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Quotes About Children

When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
I don't think that moms, with all that's going on in our society today, would want to put their kids in front of something that will be disheartening rather than uplifting.
~ Octavia Spencer
Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
~ Rachel Bilson
We're all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it.
~ Richard Bach
If you're bringing up kids, you just want to smother them with love and praise and enthusiasm. So I don't think you can mollycoddle your kids too much really.
~ Richard Branson
35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.
~ Jeff Bridges
All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.
~ Eglantyne Jebb
Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults
~ Olara Otunnu
The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
~ Golda Meir
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
~ David M. Friedman
We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.
~ Albert Einstein
Every war is a war against children.
~ Eglantyne Jebb
All my life I been waitin' for I been prayin' for, for the people to say that we don't want to fight no more. They'll be no more wars and our children will play, one day.
~ Matisyahu
To be a mother is a great treasure. Mothers, in their unconditional and sacrificial love for their children, are the antidote to individualism; they are the greatest enemies against war.
~ Pope Francis
The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.
~ Wilhelm Keitel
I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.
~ Golda Meir
I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.
~ Andrew Taylor Still
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
~ Tony Blair
For we no longer take up "sword against nation," nor do we "learn war any more," having become children of peace, for the sake of Jesus, who is our leader.
~ Origen
What, at peace with the Father and at war with the children? It cannot be.
~ John Flavel
We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.
~ Cornel West
At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I'll go out for a drink with the girls.
~ Sadie Frost
I am proud of my children. They will make great warriors. And I will watch over them forever. I promise.
~ Erin Hunter
Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.
~ Roger Rosenblatt