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Quotes About Children

A lot of times, people say, 'My work didn't suffer with family.' I would go a step further: My career only flourished upon having children. It got better.
~ Lisa Joy
In the picture, I am crying from pain. Now, I cry for peace. I don't want to see any more children suffer.
~ Phan Thi Kim Phuc
I didn't end her career. She chose to have children, then to make the simple choice that everyone should make really. You can't be a movie star and have children and not have one of the two suffer.
~ Sean Hepburn Ferrer
Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there's a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There's a beautiful side to her; she's not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.
~ Angelina Jolie
My kids suffered because I wasn't home enough.
~ Anne Murray
Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin, but also secures for us the true liberty of the children of God, in order that we might do all things out of love rather than out of fear - love for him that has shown us such grace that no greater can be found.
~ Peter Abelard
I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren.
~ Kathleen Battle
I have two children of my own. Crying is not evidence of pain or any real suffering. It's really just the way children communicate.
~ Jill Greenberg
I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.
~ Ingmar Bergman
We need our children in Jamaica - especially those suffering with dyslexia, autism, cerebral palsy - to get more attention.
~ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.
~ Carol Bellamy
Even if you were aware of children and felt compassion, when you have your own, it multiplies. It breaks your heart to know that there are so many children in the world suffering so much.
~ Penelope Cruz
Why are kids being inundated with food that is not good for them, when we're suffering from an obesity crisis? Is the U.S. government talking out of both sides of its mouth, promoting bad food while telling us not to eat it?
~ Jane Velez-Mitchell
Hamas, they are using civilians' lives, they are using children, they are using the suffering of people every day to achieve their goals. And this is what I hate.
~ Mosab Hassan Yousef
Communities are suffering, children are suffering, and our immigration policy appears in disarray.
~ Jeff Fortenberry
I have two children of my own; I can't imagine anything more horrific than to have a child suffering with EB.
~ Ian Ziering
I have a dream to provide every Chinese, especially children, sufficient milk each day.
~ Wen Jiabao
Secure, safe borders with physical barriers, proper technology, manpower, and a sufficient number of judges is attainable and important to the security of our nation. We must also treat these children at the border with compassion and decency.
~ Jeff Van Drew
On my daughter's first day of kindergarten, another mom said something that made me realize I had become my own Greek, suffocating mother. She said, 'Just think, in 13 years they'll leave us and go to college!' And I went, 'Gulp.'
~ Nia Vardalos
You know, why don't you take him off all this stuff you have him hopped up on, all this garbage that we're feeding him, all this sugar and caffeine, and then see what happens?
~ Morgan Spurlock
Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
~ Maurice Sendak
Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly.
~ Maurice Sendak
I don't encourage kids to eat sugar, but I do it.
~ Grace Hightower
When my son was little, he asked me: 'Daddy, which is worser, sugar or salt?' I still don't know the answer.
~ Tom Frieden