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Quotes About Children

It was not only because he spoke their language; it was his voice that compelled the children to listen to him—it was a voice like their voices. That was why they trusted him, why they listened. "DOONG SA," he said, and they stopped crying.
~ John Irving
SOON! NAM SOON!" All the children threw themselves on the floor—they covered their ears, they shut their eyes. "NOW I KNOW WHY MY VOICE NEVER CHANGES," Owen said to me. "DO YOU SEE WHY?" he asked me.
~ John Irving
I would very much like to know what the Founding Fathers would say if they could see these children being debauched to further the cause of Clearasil. However, I always suspected that democracy would come to this.
~ John Kennedy Toole
The children on that [American Bandstand] program should all be gassed.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Children called Joseph, Cameron, William and Jake are naughtier than those called Jacob, Daniel, Thomas and James.
~ John Lloyd
the Massachusetts School for Idiotic Children
~ John Lloyd
The God of the Christians is a father who is a great deal more concerned about his apples than he is about his children.
~ John Lloyd
The time machine in Back to the Future was originally going to be a fridge; it was changed to a car in case it encouraged children to climb into fridges.
~ John Lloyd
The purpose of school, Zimbardo notes, is to turn present-oriented little beasts into responsible future-oriented children.
~ Unknown
We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.
~ Horace Mann
Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
~ Judith Martin
The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.
~ Joe Lieberman
We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.
~ Carol Moseley Braun
We have the ability to provide quality education to every child on earth right now.
~ Adam Braun
I was a physical education major with a child psychology minor at Temple, which means if you ask me a question about a child's behavior, I will advise you to tell the child to take a lap.
~ Bill Cosby
What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals.
~ Robert Breault
I want to fully fund education, No Child Left Behind, special-needs education. And that's how we're going to be more competitive, by making sure our kids are graduating from school and college.
~ John F. Kerry
Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.
~ Oliver DeMille
We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.
~ Mo Brooks
'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre.
~ Sophie Aldred
It is imperative for US to parent our children and educate them outside of the school systems, as our education system was not designed to lift US out of oppression.
~ T.I.
I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.
~ Johann Lamont
It will help at every state along the road to learning. For the pre-school years we will help needy children become aware of the excitement of learning.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
The foundation of a strong economy and job creation begins with providing every child in America with the best possible education, including students with disabilities.
~ Jared Polis