people.
~ Chris Rock
Two kangaroos were talking to each other, and one said, 'I hope it doesn't rain today. I hate it when the children play inside.
~ Henny Youngman
I hope that I have given happiness to others. I hope I have given children to the world, and that I have made some kind of a mark for myself here.
~ Jayne Mansfield
I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.
~ Beverly Cleary
Those of you who have fallen prey to any kind of addiction, there is hope because God loves all of His children
~ M. Russell Ballard
I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future.
~ Anna Quindlen
I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.
~ Blythe Danner
I hope you are reading to your children, out loud. That's much better than watching television, much better. They won't get very much out of television except some bad thoughts.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
The other night, the president gave a speech. He said, "children are our most prescious natural resource". I thought, "let's hope it never comes to that".
~ Emo Philips
Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.
~ William Wordsworth
Hope smiled when your nativity was cast, Children of Summer!
~ William Wordsworth
Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.
~ Mark Helprin
Children who know they are loved, know they have a purpose, and know they have a hope are prepared for anything this world wants to dish up.
~ Tim Kimmel
Funds raised create hope for kids with cancer. Research is our top priority for discovering a cure.
~ Jeff Gordon