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Quotes About Children

Every new dayOur children's joy is as fresh as roses, Even the birds chatter at dawn.
~ Scott Hastie
Teach the children compassion and empathy, for all creatures are born selfish.
~ Abhijit Naskar
It's their failure, my little Anna, not yours. Men who try to understand the world without the help of children are like men who try to bake bread without the help of yeast.
~ Gavriel Savit
Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.
~ Mary Church Terrell
If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
~ Melinda Gates
Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.
~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men.
~ Mother Teresa
I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution, and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.
~ Marisa Tomei
Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.
~ Lucille Roybal-Allard
I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.
~ Isabel Allende
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?
~ Christopher Hitchens
There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.
~ Jackson Katz
I deeply regret the damage my original case caused women. I want the Supreme Court to examine the evidence and have a spirit of justice for women and children.
~ Norma McCorvey
I didn't marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too - my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me.
~ Carmen Dell'Orefice
Yes, women are homemakers - and the entire earth is our home. Yes, we are here to take care of the children - and every child in the world is one of our own.
~ Marianne Williamson
The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.
~ Gary Paulsen
I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street.
~ Rene Magritte
The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God.
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
When you set out to do a show about a sponge, you can't anticipate this kind of craze. We just try to make ourselves laugh, then ask ourselves if it's appropriate for children.
~ Stephen Hillenburg
I had always sponsored children. At fifteen, I had sponsored two girls through Plan International.
~ Toni Garrn
Now I want to use money in a good way. I make foundations back home in Russia, I have sponsored vaccinations for more than one million children in my homeland and I have founded scholarships in the names of my great Russian compatriots - Oistrakh, Richter, Gilels, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Schnittke.
~ Mstislav Rostropovich
And I love non-actors. Just like I love working with children. They have spontaneity and a great energy. You're just not sure what you're going to get.
~ Asher Keddie
Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.
~ Carl Honore
I'm convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.
~ Shakira