Quotes About Children

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

I'm not into sugar for kids, but you don't want your kid to be the carrot kid. There's always the kid at the birthday parties carrying a bag of carrots. You've got to let them eat a little cake.

Kids are shy and they often don't want to make eye contact or say "thank you."

Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.

Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.

We have to build the country that we want to see our future children and grandchildren live in.

I've spent 30 years, actually maybe a little more, working to help kids and families. And I want to take all that experience to the White House and do that every single day.

I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms. Rowling, I'm so glad I've read these books because now I want to be a witch.'

In L.A., it's easy to get caught up in what you look like or how much money you have, and those aren't values I want my kids to adopt.

I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.

I just think you should get married if you want to have some kids.

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience.

I get very concerned when we start hearing people who want to convert this country into a safe place for children. I am adult. I want available what I need to see.

We make them [kids] earn the stuff they want. They're not going to play with their iPad today unless they do their chores.

Kids don't seem to recognize when they're hungry until they're starving and in the emergency zone, so I'm like, "Who wants some apple slices and cheese?"

Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.

I don't have prejudices. I'm against taboos. But of course there are some things I'll never touch - because as a mom, there are things one doesn't want their children to be around.

I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.

My kids don't watch my movies. What I want to do is go home and hug my kids, talk to them and engage with them.

At the end of the day, all I want to do is protect my kids.

Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in our children and ultimately it's making a difference in our community.

We like little children, because they tear out as soon as they get what they want.

I can't wait to have kids one day. I want to have kids and a farm with lots of animals on a lake.